Special Yoga for Special Children
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Learn simple, powerful tools to allow all children with additional needs, to thrive.Start the journey today to witness a transformation in your own life as well as the children in your care.
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 for Special Children
Our training will give you the skills and confidence to change the lives of any of the children in your care, irrespective of their diagnosis.
The power and beauty of Special Yoga for Special Children is that the techniques taught are shared with adaptations giving you the knowhow to benefit every child, however they present in front of you.
While the course is designed to give you the knowhow to benefit every child, more common diagnosis that are covered in the course are ADHD, Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, PMLD and Trauma.
On This Course:
4 Live Webinars
Begins on Saturday 8th February between 2pm - 4.30pm and Saturdays 22nd March, 3rd May and 7th June between 2pm - 4pm.
4 Live Study Groups
Study Groups are arranged during the first webinar and will be held during the weeks commencing 9/3, 23/4, 4/5 and 1/6
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 will give you the skills and confidence to change the lives of any of the children in your care, irrespective of their diagnosis.
The power and beauty of Special Yoga for Special Children is that the techniques taught are shared with adaptations giving you the knowhow to benefit every child, however they present in front of you.
While the course is designed to give you the knowhow to benefit every child, more common diagnosis that are covered in the course are ADHD, Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, PMLD and Trauma.
If you are particularly interested in working with children with Cerebral Palsy & PMLD you can sign up for an additional webinar dedicated solely to this diagnosis AND get additional pre-recorded content.
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
More easeful 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’m a SEND teacher, and the classroom can get so busy. I don’t think I’d realised just how high-stress it was; I was always thinking, "I'm very calm, I'm very calm." In fact there was a huge disconnect—I was telling myself I was calm without truly being calm or being with my breath."
Amy
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Last year was very difficult for me, I had a knee injury, and I was not able to walk or do yoga. These classes, helped me to make peace with myself again. I love it, especially the heart meditation.
Ella
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The practices have been really helpful, especially in between sessions. Previously, I’d rush from one to another and expect to be able to make a positive impact, but actually, I wasn’t checking in with myself. Being able to take that time has been very beneficial for my own mental health and anxiety levels.
Lildonia
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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Alice Maclaine
ADVANCED PRACTITIONER & TEACHER
Alice has worked with Jyoti since the Special Yoga Centre first opened its doors in 2004 and has been working with children ever since. Alice was an Early Years teacher for many years and has shared yoga and mindfulness practices with children in every setting.
More recently, Alice has been mainly working one to one with children and young adults with various challenges.
She has been practising insight meditation for many years and shares guided meditations in trainings. -
Karen Rodrigues Ayers
ADVANCED PRACTITIONER & TEACHER
Driven by a passion for empowering children and adults with SEN/D and their families, Karen shares the transformative power of Special Yoga in specialist schools.
A seasoned practitioner, trainer, and study group leader, Karen combines her expertise in Early Years and Special Educational Needs with being a parent of a child with Special Needs.Her personal journey seeking support for her child with SEN led Karen to Special Yoga, but the benefits extended far beyond.
She discovered tools for emotional regulation, fostering calmness within herself and equipping her to navigate the tides of emotions inherent in being a SEN parent. -
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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It is no exaggeration to say training with Special Yoga has changed my life. It’s provided me with the opportunity to connect with an amazing community, it has equipped me with the tools to foster my own well being and most importantly it has enabled me to open my heart and share therapeutic yoga practices with others. It feels like pure magic!
Helen
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This course exceeded my expectations and has been a truly wonderful life-enhancing learning experience. It’s made me rethink my daily relationships at home and at work and helped me become much more grounded and mindful. Further to this I have learned yoga techniques that I can use to help my children and children at work to stay connected, relaxed and to feel happier and more confident. I would highly recommend this course.
Ivana
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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 additional needs, the practices will help every child calm and live to their full potential. -
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.
