Jyoti Manuel has been a serious practitioner of yoga since 1974. She began teaching in 1989 and founded Special Yoga in 2003, a global organization established to develop and provide yoga programmes for children with special and additional needs within education, therapeutic settings and at home. She has worked within education for the National Health Service in the UK, most recently to pilot a programme for children with additional needs at risk of exclusion from school. Special Yoga also worked with ADAPT in Mumbai to research the value of therapeutic yoga for adolescents with cerebral palsy.
Jyoti Manuel
