Jo Manuel, Founder and Executive Director, has been practising yoga since she was a teenager and teaching yoga since 1992. She has been the UK’s leading practitioner and teacher trainer in yoga therapy for children with special needs since 2003.

Jo founded The Special Yoga Centre in 2004 to give yoga therapy for children with special needs a nurturing and inclusive home and to make yoga accessible to all. Her aim is to develop and implement yoga therapy programmes that allow all children to receive the significant benefits of yoga and help them in reaching their fullest potential.