Spectrum Affirming Yoga by Jaye Johnson

Following a late-in-life autism diagnosis, Jaye Johnson set out to rebuild a life that works with their nervous system instead of against it — and Spectrum Affirming Yoga is the living fruit of that transition.

This is not a rulebook. It's a pocket-sized practitioner's guide for autistic and neurodivergent adults who want a different relationship with movement — one built on breath, choice, and biomechanical safety instead of performance. Across eleven short chapters, yoga becomes an inside job: a five-minute breath practice from bed is just as complete as an advanced standing pose, stimming is recognized as its own form of asana, and "good enough" protects hypermobile joints instead of chasing flexibility for its own sake.

Inside: ten illustrated, joint-safe pose blueprints across four accessible lanes (bed, chair, wall, and freestanding), three ready-to-use sequences for different nervous-system states, a spectrum-affirming glossary, and a directory of adaptive yoga communities.

At the time of composition, the author was in yoga teacher training — it's written from the beginner's perspective: come as you are, comfortably so.