Seminar Detail
Yoga and Mindfulness: Brain-Body Strategies for Children and Adolescents
- Where:
- SPRINGFIELD, IL
- When:
- Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
This event is not currently available for purchase.
For more information: Call (800) 844-8260
Course Description:
Today, families and children are experiencing extreme stress. This can be reflected in children’s diminished academic, attention, and social skills to problems in sensory processing, physical health, depression and self-injurious behaviors. This creates conflict in following routines, managing emotional or physical responses or adjusting to transitions. Ranging from those who react to stress with violent behaviors, or who are overly withdrawn, to high achievers, this extreme stress that shows itself in sensory processing issues crosses cultural and economic barriers.
Attend this seminar and learn 10 brain body strategies for children with ADHD, autism and sensory issues who struggle with paying attention, following directions, managing their emotions, completing daily tasks, eating, socializing and communicating.
You will discover cutting edge evidence-based strategies for school, clinic and home settings that include: grounding breath, contact improvisation, open focus, digital detox plan, sensory feeling wheel, easeful parenting techniques, and body sensing yoga. We will use interactive demonstrations, experiential anatomy, discussion, physical exercises, and break out groups.
You will learn specific yoga, mindfulness and embodying techniques to help children to: inhabit their body instead of disassociating from it, experience a core place of stillness, translate body mind knowledge into function and feel comfortable and safe in sensation. Participants will walk away with The Attunement Lifestyle Questionnaire and techniques to use this integrative consulting tool with families.
Today, families and children are experiencing extreme stress. This can be reflected in children’s diminished academic, attention, and social skills to problems in sensory processing, physical health, depression and self-injurious behaviors. This creates conflict in following routines, managing emotional or physical responses or adjusting to transitions. Ranging from those who react to stress with violent behaviors, or who are overly withdrawn, to high achievers, this extreme stress that shows itself in sensory processing issues crosses cultural and economic barriers.
Attend this seminar and learn 10 brain body strategies for children with ADHD, autism and sensory issues who struggle with paying attention, following directions, managing their emotions, completing daily tasks, eating, socializing and communicating.
You will discover cutting edge evidence-based strategies for school, clinic and home settings that include: grounding breath, contact improvisation, open focus, digital detox plan, sensory feeling wheel, easeful parenting techniques, and body sensing yoga. We will use interactive demonstrations, experiential anatomy, discussion, physical exercises, and break out groups.
You will learn specific yoga, mindfulness and embodying techniques to help children to: inhabit their body instead of disassociating from it, experience a core place of stillness, translate body mind knowledge into function and feel comfortable and safe in sensation. Participants will walk away with The Attunement Lifestyle Questionnaire and techniques to use this integrative consulting tool with families.
Objectives:
- Discover how alternatives to medication and mind body techniques help clients.
- Show how to incorporate effective tools for building and shifting attention.
- Explain how to create alerting with movement and senses.
- Develop tools for calming using breath, yoga and visualization.
- Demonstrate an executive function and repair plan for middle and high school students.
- Practice a screening tool about family lifestyle management and electronic detox.
- Describe a 10-step modification plan to healthy nutrition for spectrum disorders and ADHD.
BARBARA NEIMAN, OTR/L
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, 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.
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, 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.
Credits listed below are for full attendance at the live event only. After attendance has been verified, pre-registered attendees will receive an email from PESI Customer Service with the subject line, “Evaluation and Certificate” within one week. This email will contain a link to complete the seminar evaluation and allow attendees to print, email or download a certificate of completion if in full attendance. For those in partial attendance (arrived late or left early), a letter of attendance is available through that link and an adjusted certificate of completion reflecting partial credit will be issued within 30 days (if your board allows). Please see “live seminar schedule” for full attendance start and end times. NOTE: Boards do not allow credit for breaks or lunch.
If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, or questions on home study credit availability, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.
Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.
The planning committee and staff who controlled the content of this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. For speaker disclosures, please see speaker bios.
PESI, Inc. offers continuing education programs and products under the brand names PESI, PESI Healthcare, PESI Kids, PESI Rehab and Psychotherapy Networker.
If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, or questions on home study credit availability, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.
Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.
The planning committee and staff who controlled the content of this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. For speaker disclosures, please see speaker bios.
PESI, Inc. offers continuing education programs and products under the brand names PESI, PESI Healthcare, PESI Kids, PESI Rehab and Psychotherapy Networker.
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ADA Needs
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at (800) 844-8260.
Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to PESI Rehab, P.O. Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call (800) 844-8260.
ADA Needs
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at (800) 844-8260.
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