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Bags, Balls and Brains
Classes for
Active Adults
 

Bags, Balls and Brains Classes for Educators and Parents

Bags Balls and Brains
Classes for Seniors


Class Instructors
Shirley Kelley
Linda Faste

Contact:
Email Shirley Kelley
Email Linda Faste

Lots of fun and personal attention
Final circle pattern applying
new individual skills in
community context.

 Camp Sierra Retreat
Ball pattern requiring
simultaneous movement of arms
in opposite direction and right
hand release of one ball as left
hand catches another ball.

Two-ball routine
Catching balls simtaneously in
Double Bounce exercise.

Feeling the ball
Babkin Palmomental Reflex
activation and re-patterning using ball.

enhancing brain function through rhythmic movement patterns e
corporate and wellness retreats...

In-Services: We train people to work with others.
  • Build your skill set
  • Experience 3-D brain integration enhancing myelin growth and increased dendritic connections
  • Learn how to work with others
  • Understand the why: body brain connection and the neurophysiology behind the exercises

Team Building: We offer workgroups an experience which enhances
community, creativity and a sense of well-being.
  • Immersive multi-sensory and multi-level integrative learning experience
  • Progression from personal to relational to community
  • Three dimensional brain integration enhancing myelin growth and increased dendritic connections

Our program is a simultaneous multi-sensory learning approach in a non-competitive
environment offering activities possible for everyone to do. All activities incorporate the use of dominant and non-dominant sides of the body first, doing the same movement. Avamere Corporation welcome kitsThen we enhance the ability to multi-task by asking the body to do two or more different things simultaneously. This produces perceptual shifts allowing individuals the opportunity to reframe challenging situations and to have a positive outlook.

Our process enhances creativity, integrates the nervous system and brings one into the physical body. A key benefit is the grounding of one in the present moment while multi-tasking and tracking the details and the big picture at the same time.

We create a safe container and hold the space, allowing one to fall out of the rhythmic pattern and find his / her way back into rhythm and the group.

Our activities foster a sense of connectedness and community as we take the group through a process of building personal skills that are then brought into relationship with another person and finally with the whole community. One of the highlights of this community experience is one single rhythmic pulse and the balancing of the inner experience with the outer.


Basic Skills which are enhanced:
  • Focus and attention
  • Following directions
  • Binoculor vision
  • Eye teaming
  • Near to far and far to near eye tracking
  • Focal and peripheral vision
  • Eye hand coordination
  • Binaural hearing
  • Auditory discrimination
  • Following a rhythmic pattern
  • Impulse control, Timing, Modulation of effort

One learns:
  • How to manipulate an object in space
  • Timing and cooperation with another person
  • Opening perception in the context of a larger field
  • The ability to receive / take in, and let go / pass on
  • Thinking and moving at the same time
Application of basic skill in social context:
  • Eye movement from sender to receiver to sender
  • Timing of taking in and letting go
  • Figure ground differentiation
  • Attention & presence in the midst of visual and auditory distraction
  • Maintain one's own relationship to rhythm and group participation

Some of our clients have included:
  • IDEO
  • Stanford University Health Improvement Program
  • Avamere Corporation

 
NEW! VIEW PHOTOS OF OUR CLASSES.
Images show Brain Gym® poses, bags and balls routines for less mobile adults, standing exercises for active adults, advanced routines, and photos working with middle schoolers.
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Photography, slideshow, and website by Carol Wright

Photography and website by Carol Wright