What is Wellness Through Movement About?
“Learn what the body knows that the mind doesn’t.”
What is it?
Practices to open the heart through the senses and sensations of the body.
How does it work?
In this context”movement” is not just action, it is an intimate relationship with behavior, the senses, the sensations, the mind, and the soul.
What does it help?
It helps aloha. It helps children help understand themselves and others. Parents say it helps overall wellbeing Principal Garcia said it helps social-emotional behavior and bullying, Teachers report academic achievement.
Was techniques tested?
Yes. For 13 years, Catherine Rosasco-Mitchell refined and tested the techniques and games at our pilot school, Kohala Elementary (2008 -2016) (In addition, lessons were tested at Hawaii Preparatory Academy (HPA) lower school, Parker School, and Waldorf School of Hawi, Hawaii.)
Overview
Chapters in Overview
Missing Key to Traditional Education
For Children Ages 5 to 10 years old
Children learn to feel from inside their bodies to learn…
Help children find their best friends inside, their Sensory Bodies (SB). The Sensory Body helps them know what they feel, and what they think. It clarifies the “me” inside to how to handle the me “out there.” Children are famished to learn because of their youthful bodies. Neurologist Jill Bolte-Taylor explains,”They are feeling creatures that think.” The word, “feeling” is not just an emotion, but a physical state of the self created by emotions and thoughts and a network of physical sensations. Sensations form perception of the self. Get to know the Sensory Body (SB), and it’s like getting to know a helper inside.
The SB is like feeling a three-dimensional tapestry of the heart and mind.
By bringing children’s SB into their awareness, they recognize how to listen inside and explain from the heart themselves. The benefits of SB awareness extends beyond improving well-being. With the SB children from stronger relationships and healthier behavior. SB awareness is a catalyst for an individual thrive, value honesty and integrity, and one’s own gifts to help community.
Where Do I Begin?
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How Does this Work?
The body gives us movement.
Movement gives us experience. Experience gives us a sense of self. Teach children how to feel between their bodies and their brains. In this modern word of technology we are desensitizing the very nature of how we operate and learn. Cognitive development research discovers children are more sensory sensitive than ever understood. Scientist share the Feldenkrais® work is far more wiser, subtle, holistic, and in accordance wit brain development then understood.
Help Children Help Themselves and Others
Give them awareness of their Sensory Body, and they’ll learn how to express themselves from the heart.