Story

Exercise

Self-Regulation

Integrates:

Resources and Curriculum

Physical Fitness

Emotional Stability

Learning Readiness

Whole child engagement enhances:

Resources and Curriculum

• Story-driven & Instructional Active Play

• Combines Creative Movement, Yoga & Brain Gym® based activites

• Aerobic & Anaerobic Exercise

• Designed & Taught by Experts

• Affordable PE & SEL Curriculum activity

DVD or MP4 format

• Set of 16 – hard copy & printable pdf

• Reinforce health lessons & techniques in videos

• Build self-care into daily routine

• Support well-being, harmony & learning

• Enhance SEL & executive function

Health - Nutrition - Self-Regulation

• Builds on the video class & cards

• Comprehensive 30-week program

• Themed lesson plans with 200+ activities:

Fulfills Head Start Early Learning Framework & Common Core Standards

• Cooperative Games

• Take it Outside

• Mindfulness

• Movement to Music

• Stories in Motion

1. Developed and tested with children

2. Distinct from anything currently on the market

3. Validated by scientific research

OUR UNIQUE INTEGRATION OF

• Focus attention and engage participant in an empathic response, creating a significant physiological effect on the body and on behavioral choices. (Paul Zak, 2013)

• Activate episodic memory and light up the

whole brain for learning (Dr. John Medina, Brain Rules, 2010)

Research Highlights

using Bilateral and Cross-lateral Intentional Movement

• Decrease off-task behavior in preschool age children (Dr. Jennifer Dustow, Autism Project, 2009)

• Improve creative problem solving, language skills, and memory (Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., The Cognitive Benefits of Play: Effects on the Learning Brain, 2008)

• Increases attention span and ability to ignore distractions and concentrate effectively

• Enhances behavioral regulation, metacognition, and overall global executive function (Flook, Smalley, Kitil, Galla, Kaiser-Greenland, Locke, Ishijima, Kasari, 2010, Napoli, Krech, & Holley, 2005)

Research Highlights

• Over-rides the body’s physiological response to stress

• Stimulates the release of BDNF, which grows the brain (Ratey, 2008)

• Improves the cognitive control of attention

• Enhances academic performance (Hillman, CH, Pontifex, MB, Raine, LB, Castelli, DM, Hall, EE, Kramer, AF, 2009)

• Unifies and integrates mind/body experience (Journal of Cognitive and Behavioral Practice 2009)

• Organizes whole-brain function for optimal learning (Dennison and Hannaford, 1999)

• Improves executive functions (Science 2011)

• Concentrates BDNF in the hippocampus, enhances long term memory retention (Ratey, 2008)

Research Highlights

See it in action!

Ordered to coincide with Brain Gym® PACE: www.braingym.org

Adventure Skills enhance:

Ordered to coincide with Brain Gym® PACE: www.braingym.org

Health Focus

Ease of Learning Calm

Build movement skills

Reinforce health & self-regulation

Comprehensive & integrated whole child program for PE, SEL, Expressive Arts

For Staff & Parents in-person & online

Stories/Literature: Lin, P-Y., Grewal, N.S., Morin, C., Johnson, W.D., Zak, P.J. 2013. Oxytocin increases the influence of public service advertisements. PLoS ONE 8(2): e56934. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056934. [Link]

Medina, John. Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five. Seattle: Pear Press, 2010. Print http://brainrules.net/pdf/references_longterm.pdf

Embodied Self-Regulation Skills: Dennison, Paul and Dennison, Gail. Brain Gym® 101: Balance for Daily Life.•

EduKinesthetics, 2007. Print

Dennision, Paul & Dennison, Gail. Brain Gym Teacher’s Manual. EduKinesthetics, Inc., 2010. Print

Dustow, Dr. Jennifer. Autism Project of Dr. Jennifer Dustow: Do Bilateral Exercises Decrease Off Task Behavior with Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Koln, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009. Print LINK - http://www.amazon.com/Autism-Project-Dr-Jennifer-Dustow/dp/3838316614/ref=la_B0056OC1HU_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383996994&sr=1-2

Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., (2008) The Cognitive Benefits of Play: Effects on the Learning Brain, Retrieved from http://www.parentingscience.com/benefits-of-play.html

Hannaford, Carla. Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head. Great Ocean Publishers 1995. Print

Mindfulness:

Lisa Flook, Susan L. Smalley, M. Jennifer Kitil, Brian M. Galla, Susan Kaiser-Greenland, Jill Locke, Eric Ishijima, Connie Kasari. (2010) Effects of Mindful Awareness Practices on Executive Functions in Elementary School Children. Journal of Applied School Psychology, Vol. 26, Iss. 1

Katherine Weare. Developing mindfulness with children and young people: a review of the evidence and policy context. Journal of Applied School Psychology 2010 Vol. 21, Iss. 1, pp. 99-125

Cardio-Exercise Hillman CH, Pontifex MB, Raine LB, Castelli DM, Hall EE, Kramer AF. (2009) The effect of acute treadmill walking on cognitive control and academic achievement in preadolescent children. Neuroscience. 2009 Mar 31;159(3):1044-54. Doi 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.01.057. Epub 2009 Feb 3.

Strong WB, Malina RM, Blimkie CJ, Daniels SR, Dishman RK, Gutin B, Hergenroeder AC, Must A, Nixon PA, Pivarnik JM, Rowland T, Trost S, Trudeau F. (2005) Evidence based physical activity for school-age youth. J Pediatr. 2005 Jun;146(6):732-7.

Slow Intentional Movement Ratey, John J., MD. Spark, The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and The Brain. Little Brown and Company, 2008. Print

•Gothe N. Pontefex MB, Hillman C, Mcauley E. (2012) The Acute Effects of Yoga on Executive Function. Journal of Physical Activity & Health © 2012 Human Kinetics, Inc•Link - http://kch.illinois.edu/research/labs/neurocognitive-kinesiology/files/Articles/Gothe_2013_TheEffectsOfA.pdf

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