Zen with Jen Workshop

Zen with Jen Workshop

 

When: 29th September, 2025

Time: 6.30pm -8.00 pm

Where: The Shine Centre

Cost: €15.00

This presentation for parents only introduces yoga for autistic children and teens.

The course will cover:

• Developing an understanding of how to use yoga in bringing the physical and emotional body into balance.
• Regulation tools.
• Breathing techniques.
• Story massage/ using nursery rhymes, props, songs and stories.
• Understanding how yoga can be used to restore health and well- being, improve digestion and enhancing immune function.
• Understand the use of yoga as a daily “sensory diet”.

Children with Autism can often present a state of low or high energy, therefore are usually in a disorganised state.

Benefits and aims of this therapeutic practice include:

• Developing head and neck control
• Improving motor planning and control
• Improved self-awareness in both body and mind
• Developing the ability to self-regulate
• Improving immune function
• Improving quality and quantity of sleep
• Enhancing respiratory ability and capacity
• Enhancing a sense of wellbeing, calm and peace

About Jen

My name is Jen and up to recently I worked as a class teacher in the Shine Early Intervention classes for over 10 years and I am also a home tutor. I first started doing yoga therapy back in 2021 after completing my training in children’s and teen yoga and mindfulness as I wanted to focus on yoga techniques to help parents and teachers to assist children with additional needs in the classroom and at home. I also currently run weekly yoga sessions in Kinsale on a 1:1 basis for neurodiverse children and teens and I also run yoga workshops in the Down Syndrome Centre in Cork and with families on a 1:1 basis.