Louise Goldberg, ERYT 500, is owner of Relaxation Now LLC and founder of Creative Relaxation®. She is the author of two books: Classroom Yoga Breaks, published by Norton Books in Education in 2017 and Yoga Therapy for Children with Autism and Special Needs, published by Norton Professional Books in 2013. She is a co-author of S.T.O.P. and Relax, Your Special Needs Yoga Toolbox ©2006, updated 2014. Her DVD Creative Relaxation Yoga for Children ©2004 features children on the autism spectrum. She was published by the International Journal of Yoga Therapists in 2004.
Louise is the owner/director of the Yoga Center of Deerfield Beach, Florida. She is the anatomy instructor for the 200 hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Training at the Yoga Center and director of the Children's Yoga Teacher Training. She teaches yoga to children and adults, and trains professionals to implement yoga in classrooms and therapeutic settings. A consultant with the Broward Schools for over 30 years, she teaches yoga at the Dan Marino Center day camp.

She has been a presenter at the National Kids Yoga Conference in Washington, DC, Kripalu's Yoga in Schools Symposium in Lenox, MA, at the Autism Society of America conferences in Florida and Arizona, Weekend with the Expert in Broward, the Learning and the Brain Conference in San Francisco, and SYTAR Boston for the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She leads retreats and teacher trainings internationally.

Louise holds a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts and an M.A. from the University of Connecticut. She has been an English teacher at the middle, high school and college levels, and a remedial reading specialist. She is a licensed massage therapist who specializes in cranio-sacral therapy. She became a certified yoga teacher through the Sivananda organization in 1981. She is a Certified Yoga Therapist with International Association of Yoga Therapists.
Visit Louise at www.yogaforspecialneeds.com.