On Demand Seminar: The Art of Connection – Yoga-Based Approaches for Supporting Children and Adolescents with Michelle Fury

Description

Research shows that mental health is a leading cause of health burden among children and adolescents. Connection and attachment play a central role in how emotional regulation, well-being, and mental health develop across childhood and adolescence. Yoga therapy offers a uniquely powerful approach to mental health care through its accessible, biopsychosocial, and developmentally attuned nature.

Through its holistic lens, yoga therapy supports emotional regulation and helps build healthy relational bonds. By working with the body, nervous system, and relationship together, it provides a framework well-suited to the developmental needs of children and adolescents.

Connection and attachment in practice

In this 90-minute specialist seminar, Michelle Fury, an international expert with more than 20 years’ clinical experience, explores how yoga therapy addresses the developmental and relational needs of young people.

Drawing on attachment theory and neurobiology, Michelle examines how connection and relational safety shape emotional regulation, behaviour, and wellbeing across childhood and adolescence. She brings together scientific understanding and clinical insight to offer both conceptual clarity and practical relevance.

This seminar draws on years of Michelle’s clinical practice. It provides developmentally specific tools and a clear rationale for using them with children and adolescents. Participants explore how connection and attachment form the foundation of developmentally informed mental health support across therapeutic, educational, and home contexts.

Who should attend

This seminar is for clinicians, yoga therapists, educators, allied health professionals, and parents who work with or care for children and adolescents. It suits those seeking developmentally informed ways to support emotional regulation and healthy relational bonds.

The material is relevant across professional roles and settings. Participants gain a shared developmental framework that can be adapted to clinical practice, education, or family life.

What you will learn

Participants explore how developmental and relational perspectives inform yoga-based approaches to working with young people, including:

• How attachment patterns and neurobiological development shape yoga therapy interventions with children and adolescents
• Methods for supporting emotional regulation and relational safety through embodied practice
• Developmentally calibrated communication approaches for school-aged and adolescent clients

About Michelle Fury

Michelle Fury is a licensed psychotherapist and certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT) with more than 20 years’ experience working with children, adolescents, and families. Her work integrates yoga therapy, attachment theory, and neurobiology within a trauma-informed, developmentally attuned framework.

She developed her evidence-informed approach through extensive clinical work in paediatric mental health settings, including more than 15 years as a yoga therapist at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Michelle has authored two books on paediatric yoga therapy for mental health and has trained professionals internationally through workshops and conferences.

Continuing professional development

This seminar offers an introduction to the developmentally informed, attachment-based approach that underpins Michelle Fury’s longer-form professional training. It suits those who wish to explore this work in greater depth, including extended clinical application and supervised learning

This seminar provides a foundational entry point into the CPD pathway, where these developmental and relational principles are taught in depth. You can read more about Yoga Therapy for Child and Adolescent Mental Health here.