Talk Yoga SLP

On this week's episode, Kim and Amy discuss the valuable lessons they learn during their Talk Yoga sessions.  Using the Talk Yoga lens, we are always evaluating our client's needs.  We are asking "why" during our sessions and digging deep into foundational skills to help us better assist our amazing clients.  We see our clients as our teachers, and when we approach our therapy with this in mind the learning opportunities are endless.  From movement, to posture, to breathing, we discuss how using Talk Yoga principles enriches our therapy to help us provide fun, effective, and meaningful therapy.  

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 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!

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!

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 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!

In today's episode we will share how the Talk Yoga™ Articulation Poses were created.  Join Amy and Kim to learn about how we use yoga poses and movements to address articulation targets with our clients.  We will even share our tips on how to use our "Rainbow Pose" to address that tricky "r" sound!  Listen also for a special code to receive a discount on our Talk Yoga™ Articulation Pose Cards for the month of May - better speech and hearing month!

Welcome to Talk Yoga SLP!  We are so glad you are here with us to express, play, and learn!  On today's first episode will give you all a brief introduction to how Talk Yoga all began and what to expect from our upcoming episodes such as how to think like a Talk Yoga Therapist, how to use the movement of yoga to address language and articulation, how to make therapy more fun, and how to see more carry over with your clients.  Join us every week for a new podcast and visit us at talkyogaslp.com or contact us at talkyogaslp@gmail.com!

Hello friends!  It’s Talk Yoga SLP!  This is the weekly podcast for speech language pathologists, teachers, parents, and other professionals like OTs and PTs who are ready to use yoga movements to establish, boost, or enrich speech and language development!  Join your hosts, Amy Roberts and Kim Hughes, speech-language pathologists and yoga teachers.  Speech and Language + Yoga = Talk Yoga.  See you on the Talk Yoga mat!

Join Amy and Kim as we begin a series on breathing! We will share with you four of favorite breathing techniques designed to bring calm and regulation to your life and/or sessions. You can practice these techniques while listening to this podcast and will feel ready to share them with others. As always, we will teach you how infuse these techniques with language the Talk Yoga™ way!

Join Amy and Kim for this inspiring conversation with Talk Yoga™ Certified Therapist Tori Seites-Rundlett. Tori traveled form Rhode Island to attend a Talk Yoga™ training in person, and she did it all in one day! She has a yogic heart and you will feel it as you listen to her journey through teaching yoga, providing speech and language therapy, and finding the Talk Yoga™ approach. Tori has discovered ways to infuse her own talents into the her Talk Yoga™ practice from singing, to ukulele playing, to new ways to guide children through savasana. You do not want to miss this episode!

Join Amy and Kim as they discuss Amy's experiences sharing Talk Yoga™ with local in-home daycare and preschool programs. These programs are privately run and provide nurturing environments for children under the age of five. Many of the children in these programs have aged out of early intervention speech and language services, and Talk Yoga™ can provide needed opportunities to further boost and enrich articulation and language skills. These programs and their teachers/directors are serving young children in beautiful ways and we feel so lucky to be a sharing Talk Yoga™ with them!

Join Amy and Kim and learn more about our Talk Yoga™ Certification Training! We are often asked what we teach during our trainings...so here is our overview for you. In today's episode, we share information about the topics that are covered during our trainings as well as how you can become a Talk Yoga™ trained therapist!

Join Amy and Kim as we talk about teaching a Talk Yoga™ class! We are often asked what our classes looks like, how old are the children who participate, how long are the classes, and the list goes on! Did you know we have a complete curriculum to help you plan and implement a Talk Yoga™ class? We are super excited to share all things Talk Yoga™ classes with you today!

We are so excited to begin our series of chats with Talk Yoga™ trained therapists. We are started off today with a wonderful conversation with Allison McBrien. She is a speech-lanuguage pathologist and trained yoga teacher. Allison found Talk Yoga™ after discovering a love for the practice of yoga in her own life. She has used Talk Yoga™ in her therapy in individual sessions and in groups in the school setting. Allison loves to use books and stories in her sessions and was looking for fun ways to share literature with her students of varying ages and interests...and use Talk Yoga™ too!, We learned so much from Allison and were able to share some ideas for how she can continue to incorporate Talk Yoga™ in her therapy sessions.

It has been a minute..or two! We are so excited to be back to discuss all things Talk Yoga™! In today's episode we share some exciting updates in our world...get excited! We also share some therapy experiences that we have had. Here is to a great upcoming season of Talk Yoga™ SLP!

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!