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Yoga Therapy for the Child with Developmental Challenges
December 12 – 13, 2008

Course Description
This workshop teaches the clinician a balanced therapeutic yoga approach with modifications for various populations. Through experiential labs you will learn the physical, physiological, regulatory, emotional and sensory- motor benefits of Yoga for The Child with Developmental Challenges. Learn the benefits and modifications for special populations. Use of rhythm and breath control will be emphasized to facilitate regulation and organization. A sequence of postures will be analyzed to highlight the therapeutic aspects of each. Neuro-physiological benefits will be described and enhanced by videotaped case studies.

Course Objectives

• Have an understanding of the specific motor, sensory, biochemical and neurophysiologic benefits of a therapeutic yoga program.
• Understand how, when and why to use yoga to address individual therapeutic goals.
• Become familiar with a basic classroom yoga program.
• Understand how to address self regulatory goals with specific yoga practices.
• Implement a yoga program designed to build body awareness, motor planning and motor development.
• Improve attention and self regulation via yogic breathing practices.
• Enhance relatedness and develop circles of communication with yoga.
• Understand how basic yoga practice influences digestion, metabolism and elimination and enhances immune function.
• Understand the use of yoga as a daily “sensory diet”.

About the Instructor
This new and exciting course is taught by popular presenter and yoga instructor, Anne Buckley Reen, OTR, RYT. She is the author of the clinically popular S.A.N.E Approach. Anne has spent the past 6 years using therapeutic yoga to address her clients goals with great success. She has implemented individualized classroom yoga programs in both regular education and special education settings. Her experience with implementing yoga home and school programs in incorporated in this NEW 2 day course. Appropriate for the seasoned therapist, yoga instructor, or motivated beginner, this course will inspire, energize, and organize your approach to learning about and implementing therapeutic yoga with your clients. Anne also lectures nationally on topics related to development, sleep, nutrition and school based therapy techniques.

Course Schedule
Two fifteen minute breaks will be scheduled each day.

8:30-9:00 a.m. Registration/Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00 a.m. Morning yoga routine: preparing the body and mind for learning
10:00-11:00 a.m. Yoga program overview:
   Breathing techniques
   Impact on sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
   Emotional control and the breath
11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. Eye exercises: vision and yoga
   Tracking, visual attention and focal vision. Discussion
12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
1:00-2:15 p.m. Classroom yoga
   Seated, standing, and floor sequence
   Classroom video
2:15-3:15 p.m.  
ASANAS: Yoga postures:
   Analysis of basic postures, physiological and therapeutic benefits
   Basic sequences 1, 2, 3 contraindications
   Components of a balanced program
3:15-4:30 p.m. Discussion:
   Yoga impact on brain chemistry and behavior
   Touch, proprioreception and mapping – comparison between NDT/Sensory
   processing and Yoga
   Body awareness and motor development. How to lay the foundation with yoga.
   Stress, fear, and function: feeling safe in one’s body.

Course Fee
$425

Registration
Online registration or call (508) 359-6533.

Location
Texas Children's Hospital
Meyer Building
1919 S. Braeswood Blvd.
Houston, TX 77030

Hotel Accommodations
Houston Marriott Medical Center
6580 Fannin Street
Houston, TX 77030
713-796-0080

For More Information
Mitzi Wiggin, MS, PT
832-826-6107
mmwiggin@texaschildrenshospital.org

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