How This Course Benefits You
- Gain techniques to help relieve tension and pain in the child’s muscles, and reduce spasms.
- Learn communication skills that will enable you to guide the child to their potential.
- Experience first hand how you can empower the child.
- Understand how to adapt a yoga practice for challenging physical limitations.
Topic Summary
This two-day intensive course will enlighten you with the capacity to give children a heightened sense of comfort within their bodies. You will learn how to enhance communication, create a stable foundation of trust, and develop an awareness of both your body and the child’s throughout the session.
This course will teach you how to effectively structure a yoga session for a child with different physical abilities. Live one-to-one sessions with the course tutors will provide you with a deeper insight into how core principles can be practically applied.
These skills can be integrated into a class or taught one-to-one. Specialised massage techniques will be emphasised to allow a connection with the nerves that will encourage the child towards becoming more relaxed, comfortable and mindful.
Course tutors – Special Yoga Trainers
The course will be lead by Special Yoga trainers. All our trainers have, themselves, trained with Special Yoga and worked with children across the spectrum of additional needs. Those leading will have specialised working with Cerebral Palsy and PMLD.
Teaching Style
You will be guided through highly effective and accessible strategies for integrating the remedial advantages of the Special Yoga methodology into the lives of children with Cerebral Palsy or PMLD. With these skills you will have the ability to tailor various settings to the specific needs of the child or group you support.
Course Certification
Your success in completing the course Special Yoga for Cerebral Palsy and PMLD will be celebrated with a certificate from Special Yoga with 100% attendance.
Course Fees
Please note: Early bird discounts are not applicable to deposits or payment plans. If you choose to pay a deposit you will be required to pay the remaining balance prior to the course start date.
What does my fee cover?
- Full tuition
- Special Yoga for Cerebral Palsy and PMLD course manual
- Special Yoga certificate with 100% attendance
- Live yoga sessions
- Personal contact with the course leaders
What does my fee exclude?
- Lunch
- Parking / travel / accommodation
Accommodation
Many of our students use Airbnb to find accommodation when attending our courses. Please note that we are not affiliated with Airbnb.
Useful Information
What are the start and end times for course?
Each day begins at 9.30am and ends at 5.30pm.
What experience do I need for this course?
This course is open to all, including people who do not teach yoga professionally. Regular attendees of this course include but are not limited to:
- Special needs teachers
- All yoga teachers
- Trainee yoga teachers
- Special needs and paediatric professionals
- Parents of children with special needs
Can I become a Special Yoga practitioner after completing this course?
If ‘Special Yoga for Cerebral Palsy and PMLD’ is your first course with us at Special Yoga and you have been inspired by the teachings, we offer a wide range of specific and fully comprehensive courses.
If you have not yet taken our flagship training course, Special Yoga for Special Children, we would highly recommend doing so. This course is a vital step in enhancing your ability to support all children with special needs.
What courses could I do after this course?
To see the extensive range of CPDs we have designed to give you practical tools that can further develop your personal practice, please click here
Can we support you in choosing your course?
If you have any queries please let us know at teachertraining@specialyoga.org.uk
Policies & Procedures
For the full course policies and terms & conditions please click here.
