In a world full of so much noise, I always lean on this one good old simple tool of movement = Brain Dance!
Anyone who has ever shared time and space with me has done these actions. And this little video names 5 out of 8 gestures that awaken the brain and settle the nervous system. It’s an old teaching founded by movement educator Ann Gilbert in the 90s. And literally I still use it for everything.
Opening a Circle
Kids classroom setting
Retreats
Dance
Yoga
Meditation
In the kitchen
On a walk
Standing in line anywhere
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Once I began traveling the path of nervous system regulation in recent years, I learned that I had been teaching it forever!
Years of being a dancer and a dance teacher I was totally regulating myself all the time with bouncing, shaking, cross lateral movement, side body stretches, tapping …
Dance is regulation!
So, wiggle every day.
Guess that is really all I have to say :0
Enjoy!
***PS - zoom changed their settings and I cannot get my music to come through here (again) …sigh…please use whatever jams make you dance it out! And know I am hard at work trying to figure it all out again. ;0
***Extra PS - Since its May Day - here is a post I shared once about how we roll in our household… literally, every single year —
