Improving Vision and Changing your Perpectives



Carla Hannaford (author of "Smart Moves")
and me at the Vision Circle workshop in 2010.

I would like to share with you on something amazing which happened to me. I was previously wearing spectacles and my degree was like 200+ and 300+ ( I can't remember which degree belongs to the left or right eye, as I lost the paper given by my optometrist). It was not till a year ago I was freed from my dependency on spectacles. I can finally see just by doing lots of Lazy 8's and after attending the Vision Circles workshop conducted by Carla Hannaford. After the course, I did all the vision related exercises dilligently and after 4 months I was able to see words at a certain distance without my glasses. I am now 40 over of age. I was surprised, dumbfounded and very happy to continue till now without having to wear spectacles anymore.

Using BrainGym in the Classroom

My previous experience as a Teacher in both the primary and secondary schools, teaching students with learning difficulties, had spurred me to look for alternative methods of tackling challenges faced by students in achieving their potential. I had experimented with some techniques where pen and paper fail to help these students. BrainGym was one of the methods which I come across in 2006. At that moment, I was still teaching in a government school. I watched as my niece and  nephews went for their BrainGym classes and wondered what they were doing. I was a skeptic until I myself experience BrainGym, when I observed one of the classes. I read further on this topic and decided to go for the BrainGym 101 workshop, at my own expense. From that day onwards, I never looked back.

Since then, I had been practicing BrainGym in my classroom. Implementing it definitely needs a lot of patience as my pupils are not used to doing the exercises. However, during the final year examinations, a few of my kind of hyper students did the 'hook-ups' himself before and after he finished his paper. It was a happy moment for me, although he never said it out openly but what he did  showed me that the particular movement helped him to calm down. To implement BrainGym movements need the teacher to be creative and patient in handling students who are not open to the idea yet. But doing it daily would prove to be beneficial for the teacher and student alike.