Jyoti Jo Manuel

Jyoti Jo Manuel has been a serious practitioner of

yoga since 1974. She started teaching in 1989.

She is a leading teacher trainer and practitioner of

therapeutic yoga for children with special needs. She

is the founder of Special Yoga, a global organisation

that was founded in 2003. It was established to

provide and develop sustainable and accessible yoga

based programmes for children with special and

additional needs within education, therapeutic settings

and within the family.

Her heartfelt mission is to implement and share

sustainable therapeutic yoga programmes and

trainings, allowing children all over the world to

receive its significant benefits so that each child is

given the opportunity to thrive and reach their fullest

potential.

She has worked within education for the National

Health Service in UK, most recently with a pilot

programme for children with additional needs who

were at risk of exclusion from school. Special Yoga

also worked with ADAPT in Mumbai on a research

study on the value of therapeutic yoga for

adolescents with cerebral palsy.