Coaching practices for Nature and Movement for My Teenager
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- My little one gets so wound up or so shut down that talking goes nowhere
- I go through my days on autopilot, doing what I’m told and what’s expected, never quite feeling like I’m the one steering my own actions
- My kid is full of wild physical energy and I tend to shut down the wrestling and chasing because I’m afraid it’ll spin out of control
- When I’m wound up or stuck I just sit there marinating in the feeling, when every cell of me is itching to move
- When I move my body it tends to flip too far one way or the other
Practices that may help
- Use physical movement to shift the nervous system state
When the child is stuck in a heightened state, movement can shift the physiological baseline faster than words.
The Whole-Brain Child (Siegel & Bryson) - Practicing deliberate choice in movement
Make explicit micro-decisions during movement to rebuild the felt experience of agency.
Trauma-Informed Yoga: Movement as a Path to Safety - Engage in safe rough-and-tumble play
Wrestling, chasing, and physical silliness build the regulation capacity that calm activities cannot.
Special Time (Lawrence Cohen — Playful Parenting) - Move and use rhythm to shift state
Walking, swaying, drumming, dancing — rhythmic, whole-body movement to discharge and reset arousal.
The Body Keeps the Score, Honestly Explained - Moving within your window of tolerance
Choose movement intensity that produces sensation without triggering overwhelm or shutdown.
Trauma-Informed Yoga: Movement as a Path to Safety - Using rhythm and repetition to regulate
Rhythmic, predictable movement sequences calm the nervous system through temporal predictability.
Trauma-Informed Yoga: Movement as a Path to Safety - Sportscast what you see rather than directing
Narrate the play without evaluation, question, or instruction.
Special Time (Lawrence Cohen — Playful Parenting) - Practice with invitational language
Receive (and give) movement cues as invitations you can accept, modify, or decline — not instructions to obey.
Trauma-Informed Yoga: Movement as a Path to Safety - Design awe walks that amplify the psychological return of outdoor movement
Walking with intentional attention to vast, novel, or beautiful elements generates awe — which compounds the mood benefits of movement.
Nature and Movement, Made Practical - Cultivate a "yes brain": curiosity, courage, and resilience over reactivity
Respond to the child’s world with curiosity and openness rather than threat and control.
The Whole-Brain Child (Siegel & Bryson)
Related concerns
- Rhythm And Trauma Regulation
Rhythmic, predictable movement sequences calm the nervous system through temporal predictability.
Using rhythm and repetition to regulate
- Body Awareness Through Movement
Mentally directing awareness to moving energy through a region while moving amplifies the proprioceptive signal and focuses attention effectively.
Intention and visualization in qigong
- David Emerson Trauma Yoga
Trauma-informed yoga, developed primarily by David Emerson at the Trauma Center in Boston, adapts yoga practices to prioritize felt safety, interoceptive choice, and autonomy — the conditions traumatic experience removes. An RCT on women with treatment-resistant PTSD found that the Trauma Center protocol reduced PTSD symptoms significantly compared to a control condition, making it one of the better-evidenced body-based trauma adjuncts.
- How To Choose A Game For A 3 Year Old Child
Let the child decide what you do, how long you stay, and when you move on.
Follow the child’s lead completely during special time
- Nature And Movement As A Caregiver
Sustainable tend-and-befriend requires that the caregiver’s own basic needs are met — otherwise helping depletes rather than regulates.
Tend to yourself before tending to others
- Nature And Movement As A Parent
When the child is stuck in a heightened state, movement can shift the physiological baseline faster than words.
Use physical movement to shift the nervous system state
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