Special Yoga & Mindfulness
for Autism & ADHD
BOOK NOW FOR JUST £371.25*
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(*ends midnight 20/12/24)
Transform your ability to connect with and care for neurodivergent children in just three months.
Start your life-changing journey and help every child to thrive.
Are you ready for:
Less meltdowns, greater connection, more laughter, easier bedtimes, renewed job satisfaction, calmer classrooms, fewer sleepless night, stress-free mealtimes, rewarding family dynamics, an end to burn-out?
These are just some of the benefits you’ll experience after taking this course
Whether you’re a parent, teacher, healthcare professional or yoga teacher, our life-changing methodology will forever transform your ability to connect with and support the neurodivergent children in your care.
Introducing
Special Yoga & Mindfulness for Autism & ADHD
Our training equips you with the skills and confidence to support all neurodivergent children, fostering their unique way of experiencing the world while enhancing their well-being and development.
While Special Yoga & Mindfulness for Autism & ADHD is designed to give you the knowhow to benefit every child, more common diagnosis that are covered in the course are ASD, Anxiety Disorders, Dsypraxia, Epilepsy, OCD, PDA and SPD.
On This Course:
4 Live Webinars
Begins on Saturday 15th February between 10.00am -12.30pm and Saturdays 29th March, 10th May and 14th June 10am -12pm.
4 Live Study Groups
Study Groups are arranged during the first webinar and will be held during the weeks commencing 12/3, 6/4, 18/5 and 8/6
3 Assignments
The assignments will be given you to when the course starts and there will be specific dates for delivery to your study group leader.
PLUS - These Amazing Bonuses!!!
Book before 31st December and get FREE access to the 30 Day ‘Building Resilience’ Challenge - daily meditation, movement, energy & affirmation practices sent to your inbox to support your wellbeing - Starts 1st January
Continued access to the complete course - all video and written lessons and all webinar recordings for 3 months post course PLUS eligibility to join the senior practitioner Level One training in September.
Our training equips you with the skills and confidence to support all neurodivergent children, fostering their unique way of experiencing the world while enhancing their well-being and development.
While Special Yoga & Mindfulness for Autism & ADHD is designed to give you the knowhow to benefit every child, more common diagnosis that are covered in the course are ASD, Anxiety Disorders, Dsypraxia, Epilepsy, OCD, PDA and SPD.
Why Not…
Learn from
the best
Our webinars are led by Special Yoga founder Jyoti and our Advanced Practitioners and Teachers, with over 30 years experience supporting neurodivergent children all over the world.
Become
the best
Your journey guides you through science-backed research, embodying proven therapeutic practices and consolidating your study through tests and submitted assignments
Be fully supported
as you learn
As you undertake your transformational journey, your self-study, will be enriched by your peer-based study group including regular online meet ups as well as support from a senior Special Yoga practitioner.
Access a library of practices
From the moment you sign up until three months after you graduate, you can access practice videos, research and study guides available on our online study community.
Graduates at:
What you’ll learn
Yoga is so much more than just the physical poses. As you train you’ll find a world opening as you understand how to use the healing power of:
Yoga Poses
Physical healing: Yoga postures build flexibility, strength, and balance, while improved motor skills and body control will completely transform a child’s experience in the world.
Manage Sensory Processing Challenges The sensory input from stretching and balancing supports children by developing sensory integration and enhancing focus and engagement.
Improved movement and coordination: Postures help children to understand and control their movements, especially beneficial for those with coordination or spatial challenges.
Breath work
Improved breathing: Exercises that boost lung capacity, support children with respiratory challenges like asthma.
Emotional awareness & regulation: Guiding children to recognise and manage the signs and symptoms of stress, allows them to build self-awareness and regulation skills.
Music, sound & rhythm
Speech & language development: Sound and music have unique benefits for children with speech and language delays, both encouraging vocalisation, imitation, and communication.
Developed attention & focus: Special Yoga teaches uses music and sound to effectively capture and maintain children’s attention, making learning and therapeutic activities more engaging and effective.
Mindfulness
Stress relief & emotional resilience: Children with addition needs face countless stressors in their daily life; The mindfulness techniques you’ll share will give them tools and strategies to manage difficulties, adapt to change and promote relaxation.
Better communication paths to create meaningful connections: Mindfulness activities that promote empathy, compassion, and acceptance, allow children to build stronger relationships and create a richer world.
What Others Have Experienced
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I didn’t think I’d be able to connect so deeply with children who have additional needs. This training changed my mindset entirely, showing me that patience and a different approach can make all the difference."
Jen
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I didn’t realize how much I needed this training—not just for the children but for myself. It gave me the tools to stay grounded and reminded me why I chose this path in the first place
Liza
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An amazing experience—can't wait to do the advanced course next. I feel ready to share yoga with children and make a difference in their lives."
Karolyn
Start Your New Life
Three months is a tiny investment to make for a new way of being in the world, one in which you have choices, a deeper connection to the children in your care and presence enough to notice your breath.
Your world after your Special Yoga training is one that includes a toolkit of practices that calm you and those around you, which can be used to promote health and allow all children the chance to thrive.
12 weeks, from burnout to burning brightly.
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Claire Baker
ADVANCED PRACTITIONER & TEACHER
Claire is delighted to be part of the Special Yoga practitioner family and has trained with Jyoti Manuel for over 10 years.
She has worked with children and adults with disabilities in the voluntary sector all of her working life, offering respite care, and then began to share yoga with them when she had experienced how settling it could be.
In the years since, Claire has continued her own training and worked for Special Yoga as a senior practitioner and course teacher.
She has enjoyed sharing yoga in a number of settings with children and young adults, in mainstream and special schools, with family and autism groups, online and in one-to-one sessions.
For the last couple of years Claire has lived in Cumbria where she now works for a youth development charity. Yoga continues to be her "heart" job and her passion is working with children with autism and ADHD. -
Helen Jeffries
ADVANCED PRACTITIONER & TEACHER
I feel really honoured to be part of the Special Yoga Team. Knowing how this training changed my own life, it feels very special to be able to share it with others.
My professional background is in Teaching and School Leadership for Special Education. I have a degree in Creative Expressive Therapies and have also completed 200hr Yoga Teacher Training.
More recently, I've founded a non-profit Community Interest Company to share Yoga and holistic wellbeing practices with the SEND community in Leicestershire.Finding Special Yoga has really empowered me to work more from my heart and to be lead by my values. It taught me how to genuinely care for myself, which in-turn, has transformed the way I’m able to show up for others. Sharing Special Yoga and seeing the impact it has on people’s lives is nothing short of magical!
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Jyoti Manuel
FOUNDER & TEACHER
With her depth of knowledge and many years of experience, Jyoti Jo Manuel is recognised by many as one of the worlds leading authorities on therapeutic yoga for children. Her personal yoga journey started in 1974 and she began teaching in 1989.
Jyoti has travelled extensively implementing Special Yoga programmes in orphanages, social care, education and health care and for paediatric therapists and psychologists.
As founder, lead and spiritual head of Special Yoga she has trained senior practitioners to support the effective and impactful delivery of Special Yoga for children with special needs meeting them wherever they are.
The Special Yoga journey starts with the breath. You learn about cultivating awareness to honestly check in with yourself, your emotions and how you are breathing.
Combining mindfulness with the postures and associated healing practices, the power of regulated breathing begins to blossom for you.
Your heightened self-awareness and transformation is a revolutionary tool, your ability to self-regulate, allows the children in your care to co-regulate, once this is possible everything changes. The space you are sharing the practices one is now one of calm, and this coupled with the powerful practices, mean that anything is possible.
And many students notice the changes as soon as they start the course.
Three months from now this could be you!
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SYMA gave me a great chance to deepen my knowledge of practices to support neurodiversity holistically. As a TA in mainstream education, I deeply benefited from the support offered and the opportunity to reflect on the paramount importance of self-care.
Maria
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I feel confident to share yoga in a special way with kids that need it most. This course gave me the tools I needed to make a real impact.
Sandra
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I decided to study with Special Yoga because I wanted to learn how to bring yoga to my special child. I already had yoga in my life but I didn't know how to reach him through it. I could never have imagined the profoundly positive impact the course would have on my whole family.
Josie
Are you ready to transform your life?
Follow these three life-changing steps
Develop your self-regulation techniques
The journey to being best able to care for the children in your life begins with you. Starting the course will give you techniques to balance your own nervous system. Your ability to self-regulate allows the children to co-regulate with you, the first defining step to their transformational healing.
And it’s likely you’ll see the benefits in your own world straight away.
Study the Special Yoga methodology of practices
The latest science-backed research, yoga practices that span back hundreds of years, and learnings developed over 30 years of training hundreds of students supporting thousands of children is the basis of what you’ll learn over your three-month training.
Consolidate your knowledge through tests, assignments and a practical study, all designed to make you the best.
Learn to share Special Yoga with the children in your care
You’ll be guided on how and when to use, and adapt the practices to give all the children in your care the best chance to thrive.
The course will guide you through contraindications, adaptations and direct experience and advice making you the best you can be for the children.
Frequently Asked Questions
All Your Questions Answered Here
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Special Yoga is for everybody, the practices can be learned by anyone and will benefit every child, teen and adult regardless of their condition.
Although developed specifically for children with ASD and related diagnosis’, the practices will help every child calm and live to their full potential.
Practitioners who themselves have an ASD will also benefits as they learn and embody the tools. -
The course is ideal from toddlers to young adults.
For those keen to work with older populations, explore our Special Yoga for Adults - Disabilities & Autism course.
We explore working with babies in more depth in our senior practitioner course, which can be accessed on completion of SYMA. -
Absolutely not!
While we do have yoga teachers taking our trainings, the courses have been designed to be comprehensive to everyone, so that the benefits are accessible to all. -
When you book a place on the course you’ll be given access to our all essential course information and core practices so you can begin to build a daily yoga habit.
After the opening webinar you’ll get access to the remaining content which is drip-released to you as you work your way through the lessons.
After the date for submitting your final assignment you’ll be able to revisit all of the course content for three months.
Taking our senior training will give you access to the complete Special Yoga Foundation Practices Video library. -
You can start practising right away, learning to self-regulate is one of the best gifts we can give ourselves.
You can share as you learn if practising with your own child, to share with other children you will need to be certified as having completed the course and this will enable you to get insured.
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Absolutely. Alongside the live webinars, you will be allocated a senior practitioner as your study group leader able to assist with any questions that come up for you on your journey.
One to one mentor sessions with senior practitioners are also available to book at a small additional cost. -
If you are keen to take your studies deeper we have our Senior and Advanced Special Yoga for Special Needs trainings which can be taken sequentially after completion of this training.
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The Special Yoga methodology can be used in the home, schools, yoga studios and anywhere there are children, so you upon completion you are ready to go and start helping change the lives of children.
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we encourage you to attend all of the webinars and study groups - to become certified you need to attend the first webinar (you’ll need to watch video recordings of any you don’t attend) and three of the four study groups.
Additionally you will be asked to complete 85% of the pre-recorded lessons and submit three personal assignments including a film of you working with a child.
Upon each submission you will receive supportive and constructive feedback from your study group leader.
After this we will be very happy to send you your Special Yoga Practitioner certificate. -
While you don’t need to study Special Yoga & Mindfulness for Autism & ADHD, when working as a freelance practitioner your employer will require you have insurance.
Are you ready to begin the journey?
Start today, and make the decision that will change the rest of your life.
Learn practices to support the children in your care, techniques to change your state to one of more calm, presence and joy.
Study with a community of like minded individuals all set on helping the children in their life thrive.
And learn from and be supported by experts who’ve devoted years in helping thousands of children to thrive, despite any diagnosis, hardship or obstacles.
