Training Activity 7 - Relaxing Activities

1st Let’s Talk about Previous activities and Home Work

What did you feel? What would you change?What was Easier and Harder and Why?

Objectives

Promote awareness, release of tension and self-control

Develop strategies to combat stress and promote quality of life

Encourage family involvement in promoting healthy and active lifestyles

Activity 1 - Brainstorming

What is Relaxation?

What exercises can be done?

Relaxation allows the individual to feel their body promoting awareness and

body perception, as well as establishing the relationship between emotions

and the body

Relaxation can be mediated through touch,

objects or self-massage, and can be performed

in different contexts. It often has a transitive,

securing and tension-regulating function

Activity 2 – Relaxation Session

Breathing Techniques

Restoring the feeling of self-control and reducing negative

physical sensations and feelings by releasing tension,

restoring energy and encouraging calmness.

Control in a stress situation, helping individuals to feel

less tense and with greater control of the situations

Various Relaxation Techniques

Example of Music's to relax https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnfj6QCGLyA&feature=youtu.be

Activity 2 – Relaxation Session

Other good Examples for people with CP…

Sensory StimulationExpressive Therapies

Aquatic Activities

Snoezelen Room

Sensory equipment helps clients adapt their responses to sensory stimulation in

accordance with established pedagogical or therapeutic goals.

Objectives• Stimulate positive emotions, such as well-being, relaxation, satisfaction and joy;

• Promote relaxation, leisure and fun;

• Allow exploration, discovery, choice and opportunity to control the environment;

• Facilitate the release of stress.

It is a properly equipped room, which offers several possibilities of sensorial stimuli that

can be used individually or in combination, according to the specific needs of each

person.

Snoezelen Room

Snoezelen Room

Home Work

Activity Material Human and

Space Resources

What kind of activities?

(Creative Relaxation/

Relaxation through Touch/

Relaxation through Objects/

Breathing Techniques)

What are we going to do!?

Activity 3

List Physical Activities That you Would Like to Do:

Let’s Reflect About…

What did you learn? What would you change?What do you feel?

Reflection

+ Control of body and mind

+ Positive feelings and well-being

+ Quality of life