A Sensory Approach to Adaptive Fitness is a therapeutic, integrative and evidence-based training for all professionals working in therapy, functional and adaptive fitness.
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Rooted in sensory integration and integrative fitness principles.
What Professionals are Saying
Mallory Reilly
OT, Personal Trainer
"Matt's Course covers everything from application of sensory integration theory to tips on fun and effective equipment. Matt himself is knowledgeable and passionate. As an OT and trainer, I highly recommend this interactive workshop"!
Angelina Margolis
Fitness Trainer
"Matt is amazing! So knowledgeable and a great resource for anyone working with people who are neurodiverse. I took his sensorimotor workshop for fitness professionals, and it was outstanding. Packed full of helpful information, including tools and activities I can immediately incorporate into programming with little to no additional equipment needed to get started. I absolutely recommend getting in touch with him if you work with these populations or know anyone who does. He has workshops for everything, and a ton of knowledge to share. Thank you Matt"!!
David Laughlin
PE Teacher
"The Certification Level 1 course was easily one of the most worthwhile Professional Developments of my PE teaching career! Highly engaging and informative, Matt’s course lends itself extremely well to ANY fitness professional working with students with ASD. Strongly recommend"!
sensory solutions
to challenging behaviors
Why won’t my kids eat certain foods? Why won’t my kid sit still long? Why does my kid get overwhelmed and melt down so easily? Why it takes so long for my kid to do anything? Why does my child wait to use the bathroom right when we're leaving the house? My kid runs everything!
These are typical behaviors for kids that might have difficulty with sensory processing. You are not alone.
More and more kids struggle with sensory processing disorders and other neuro-differences.
Sensory Fitness offers educational videos geared for parents to gain a deep insight into children’s behaviors, strategies to use at home, and specific activities to connect challenges with solutions.
What is sensory fitness?
Matt Sloan is a certified occupational therapy assistant specializing in sensory integration therapy. Matt is also a fitness professional certified as a WeckMethod Master Trainer in Rotational Movement Training©, coach, and has worked as a special education teacher and adaptive PE teacher. He has been involved in education, fitness, and working with kids and adults of all abilities in a multitude of settings for over 30 years. He is also an accomplished wrestler, practitioner of Muay Thai, boxing, jujitsu, and MMA. Matt has competed in various wrestling, jujitsu, and boxing tournaments and received 3rd place in the All Japan Mixed Martial Arts Tournament in Fukuoka, Japan in 2005.
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Matt now runs Sensory Fitness. A program developed to incorporate sensory integration therapy and integrative fitness. Sensory Fitness is intentional about exercises, games, and activities to stabilize joints, improve coordination, develop motor planning, and build bodies for an organized mind by using sensory strategies and functional fitness. ​ Sensory Fitness also offers in person trainings for parents, educators, health practitioners, and fitness professionals to understand and utilize sensory strategies with their clients, kids, at home, and in their practices.
It is my mission to improve regulation, motor skills, attention, and self-awareness through promoting movement, intentional activities and play.
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TESTIMONIALs
- Sebastian's Story -
J.J. Russo
Stockade Martial Arts
Matt is an exceptional trainer with a detailed understanding of balanced body training and designing functional workouts for sport and work specific applications.
Hernandez Family
Gig Harbor
Sensory Fitness has been a key asset in our family's journey through ASD, I don't know where we'd be without Matt He is patient, encouraging, knowledgeable and an inspiration.
Thea Sugarman Lee
Tacoma WA
Since [our son] started working out with Matt on a weekly basis, we've experienced not only an increase in his physical well-being, but emotional and mental as well.
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"Helping people and families is my passion."
PARTNERS
By executing full body, multi-planar movements, you will increase mobility and eliminate aches and pains. The comprehensive nature of Roundbox movements allows dormant and neglected muscles and tissues to activate in a safe cohesive manner.
Dedicated to providing families with quality educational toys, games, & therapeutic products for kids with special needs.
It’s about mastering the vertical movements and rotational movements of the body. Every movement, athletic or otherwise, stems from these two forms of motion.
