Start the session with:
1) Deep breathing & normal breathing (3x)
2) Energy balls (relaxation exercise)
3) Praise the child’s good points
Example 1:
- Lie down with eyes closed & pretend to sleep
- Take deep breaths, exhale slowly and flatten your tummy
- Then inhale and swell out your tummy like a big balloon
- Repeat this breathing 3 times then back to normal breathing
- Imagine you’re a puppy. You’re at the gymnastic hall. You wave to mommy who’s sitting at the corner. You were smiling away & you are very happy because you like the gymnastic teacher and your cute little gymnastic friends.
- You can open your eyes slowly and see a corner of the room. You can see that you’re in your gymnastic hall with your cute friends and loving teacher. Everybody take a mat and put them on the floor.
- Now, you can see everybody sitting in front of the teacher. Raise your hand if you can see them. OK, put down your hand.
- You stretch like teacher and your friend stretch their body too. Could you tell me how it is like?
- Well, you are coming back to your seat. And close your eyes. When I count to 3, you will come back to yourself. 1,2,3.
Example 2:
- Today we’ll play in a music class.
- Lie down and close your eyes
- Deep breathing 3 times and back to normal breathing
- Imagine you’re little teddy. You’re in the Opus music room. This is a place where all the music instruments are kept. All your friends sit in a circle, in front of your music teacher. Everybody is excited and happy because teacher is going to give you a music instrument. What is teacher giving you today?
- What is going to happen? Your image can take you anywhere you want.
- Remember what you see in your image and tell me what happened when you come back. I am going to stop talking for a while.