Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Right brain training Part 2: Image Play

Image Play
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.

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