Teaching Special Needs Yoga

You can contact us for teaching tips and health and safety, or if you have an individual or group with mixed abilities you would like some guidance? Maria Gunstone is offering online consultation with supported learning. Contact Maria Gunstone, Author, Director and Tutor of YOU & ME Yoga.
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Maria Gunstone’s Online Supported Learning

The YOU & ME Yoga training programme involves teaching practice with students with learning disabilities. In order to gain the expertise and confidence you need, Maria Gunstone, the author of the system, is offering a unique opportunity for you to address your learning needs and send your questions to her for supported learning online. This can be arranged at a mutually convenient time.
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Research and Experience

From research and experience I found that no one Posture (asana) has a specific therapeutic effect without a general tone-up of the whole bodily system. With this in mind, the Whole-Body-Movement system was formulated. The basis of the YOU & ME Yoga system - colour coding of the body and Postures - enables trainers to teach appropriate yoga techniques to their clients with learning difficulties
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Starting a class

You can contact us for teaching tips and health and safety, or if you have an individual or group with mixed abilities you would like some guidance? Maria Gunstone is offering contact training and online consultation, YOU & ME Yoga teacher training with supported learning and master classes.Contact Maria Gunstone, author and teacher trainer of YOU & ME Yoga, by email on the left hand side.
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SALE

There are some separate items and bundles for teaching yoga to people with special needs now on sale, with up to 25% off. All these materials are limited editions, in full colour and available while stock lasts. They can be found by clicking on Offers on our Web Store page.
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Nature Walk

It is not necessary to be still to benefit from relaxation. Various forms of recreation including walking outside are good ways to relax the body and mind, broaden one’s horizon and find peace! The following guidelines will give trainers some ideas on what they can point out to their students. Trainers can select relevant sections which can be used before, during and after the walk. ‘Be aware’
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Good Timing

Now is a good time to begin the YOU & ME Yoga training programme for starting your teaching practice in September. Online supported learning with Maria Gunstone, author of the system is a unique opportunity to focus on your requirements to gain the expertise and confidence to teach yoga to clients with learning difficulties and disabilities, right across the age range.
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Indian inspiration

Revisiting Chennai (previously called Madras) and meeting up again with Professor Jeyachandran after two decades was a sheer delight. I can honestly say this second visit was even more satisfying than my first. He took me to several places and introduced me to various colleagues, parents and children at university - specialising in disability and yoga - two special schools, two teacher training colleges,
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Training 2011

You CAN teach Yoga to people with learning difficulties or disabilities, you might just need some confidence building and a little more know how and we have the knowledge and skills to help you!Whether it is help with understanding types of learning disabilities and approaches to assist teaching and learning processes, safe suitable techniques that you can use with individuals and groups of mixed abilities.
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Yoga Therapy

YOU & ME Yoga Therapy is for teaching People with Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities. It is suitable for clients of all abilities right across the age range, including special babies to the elderly with mild learning disabilities to profound and multiply disabled. The system was devised by Maria Gunstone over the past three decades, with support from various professional people and organisations
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Teachers' Training

You CAN teach Yoga to people with learning difficulties &/or disabilities, you might just need some confidence building and a little more know how and we have the knowledge and skills to help you!Whether it is help with understanding types of learning disabilities and approaches to assist teaching and learning processes, safe suitable techniques that you can use with individuals and groups of mixed
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Summary

YOU & MEYoga Opening Understanding & Meaningful ExperienceMaria Gunstone is Author, Director and Tutor of the YOU & ME Yoga system for people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities of all abilities. Including babies, children, teenagers, adults and the elderly. This unique yoga system uses colour to simplify learning and specialises in individualised programme planning, training
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Publications

YOU & ME Yoga publications provide guidance for yoga teachers and allied therapists to safely teach yoga to all types of people with learning disabilities across the age range. All the materials are very well structured, with health and safety in mind as well as being user-friendly.The ethos of the system is use of colour to assist the teaching and learning process. This includes a colour-coded
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Coming soon

Watch this space for:Masterclasses in teaching YOU & ME Yoga to people with learning disabilities including practical teaching tips, therapy, case studies and opportunity to ask questionsLive interviews with specialists working in the field Online communication forums for practitioners to share learningCommunity network of yoga teachers (and trainees) and allied teachers/therapists interested
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Physios' Newsletter

We've got a mention in Firsthand, the newsletter of the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists, November 2009A course entitled “Yoga for People with Learning Difficulties – Introductory Course for Physiotherapists” took place on 26 Sept 2009 at St Michaels House, Dublin. The course was given by Maria Gunstone, author of “You and Me Yoga” and tutor of this specialized system of teaching
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"I have seen great improvements in the students' abilities in the following areas: balance, strength, coordination, body awareness, breath control, posture control, relaxation skills, and social skills.”
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