YOU & ME Yoga Publications have been designed to improve quality of life of persons with Special Needs. By increasing their mobility, physical dexterity, coordination, concentration, adaptive behaviour, communication, sensory-awareness and confidence. They have been developed with research and guidance for safe practice for both trainers as well as their students.

The teaching materials are for professional therapists and yoga teachers which can be purchased separately, as priced below, Costs include p&p.

These materials can also be purchased as cost-effectivedistance learning training packages at 3 Levels with guided distance learning and mentoring. Contact Maria Gunstone for details.

Open training, mentoring and distance learning is also available on request. Contact Maria Gunstone the author of these materials.

Terms and conditions:
All trainers will be responsible for their own professional insurance. If there is cause for concerns about the student's health and safety, the sanction of their medical adviser must be obtained prior to practice.

Most orders are dispatched within 14 days, but please allow 28 days for exceptional circumstances.

All orders must be prepaid, which is refundable (less 20% for P&P and handling) if customer is not satisfied within 7 days of receipt of the materials.

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If you click on the "blue spot link" next to the publications described below, you will be able to view its sample pages.

This 24-minute DVD-vidoe was recorded at 19 venues including various special schools, adult training centres, and residential homes in the UK and Eire. It shows trainers using the system with their students with wide range of abilities, right across the age range. This gives the viewer an insight to the different ways in which YOU & ME Yoga has been implemented.

Available in DVD-video NTSC format

Cost £7.50

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This book is aimed primarily at therapsts, trainers and parents of disabled people.

The book is enlivened by a variety of photographs illustrating an Indian adventure - investigating therapeutic value of yoga for disabled people in ashrams, schools and hospitals with eminent persons such as Gitananda, Iyengar, Desikachar, Janikiraman, Dr Bhole, Dr Gharote. And many other experts involved in Special Needs such as Dr P Jeyachandran, Director of Special Needs, Tamil Nadu. Dr P Jeyachandran initially implemented yoga therapy into the curriculum for training special educators and parents to teach yoga to children with severe learning difficulties.

The book highlights: the origin and the principles of the YOU & ME Yoga system using sound, colour and Whole-Body-Movement, and the teaching materials that have been designed specifically for teaching yoga to people with learning difficulties/disabilities, of all ages and abilities.

192 pages, 50 photos, pub. 2001.

Cost £15

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This book clarifies what is meant by the terms Down's syndrome and Autism. In addition, it deals with some of the different characteristics and abilities associated with conditions such as cerebral palsy, epilepsy, aural and visual impairment, and challenging behaviour problems.

The book introduces the YOU & ME Yoga techniques used when working with students with special needs. It provides yoga case studies of students taught by the following YOU & ME Yoga Trainers and practitioners: a Snr. Physiotherapist, a Parent, a Community Nurse, a Deputy Head, a Lecturer in F. E., Day Services Officers, Yoga Teachers. It also provides teaching tips given by a Training Officer of Multiple Disabilities, a Principal of an F. E. College and a Snr. Educational Psychologist.

126 pages, Pub. 2002.

Cost £15

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This CD-tutorial is of the basic YOU & ME Yoga teaching techniques suitable for teaching people with Special Needs.  It is recommended for yoga teachers and therapists, trainers and parents who have practiced yoga, or a similar discipline for at least two years.

It's instructional-value conveys the aims and skills for teaching the 22 preliminary Joint Looseners, the 20 related Yoga Postures, and the basic relaxation and diaphragmatic breathing techniques.

It enables trainers to experience and enjoy the practice of the system by distance learning in just over an hour, rather than attending a training course.

It also allows for selection of anyone of the 44 tracks. Total of 64 minutes.

The Display Cards are double-sided. On the illustrated side, the heading shows the name of the Loosener, and the instructions are given above the illustration of each stage of the movement. Notes are given at the bottom of the card to assist trainers.

On the other side of each card there are benefits which can accrue from the Loosener, depending on the individual's abilities and the amount of practice. There are also cautions for students with specific health problems and guidelines for referral to the student's medical advisor before practice.

The Looseners are used to assess the student's abilities. This in turn determines the likelihood of their being able to practice the related Posture mentioned on the card.

24 laminated A5 Display Cards, pub. 1993, 2003.

Cost £20

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This consists of a Colour-Code Guide Booklet, illustrating 20 Postures in seven colours. These are used to create individual sequences of Whole-Body-Movement to suit the needs of students of all ages and levels of ability. Correct diaphragmatic breathing is shown, also choices of Posture and the order in which they should be performed.

There are also twenty A5 laminated Display Cards showing the Postures and giving simple precise teaching instructions with a note of physiological and psychological benefits and cautions. The protective lamination means they can be displayed and reused again and again.

This Colour-Code Instruction Pack motivates learning by encouraging students to listen, look, recognise, describe, sort, select and arrange the different coloured postures into a structured sequence specifically for an individual's needs. It can also assist students to identify and name different parts of the body.

"The Colour-Code Instruction Pack is essential for giving instructions for working out individual programme plans of Whole-Body-Movement. The pack explains everything very clearly, which enables trainers to select a suitable plan of Postures for people with learning difficulties or otherwise." Pat Pickering, Training Officer, Castleigh Day Centre, Nantwich

Laminated A5 coloured Booklet and 20 Display Cards in wallet. Pub. 1989, 1994 and 2004.

Cost £25

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This unique reference book explains how to devise individualised programme plans of Postures in accordance with the YOU & ME Yoga colour-code system.

YOU & ME Whole-Body-Movement consists of sequences of Postures which are colour coded in the seven spectrum colours to represent areas of the body. This method ensures that the whole body is exercised and stimulated.

The arrangement of Whole-Body-Movement sequences in this book deals with each Posture in turn and describes what is happening to the active parts of the body when performed. Each sequence is arranged around the 'Main' Posture and starts with a choice of Warming-Up movements selected to exercise the colour-coded parts of the body used within the Posture. The sequence is completed by a choice of Winding-Down movements in the remaining spectrum colours.

To enable trainers to appropriately select suitable techniques for their particular students' needs and abilities, a choice of warming-up and winding-down Postures is given for the different coloured bodily areas. Full explanations and rationale are given alongside each exercise.

"From this book, I found that the ordering of the Postures made a lot of sense, which my students were natually able to follow, and the colour coding of the body and related Postures was also well received by them". Jonathon Lukens, Yoga Teacher and Coordinator of Project Design & Development.

124 pages, pub. 2002.

Cost £15

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This 25-minute DVD-video with an interactive menu features the 22 Joint Looseners in relation to the 7 different coloured areas of the body. Instruction is given by a nursery teacher to young children and by Maria to a mother and her adult daughter.

Only available in DVD-video PAL format

Cost £10

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The book explains:

• Colour coding for the Joint Looseners
• How to help students understand the colouring of the body
• Function of joints in relation to Looseners
• User-friendly assessment guidelines with samples of the colour-coded recording system
• Conditions which limit performance of each Loosener, and when the need for caution should prevent practice
• Whole-Body Joint Looseners
• There are over 800 line-drawing illustrations of people with special needs performing the Looseners or adaptions of them in their own special way

The book is also suitable for people in later years as the Joint Looseners will help improve mobility.

Published 2003, 298 pages (7 coloured pages), wirobound.

There is an accompaning YOU & ME Joint Looseners' WORKBOOK which contains reproducible activity sheets of the 8 recording charts and 22 Joint Looseners to accommodate ongoing practice in the workplace and especially at home.

This book is intended to benefit both the trainers and their students and was written with both parties equally in mind.

There is a section specifically for students dealing with techniques that are appropriate for their level of understanding including: the basic relaxation technique; relating to body language; identifying the coloured bodily parts; sounds and sensory awareness; using imagination and being positive; outside activities 'tuning-in' to nature to improve well being and quality of life.

This is followed by a related section for trainers with full rationale covering: stress and need for regular relaxation and recreation; various relaxation techniques; the affect colour has on mental, emotional and physical conditions as well as the consciousness; tips for making affirmations and the power of positive thinking to enhance the quality of being alive.

This material is a wonderful resource for trainers. It can also be used to assist others to understand stress and to experience the benefits of guided relaxation, visualisation, affirmation and meditation techniques.

90 pages, pub. 2005.

Cost £20

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Best played through speakers rather than ear-phones.

Cost £10

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This audio CD is suitable for trainers and other peers. It comprises the following 6 tracks:

• Three stages of full-lung breathing with sounds (5.18).
• Sounds for spectrum coloured areas of the body the seven different colours of the body (2.43).
• Yoga Nidra relaxation - conscious rest - with exploration of colour and sound to help relieve tension, develop relaxation, body awareness, mind-and-body awareness, and stimulate vitality (10.31).
• Vibrations of sound and colour (4.55)
• To come out of relaxation (3.14)
• An ancient meditation song  to enable body, mind and spirit to function in harmony.  It is sung by Ritwik Sanyal, the professor of Dhrupad, the oldest and finest surviving tradition of Indian music (27.25).

This 90-minute DVD-video with an interactive menu features the YOU & ME system of Yoga, using sound, colour and Whole-Body-Movement. Instruction is given by practitioners of the system, using adaptations appropriate to their students, and also by some of the more advanced students themselves. Even those who normally show very little response demonstrate here how they are able to practise yoga and become more calm, relaxed and confident.

Available in DVD-video NTSC format

Cost £15

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Cost £80

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This book explains:

• Yoga techniques found suitable for people with learning difficulties
• The coloured Postures and functions of the different coloured areas
• Tips for good practice
• Whole-Body-Movement
• Functions of joints in relation to Postures
• Recording systems for the Postures
• Looseners in relation to the Postures
• Conditions which will limit performance of each Posture, and when the need for caution should prevent practice
• Variations of the Postures

There are over 1,200 line-drawing illustrations of people with learning difficulties, of all physical types, performing the Postures or adaptions of them in their own special way.

Published 2003, 356 pages, wirobound.

There is an accompaning YOU & ME Yoga Postures' Workbook which contains reproducible activity sheets of the 8 recording charts to accommodate ongoing practice.

This book is intended to benefit both the trainers and their students and was written with both parties equally in mind.

• It contains clear line illustrations showing how students of all ages and abilities learn how to improve their breathing. It is in three sections:
• Specifically for students covering techniques for awareness and to improve breathing.
• Theory and process of breathing, and benefits of breath control therapy.
• Progressive breathing techniques for trainers continued personal development.

Cost £20

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