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!
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Cheeverstown, Dublin
To enquire about future courses in Dublin please email info@specialyoga.co.uk
Pre Training Webinar
Teaching Webinar
In Person Training
Online Resource Library of 100+ Practice Videos
Extensive Course Handbook
Peer Study Groups
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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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.
Meet Your Teachers…
Anna Teague
Anna teaches in County Kildare and Dublin and has been teaching yoga since 2004. Her first training with special yoga was in 2009 and she is now delighted to be a Special Yoga Advanced Practitioner.
Anna teaches a variety of one to one's and group classes, predominantly teaching adults with both intellectual and physical challenges. It is her greatest passion to make this practice more accessible to all. She loves teaching a mixed class of mat/wheelchair users/chair users and especially loves the sense of community within these groups.
Apart from working and sharing these amazing practices within our very special yoga community, she adores walks with her mad rescue dog and hanging out with her grown up children!
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.
Tory Campbell
Based in Belfast, Tory is our Northern Ireland special yoga lead. In 2008 Tory began sharing yoga with adults with learning disability and autism, joining Special Yoga in 2015. Since that time she has worked with children and adults who have a wide range of additional needs.
Tory is passionate about sharing the many benefits of yoga, meeting each person where they are at and helping them move towards their potential. She feels drawn to the energetic connection of working 1:1 with individuals, especially those who have more complex needs. As well as working 1;1, Tory loves offering family sessions, when appropriate, and witnessing how the shared experience can encourage the development of a regular home practice. Also, with her background in working with adults with learning disability, Tory loves sharing chair and mat yoga with this population.
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
