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http://www.westword.com/restaurants/nine-boozy-yoga-classes-invite-novice-yogis-to-loosen-up-8008668

~Denver Feature on Yoga at Factotum Brewhouse

— The Westword, June 28th, 2016

Feature on Adventure Yoga for Kids + Mary Susan Stults // Yoga Instructor for Children with Special Needs~

— Instructors for special needs, JANUARY 7, 2014

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https://www.instructorsforspecialneeds.com/adventure-yoga-kids/

Mary Susan is very passionate about Adaptive Yoga and it’s countless benefits. Children with learning challenges, motor deficits, and sensory processing challenges can gain much from yoga when it is applied in a therapeutic and adaptive manner. Several known benefits of a yoga practice are increased strength, flexibility, co-ordination, balance and concentration. Yoga can also promote improved posture, trunk and pelvic stability, body awareness, sequencing, respiration, self-esteem and relaxation. These are so very important for a child whose problems stem from weaknesses in one or more of these areas. Therapeutic and Adaptive yoga will help in stimulating various brain centers and strengthening the body. Kids Yoga and Adaptive Yoga also helps foster healthy social interactions between students and teacher, mutual respect for others, and focuses on more mindful approaches and tools to situations we are all confronted with on a daily basis.

Why yoga as a tool or therapy tool? Let’s begin with the basic definition of yoga. Yoga means to “join;” it creates physical well being by joining the mind, body and spirit.

Practicing yoga is an opportunity for adaptive children to feel like a true specialist themselves… specializing in their own joy and spirit. In a Yoga class for the child, the child will be guided to move, focus and relax without judgement. Their innate abilities will be channelled to support their personal development and it is this very empowerment and fostering of self-confidence that is so beneficial and important for children with special needs. The focus is on “I can do - Mary Susan Stults~ ”.