Increasing Internal Awareness 

Decreases External Reactions

Tested and Proven Effective

“Bullying school-wide stopped,” reports Principal Danny Garcia at Kohala Elementary School.

“A third-grader came into the office,” Principal Garcia shared. He was red, sweating, and angry. Garcia put him in the WTM class. We taught him how to shut off the outer world for a moment and open up his attention to his inner world.  

Through movement lessons, Andy learned to sense his body and the sensorimotor architecture of his feelings and thoughts. Science today has proven there is more than one brain in the body besides the head. Children learn to sense more of them through what is called “Home breath” (at Kohala Elementary, they called it “Pono Breath”). Pono means goodness, balance, and integrity in Hawaiian.
Significant differences started to happen. The principal would do the home breath in the office with troubled children to help center them in their bodies. Then asked children to share what happened on the playground that made them angry. Without letting go of attention within the body—the place of Home —the children’s attitude began to shift. After following the same procedure with all the children sent to the principal’s office, no children showed up in the office. Bullying stopped in the school-wide. 
Children’s perceptions shifted from anger to empathy. Before learning Home, Andy felt everyone was constantly after him, judging him, and intentionally keeping him from playing with others. In reality, no one noticed him until he became violent. 
Gradually, after helping him feel his inner body, his attitude to his outer behavior, and his violent personality disorder shifted. For the first time, he made a few friends. 
The principal reported that, eight years later (2024), the boy is still improving socially, emotionally, behaviorally, and academically.  The results were not due to a single teacher or parent. The school team and some parents at Home used Home Breath. The school culture at Kohala Elementary became known to feel less stressful at the end of the school year.

Here’s how to start: Get Sensational Attention

Tip: To introduce the (GSA) program to your child’s elementary school contact the principal or your child’s (classroom or physical education) teacher.

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Activities for Children to Know More of Themselves

Body, Emotions, Intellect, and Heart

12 Lessons and tips for groups of children ages 5 – 10 years of age