Kristi Sproates

02/10/2026

25/09/2026

🧠 CATCH A BRAINWAVE IN TATHRA! 🧠

ONE FUN-FILLED HOUR OF HIGH-IMPACT PLAY!

With a Licensed Brain Gym Instructor, kids will move, play, laugh and have fun — while giving their brains a workout too!

✨ Brain Gym movements to calm, focus, release tension & activate both brain hemispheres
🎲 Old-school games like hopscotch & Snakes & Ladders — with their WHOLE body!
🎨 Double-handed drawing & balance games

Have a child with special needs/requirements? We can adapt the games to suit.
Questions? 0447 368 052

More than fun and games.
It’s a brain workout disguised as PLAY!

📍 Tathra | October 9th

https://kristisproates.com/catchabrainwave

16/09/2026

This guy cracks me up! 😂
🎯 The objective was spatial awareness for letters — and he absolutely achieved that.
✍️ My “Going, Going, Gone” was for him to use as an example, practise each letter individually, and then add in a Lazy 8 — which he really enjoyed!
🧠 We also worked through some other midline and hand-eye activities before he wrote the words and then told me:
“The first one is how you want me to write, the second is continuous (cursive) writing, and this one is how I want to write it.”
And there it was… a lovely, flowy g. 😂
💡 I get it. And I absolutely loved his humour and the way he made the writing his own.
He clearly enjoyed the cursive style. I wonder if that lovely continuous flow helps him keep his train of thought? 🤔

18/08/2026

Kudos to schools who 'ban' phones and give alternatives to make transitions easier and less of a chore/demand. Well done BHS ;)

30/07/2026

He didn't need more worksheets. He needed his brain and body working together.

An 11-year-old boy was writing when I arrive for a movementbased therapy session.
His story was full of great ideas—but many words were spelt exactly as they sounded.

Koala = kuas. Or leaves = leefs

Instead of reaching for another spelling list, we changed the way his brain processes and sensed information, to support his learning.

✅ Brain Gym PACE to get his brain and body ready.
🥊 Boxing bag with bright letters while crossing the midline and spelling words from his own story.
✍️ Whiteboard writing.
🚶 Cross Crawl to help lock the learning in.
🖐️ Theraputty, beanbags and conversation to keep practising in a calm, regulated state.

By the end of the session, he was confidently spelling a word that had felt too hard at the start.

The goal isn't to make children try harder.

It's to help their brain organise information more effectively.

When we slow things down, add movement and engage the sensory system, learning often becomes clearer.

Movement isn't a break from learning. Sometimes it's the missing piece.

Sound weird or sound about right?

20/07/2026

As a Developmental Educator, we are continually working with people living with disability and providing opportunities to build skills. These include thinking for oneself and being as autonomous as possible..

One guy who is autistic has been unwell ( flu) which created him to isolate for a couple of weeks.

So when we met up recently his energy was low but he was able to move around. Doing BRAINGYM mo ves and activities was possible so I guided him through a few to help His anxiety and think a little about his experience ..before, during and after this bout of sickness.

And I mentioned WELLNESS and he was open to that discussion.

And to my delight , he came up with a list of wellness ideas.

And the great thing is that they include physical, mental and emotional support ideas.

My fave was when he said 'flexibility', he explained flexible thinking would be a benefit, cause he would stress less and this could help him feel better .

I was pretty blown away, of the power of a few movements that support whole brain thinking .

I have a YouTube page for Disability and Community Wellness..please join if you'd like more stories, ideas and wellness tips.

https://youtube.com/?si=-fDUAM80Wr6FV1Mj

18/07/2026

Understandable not everyone gets the chance for a winter pause.
Carers working 24/7, single parents, study/work/life. All the things, right!

Sometimes doing that thing you like to do with your hands, can calm the brain and give your over active brain a chance to just switchback to what it knows. A small sense of calm and security is often in the small things

Any other knitters here ? What are you making?

09/07/2026

On route to Sydney Town
The braincare never stops 🧶😜
Lucky employee #1 was happy to drive and I got to knitting sock #2, her name is Faith 🙏☺️🧦

04/07/2026

The Orange Belt - Meaning🥋🍊💯

Enthusiasm, determination and the fire within to keep improving and overcoming challenges

Sounds a little like marriage too 👩‍❤️‍👨

Also celebrated 16 years of marriage with my no 1 employee

He who puts up with my antics such as taking up martial art at 50.

He did send me the words above
- during my grading today.

So I came out feeling all the feels of life as we make it 😌

25/06/2026

We were gifted hands.
Not everyone has two,
Not everyones' functioned like intended
Not everyone's continue to function..may be degenerative

They also could be underused - we press butons to start cars, to close windows (yes there was a time when we did not)

Neurons that fire together, wire together.

AND I often hear, ouch my hand hurts when I write

AND also there is stress, that can weaken signals to the hand.

One teen this week with ADHD, told me the answer is in his brain but not in his hands.
I helped him by using a BrainGym movment called Arm Activation, this released tension in his shoulder, also relaxed him and then we can think clearer and express our selves and this includes written expression.

And yes we do talk with our hands''' well atleast our brain believes so

Our functional working hands simply transmute our brains messages.

Not always clearly and this is why we need to pay attention to the physical skills that go with learning

And sometimes we need to take a step back, before we can take a step forward.

Learning doesn't need to be a battle ground.

Learn The 26 movements just like these beautiful people, they either have children who are neurodiverse and or work with children/teens/adults with varying needs.

Movements can be adapted. Have them in your toolkit and you will see the difference movement makes on building real connection.

BrainGym reminds us of our bodies role in learning. And it is a playful and inviting way to support learners and yourselves too.

Come Learn The 26 Movements with me.
Enrolments close soon.

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