Mindful Movement - Occupational Therapy and Yoga Therapy in Ithaca, NY

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Mindful Movement is a private Occupational Therapy pediatric practice located in Ithaca, NY that offers individual, private, and group based services. We also offer Yoga Therapy.

Our focus is on assisting children who may be experiencing physical, mental, or developmental challenges to fully be able to participate in activities important to them. These can include self-help, education, recreational, and pre-vocational tasks. We assist families and the child through education and empowerment in furthering a childs fullest potential for success at home, school, and in the community.

At Mindful Movement we strive to create a positive learning experience. This is made possible through our professional training, creativity, and friendly energetic therapists.

NEWS and events

*NEW!* YOGA CLASSES OFFERED WEEKLY

FREE KIDS YOGA CLASSES IN JANUARY 2012!!!!

January: FREE February onwards: $12 per class

Wednesday 2pm 2-5 year olds Wednesday 3pm 2-5 year olds

Wednesday 3pm 2-5 year olds Wednesday 4pm 6-8 year olds

Wednesday 4pm 6-8 year olds Wednesday 5pm Teen/tween yoga

Wednesday 5pm Teen yoga

Contact us and sign up soon. Spaces are limited!

*NEW!* PRIVATE THERAPEUTIC YOGA One on one sessions with our experienced Yoga therapist to help with body aches, pains, relaxation, and more with a medical perspective.

NOW ACCEPTING REFERRALS AND MAKING APPOINTMENTS! for outpatient occupational therapy and therapeutic yoga for all ages. Insurance accepted.

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Talk with Babies:

Baby Sign Language Class

Learn to communicate with your baby by learning a 200 word vocabulary before they start speaking! Run by Trish Peterson, teacher for the deaf and speech language pathologist.

FREE KIDS YOGA

for the month of January and February 2012

Wednesdays:

2pm 2-5 year olds

3pm 4-6 year olds

4pm 7-9 year olds

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SPECIALTY YOGA CLASSES WEEKLY:

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Occupational Therapy
Mindful Movement provides complete and comprehensive evaluation and treatment for children exhibiting sensory, motor, feeding, communication, and/or social difficulties. Clients serviced are children demonstrating a wide array of difficulties and diagnoses such as - Sensory Integration Dysfunction- Neurological disorders including Cerebral Palsy- Learning Disabilities- Fine and Gross Motor Issues- Hypotonia (low muscle tone)- Communication and relating difficultiesAdditional services provided include:- Handwriting Workshops- Social Groups- Movement workshops- Children Yoga classes- Parent centered topics addressing your child's needs

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Yoga Therapy
Yoga Therapy is more than just yoga. Where all yoga has the potential to be therapeutic, not all yoga is. Yoga therapy helps to improve one's health by increasing strengh, flexibility, and efficient functioning of the body. It brings peace and clarity to the mind.Our therapists know how to prescribe yoga according to a clients specific medical condition while providing a high quality, holistic healthcare. The focus of yoga therapy is you, not your diagnosis.Contact us and sign up for private sessionsAlso we offer specialty yoga classes:Prenatal Yoga: Mondays 4:30pm-6:00pma gentle yoga practice that will use asana, breathwork, and meditation to help ease pregnancy, delivery, and the after effects of birth. Flexibility, focus, strength, and awareness is created specifically for the pregnant mothers needs,Gentle Yoga: Mondays 6:15pm-7:15pma yoga practice that will use asana, breath work, and meditation at a pace that promotes health and well-being without becoming an overwhelming physical challenge. Remove any fears or challenges in doing yoga while reducing stress and weight management. Flexibility, focus, strength, and awareness is created specifically for each person in our small teacher to student ratio.Kids Yoga : Coming soon

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Feeding
SOS Approach to FeedingThe SOS (Sequential Oral Sensory) feeding program is a non-invasive developmental approach to feeding. This approach allows the child to interact with the food in a playful, non-stressful way. It helps increase the childs comfort level by exploring different properties of foods, including the color, shape, texture, smell, taste and consistency.The SOS approach follows a hierarchy to feeding, beginning with the basic ability to tolerate food in the room, in front of him/her, touching and eventually tasting and eating foods.Parent education and involvement is an important part of this feeding approach. A therapist works directly with the parents while they are watching each feeding session to learn this approach to feeding. Parents learn to identify physical signs and "body language" to identify when the child is over stimulated and to assist with setting up the home program.This approach can be utilized in one to one settings, as well as with small groups of 3-4 children. Feeding groups are held one time per week for 10-12 weeks. For more information contact us!

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Some common signs that your child may benefit from occupational therapy are:
FINE MOTOR SKILLS: STRENGTH & STABILITY: - poor handwriting - poor posture- poor keyboarding - hypotonia (weak muscle tone)- decreased hand strength - poor shoulder stability- decreased dexterity - relaxed, loose muscle quality- hand tires when writing - improper grasp on writing and functional tools- difficulty cuttingSENSORY PROCESSING: VISUAL PERCEPTUAL SKILLS- sensitive to sounds, smells, light, or touch - difficulty with eye tracking- afraid of movements - difficulty copying from board- doesn't like how clothes feel - difficulty completing mazes, dot to dots, puzzles- very picky about food textures - omits or reverses letters - gets so wound up that he/she is unsafe - constantly seeking movement- very lethargic- difficulty with transitionsBALANCE: SELF CARE:- difficulty standing on one foot - unable to dress self- difficulty walking/running - unable to use utencils- difficulty with bike, scooter riding - unable to snaps,buttons, - bumps into obstacles - tie shoes - falls over easilyMOTOR PLANNING:- ball activites are difficult (catching, throwing,kicking)- difficulty climbing playground equipmentWhat is Sensory Integration?Sensory integration teaches a child how to interpret information from the senses; taste, vision, smell, hearing and movement as well as information to the muscles and joints (proprioception). Sensory integration dysfunction is a neurological disorder in which information is sensed normally but perceived abnormally. Information from the senses is processed incorrectly resulting in confusion or distress. For example, a child might have an extreme fear of his feet leaving the ground or of movement activities. On the other hand, a child might seek out movement by excessively spinning interfering with that childs ability to function in a classroom setting. The goal of sensory integration therapy performed by an occupational therapist is to calm and organize a childs body so they are able to learn new skills and increase their confidence and success. What is Dysgraphia? The term dysgraphia means difficulty with writing. Children with this diagnosis may have difficulties writing within an allotted time frame, trouble with spelling, letter reversals, mixed case of letters and difficulty generating thoughts and ideas during writing activities. For most children after they learn how to write the correct process becomes automatic. For children diagnosed with dysgraphia this is never the case. Writing is a difficult and laborious process. Children with dysgraphia will benefit from occupational therapy by using all of the senses to retrain the brain how to efficiently write in cursive or print.

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YOGA THERAPY In yoga therapy, each client can expect a customized well tailored program to meet his/her needs.How yoga therapy can help:- It helps students with a daily personal practice. - Therapy will help improve their range of motion and flexibility.- Attention is given to address specific imbalancies in the body caused by injuries, diagnoses, disease, or improper yoga practice.- Bring about a reduction in symptoms felt in the body due to disease or sickness.- Alleviate chronic pain through the use of asanas.Yoga Therapy is a practice that uses the Science of Yoga as it was originally intended: 1. To align and heal the musculoskeletal system of the body 2. To tone and detoxify each of the internal organs of the body 3. To bring into balance and harmony all of the body's vital systems (digestive, endocrine, respiratory, circulatory etc.) and 4. To bring about mental clarity and balance.Yoga therapy practice brings together the best of both worlds. The rich history of Westorn medicine and healthcare is recognized as well as the rich history of the antient history of Eastern Ayurvedic system. The goal of yoga therapy is to bring getoehr these two practices of medicine in a more organic way so that each person can move towards balance, peace, and harmony in life.

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Our therapists are board certified by the American Board of Occupational Therapy, having received their degrees from accredited universities, to render occupational therapy evaluations and services in a wide variety of settings.

Passionate, friendly, and enthusiastic about working with children, they have experience working in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, univeristy medical facilities, early intervention, pre-schools, middle schools, and elementary schools. They have worked with special needs children in school classrooms and has experience working with children with a variety of disabilities.

Certified in Handwriting Without Tears and having the skills and experience to provide intervention in developing handwriting fluency, we administer handwriting screenings and provide functional activities to develop handwriting skills at an age-appropriate level.

Our pediatric therapist is certified with Karma Kids Yoga Teacher Training Program. This method of teaching yoga to children incorporates the use of animated poses, props, music, art, games, storytelling and the imagination, to help stimulate their senses as well as stretch and strengthen their developing bodies. The Karma Kids Yoga approach uses creative techniques to keep children of all ages engaged in their yoga practice while encouraging them to find their inner-peace.

Under the Professional Yoga Therapy Studies (PYTS) program, our therapists are certified candidates to provide yoga therapy services. Our center yoga therapist has completed the 200 hour yoga teacher certification with the Sivananda Ashram Yoga and has completed certification in yoga therapy from the Professional Yoga Therapy Studies (PYTS) program.

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Mindful Movement

Corners Community Center

Cayuga Heights Center for Wellness & Healing Arts

903 Hanshaw Road

Suite 201

Ithaca, NY 14850

TELEPHONE: 607 - 527 - 0053

E-MAIL: movement.mindful_gmail.com

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