VOICE COLORS YOGA FOR AUTISM

Our 30-hour training features:

Unique Teaching Method

The Heart of Voice Colors

Visual Teaching: Identify visual supports that are essential to promoting the success of students with autism: Utilize visual schedules, a visual yoga curriculum, hand and foot placement markers, and other environmental supports to guide yoga practice.
Communication: Become a communication partner: Learn how to support continual dynamic growth of effective communication between teacher and students.
Social Relationship: Learning happens in relationship: Understand how trust and compassion provide the safe ground necessary for yoga practice.

The Heart of Voice Colors

Meet our Students: Our students with autism have inspired, informed and guided the philosophy and methodology behind the Voice Colors Yoga program. They are the heart of the program, and in so many ways are our best teachers
Experience a live Voice Colors Yoga class. Participants will observe a class with a small group of adults with autism.
View autism through a holistic lens. Autism is a "systems disorder" that often impacts gastro-intestinal functioning, sleep cycles, seizure activity, and other physical systems. Understand how stress management and maintaining overall health and wellness are critical for people with autism.

Visual Yoga Curriculum

The Heart of Voice Colors

Visual Yoga Curriculum

Ready-to-Use visual curriculum: Includes all of the visual supports teachers need to establish a yoga program for individuals with autism.
Proven and effective: Features a comprehensive repertoire of active and restorative yoga sequence developed over a decade of teaching, observation, data collection, and modifications
Color-coded: Features our unique color-coding system for body positions to support motor-planning and logical sequencing
Room to Grow: Curriculum is expandable to reflect the ongoing development of each students’ yoga practice.

Faculty

Hannah Gould

Hannah Gould, M.Ed, E-RYT

Program Director

Lead Instructor

Hannah, a well-known special educator and yoga teacher, has been a trailblazer in bringing meaningful and effective yoga to children and adults with autism and other special needs.

Eve Megargel

Hannah Gould

Eve Megargel

Executive Director and Founder Voice Colors non-profit
Founder of Voice Colors Communication Resource Model (VCCRM). A parent of an adult yogi with autism, Eve is an author, educator, public speaker, filmmaker and a pioneer in advocating that all individuals on the autism spectrum are independent communicators who are capable of self-expression and social relationships.