I offer yoga to children, young people and adults with additional needs & disabilities in Leicester & Leicestershire, through groups and one to one work; in special schools, privately in families homes & from my home therapy room. I have developed the yoga provision in several of the city’s SEN schools, and at present run sessions in West Gate SEN school and Nether Hall SEN school in Leicester. If you are a school wanting to explore the provision of yoga & mindfulness for your students please be in touch.
Utilising many specialist trainings in yoga for Neurodevelopmental differences (such as Autism & ADHD), training in yoga specifically for children with Downs syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, Cystic Fibrosis and many other conditions. More than the training I have worked with 100’s of different children, in schools and privately since beginning this work in 2012.
The therapeutic programmes I offer include an integrated series of balanced yoga poses that increase body awareness, strength and mobility, specialised breathing exercises & deep relaxation techniques to improve concentration and settle nervous systems, the aim is to guide the students to find more ease and peace within themselves.
When used therapeutically and mindfully, yoga is an invaluable tool to enhance a child’s capacity to learn, build confidence and reach potential.
Benefits of a regular yoga practice include:
- Increased emotional stability
- Improved concentration
- Improved self regulation of stress
- And improved self-esteem, promoting an overall sense of wellbeing
- Releasing overall stress and tightness in muscles where possible
- Strengthening low muscle tone
- stretch & realign spine
- Increased body awareness
- relaxation techniques
School sessions are booked by the term & and invoiced monthly.
One off taster sessions can be booked for your students to experience the yoga provision & then sessions are booked either by the day or half day. I can provide half hourly sessions across the time booked.
“Dear Kay, Thank you so much for inviting me to a yoga session. I’m so glad I took you up on it! It was so amazing. I was really quite blown away by how much the children got out of it….so impressed with how well they remembered the routines and movements as well as their coordination and your ability to adapt it all for them. It was brilliant how you managed to challenge them and ensure they could all access it, including xxx on the Acheeva bed, which, given their disabilities and the fact it’s physical, was so impressive! It was lovely to see how much they were enjoying it and that yyy, along with the rest of the class, was engaged in so much of it even when he was in his tent he couldn’t help himself! The TAs really knew what to do too and I felt it was a really lovely session for the adults as well as the pupils. Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you – it was wonderful to be part of it and see what you do and the amazing impact it was having on (the class)!” Principal Leicester Special School 2019
“I find it an absolute joy to offer yoga to these children, even those with very limited movement find a way to move, strengthen, release and relax in this practice and I have seen many children absolutely delighted in the way they can move into postures & find comfort & positive physical challenges in ways they hadn’t imagined”
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