Calm & Alert: Yoga and Mindfulness Practices to Teach Self-regulation and Social Skills to Children

Calm & Alert gives classroom teachers, special needs teachers, therapists, yoga teachers and parents an innovative, step-by-step approach to teaching self-regulation and social skills to children by utilizing their body, mind and breath. Developed by an experienced counselor, educator, and yoga teacher, Helene McGlauflin, Calm & Alert is filled with unique mindfulness exercises, yoga poses and lesson plans to help both typically developing and special needs children. With Calm & Alert in your classroom, therapy office or home, children will become: ¢¢Less anxious and stressed ¢¢Steady and safe ¢¢Focused and positive ¢¢Physically and emotionally regulated ¢¢Kind and tolerant ¢¢Better problem solvers

Helene McGlauflin, MEd, LCPC, KYT, is a counselor, yoga teacher and writer. Helene has worked with and for children and those who raise and serve them for 30 years.

Foreword By: Peg Dawson, EdD, is a psychologist and specializes in the assessment of children and adults with learning and attention disorders. Dr. Dawson's books with Richard Guare include Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Second Edition; Coaching Students with Executive Skills Deficits; Smart But Scattered; and Smart But Scattered Teens.