Integrated Yoga: Yoga with a Sensory Integrative Approach

by Nicole Cuomo

Overview

Practising yoga creates a sense of calm and focus and heightens awareness of the body's functions and movements. For children with sensory processing difficulties - because they either have low sensory thresholds and are overwhelmed by sensory stimulation, or because they have high thresholds and do not register stimulation - yoga can be hugely beneficial.

This book presents easy-to-follow basic postures and sequences for children and young people which can be easily adapted for adults. Nicole Cuomo gives practical advice for how to choose appropriate sequences according to the child's particular needs and mood, knowing that yoga will be most beneficial when it is fun! Photographs of each posture supplement the descriptions.

This practical book provides a wide range of ideas for therapists, educators and parents to help their children with sensory processing needs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781843108627
Publisher:	Kingsley, Jessica Publishers
Publication date:	10/15/2007
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	7.17(w) x 9.53(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Nicole Cuomo has been a pediatric occupational therapist for over 15 years, working in school-based practice for most of that time and also conducting motor groups and parent and educator training, as well as individual treatment. She has been a yoga practitioner for over 20 years, has been teaching for three, and lives in Connecticut, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction. 1. What is Yoga? 2. Sensory Integration - a brief overview. 3. How can yoga and Sensory Integration work together? 4. Yoga practice and age groups. 5. Basic postures - suggestions for age groups/sensory input. 6. Integration of the practices.

Editorial Reviews

Cuomo uses her experience as a paediatric occupational therapist to explain how she uses yoga practices to help children, and her advice is very practical'.

Metapsychology Online Reviews

This highly readable, practical and helpful book is written by a school-based piadiatric occupational therapist who is also yoga practitioner and teacher.

The Word Pool

This book presents easy to follow basic poses and sequences for children and young people which can be easily adapted for adults. The author gives practical advice on how to choose appropriate sequences for a child's particular needs and moods. Photographs of each posture supplement the descriptions.

Autism Us

If you've tried all sorts of weights and brushes and games and exercises and equipment to calm or stimulate your child with sensory integration dysfunction, here's something new to add to the list: yoga.. In clear how-to-text and helpful photos, occupational therapist Cuomo shows you how to do some basic yoga poses, tailor them to your child's age and sensory needs, and expand them into related enrichment projects. Give it a try, and you may find that the calming and centering rubs off on you, too.

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