New DVD Release! Special Needs Yoga
A compassionate approach offering Yoga’s therapeutic benefits to people with special needs or disabilities. Including yoga stretches and exercises, restorative poses, breathing exercises, partner supported positions, and yoga for caregivers.
ABOUT
Bea Ammidown
A yoga student since before the birth of her three children and a former multi-media journalist,
Bea has taught yoga internationally since 1986. She
is fluent in Spanish and French. When a devastating accident injured her severely, she used the healing powers of Yoga to mend her body and mind. Bea has developed a safe and empowering program that applies the practice of Yoga and meditation as tools for rehabilitation from injury, surgery and chronic pain. She is a member
of IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists) and is trained in Yoga for the Special Child and Phoenix Rising Yoga Trainings.
Nina Quinonas, 73
a special education teacher and caregiver in a retirement home.
Aubrey Parnell, 25
who has Cerebral Palsy and is a 4th year AIDS
Walk L.A. walkathon participant.
Students Featured on The DVD
Charles Champlin, 82
with Macular degeneration, hip and knee replacements
and a stroke survivor.
He is a Purple Heart recipient and former
Life Magazine and
L.A. Times columnist.
Caregiver Featured on The DVD
ABOUT
YogAbility
Bea Ammidown creates a safe environment by using Yoga, music, and meditation as healing tools for the treatment
of stress, injury, and chronic pain.
The YogAbility Institute is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to providing an alternative form of exercise to those who cannot participate in conventional fitness activities. YogAbility is
a program of HumoRX Inc., a California 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. Federal tax I.D. #95-3952934
What Can Yoga
Do For Me?
For many people, Yoga
has been successful in maintaining and building muscular strength, flexibility, and coordination, while decreasing pain and increasing relaxation. Currently, more physicians are relating to the fact that Yoga is a form of complementary healing medicine.
Who Participates
in YogAbility?
YogAbility is available to anyone who is searching for an effective and gentle form of exercise and relaxation. The poses are designed for people with disabilities or special needs, as well as those who are unable to participate in other forms of exercise. Some of the people who have benefitted from YogAbility include special children with Down syndrome and learning disabilities, adults and seniors in rehabilitation, as well as wheelchair-bound adults.
DVD Interviews
Richard MacKenzie M.D.
Director, Division of Adolescent
Medicine, Childrens Hospital, L.A.
Nancy Dilger P.T.
Board Certified Pediatric Clinical Specialist
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