Body Awareness Activities

This book helps children to be aware of their body and how it responds to feelings and emotions. It features 14 activities to reduce tension and stress. The body often responds to emotional stresses with muscular tension, shallow breathing, headaches and stomach aches. So by tuning children into their body they can learn to mobilise the emotional energy. Activities include:
• Parts of the body
• Tuning into the body
• Let go and let the energy flow
• Before and after energy
• What is going on in my body.

Dance, body movement, physical activities, breathing and relaxation exercises are used to help free up the emotional energy.