Betsy Shandalov – Yoga, Meditation, & Mindfulness: Improve Brain & Body Balance for Children & Their Families

Betsy Shandalov – Yoga, Meditation, & Mindfulness: Improve Brain & Body Balance for Children & Their Families

Description:

Children who are balanced in their body and brain do better in school, are more resilient, and feel more calm. Research shows yoga improves brain functioning, focus, balance, proprioception, the vestibular system, physical strengthening, and sensory desensitization. Studies show positive changes in brain patterns by quieting the mind and moving the body in mindful ways. Attend and learn calming breathwork individualized to each child’s diagnosis and symptomologies; active and restorative yoga poses and sequences; and specific mindfulness techniques to help children with autism, sensory disorders, and neurological disorders.

Yoga to Improve Brain Function

• Yoga, meditation and mindfulness
• Self-regulation and vagal tone and the nervous system
• Parts of the brain and movement patterns that can change behavior

Breathwork to Enhance the Nervous System

• Yogic breathing
• Practice breath patterns that are calming
• Techniques specific to child’s diagnosis

Active and Restorative Yoga Poses

• Differences between active and calming poses
• How prone and standing poses affect the body
• Eye exercises for brain balancing

Creating a Customized Treatement Plan

• Incorporate specific yoga, mindfulness and meditation techniques
• Strategies for diagnoses: autism, sensory disorders, neurological disorders, cancer and ADHD
• Case study review
• Food and home modification as part of the treatment
• Parent participation

FITNESS – HEALTH – MEDICAL Course

More information about Medical:

Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.

Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease,
typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others.

Medicine has been around for thousands of years, during most of which it was an art (an area of skill and knowledge) frequently having connections to the religious and philosophical beliefs of local culture.

For example, a medicine man would apply herbs and say prayers for healing, or an ancient philosopher and physician would apply bloodletting according to the theories of humorism.
In recent centuries, since the advent of modern science, most medicine has become a combination of art and science (both basic and applied, under the umbrella of medical science).

While stitching technique for sutures is an art learned through practice.

The knowledge of what happens at the cellular and molecular level in the tissues being stitched arises through science.