Talk Yoga SLP

What is Talk Yoga?  We are asked this question all the time, and the truth is, our answer is different every time!  We are learning more and more with each Talk Yoga session what it is at that moment with that specific client.  Of course, as we have shared before, Talk Yoga is a therapeutic approach infusing speech and language therapy with the movement of yoga, AND it is individualized, fun, holistic, motor based, sensory based, and so much more!  Join us on today's episode as we share stories about specific clients that continue to teach us how to use the Talk Yoga lens to effectively assess and treat our amazing super star clients!

Join Amy and Kim as they discuss their lessons on the mat this week, and lessons from their Talk Yoga therapy sessions.  The powerful gift of breath is a theme in today's episode.  Listen as Amy and Kim share experiences they have had this past week using a simple breath cue with their clients.  Breath can refresh, redirect, and rejuvenate both clinicians and clients.  Breath is simple, it is powerful, and it is under our control.  Teaching this to clients provides them with a tool when they need to find a sense of calm, focus and stillness.  

Join us on today's episode as we interview executive function coach, special educator, advocate, author, and award winning teacher, Sarah Kesty!  Sarah is truly gifted when it comes to understanding how to dig deep into understanding what makes her clients tick, and how she can help them access their self regulation skills to then engage their much needed executive functioning skills.  We will discuss what executive functioning is and why it is so important.  Sarah will give us tips you can use today to help those you work with (or live with) better understand and engage their executive function skills.  We will discuss how Talk Yoga strategies can also help children get their brains ready to learn, and therefore be more efficient and effective in their executive functioning.  

Visit Sarah at her webiste: sarahkesty.com, and listen to her amazing podcast: The Executive Function Podcast.  We loved talking with you Sarah...we can't wait to have you back soon!

Did you know that the vestibular system integrates the left and right hemispheres of the brain and that both hemispheres must be integrated, working together, for speech and language production and processing to occur??  How can you tell if your client's vestibular system isn't integrated?  What can you do to access this system, and therefore help your clients become more focused, self regulated and ready to learn?  Talk Yoga to the rescue!

Join us as we touch on the anatomy and physiology of Talk Yoga and why we are seeing benefits with these techniques across the board!  Our knowledge regarding the "why" Talk Yoga works is continuing to expand and we are just scratching the surface in this podcast!   In the early days of Talk Yoga, we saw effectiveness with these techniques, but it wasn't until we began consulting with our OT and PT colleagues that we really have started to put all of the pieces together.  We began looking at our clients through a new lens.  We wanted to understand how their individual anatomy, physiology and sensory systems impacted or benefited their speech and language systems and how our Talk Yoga techniques can address these systems and result in growth, development, and progress! We share just a bit today, with much more to come in future podcasts and in our newly revised certification training!

It has been a long time - well a summer - since we last shared some podcast time with you all!  We can't wait to share with you what we have in store for our upcoming episodes.  We have more in depth trainings, more yoga, more tips, and of course, more insights into the world of Talk Yoga.  Help us celebrate National Yoga Month by reviewing our podcast for a change to win a free gift from Talk Yoga!  We give good gifts friends, so take us up on this!  Here is a free gift and tip for you...we love to practice with Tim Senesi on YouTube and think you should try out his amazing yoga practices.  Happy National Yoga Month and welcome back to the podcast!

In this episode, Kim and Amy discuss how they use the practice of yoga as the lense through which they work with their clients.  Appreciation for the culture and limbs of yoga will be shared, as well as how Amy and Kim intentionally weave what they have learned in their individual practices and yoga teacher trainings into their therapeutic work.  This is a topic that deserves many episodes and the discussion will continue in future episodes.  

Join Amy and Kim as we discuss how we incorporate Talk Yoga techniques into our individual sessions, whether on zoom or in person.  We are often asked how we use Talk Yoga during our sessions.  Do we have a specific format we follow?  Are there techniques we use in every session?  What are some of our favorite ways to begin a therapy session?  We can't wait to share our ideas with you!  Leave us a review and let us know what your favorite Talk Yoga techniques are!  

Join us as we share how we came to the field of Speech-Language Pathology!  Everyone's path to this field is unique and we can't wait to share how we found our careers.  We are also so excited to share some of our therapy breakthroughs with you from this past week.  It seems that with every Talk Yoga session we learn something new and are amazed at how our clients respond to Talk Yoga techniques.  We are excited to share what we learned this week!  Visit our website to find out more about our techniques and how you can become trained as a Talk Yoga therapist!  www.talkyogaslp.com.

Join Amy and Kim as we discuss how and why we pair yoga with language therapy!  We will share how this concept came to be and how you can address language goals with your clients using Talk Yoga™ yoga poses, flows, and tune-ins.  Check out the Grammar Processing Program, developed by Sandra McKinnis to learn more about the inspiration behind our Talk Yoga™ cueing system.  Listen also for our special discount code to receive $20 off our Talk Yoga™ Articulation Pose Cards!