Adaptive Sports Foundation

Sports education and program center for people with disabilities

Adaptive yoga

The Adaptive Sports Foundation integrates adaptive yoga into its programs whenever feasible. Participants learn stress reduction techniques through movement, breathing techniques and deep relaxation.

Participants with cognitive disabilities such a as post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury and autism spectrum disorder find yoga calming, centering and healing.

Participants with physical disabilities ranging from limb loss and paralysis, to spina bifida and rheumatoid arthritis, find strength, flexibility and a sense of physical and emotional ease through practicing yoga.

Click here to read Adaptive Yoga for Any Body, an article by ASF Marketing and Development Director Jo Kirsch. Jo is a registered yoga teacher who has met 500 hour standards (RYT-500). Jo Kirsch and ASF Managing Director – Programs and Staff Development Bob Speck, RYT-200, have training specific to teaching adaptive and trauma sensitive yoga.

Please contact Jo Kirsch (jkirsch@mhcable) for more information.