Integrating Yoga and Play Therapy

This book demonstrates how using yoga alongside play therapy has a hugely positive impact on addressing adverse childhood experiences. Combining mental health and neuroscience with arts therapies and a mind-body approach, this powerful book helps support the needs of children who have experienced trauma.

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This book presents the foundational knowledge to ethically and knowledgably integrate yoga into play therapy practice with children and families and create life-long change.

The mind-body connection that underpins the approach taken by the authors helps children to integrate adverse experiences and find new meanings associated with the past, and allows healing to begin. The book covers infant toddler mental health, theories of attachment, learning and development, neurobiology and the pervasive effects of developmental adversity or trauma on a child. It offers adaptations with special populations including group work and family systems work, and provides next steps for future professional growth in this area.