Yoga or Movement Educational Asst/Caregiver/Roommate for Disabled Yogi

wade near victoria, Los Angeles CA

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Yoga or Movement Educational Assistant/Caregiver/Roommate for Disabled Yogini In Los Angeles Compensation includes a light filled room in home in sanctuary type home/setting in Mar Vista Family seeks female yoga or movement person to assist our 33 year old disabled yogini daughter as caregiver and educational assistant. Our daughter is interested in creating a creative mind/body movement program for disabled children and adults, and needs someone to help her with this process educationally and functionally. She is interested in learning about different movement modalities, kinesiology, child development, somatic psychology as well as other things. She also wants to learn to teach this method once developed. Our daughter has learning disabilities and learns at her own pace. She directs her assistants as to what she wants to learn as she goes along. Generally she needs someone to help her find good and appropriate materials, go over those materials with her, give her writing assignments on those materials, help her develop teaching skills. She also needs help organizing and editing her written ideas. Our daughter is a very sweet, interesting, ambitious and talented young woman who is very physically challenged with cerebral palsy. Her goal in life is to create a movement program for disabled people to help them enjoy movement at whatever level they can move. She LOVES yoga and practices 4 or 5 times per week. She also enjoys meditation, giving and getting massages, reading poetry, listening to music and hanging out with loved ones. While she is physically active, her disability is such that she can walk only with assistance, has limited use of her hands (so cannot feed herself), and cannot speak verbally, but communicates with either the use of a computer speech device or by using a unique method we call "partner-assisted spelling." Here is a video made about Eden a couple of years ago when she was doing sculpture: (Just as a note, I have included video so people can learn a bit about our daughter, but she is not seeking an art assistant at this time). As her live in assistant you would also be doing caretaking for her. This includes feeding her, showering her, dressing her, taking her to the bathroom, jacuzzi-ing and sunning with her in our sanctuary type yard, driving her, kitchen clean up, cooking once or twice per week. Home management. You would also need to be at the home 5 nights per week to take her to the bathroom (usually once per overnight in the early hours of the morning) and then putting her back in bed. There is also a possibility if agreed upon to put her through her yoga practice. We will train the right person for all these tasks. We have a housekeeper weekly so no major housekeeping needed but the home still needs to be managed. We need someone who has a movement background, has the ability to teach and share ideas, is organized, kind, patient and fun. Goofiness welcome! (0: It is also essential that our person be completely reliable. Our daughter needs a stable environment she can thrive in. We can't afford to have anyone who is flaky in anyway! While no full body lifting is needed for our daughter, you do need to be strong to move our daughter around. Fortunately, our daughter is quite small (weighing approximately 73 lbs) but it still does take strength to move her around. Having your own yoga or other some kind of exercise practice to keep fit is important. If you have any issues with your back, this is NOT a good job for you. Someone who worked with our daughter wrote the following and said I should include this in my ads when looking for someone. She said: "I have been working with Eden for almost 3 years, and it has been one of the most fulfilling, rewarding, and worthwhile experiences of my life. I never expected I'd be involved in work like this, and I'm so incredibly thankful a friend introduced me to Eden-what a joy it has been! Eden is absolutely wonderful. She is hilarious, curious, bright, warm hearted, patient, sweet, silly, studious, and incredibly special. I have received just as much, if not more, than I give. Eden's family has embraced me with love and kindness, and the other women who work with Eden have become some of my dearest friends". Another person who worked with our daughter wrote this: I have incredible things to say about working with Eden and her family. I used to live and work with E for 3 whole years in my early twenties. I was house manager and lead trainer for all new aids including yoga. It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made mostly because it’s a soul-nourishing position. Like all healthcare jobs, it has challenges but they were ones that have made me into the woman I’ve always wanted to be. Working w E is based on connection, communication, embodiment, and service—all foundations I find to be essential in my work now as a depth + Somatic psychotherapist. To apply: Please send at least a short note that gives us a little sense of who you are and why you are interested in this job.