Brain Gym and the success stories that it has made possible in sport and education

Brain Gym and the success stories that it has made possible in sport and education. In this article we want to give you the references and tools to enable you to try out Brain Gym for yourself. In her review of the literature on Brain Gym in a study done for Strathclyde University, Scotland, Margaret Dunn states that Brain Gym consists of simple movements similar to the movements which in fact are natural in the first three years in life. She says we can consider it a useful tool in a classroom situation because it does not require sophisticated pieces of equipment or large areas of space. Dunn says that Levine (1987) affirms that writing is, still, an important method of learning and expressing knowledge in schools and that the motor act of writing involves a broad array of fine motor and visual-motor skills.
Furthermore, Arter et al. (1996, p26) state:
“No child will be able to produce the fine motor movements for
writing with a pencil until he or she is able to control ……..
larger movements.”
Likewise, Thomas (1997) noted that the Physical Education curriculum
in France plays an important part in the teaching of handwriting and P.E.Tom Maguire
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