Welcome to the ASP Melbourne Intensive—we hope this experience will be transformative for your child (or adult)! Please follow the steps below to ensure the best possible experience during your Adapted Spiral Praxis intensive. We look forward to providing a fun, adventurous learning experience for your loved one.
Step 1: ASP Permission Form
All families must provide entry details for the participating child or adult. This form also includes important information about our privacy and refund policies and video consent. Please fill out this intake form as completely as possible.
FAQ
FAQ
Adapted Spiral Praxis is a holistic somatic healing program for children (and adults) with special needs and disabilities. Adapted Spiral Praxis was developed by founder Yuji Oka to address a pressing need in the special needs/disability community-to envision a child’s educational process as a creative, holistic exploration. Early in his teaching, Yuji saw that when children are given the opportunity to learn movement through creative interventions, their behaviours would markedly improve and their progress would increase dramatically. To learn more about the ASP program please download our brochure.
Adapted Spiral Praxis provides proven innovative interventions which have helped over a thousand people with special needs and disabilities gain more self-awareness, self-regulation, and confidence with their bodies. Please make sure you check out some of our films to see the transformative potential of our programs and intensives. (View more on our YouTube channel)(https://www.youtube.com/@AdaptedSpiralPraxis)
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https://youtu.be/q6kPo33zuGU?si=fAJGTZkvJvb1FxFi
Adapted Spiral Praxis is a program for somatic motor re-education. It works holistically and gently to identify a child's ideal learning zone, and guide them through acquiring and strengthening developmental motor skills. We emphasize the importance of relaxation and regulation, and work with the child and parents to create a positive, supportive, and fun environment for learning. We begin with core motor skills such as crawling, rolling, and jumping, as well as individual yoga poses, and develop into more complex sequences and salutations. Our ultimate goal for children is to find independence, self-expression, and even creativity through their bodies.
Trained directly by Adapted Spiral Praxis founder Yuji Oka, instructor Andrew Hlavats has over 10 years of experience working with children and adults with special needs. He has worked with children with conditions ranging from Autism, Down Syndrome, ADHD, and Cerebral Palsy. Andrew has been teaching independently for the last 5 years and is passionate about teaching children to learn to regulate and connect to their bodies through movement and somatic awareness.
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Our intensives are designed for any child or adult with special needs and disabilities, regardless of severity, who has a strong desire to make progress and learn more about their bodies. The intensives are designed to help people achieve new gross motor and somatic milestones. The intensive will explore learning key movement skills, releasing blocks and contractures in the body, and achieving a deeper internal self-awareness.
The cost of the intensive is AUD $200 per session, for 10 sessions over two weeks (March 16-27, 2026).
Payment can be either:
- Full payment upfront.
- Half payment upfront followed by remainder paid 4 weeks prior to intensives.
Invoicing and NDIS claiming
Once you register you will receive an invoice within 48 hours. Spell to Connect will be providing the invoice. The invoice will be billed as an Adapted Spiral Praxis Special Needs Yoga and Movement intensive 1:1 training program. Core line item: 04_210_0125_6_1. For any questions in relation to this, please email Rachael at spelltoconnect@yahoo.com.(mailto:spelltoconnect@yahoo.com)
Andrew Hlavats, a highly experienced Adapted Spiral Praxis instructor, will be in Melbourne to offer intensives for two weeks, from Monday March 16 to Friday March 27, 2026. A parent and caregiver workshop will be offered on the weekend of March 21-22 on topics ranging from meditation, self-care, to adapted yoga and breaking down skills.