Games and Group Activities
Create a drum use a wooden bowl, or your knees
and pick up a rhythm. Sitting in your circle
everyone following the beat, then go round and each
young one change the beat a little. Feel the
energies moving round, different, changing,
together. Get loud, or soft, beat to your hearts
content.
You may like to have one creating the beat while
everyone else gets up to move to the beat. Let your body go, be loose, feel the energies moving,
feel your energy moving, dance any way you feel,
let the whole body move as it wishes. ...
Be out side and move with nature. Then wind down
and relax. be silent and still for a while.
With a group in a circle have one member
in the centre, everyone else gather close around
as the one in the middle stands and falls towards
the circle, those round the circle push the
center person away, or round. Till the person in
the centre is so relaxed and trusting to be
pushed in all directions from the others around
them. everyone have a turn. Trust.
One my daughters have enjoyed is to sit one person in the
center of the circle. They are to sit still and serene, calm and
centered, they can chant Om if it helps. The point is to keep an
undistracted calm, peaceful space while everyone else around the center
person makes lots of annoying, distracting sounds (not to loudly, don't want
to burst ear drums). See how long they last without giggling or
getting distracted. No touching the center person just rambunctious
distraction, best you can do. I have found this helps strengthen
our inner calm through turmoil and grief or annoying moments in our lives
and to help change moods.
Bash pillows let the anger and stress out,
so it doesn't become a habit. children love
pillow fights and jumping about on soft pillows.
Create a safe soft space to bounce around and Get Wild.
Little ones especially love this idea, that is find a big
sheet and wave it up the little ones run under it or lye down and kick their
feet up... I find this happens when I am making the bed and my little ones
run under the sheet. You can have a group holding the sheet and waving it as
one or two run under then take a hold for another to run through.
Circle dancing. Is something worth studying and doing with your children.
The dances
themselves are in line, open and closed circle, labyrinth/ spiral and solo
formations, all of which contribute in their own way to the provision of a
safe and supportive space in which healing can occur. Sharing rhythm and
effort quality creates an atmosphere of mutual holding and support, while
simple movements are repeated to evoke the universality of human experience
in space and time. The circular dance pattern can be seen as a mandala,
where the personal circle is aligned with the circle of the universe, and so
the universal symbol of unity and totality becomes a personal symbol as
well. The mandala enables each dancer to centre herself and harmonises the
different energies of the individual dancers into a balanced whole.