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"The experience of puppet therapy with adults has successfully provided a means to disarm client's resistance in a quick and easy fashion. There seems to be regression in the service of the ego, which facilitates adult play. The experience of puppet therapy with children flows naturally from the ability of the child to play and to transfer his/her own world onto the puppet, providing deep insight and meaning to the healing work. The client's healing is literally at the counselor's fingertips."

-- Dr. Joanne Vizzini

Puppet Therapy Institute

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Discarding Defenses

Yoga Therapeutics Presentation

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View the Being Mean isn't Cool Puppet Session at Elmer Wolfe Elementary

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Yoga Therapeutics Presentation

A few times a year Dr. Vizzini utilizes her puppets to assist in teaching ethics to therapeutic yoga teachers at Yama Studios in Baltimore and Westminster, MD. During Dr. Vizzini's sessions she covers sensitive topics such as cultural respect and acceptable behavior when offering yoga. Each of Dr. Vizzini's puppets has a healing message and aids the therapeutic yoga teacher to make ethical decisions regarding concerns such as individuals with different backgrounds who are taking their classes, how to advertise, healthy touch and respecting boundaries, and how to get support for ethical concerns in their practices.