Sensory hacks to beat stress
You can’t sleep, because your mind is racing. You have constant butterflies in your stomach. You can’t focus on one thing at a time. You forget someone’s name as soon as they introduce themselves. The [...]
How being water-wise affects your senses
If you live in or close to Cape Town your bathroom is littered with buckets. You wear the same pants for a week. You’ve become a mini-engineer with water-saving gadgets in your kitchen. Your car [...]
Benefits of a “Quiet Space” in your classroom
Classrooms can quickly become noisy and overwhelming, leading to inappropriate and challenging behaviour by children. Understanding the impact of sensory input from the environment is important in helping a teacher make the necessary changes to [...]
Lunchtime is holy time
We’re all guilty on this one. We’ve all done it. The quick desk-snacking, the in-between-meeting munching, the one-finger-on-the-email, one-hand-on-the-toasted-sandwich typing. Lunchtime has become a myth in the modern workplace. With deadlines looming, workloads expanding and [...]
Mindfulness and Sensory Processing – Being in the “here and now”
How do you know you are here right now? Take a moment and really think about it. How do you know you are right here, right now, not somewhere else? Well, of course you [...]
Forget About New Year’s Resolutions
That's right, forget about New Year's Resolutions. Try Reflective Practice instead. Forget the pressure for everything to be perfect and to change all your bad habits when the calendar flips over to January. Instead [...]