Calm & Alert: Yoga and Mindfulness Practices to Teach Self-regulation and Social Skills to Children - Softcover

McGlauflin, Helene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1683731328 ISBN 13: 9781683731320

Publisher: PESI Publishing & Media, 2018

Synopsis

Calm & Alert gives classroom teachers, special needs teachers, yoga teachers and parents an innovative, step-by-step approach to teaching self-regulation and social skills to children by utilizing their body, mind and breath.

Developed by an experienced counselor, educator and yoga teacher, Helene McGlauflin, Calm & Alert is filled with unique mindfulness exercises, yoga poses and lesson plans to help both typically developing and special needs children.

With Calm & Alert in your classroom, therapy office or home, children will become:
- Less anxious and stressed
- Steady and safe
- Focused and positive
- Physically and emotionally regulated
- Kind and tolerant
- Better problem solvers

About this title

About the Author

Helene McGlauflin, MEd, LCPC, KYT, is a counselor, yoga teacher and writer. Helene has worked with and for children and those who raise and serve them for 30 years.Peg Dawson, EdD, is a psychologist and specializes in the assessment of children and adults with learning and attention disorders. Dr. Dawson's books with Richard Guare include Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Second Edition; Coaching Students with Executive Skills Deficits; Smart But Scattered; and Smart But Scattered Teens.

From the Back Cover

Calm & Alert gives classroom teachers, special needs teachers, therapists, yoga teachers and parents an innovative, step-by-step approach to teaching self-regulation and social skills to children by utilizing their body, mind and breath. Developed by an experienced counselor, educator, and yoga teacher, Helene McGlauflin, Calm & Alert is filled with unique mindfulness exercises, yoga poses and lesson plans to help both typically developing and special needs children. With Calm & Alert in your classroom, therapy office or home, children will become: ¢¢Less anxious and stressed ¢¢Steady and safe ¢¢Focused and positive ¢¢Physically and emotionally regulated ¢¢Kind and tolerant ¢¢Better problem solvers

Edition details

• Publisher: PESI Publishing & Media
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1683731328
• ISBN 13: 9781683731320
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 222