Learn how to help a special child to thrive
Special Yoga for Special Children
In Person Training
If you parent or work with a child with special needs this course is for you - no yoga experience needed!
Starts November 2024
Aberdeen, AB16 7RW
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Pre Training Webinar
9 Nov 2pm - 4pm
Teaching Webinar
5th Dec 7pm -9pm
In Person Training
15,16,17 Nov 9.30am - 5pm
Orchard Brae School, Howes Road, Aberdeen, AB16 7RW
Online Resource Library of 100+ Practice Videos
Extensive Course Handbook
Peer Study Groups
29 Nov 7pm
9 Jan 7pm
Learning from advanced Special Yoga Practitioner/Teachers with a wealth of experience supporting children with special needs you’ll develop a toolkit of easy to use practices which are adaptable to a wide variety of diagnoses for children, teens and young adults in any setting or situation. As you learn you’ll embody the practices and notice in yourself how effective they are to bringing about a regulated state of being.
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Have A Question? Email info@specialyoga.co.uk
This Training Is For You If You Are…
A Parent or Carer
Share practices with your child to regulate and calm improving communication and a sense of ease
A Teacher, TA or SENCO
Regulate the children in your classroom to increase focus and improve educational achievements
An OT, Physio or Therapist Increase your toolkit of practices to facilitate ease and happiness in your clients and yourself.
A Yoga Teacher
Support children in one to one’s and community classes and boost your teaching income
Our accessible methodology has been providing effective outcomes for children with special needs in homes, education, healthcare and the community for over twenty years. No prior experience of yoga is required - all you need bring to the training is an open heart and willingness to learn.
“Everything we teach at Special Yoga is grounded in love, with respect for ourselves and compassion for those in our care. Everybody has the right to shine.”
Jyoti Manuel - Founder Special Yoga
You Will Learn Accessible, Effective Practices
Asana - The Poses
Special Yoga uses a few simple but deeply effective postures and movements to bring balance, core strength, flexibility, motor planning and coordination, and calm. They support the child energetically, emotionally and physiologically.
Pranayama - Breathwork
We use Pranayama or breathwork as a key tool to regulate the nervous system. There are many pathways to improving and connecting with the breath. You will learn to help the child use their own breath for self-regulation and calm.
Sound - Music and Mantra
Sound as a healing modality is more widely recognised therapeutically. The vibrations can be used to calm the nervous system. Singing with movement allows the body a deeper range of movement and calm, releasing deep held tensions.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness practices help children become more self-aware and learn to manage their emotional state with more compassion and kindness. They develop a life skill in accepting and managing human emotions of frustration, rage, anger, fear.
Massage & Energy Work
Energy moves in the body and our environment all the time. Massage techniques support the body’s innate wisdom towards health and vitality and can bring balance and calm to the nervous system.
Working With The Feet
Working with the feet can have profound benefits for children with special needs due to the feet's connection to various parts of the body and the nervous system.
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Meet Your Teachers…
Claire Baker
“It's a real honour to be able to share the teachings of Special Yoga in different places. It touches peoples' lives and can be truly transformative for children and all who care for them.”
I am delighted to be part of the Special Yoga training family. I have trained with Jyoti Manuel for almost 10 years, and found Special Yoga after completing my yoga teacher training (in Mysore, India, lucky me!)
I have worked with children and adults with disabilities in the voluntary sector all of my life, offering respite care, and began to share yoga with them when I experienced how settling it could be.
In the years since, I have continued my own training and worked for Special Yoga to support their teacher training and as a practitioner. I have enjoyed sharing yoga in a number of settings with children and young adults, in schools, community groups and in one-to-one sessions. For the last few years I have lived in Cumbria where I enjoy hiking. Yoga continues to be my heart job and my passion is working with children with autism, ADHD, anxiety and other conditions.
Jyoti Jo Manuel
Although you won’t meet her on the course you’ll see lots of Jyoti in the resource library!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.
In 2002 Jyoti founded Special Yoga, a global organisation established to provide and develop sustainable and accessible yoga programmes for children with special and additional needs. Special Yogas work reaches across education, therapeutic settings and within the home.
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.
Hannah Mearns
“I am so grateful, honoured and excited to have the opportunity to bring Special Yoga training to Scotland and to share the numerous benefits of Special Yoga, both for those who train and the children we have the joy of working with.”
Special Yoga was introduced to me and my daughter in 2017 when trying to find something inclusive and grounding to help her with her disability and anxiety. Watching a practitioner work with my daughter I could see and feel the power of Special Yoga. The kindness, connection and love during the practice had such a positive impact that I have since trained to advanced practitioner level and now teach others.
My SY training helps me daily in my role as parent/carer to my daughters and I love that I now get to work in schools, homes and other settings. My happy place is by the sea, in my camper van, enjoying swims and sunsets with my family, our dog and friends. I'm from Devon so add some cream on a scone and it's my perfect day.
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Hear Their Stories…
Yoga Teacher Tory shares Special Yoga in action.
Mum Charlie talks about yoga with her son
Headteacher Gail talks about yoga at her school
