Meditation and yoga therapy for children with autism

"Meditation and Yoga can sometimes be the first places where aistic children learn the joy of sharing, imitating, and playing together." There is a natural love between children and yoga, since yoga focuses on both young people, including the connection of the brain – the body. Yoga also helps strengthen and reorganize the nervous system, which is essential for children with special needs (According to Childrensyoga).

Children with autism face many difficulties in important areas such as communication, language, play, self-care, emotional skills … Through yoga meditation combined with appropriate early interventions to help children manage their behavior, support their play, emotional skills, sensory conditioning, ability to practice imitation, movement and communication skills, social interaction, language are also encouraged to develop.

The science of yoga is not a new topic. This subject has been in practice for thousands of years. We should consider Yoga as pure science, aimed at improving health. Yoga has no religious or regional background. People of any faith, anywhere in the world can practice yoga.

Yoga is becoming popular in the treatment of different types of diseases. Doctors around the world are acknowledging the effects of stress on the human body and different types of diseases. In addition to medical and surgical treatments as usual, yoga practice is becoming a routine practice. Practicing yoga helps individuals understand the true nature of illness and help them adjust their lifestyle. (Medicinefor Yoga Practitioners – Pakidi Nagaraja Rao MBBS FACA FICA DAC FAAPMR D-PMR (USA) Professor and Professional Director of Yoga University, Jigani, Bengaluru Karnataka, India).

Yoga teaches us to be good people and control our sensory muscles. Most children in general or children with autism in particular have difficulty dealing with the sensation (SPD) of one or more senses. Yoga and meditation are a practice or solution that can assist children in sensory processing disorders, helping them to calm down, relax, and reconcile sensations.

Not only that, meditation and yoga are also considered as a therapy to support the treatment for people who are having psychological problems: anxiety disorders, depression, trauma … Even for the average person, yoga and meditation are a great sport that helps us to exercise both physically and mentally, forge perseverance and above all direct people to a healthy lifestyle!

In particular, practicing yoga meditation properly can change the functioning of the mind and help in achieving concentration, raising awareness, understanding and compassion, the love of a human being.

At the Unit of Clinic and Educational Psychology of Share99 Times City Health Hub's Regenerative Medicine Center, after a period of application, "Meditation – yoga therapy" is considered as one of the intervention methods that contribute to positive and progressive results for children with autism. , children with attention loss and learning difficulties.

With delicate and flexible techniques, yoga therapy practitioners will connect and interact with children comprehensively, from sensory conditioning, psychological/emotional balance to physical activity. Here are a few things that are available in yoga practice and healing benefits for children (and adults):

1. Mantra (yoga sound): the use of vibration and sound reading will help calm down and attract attention. Encourage language development and speaking ability. Help establish eye contact.
2. Pranayama (breath perception):deep breathing is effectively soothing. Children have the ability to learn to breathe to regain their composure. Breathing practice encourages speech development and stability of the position. Children with increased activity or unstable levels of activity react very well to breathing exercises to calm down and stabilize activity levels.
3. Asana (position and practice):how to develop every aspect of motor skills, including a general awareness of the body and its place in space.
4. Savasana :just a few brief moments in silence can bring many benefits to children who are often on the move, can not stop. At this time, it is possible to roll a ball up and down slowly on the body with medium pressure,
5. Meditation (time of silence/alertness): develops attention intervals, the ability to sit still and focus. Help to remove anxiety and empty the mind from petty thoughts to be able to receive new knowledge in a better way. The use of poems, songs and yoga affirmatives is a good way to start, such as: "I'm happy, I'm healthy."
6. Games, motor support tools, sensory conditioning: Motor games help children release energy, support children with autism to play, social interaction, and exercises to help children with disorders handle feelings of activity and learning.

With the desire to bring love, respect for children's differences and bring the best to children, Yoga Meditation specialists at the Clinic unit and educational psychology of Share99 Renewable Medicine Center are constantly training, learning and learning experiences to improve the quality of service as well as help children with autism. have an extra great option to relax, to study, to train, to grow every day!

The unit of clinic and educational psychology of Share99 Times City Health Hub's Regenerative Medicine Center is a pioneer in applying scientific and artistic methods of evaluatiy and treating children with autism, bringing high efficiency.

Areas of intervention in education for children with autism at Share99

1. Pediatric psychiatric
2. Clinical psychology – educational psychology
3. Special Education
4. Speech therapy
5. Meditation – yoga therapy
6. Music therapy
7. Therapeutic Arts

The team of doctors, therapeutics and teachers at the Center are trained at prestigious schools: University of Education, University of Social Sciences – Vietnam National University, Academy of Educational Management … and regularly improve their skills through short-term and long-term training courses at home and abroad with leading experts from the US, Australia, India, Italy.