YogAbility
* When you know someone who is injured and can’t participate in yoga class
* For yoga students who are recovering from illness or injuries
* When yoga students are no longer able to keep up in class
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It is heartbreaking when devoted yoga students are injured or disabled and can no longer participate in class. The longer the recuperation period, the more likely the student never returns to yoga.
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YogAbility can assist. Master-teacher, E RYT 500 Bea Ammidown, has developed YogAbility to provide the benefits of yoga to people
who are not able to participate in a level 1/2 regular yoga class. Bea works with individuals to show them how to position themselves to avoid further injury. Her techniques are also developed to help injuries and surgeries heal.
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What YogAbility clients have to say:
I have experienced first hand the lovingly healing properties of your special work…. the practice of YogAbility, enables me with severe fibromyalgia to move with more ease, less tension, and more grace. YogAbility is a gentle and deeply effective practice…
———Crisalis, Marketing Specialist
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I like the gentle approach you take to the process of teaching, which seems to make it accessible to everyone regardless of their previous level of experience…. I like the fact that you offer accommodations for those who need the pose to be easier or more challenging.
———Samantha, Westside Regional Center, Program Manager
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The adaptive YogAbility exercises continue to help Andrew; an 18 year old with severe autism and gastro-intestinal issues… flexibility as well as digestion…and decreased tension. I, the community support companion of Andrew, have also benefited from Yoga throughout the past year. I’ve learned to slow down and incorporate Yoga at least 3 times a week…
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———Wendy, Institute for Applied Behavior and Analysis
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Attending YogAbility classes helps students maintain their weekly discipline and provides benefit from Yoga relaxation. Students learn how to protect from further injury, how to move without injury, and how to strengthen injured bodies.
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For individuals who need additional help, Bea can schedule one-one sessions as long as needed, until the student can return to the group YogAbility class, and then back to your class.
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Aubrey is one of YogAbility’s prize students. From cerebral palsy, she has limited physical abilities.
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Bea Ammidown’s many years of experience teaching Yoga to the disabled, along with her naturally compassionate teaching style, instills confidence and trust as she modifies safe poses to suit the individual, (for example, she supports Aubrey’s back during inversions like the shoulder stand). Such is Aubrey’s enjoyment of these classes, that she is now motivated to practice poses at home as well keep a yoga journal of her thoughts…. Aubrey is now able to experience movement and relaxation she has rarely experienced before because of her disability, and for this we thank Bea and The YogAbility Institute!
———–Claudette, Aubrey’s mother & caregiver
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Certification and Continuing Education Classes – Coming Soon
For yoga instructors who want to learn how to work with injured, ill, and disabled students, Bea is now developing a series of programs to teach instructors how to evaluate the injured or disabled student, how to design specific yoga practices for these students, and how to work with these students one-one.
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A non-profit corporation, 501 (C) (3) Federal Tax ID# 95-3952934
HumoRX dba The YogAbility Institute. Executive director/founder, Bea Ammidown