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Fruit Salad Handshake

Purpose of this lesson:

'Fruit salad handshakes' help organize a person in an embodied way, and relate to engage and attune to another in a regulated way.

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When a student does a fruit salad hand shake with a well regulated teacher, (mentor sensi or parent), they do a set of movements which can at first be challenging. And as they are held by the regulation of the teaher they learn the physical sequence, the muscle tone, the emotional tone and the way to connect and participate together.

Fruit Salad Handshake build on the watermelon hand shake as composition where we bring multiple rhythms/movements together.

Example- Watermelon, Grapefruit, Apple, Pear