Bags, Balls, & Brains: Sensory motor classes for senior citizens

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Bags, Balls & Brains
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Shirley Kelley and
Linda Faste
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Instructions are said clearly and in a loud voice, with personal attention given to senior participants.

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...for senior citizens

These activities are about having fun and enjoying yourself while doing something important for your brain and body.

Using sand bags and racquet balls, you learn a series of individual, partner and group activities. We will apply the individual skills you develop with the sand bags and balls by practicing the movement patterns with partners. You also have the opportunity to use these partnering skills in relationship to two or more other people with group patterns in circle formation and community.

These various activities offer you the opportunity to develop skills in simultaneously attending to yourself, to another and to a community.

Other aspects of these classes include eye tracking, playing with rhythm sequences using bouncing balls, various combination patterns of the basic bag and ball skills, and double focus activities (such as one hand doing one thing while the other one does something else.)

These activities have reportedly increased ability in:

Whole brain availability
Focus and concentration
Physical coordination
Mental capacity
Listening skills
Eye movements (tracking, teaming)
Visual form perception (discrimination of details)
Eye-hand coordination
Balance and stability
Knowing where you are in space

By playing with these exercises on a regular basis you can enhance:

Simultaneous use of both brain hemispheres
Clarity of thought and self-expression
Quicker response time
Improved access to your inherent creativity
Improved sense of rhythm & timing
Improved physical coordination & balance
Improved memory
Increased sense of confidence

All of these skills translate into more ease, joy and the ability to participate more fully in all aspects of your life. You will hear more accurately, think more clearly, concentrate more easily, remember with less effort, stand taller, laugh more readily, enjoy an increased sense of confidence and have FUN.