Yoga Therapy – Zen With Jen

She has been delivering yoga therapy since 2021 after completing her training and wants to share tips and yoga techniques with parents and teachers to aid children with additional needs in the classroom and at home.

This presentation introduces yoga for people with Autism and ADHD.

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