Join us, Amy and Kim as we reconnect and review the past few months at Talk Yoga!  We have reset and become refreshed and are so excited for our future plans for you all!  We have an updated online certification training coming soon and discuss some of the changes we have made to the training.  As always, we have lessons from the mat and share tips and our experiences with our classes and clients over the last few weeks.  We have exciting podcasts to come!  Stay tuned!

Join us, Amy and Kim as we talk with Jenn Nicholls, owner and lead teacher of Journey Preschool!  Jenn is an inspiration to us as she is passionate about early childhood education.  She started a preschool in her home and it has grown to include incredible programs designed to serve those children who are often underserved.  Jenn was trained in Talk Yoga and incorporates Talk Yoga classes into her weekly schedule with her little ones.  She recently was the recipient of the WeVision Earlyed Lab Solutions Site Grant from the Bainum Family Foundation.  Jenn has big plans for helping those she educates and providing the most enriching opportunities for these developing minds!  And bonus, she is an author and wrote the wonderful book, Sophia is a Super Friend! Find her book here!

Join us, Amy and Kim as we discuss an amazing experience we had attending the International Yoga Therapist Research Symposium at the beautiful Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. We were surrounded by researchers, scientists, yoga therapists, and yoga teachers all learning about the amazing research that is being conducted in the world of yoga. We can't wait to join the presenters next year!

Join us, Amy and Kim as we welcome you back to the podcast! We share some tips and thoughts about what is working for us right now as we incorporate Talk Yoga into therapy sessions and preschool classes. We also share a preview of what is coming up this season on the podcast!

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!

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.  

Join us, Amy and Kim as we talk with Molly Lannon Kenny, founder of the The Samarya Center for Integrated Movement Therapy and Ashtanga Yoga, and La Ermita, a center for contemplative community, where she offers a beautiful, sacred and welcoming space, free meditation, classes, workshops and individual therapy sessions, both live and online.  Molly’s work was foundational to the creation of Talk Yoga™.  We have studied her research and early offerings and found inspiration in her belief in the power of bringing yoga into the world of speech and language therapy.  To find out more about Molly and her incredible work, visit her website at https://www.mollylannonkenny.org/.

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 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!

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!

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!

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 Amy and Kim as we discuss how we incorporate Talk Yoga techniques into our individual sessions, whether on zoom or in person.  We are often asked how we use Talk Yoga during our sessions.  Do we have a specific format we follow?  Are there techniques we use in every session?  What are some of our favorite ways to begin a therapy session?  We can't wait to share our ideas with you!  Leave us a review and let us know what your favorite Talk Yoga techniques are!  

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!

Join us, Amy and Kim, as we talk about how we use guided imagery and visualizations in our speech and language therapy sessions.  We use these tools not only to support and help our clients and students, but also ourselves!  We can model new vocabulary, ideation, target articulation sounds, and so much more!  Not only can visualizations enrich our therapy, but they can also help reduce stress, improve self-regulation, and increase imaginative skills as well!  Visit our website for a free download of the visualization we shared on the podcast today!  Scroll to the bottom of the home page to find the download! www.talkyogaslp.com

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 us, Amy and Kim, as we talk about how yoga impacts our every-day lives.  We will share with you how we utilize the broader teachings of yoga to help us tackle every-day challenges that come our way, whether in our personal lives, or in our work lives.  Yoga teaches lessons beyond mats and poses, and in today’s episode we dig deep into those lessons!

Join Amy and Kim as we discuss the gifts we have been sharing this month on Instagram! Talk Yoga™ Articulation Poses! We also share some of our favorite poses, why we love them, and how they can be utilized to calm, strengthen, and /or energize. We also share some of our "lessons from the yoga mat" this week. We will be off for the holidays. Enjoy this wonderful time of year!

Join us, Amy and Kim, as we continue discussing how Talk Yoga can support social and emotional learning.  Today we share our thoughts on how yoga helps children build resilience.  It is so important to help young children learn how to manage challenges and discomfort.  Participating in challenging poses helps us overcome challenges in real life.  Introducing children to breathing strategies can help them cope with stressful times.  The use of mantras or positive self-talk can build self-esteem and resilience.  Lastly, yoga helps us build connections with others, which results in feelings of support and strength, especially during challenging times.  We have experienced this in our own lives and love sharing these strategies with our clients and fellow professionals.

Join us, Amy and Kim, as we discuss the benefits of using Talk Yoga™ techniques to support social and emotional learning. Approximately 35% of American children experience stress-related health problems. Using Talk Yoga™ we can help children (and ourselves) with skills such as emotional awareness and regulation which in turn impacts their ability to self-regulate and relate to others. We will share specific ways we address these skills during our sessions and classes. Enjoy!

Join us, Amy and Kim as we share more Talk Yoga™ breathing techniques! As promised, we are back with more ideas for incorporating breathing into your speech and language sessions. Get your pen and paper ready...you will want to take note of these powerful practices to help you and your clients or students get ready to express, play, and learn!

Join us, Amy and Kim as we discuss our experience at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. Visit the website to see the many offerings at https://kripalu.org/. If you have ever thought about going on a yoga retreat, listen in! Kripalu has many wonderful offerings and can provide a beautiful experience full of self-care and self-discovery. We participated in amazing yoga classes, did a little yoga dancing (and laughed a lot!), and learned so much about yoga research. Stay tuned...wouldn't a Talk Yoga retreat be amazing?

Join us, Amy and Kim for our second Instagram Live and our Friday Lunch and Learn.  Today we discuss how we address the benefits of using Talk Yoga to address social and emotional learning.  Enjoy!

Join us, Amy and Kim as we go live on Instagram for the first time! We know, we know, people have been doing this for a while now, and we are joining in on the fun! Our first "live" was all about answering your questions about Talk Yoga!

Join us, Amy and Kim as we review how the unique approach of Talk Yoga™ brings communication and movement together to allow children to express, play and learn.  We are so grateful to be among the world of yoga for children and appreciate the unique approaches these many programs provide.  With Talk Yoga, we are layering our movement with speech and language to teach children how to make specific speech sounds, how to use new vocabulary, how to expand language, and how to express different feelings or sensations that arise in the body when participating in various movements, flows, and breathing practices.  Additionally, we are helping young children learn to listen to their bodies, to learn when they need to rest, when they need to feel calm, or when they need more energy..  And don’t forget how Talk Yoga™ is a gift to the teacher, therapist, or parent.  These techniques are for you too!  

Join us, Amy and Kim as we discuss how to be present using principles of yoga and methods from the practice of Talk Yoga™. As therapists or teachers, we always have a plan, but often our students have a very different plan!  Amy and Kim share tips about how to stay present, “read the room” and modify lesson plans to meet the needs of their students.  Often, a simple pause followed by a few deep breaths is all you need…followed by a few donkey poses!  Enjoy this conversation and just be!  

Join us, Amy and Kim as we discuss how Amy has incorporated Tibetan Singing Bowls in her Talk Yoga preschool classes and individual speech and language sessions.  Bringing sound and music into your classes and therapy sessions can provide valuable opportunities for speech and language enrichment!  If you are interested in purchasing your own Tibetan Singing Bowls you can find the set Amy has at this link.

Join Amy and Kim as they discuss a recent in-person training in Navarre, Florida. Across the Board Therapy Group hosted Talk Yoga for an incredible training where SLPs, OTs, and ABA therapists were able to learn together. Integrated therapy not only benefits our clients, but it is beneficial for the clinicians! The Talk Yoga™ method naturally allows for integration of disciplines and Across the Board Therapy Group is ready to see these benefits first hand! Is your clinic or therapy group next? We would love to come bring the Talk Yoga™ method to you!

Join us, Amy and Kim, as we chat with the amazing Rose Griffin from ABA Speech.  Rose is a speech-lanugage pathologist and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA).  She truly brings a unique perspective to the field of speech and language therapy.  We loved talking with her to help bridge the gap between the disciplines of speech and language therapy and applied behavioral analysis.  You can learn more about Rose on her website: https://abaspeech.org/, and you can follow Rose on instagram @abaspeechbyrose and on Tik Tok @abaspeech. Enjoy!

Join us, Amy and Kim as we continue to discuss how Talk Yoga™ supports neurodivergent individuals.  In our last episode we discussed how we have seen autistic individuals benefit from Talk Yoga™ tools and techniques.  Today for our lunch and learn we continue the conversation and share how we have used Talk Yoga with our neurodivergent clients.  

Join us, Amy and Kim as we discuss how Talk Yoga™ can be utilized with autistic individuals.  We are often asked if Talk Yoga™ has been successfully implemented with our autistic clients, and the answer is yes!  We will discuss how yoga “redirects” the functioning of the frontal lobe, which is often affected in autism, and in other populations such as those with ADHD.  We refer to an article published in the International Journal of Yoga Therapy, which examines the uses of a yoga program with autistic children and the benefits they discovered.  You can find the article here: https://www.peacefulpathwaysyoga.com/pdfs/Yoga-Research-Integrated-Movement-Therapy.pdf.

Enjoy!

Join us, Amy and Kim for our first Instagram Live of 2026! Today we discuss what a typical preschool Talk Yoga class looks like. We love sharing Talk Yoga in the early childhood environment and our preschool classes are engaging and always provide our youngest learn to express, play, and learn!