Special Yoga

Welcome to Special Yoga Foundation

We exist in order to serve as many special children as possible through the medium of Yoga. We consider all children special and know that no label can define or limit a child’s potential for positive change.

All children can benefit from the therapeutic service we provide – a conviction born from working with thousands of special children throughout the years and witnessing the profound and far reaching effects that therapeutic Yoga has on the lives of every child it reaches.

Special Yoga Foundation is a unique place that embraces children that are different and makes them welcome.

Jyoti (Jo) Manuel

Founder of SYF and Lead Practitioner Jyoti brings over 25 years of working with children with special and additional needs and yoga to SYF.She is the spiritual leader and mentor for all our practice work with children and practitioners both in the UK and overseas.

Roger Andrews Executive Chair

Roger is chiefly responsible for building the organisation so we can operate transparently, efficiently and scale SYF to reach more and more children in the UK and worldwide.

Yoga Teacher Training

Our Yoga Teacher Trainings are long-term and cover a range of topics. Special Yoga Foundation has a long standing relationship with Integral Yoga and is the home of Integral London. We offer the Integral Yoga Basic (200 hours) course, which leads to becoming a qualified beginners yoga teacher, and Integral Yoga Intermediate (170 hours) course. These courses are accredited by Yoga Alliance USA; the certificate is issued by Integral Yoga International and it is registered in the UK through the Independent Yoga Network.

More information about Integral Yoga: Integral Yoga Uk and Yogaville.

As well as this, we offer Therapeutic Gentle Yoga (100 hours), which explores various healing methods to bring the body into balance and reduce stress.