New and unique exercises in yoga, meditation, guided imagery and somatic explorations fill this comprehensive skills guide. This book is brimming with 115 practical and easy to use tools and stories supporting critical life skills for families, classrooms and therapy sessions. Holistic strategies include: Meditation to support body-mind-spirit connection; Yoga pose adaptations for Autism, sensory processing & special needs; Trauma sensitive and grounding guided imagery; Parenting tools to tune to our somatic self and enjoy silence and nature; Designing a personal mantra and contemplation; Classroom interventions for building life skills.

The mind body connection -- Yoga for the classroom: pre-school, therapy sessions and with the prooundly handicapped -- Guided somatic imagery in the classroom and clinic -- Nature and somatic learning -- Pranayama fills the gap -- Embodied learning -- Meditation: skills for stilling the mind -- Yoga and contemplation in everyday life -- Mindfulness -- Working through trauma with yoga -- Mantra -- Honoring silence -- Sounding -- Our digital lives: finding balance in the on demand culture -- Yoga of daily life.