Guest guest Posted April 5, 2001 Report Share Posted April 5, 2001 Yes, Cross Crawl is a part of Brain Gym activities - the beginning PACE section. I just attended a workshop on Brain Gym at the ASCD - Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development - a big educational conference geared for mostly principals and superintendents. Brain Gym is used in many schools in Australia and the Netherlands and is just picking up interest in the US. It is basically a series of physical activities that help to balance your body - polarity balancing. They are also known as Edu-K or Educational Kinesthesiology. It develops the neural pathways through specific movements. Cross crawl is easy - You lift your left knee up to touch your right elbow and then switch - right knee up to touch your left elbow.. and do it for a few minutes. It's about balancing the two sides of your brain. Many people immediately feel a difference by doing these simple activites, especially hyperactive kids and persons with ADD. Here's some links for further info: http://www.braingym.org/ http://members.aol.com/braingym/bgresource.html http://www.andrewsinstitute.com/BrainGym.htm http://www.newhorizons.org/spneeds_addbgym.html http://www.creatingconnections.net/Brain_Gym.htm http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/stories/010123/5047311.html http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/7407/braingym.htm http://www.esl.about.com/homework/esl/library/lessons/blbraingym.htm http://www.familiesonline.co.uk/topics/health/health_brain_gym.htm http://www.infinitematters.com/braingym.html Love and Light, (\o/) /_\ ~Angel ----------- Wendy H. Chapman, Dir., MA Ed. Psy., RMT Director Metagifted Education Resource Organization www.metagifted.org Indigo Child Consultations and Workshops A donation will help this cause! Please consider giving $1 - $1000+ *----------* On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 skylady wrote: > Hi please has anyone heard of cross crawl techinques ?? > this has come up in conversation over healing therapy > and I would like to know more about it. > love,light & peace. skyladyrose. > > > > **************************************** > Visit the community page: > For administrative problems -owner > To , - > > All messages, files and archives of this forum are copyright of the group and the individual authors. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 5, 2001 Report Share Posted April 5, 2001 They use Brain Gym here in New Zealand.....educational kineseology. When my son was 8 he had problems in reading and after seeing someone who specialised in e.k. and given a few exercises to switch on parts of his brain that he wasn't using he took off with his reading and ended up in the top reading group within the year. Apparently he was only hearing the words and not visualising them in his mind. Kate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 7, 2001 Report Share Posted April 7, 2001 Hi wendy, thank you so much for your help, I shall have fun looking at the sites you gave me once again thank you. love & light skyladyrose , Wendy Chapman <director@m...> wrote: > > Yes, Cross Crawl is a part of Brain Gym activities - the beginning PACE > section. I just attended a workshop on Brain Gym at the ASCD - > Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development - a big educational > conference geared for mostly principals and superintendents. Brain Gym is > used in many schools in Australia and the Netherlands and is just picking > up interest in the US. It is basically a series of physical activities > that help to balance your body - polarity balancing. They are also known > as Edu-K or Educational Kinesthesiology. It develops the neural pathways > through specific movements. > > Cross crawl is easy - You lift your left knee up to touch your right elbow > and then switch - right knee up to touch your left elbow.. and do it for a > few minutes. It's about balancing the two sides of your brain. Many people > immediately feel a difference by doing these simple activites, especially > hyperactive kids and persons with ADD. > > > Here's some links for further info: > > http://www.braingym.org/ > http://members.aol.com/braingym/bgresource.html > http://www.andrewsinstitute.com/BrainGym.htm > http://www.newhorizons.org/spneeds_addbgym.html > http://www.creatingconnections.net/Brain_Gym.htm > http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/stories/010123/5047311.html > http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/7407/braingym.htm > http://www.esl.about.com/homework/esl/library/lessons/blbraingym.htm > http://www.familiesonline.co.uk/topics/health/health_brain_gym.htm > http://www.infinitematters.com/braingym.html > > Love and Light, > > (\o/) > /_\ ~Angel > > -- --------- > Wendy H. Chapman, Dir., MA Ed. Psy., RMT Director@m... > Metagifted Education Resource Organization www.metagifted.org > Indigo Child Consultations and Workshops > A donation will help this cause! Please consider giving $1 - $1000+ > *- ---------* > > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 skylady@n... wrote: > > > Hi please has anyone heard of cross crawl techinques ?? > > this has come up in conversation over healing therapy > > and I would like to know more about it. > > love,light & peace. skyladyrose. > > > > > > > > **************************************** > > Visit the community page: > > For administrative problems -owner > > To , - > > > > All messages, files and archives of this forum are copyright of the group and the individual authors. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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