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Yoga and Mindfulness for Children and Adolescents: Proven Self-Regulation and Trauma-Informed Strategies

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Speaker:
Barbara Neiman, OTR/L
Duration:
6 Hours 03 Minutes
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Audio and Video
Copyright:
Mar 30, 2017
Product Code:
POS061825
Media Type:
Digital Recording
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Description

  • Strategies for: Completing tasks, managing emotions, increasing attention, communicating and meeting challenges
  • Reduce trauma, anxiety, and depression with guided meditation
  • Regulate emotions with 6 breathing techniques and reduce impulsive behaviors
  • Build self-regulation, self-esteem and confidence

Many of my clients have limited movement quality and repertoire, poor attention, trauma and sensory issues.

When I began to teach clients yoga, developmental movement patterns and simple breathing techniques, they became more integrated in their motor responses and their attention improved drastically!

Trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness created an immediate shift in clients’ body awareness, ability and tolerance. Clients were empowered by tuning into the body to a place of relaxation, control and confidence. Learning mindfulness and yoga reduces stress and increases movement repertoire.

As a therapist, the more I quieted my mind, the more effective I was in teaching my clients to self-pace and access the brain body connection somatically. My work became more successful as the clients felt less stressed and more focused.

Come experience this brain-body seminar and learn trauma-informed yoga strategies for children and adolescents with ADHD, autism, trauma and sensory issues. Learn techniques for attention, following directions, managing emotions, completing daily tasks, socializing and communicating.

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This online program is worth 6.0 hours CPD.

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PDF Manual (11.12 MB) 39 Pages Available after Purchase

Speaker

Barbara Neiman, OTR/L's Profile

Barbara Neiman, OTR/L Related seminars and products

Integrative Occupational Therapist

Health Discovery

Barbara Neiman, OTR, is an Integrative Occupational Therapist, Yoga Teacher 200RYT in Embodyyoga®, a coach for professionals seeking a holistic practice and a National Seminar Presenter. She teaches courses on Yoga and Mindfulness around the country. She created her company, Health Discovery, in 1988, to provide services for infants through school age children. As a Certified Practitioner of Body Mind Centering since 1989, Barbara has taught experiential hands on, movement, and meditation classes to hundreds of students.

Resources include coaching, trainings for yoga in the schools, private yoga sessions, a downloadable webinar, “Integrating Mind, Body, Spirit Medicine into your Practice,” and professional manuals and journal articles. Blogs on her website include posts about digital detox, executive function skills for teens, sensory integration, wellness, etc. Barbara has several DVDs available on Yoga and mindfulness at www.PESI.com. She is also the author of the practical book Mindfulness & Yoga Skills for Children and Adolescents: 115 Activities for Trauma, Self-Regulation, Special Needs & Anxiety (PESI, 2015) and the co-author of the My Calm Place Card Deck: Yoga, Mindfulness & Meditation Strategies for Children (PESI, 2016).

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Barbara Neiman maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Barbara Neiman is a member of the Body Mind Centering Association and of the Yoga Alliance.

Objectives

  1. Utilize the elements of relaxing guided meditation for autistic children and young adults.
  2. Apply engaging yoga activities and breathing in classrooms and clinics.
  3. Regulate emotion, calm and attention with embodying techniques.
  4. Apply mindfulness principles to daily life and therapist’s tool box.
  5. Create successful yoga breaks, circle time, and class transitions using yoga.
  6. Identify how to utilize trauma-informed yoga principles with clients.

Outline

MIND-BODY TECHNIQUES

  • Research on yoga in schools
    • The Brain: Regulate emotions
    • Activities to quiet the mind: Reduce trauma with the witness
    • Link emotion and attention to breath
    • Teach 8 simple yoga principles to kids

TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA

  • How to adapt and self-pace
  • Body Sensing
  • Completing Daily Tasks
  • Grounding column for ADHD
  • The orchestra breath and attention
  • Following directions: Mindfulness walking

MANAGE EMOTIONS WITH SELF-REGULATION: WHERE IN MY BODY IS MY REACTION

  • Sensory feeling wheel: Reduce panic attacks, anxiety, anger
  • Manage PTSD
  • Noticing negative thoughts: Shifting pain

COMMUNICATING: SHIFTING MOODS TO WORDS

  • Find words with tracing bones
  • Shift depression with Mudra’s and Ha breath
  • Write mantras for positive thinking
  • Thought bubbles: I'm the boss of my thoughts
  • Reduce stress: 3-step contemplation

MEETING CHALLENGES: TECHNIQUES FOR CLINICIANS TO STAY STEADY

  • Engage kids where they are
  • Sensory circle time - preK-5th
  • Special needs adaptations
  • Reduce behaviors and anxiety
  • Guided meditation for autistic young adults

POSES AND ALERTING TECHNIQUES

  • Standing and seated poses
  • One-foot balance
  • Vinyasa
  • Warrior series
  • Backbends

TOOLS FOR CALMING THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

  • Restorative: Desks and Sensory corners
  • Short meditations: Golden Ray
  • How to use guided imagery effectively
  • Breathing to stillness

Target Audience

Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals.

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