Services
Independent Occupational Therapy and Consultation Services provided for home, school and clinical environments.
| Fees | Individual OT Services/Music Classes: $80 Group Music/Movement Classes: $50 |
2011 Programs & Events
February - October :::: Group Jam Sessions (Ask about the new Jam Session series to start Jan, 2012)
August :::: Abundance Music & Beach Camps
Upcoming Event ::::4th Annual Full Moon Fever: Overnight Jam
Utilizing music, instrumentation and movement to increase or enhance fine and gross motor skills, body awareness, postural control strength and endurance. The Jam Sessions program is centered around building upon and promoting positive relationships and experiences to last a life time. Throughout the ages, music has been a form of therapy and spiritual retreat. Through our Group Jam Sessions, Abundance Therapy uses music and movement as the gateway to open your child’s mind, body and spirit. Through a slow and gentle process we will work to bring your child dealing with sensory integrative, neurological and or developmental dysfunction, to a comfortable place where he/she may learn to cope and manipulate what he/she feels into productive and useful forms of communication. |
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Abundance Therapy does this by combining the use of each of the child’s senses including vision, tactile (touch), auditory, vestibular (information about movement) and proprioceptive (information obtained from our joints and muscles) systems, and integrating them through the use of different genres of music and movements. Each musical piece is chosen carefully in order to create the correct environment for them to gain the maximum input from each activity.
Our sessions are 1-2 hours long and consist of multiple tasks set to different volumes and genres of music to match the task at hand. For alternate intervals of time, we will explore what your child is feeling and capitalize on those feelings for a very individual and personal experience on each new day.
Each Jam Session may include the following tasks and focus based on each individual:
| WARM UP (10-15 min) To an upbeat background of music we will warm up by dancing, jumping, stretching and moving our bodies. We will raise your child’s heart rate, adrenaline, arousal state, and spirits first by allowing them to organize their body and mind in order increase their focus and attention for the next task at hand. This warm up period is also used to promote increased interaction between peers and therapist. INSTRUMENT ORIENTATION/ COMMUNICATION/FINE MOTOR SKILLS (10-15 min) Your child will have the opportunity to explore and choose from an array of different musical instruments to express him/herself. Over the course of each session the chldren will be able to touch, use and learn to play the instrument that they are drawn to on each day or expand on their prior knowledge and capabilities of the instrument. This experience is to allow for experimentation, which may carry with them to future levels. This exploration involves accessing fine motor skills through grasping and maintaining an isometric hold of the instruments such as the guitar strings and drum sticks or maracas. STRETCH AND DANCE COOLDOWN (10-15 min) This interval will allow your child to relax and release the muscles utilized during an intensive focus of their minds and body in the instrumental portion of each session. ART ORIENTATION/COMMUNICATION/FINE MOTOR SKILLS (10-15 min) To the background of inspirational and motivational music we will work through multi-medial artistic exploration. Allowing the child to explore yet another form of self-expression and communication while also increasing his/her fine motor skills. LEARNING SUMMARY, COOL DOWN AND JAM SESSION (10-15 min) Back to the musical instrument of choice for the day to expand upon the lesson of the day. Fine and Gross motor skills are strengthened through repetition and muscle memory! |
I am very excited for each opportunity that I have to explore with your child and have high hopes for what can be accomplished through out each musical adventure together!
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ABUNDANCE: MUSIC & BEACH CAMPS 2011
* Groups may be limited to 6- 8 children per day to assure an intimate experience.
When: |
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday throughout the month of August, 2011. |
| Times: | 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM (Please see sample itinerary below from our 2010 camps) |
| Drop Off: | All Children are to be dropped off at Bay Street cul-de-sac on Santa Monica Beach, just south of the Santa Monica Pier by 10:00 am. Bay Street Cul-de-Sac Click Here to View Map (Take Pico Blvd. west until it dead ends at the beach. Turn left, then turn right onto Bay street where you may turn around and our group will be waiting at the end until we are all together.) |
| Pick Up: | Children will be picked up at the same place unless otherwise specified! Alternate pick up addresses will be provided the morning of drop off if we travel to a studio for the music session of the day. |
| What to Bring: | Towel, Dry changes of clothes, Lunch, Favorite Music CD, sunscreen |
| Cost: | $160/day |
| Register Now: | Please call us at 323.397.5985 or email kelli@abundancetherapy.com |
| Itinerary: | To download the 2011 Music & Beach Camps itinerary, click here |
• Please pick and choose from any Beach/ Music Days that your child may want to be a part of. Special guests and music specialist will be joining us for additional Surf and Music experiences.
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-FOURTH ANNUAL-
FULL MOON FEVER 2011
FULL MOON FEVER: OVERNIGHT JAM!
Thank you to EVERYONE for truly creating a magical event and the perfect summer camping, music and surf adventure last year! Our weekend in Leo Carillo with students, family and friends was fun, inspiring and best of all, a complete success.
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ABUNDANCE THERAPY AND FULL MOON FEVER SPECIAL THANK YOU!!!
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Unmi Kamarck - Halo from Mike Foster on Vimeo. |
We would like to give a very special thanks to "Autism Beat" and all it's organizers and volunteers!! it's because of this fantastic organization that the Fourth Annual Full Moon Fever is possible! We welcome you to view and share the following video, from Autism Beat's 2010 benefit concert at Molly Malone's, Unmi Kamarch performs the Beyonce hit "Halo". For more information on this amazing organization, please visit their website at www.autismbeat.org
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