A New Sensory Self-Awareness

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How this book originated

This website is designed to help you with the book.The birthing of this book originated in 2008 when I was asked by Art Souza, superintendent of West Hawaii, to reveal the simplest lessons foundational to the Wellness Through Movement methodology.

In a way, what cannot be put into words is put into the movement of experience. Finding the Sensory Body (SB) is no different. Movement with attention achieves a new kind of sense within our living presence. With each visit into the movement, the knowledge of the SB becomes a dialogue of wordless comparison.

Like a clear, sharp visit, over time, what is subjective by expression extends from the constitution of living. The voice, without words, becomes a flow emerging a message of expression. This “voice” shows the union of mind-body. Above this union is the recognition of union with the self and others. It’s the sweet language of being. And in the language, there is a gift given to everyone.

The book was originally written with and for for elementary teachers, however, it has become the “how to” bible of finding the Sensory Body.

What is in the book? 

The book is a collection of games to help children listen from inside, a place we call “Home.” The games were tested for eight years in elementary schools for groups of children ages 5 to 10 years. 

The games are about opening up the heart. Because children learn from a container space, practices guide awareness to sense first the space around them. Then the field of attention is gradually narrowed from “out there” to inside their bodies. With this type of dual awareness, there is not just the sense of “out there” but what is inside their bodies. This “dual attention” reveals a sense of their energy bodies (their Personal Bubbles) and helps open their hearts.

How does it work?

Based on the Feldenkrais® method using movement, breath, and direction of attention, lessons teach children to sense an awareness inside their bodies of what is happening around them. This type of dual attention helps relieve the overload of information coming at them and harmonizes themselves with their worlds.

(There are fifteen more lessons to the whole program not included in this book.) 

What did the lessons in this book help?

When children learn to feel inside their bodies, they begin to understand their own processes in times of stress and challenges. Their Aloha expanded. The children could share and hear more clearly their internal processes and the processes of others (Ho’oponopono Home lesson, page 60). 

Teachers reported that students became more compassionate, patient, and better listeners with the sense of “Home” in the classroom environment. Students also helped each other more than ever in the past.  

According to Principal Danny Garcia, at Kohala Elementary (our pilot school), bullying stopped. Testimonials

Parents reported their children’s general well-being improved.

About the Author

Catherine Rosasco-Mitchell, a Feldenkrais® practitioner, worked for forty years with adults and children with chronic conditions. She is the author of a video animation program, Get Sensational Attention, an online curriculum for elementary schools, and this book  A New SENSORY Self Awareness, Part I—For more information: WTM Part I.

Is there Research?

Yes. The lessons were tested for thirteen years in elementary schools.  Lessons are like no other physical education, and the missing link to education. The “link” is the information from the body to the brain. The method is based on the Feldenkrais® work. Through awareness of the sensation in body children sense a new perceptions about themselves and how they handle circumstances.

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to the Kohala community of children, parents, teachers, and principals, especially Principal Danny Garcia of Kohala Elementary. It was only doing the program together, we were able to help so many children find a new way of life and bring light to their authentic nature.

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