Science 6 Body-to-Brain Strategies
Book
School Broadcast Video
Services, Workshops & Programs
Research
Videos
Feldenkrais?
School Support
Family Support
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Research
Schools and Mindfulness Social, Emotional Learning Act (SEL): School Research and Mindfulness: Social and Emotional Learning Act
Society for Research in Children Development, Teaching Institute Presentation: Poster_Embodied Development _4-2
Mindfulness and Somatosensory Cortex:Kerr2011MindfulMeditsomatAlpha
Contemplative Practices and Attention & Emotional Regulation: Davidson12EducContPrx
Interventions to Aid Executive Functioning: Diamond2011IntrvntnExecFxn
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Book
This book as all the foundational and easiest to implement lessons of the WTM. Find out how much your children can really feel in there bodies. If they can’t feel themselves, they can’t use their inner resources.
Purchase:
A New SENSORY Self Awareness
Lessons Bridge the Body-to-the-Brain
Improves Attention, Embodied Self-Awareness, Sense of Self
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- Improve Engaged Learner
- Improve Social Behavior
- Improve Spatial Awareness
- Also see “Get Sensational Attention program” Mindfulness Sensorimotor Video Program
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Lessons Teach About
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- Sensations that ARE Cognition
- Social Behavior versus Self Perceptive
- Self Responsibility
- Self Direction
- Embodied Self
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Lessons Include
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- Notes and Background Behind Each Step in the Lessons
- Feldenkrais® Method: information
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See 6 Body-To-Brain Strategies video for the science behind the lessons.
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Sensorimotor Mindfulness Video Programs
Get Sensational Attention videos_Teacher & Child Version
Get Sensational Attention Video
From the Body-to-the-Brain
In school we want “eyes up here, ears up here,” because we want longer and more focused attention. However, attention doesn’t just come from training the brain to focus outside of one self. Attention is a two-way street from the brain and from the body. We must teach children to be present within them selves in order to know how to be more present with others. This type of mindfulness is a science and is one of the most fundamental natures of the body in how sensation influences the brain.
Children are bundles of sensation. If you teach them awareness of these sensations then they will understand themselves better, and how they can use their body to understand how they think. Development is a function of both the body and the brain. Teach it and you will improve grades and social behavior, but more importantly you will give the children a tool that will improve their quality of happiness for years to come. We must teach children to not have all their attention focused outside of themselves to learn. This video lesson is the first step to teaching attention—a dual attention both inside one self and “out there.”
Two videos: Kids Version for School Broadcast, Teachers Version for Teacher Presentation
School Services
School Wide Programs
ADHD
BULLYING
SENSORIMOTOR Mindfulness PROGRAM
YOUNG AT HEART PE
School must be implementing *Mindfulness Sensorimotor Program to qualify for more in-depth PE program. Contact for more information: Info@WellnessThroughMovement.com
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- Elementary Physical Education program using in-depth sensorImotor integration movement with mindfulness
- Series 15, 30-40 minutes lessons in Sensorimotor Developmental Movements & National PE Standards
- Taught by WTM Staff or Feldenkrais Practitioners only
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*SEE Get Sensational Attention (Mindfulness Sensorimotor Video Program)
Levels of Involvement
Begin
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- Introduce “Get Sensational Attention program” Mindfulness Sensorimotor Classroom video
- Contact to Adapt to High and Middle School
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Develop
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- Adapting the “Home” sensation into test taking, the playground, and conflict resolution
- Adapting the “Home” sensation into home life: discipline tools, bedtime, and communication
- Tips for behavioral challenges
- See Below Teacher Training, Consultations, Movement Toolbox
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Adapt
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- In-Classroom lessons given by WTM teacher
- In-Classroom lessons given by trained Elementary Teacher
- Teacher Meetings (group and private)
- Bring WTM Physical Education into Schools (school must qualify see below for more details)
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Private Consultations
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Family Support
Big Island of Hawaii
Special Needs Children
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- Alice L. Bratton
- Parent Partner, Kona & Waimea
- Hawaii Families As Allies
- 808-322-1542
- hfaaparentpartner@gmail.com
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Other Academic Learning Resources
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- Hawaii Learning Resources (808) 885-9318
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Parent
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- Private Consultation on behavior, movement and social relationships
- Parent Group Meetings:
- Tips for home and school: stress and communication
- Private hands-on sessions: behavioral and physical challenges
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Feldenkrais Method?
• International Feldenkrais® Federation
http://www.feldenkrais-method.org/
• Feldenkrais® Guild
http://www.feldenkrais.com/
• Articles from the Feldenkrais® Guild
http://www.feldenkrais.com/method/articles.html
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Associations and Readings
• Hawaii Learning Resource
http://www.hawaiischoolsuccess.org/
• All Kinds of Minds
http://www.allkindsofminds.org/
• HeartMath
http://www.heartmath.org/
• Life Plan Mentoring for Teens
http://www.lifeplaninstitute.org/
• Yoga Ed
http://www.yogaed.com
Recommended Readings
Smart Moves by Carla Hannaford
User’s Guide to the Brain by John Ratey
Awareness Through Movement by Moshe Feldenkrais
Body and Mature Behavior by Moshe Feldenkrais
The Brain in Mind by Eric Jensen
Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
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