How Do You Teach Yoga To A Special Needs Child?
Yoga benefits every type of person, but can be especially beneficial to a special needs or emotionally disturbed child. As a teacher, learn to focus on basic asanas, breathing and heart rate. To use an old-fashioned term, this is about biofeedback. The goal as a student is becoming self-aware–aware of one’s own internalized biological mechanisms. As a teacher, your aim is for students eventually to learn to modulate and control the emotional states that the biological mechanisms signal. At the same time, the teacher needs to be aware of each student’s individual limitations. Read on to learn how to teach yoga to a special needs child. When teaching yoga to a special needs or emotionally disturbed child, assess the temperament of the student at the time of the class. Adjust the emotional and physical tenor of your teaching to the individual. How much can he tolerate? (This is largely intuitive on the teacher’s part, gained from increasing experience with the particular student.) You wa
