This 24 minute DVD-video 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.
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.
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.