Accessible Yoga Conference, San Francisco 2017

This workshop will teach hands-on and interactive activities, yoga poses and breathing exercises specifically designed for children with autism and special needs. Participants will come away from this workshop with ideas of how to support children with autism and special needs emotional regulation, socialization, communication, sensory processing, body awareness and unique learning styles through yoga. Suggestions for modifications, adaptations and supports will be provided to make yoga fun, inclusive and accessible for children of diverse abilities. Yoga strategies discussed in this workshop have an emphasis on children with special needs but would be appropriate and beneficial to all children.