This comprehensive guide provides gentle yoga postures and exercises that can help to promote relaxation, flexibility, strength, coordination, and body awareness in children with special needs. Each posture is accompanied by a line drawing demonstrating the posture. The author offers her knowledge of how each posture supports the individual child's needs and abilities. She also outlines the specific benefits of yoga for a wide range of conditions, including Attention Deficit Disorder, ASD, Cerebral Palsy, social communication difficulties, Down's syndrome, and scoliosis. Practical tips for incorporating creative fun and games into yoga sessions are included.
This wonderful resource is ideal for parents, therapists, and other professionals who want to use yoga therapy exercises with children with special needs.
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Nancy Williams has been a yoga therapist for 9 years. During this time, she has worked with children with a wide range of special needs, including Autism Spectrum disorders, cerebral palsy, sensory integration disorder and Down's syndrome. Nancy also works as a pediatric Speech Pathologist, and is a certified Neuro Developmental Treatment Therapist, Zero Balancing practitioner, Yoga instructor and Reiki Master Teacher. Nancy owns Therapeutic Bodyworks, a studio in Tucson, Arizona where she teaches yoga therapy classes to individual and small groups of children. Nancy also offers consultations and conducts training workshops.
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Fantastic Tool!
Jan 2 2010
By Yoga Nut
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I have a Masters Degree in Psychology, and I'm a kids yoga teacher. This book beautifully brings the two fields together in order to work with special needs populations. I have been hoping for a book like this, as I am sometimes asked to work with children living with ADHD, Autism, Downs Syndrome, etc.
There are many new ideas in this book, that I have not seen in other books. I love her use of blowing bubbles to work on breathing. She also used instruments, and props which I have also found to be useful in my work.
There is a fantastic section called "the yoga program", in which she describes yoga poses effective for special needs children and children in general. She has a picture of each pose, a written description of the poses, lists of benefits, and special considerations. There is also a section on games, chakras, and information for parents. I especially like a section called "yoga is for everyone" in which she lists many different issues (ADHD, PTSD, Autism, etc.) and the yoga postures and techniques that are most useful for that particular issue.
This book would be great for a yoga teacher looking for techniques and appropriate yoga postures to do with varying populations of children. It will also be a nice choice for a parent of a special needs child, if they also use it in consultation with a yoga teacher.
There are many new ideas in this book, that I have not seen in other books. I love her use of blowing bubbles to work on breathing. She also used instruments, and props which I have also found to be useful in my work.
There is a fantastic section called "the yoga program", in which she describes yoga poses effective for special needs children and children in general. She has a picture of each pose, a written description of the poses, lists of benefits, and special considerations. There is also a section on games, chakras, and information for parents. I especially like a section called "yoga is for everyone" in which she lists many different issues (ADHD, PTSD, Autism, etc.) and the yoga postures and techniques that are most useful for that particular issue.
This book would be great for a yoga teacher looking for techniques and appropriate yoga postures to do with varying populations of children. It will also be a nice choice for a parent of a special needs child, if they also use it in consultation with a yoga teacher.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Special Needs
Mar 18 2010
By C Breedlove
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I work as a special ed teacher. One of my students has some physical problems related to a condition. The stretches help loosen up her hamstring. Her PT (not knowing I had just read this book) recommended the same exercises as this book.
Since I'm not a medical doctor, I gave the book to the PT who immediately wanted to buy it. Her boss, in turn, also wanted a copy. So apparently this book is what the doctor ordered.
Since I'm not a medical doctor, I gave the book to the PT who immediately wanted to buy it. Her boss, in turn, also wanted a copy. So apparently this book is what the doctor ordered.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Well Organized and Needed Book
Dec 28 2009
By William Bagley
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This yoga book has some beautiful line drawings. Having drawn cartoons, I can appreciate these kinds of pictures a lot, especially when they are detailed enough to get the sense of the asanas (poses) and yet very efficient in the sense of using very few lines. The book outlines a way of teaching children how to do yoga, focuses on their special needs. I have not seen a book about child yoga go into the depth of this book. The book keeps the language simple, but does use a few technical terms, like "extension", but they are explained in the glossary. I found that the book gave the feeling that yoga can be simple and helped me to unlearn some of the overprecision of the Iyengar approach (those alignments are important still, but sometimes they make yoga feel more complex than it should be). I also liked that the book acknowledges that yoga is good for kids and can help them. Having done a lot of bodywork with others, I can validate that this is true. Children do need help from time to time, like when they are learning how to walk for the first time.
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