Ready for Yoga

Ready for Yoga Cards: A set of beautifully illustrated cards featuring 15 yoga poses and 5 breathing activities. On the back of each card you’ll find prompts, to support you to guide the child therapeutically through the pose or activity. Each card is designed to be engaging and easy to follow, helping children build physical, sensory, emotional, and cognitive skills.

Facilitator Guide: A detailed guide that provides step-by-step instructions and strategies for using the yoga cards effectively. It includes tips for integrating yoga into daily routines, fostering social connections, and enhancing executive functioning skills.

Ready for Yoga Quick Start Video: Information about how to get started with our program.

Play-Based Activity Ideas: Fun and interactive activities that promote regulation, interoceptive awareness, and motor skills development. These activities are designed to be enjoyable and beneficial for children of all abilities.

Regulation and Sensory Processing: Help children
manage their emotions and energy levels through co-regulation and self-regulation techniques.

Interoception and Emotional Awareness: Enhance
children’s ability to understand and respond to their internal body signals, promoting emotional awareness and social connectedness.

Physical Skills and Motor Development: Improve
balance, coordination, strength, and motor planning through a variety of engaging yoga poses.

Executive Functioning Skills: Support planning, organization, impulse control, and time management, helping children develop
essential life skills.

Connection and Social Engagement: Foster meaningful connections through group activities and games that encourage social
interaction and collaboration.

The Ready for Yoga Program is an invaluable tool for creating a positive and supportive environment where children can learn, grow,
and flourish. Whether used at home, in schools, or in therapy settings, this
program provides the resources needed to support children’s development through play-based, connection enriched,  yoga
activities and games.

The Ready for Yoga Program aims to address the following goals:

1. Development of sensory based strategies to incorporate into everyday routines
2. Utilising breathing and mindfulness strategies to foster emotional regulation and well-being
3. Improved awareness of internal body cues and signals such as thirst, hunger, or needing to go to the toilet, contributing to improved independence
4. Improved ability to respond to body cues and consequently better maintain appropriate emotional states
5. Development of gross motor skills including strength, flexibility, balance and coordination
6. Development of fine motor skills including strength and dexterity
7. Fostering connection between children and their support people
8. Establishing a trusting and safe foundation for a child to build skills and confidence
9. Fostering social engagement with peers to enhance teamwork and collaborative skills
10. Increasing self-confidence
11. Development of executive functioning skills including planning, sequencing, attention and focus
12. Improved understanding of how to incorporate strategies into everyday routines to support development

You can align your NDIS goals with the goals of the program to ensure that the program is working towards achieving the participants NDIS goals. If you need support to determine if the participant's NDIS goals align with the goals of the program, please contact us at hi@regulatedandready.com.au