Special Yoga and Mindfulness for Autism and ADHD

SYMA Liverpool

Course Venue: Stanley School, Greenbank Drive, Pensby, Wirral, CH61 5UE

Purchase of this Hybrid Attendance means you will join Claire and Karuna on one or both days of the hybrid course opening. Please note, you will not be joining the whole course nor enrolling in the course space on the Special Yoga app. The day runs from 10am - 5pm and you will receive join instructions a few days before the event. Please note, you will not be joining the whole course nor enrolling in the course space on the Special Yoga app. The day runs from 10am - 5pm and you will receive join instructions a few days before the event.

Claire Baker

I am delighted to be part of the Special Yoga practitioner family. I have trained with Jyoti Manuel for almost 10 years, and found Special Yoga after completing my 200 hour yoga teacher training. I was lucky enough to train for that in Mysore, in India. I have worked with children and adults with disabilities in the voluntary sector all of my life, offering respite care, and began to share yoga with them when I experienced how settling it could be. In the years since, I have continued my own training and worked for Special Yoga to support their teacher training and as a practitioner. I have enjoyed sharing yoga in a number of settings with children and young adults, in mainstream and special schools, with family and autism groups, online and in one-to-one sessions. For the last couple of years I have lived in Cumbria where I now work for a youth development charity. Yoga continues to be my "heart" job and my passion is working with children with autism and ADHD. I feel honoured to play a part in bringing Special Yoga into the lives of other people as I have experienced and witnessed how transformative it can be.

Karuna Jackman

Karuna is one of our Senior Practitioners, working with adults and children with special needs since 2010. She is a British Wheel of Yoga and Integral Yoga trained teacher bringing her compassionate gentle nature to all her clients. She has also trained in Hanna Somatic Movement, a form of neuromuscular re-education that helps to ease chronic stress in the body. Karuna’s classes are rooted in compassion; aimed to develop a loving relationship to where we are right now and a chance to explore one’s full potential.