Brain Gym Camper Trip All Over Japan

Takashi Haitani (Osaka, Japan)
November 14, 2011

After coming back to Japan from a trip to Antarctica in January 2011, I asked my girlfriend Yuki Natori, who is my wife now:
“Would you like to travel around the world with me?”
“I am not interested. But if it’s in the country, yes.” she said.
“Then how about traveling all over the Japan in a camper?”
“Sounds good. I’ll quit my job in the company,” she said.

Our camping trip began June 28, 2011. That was how our Brain Gym® “pilgrimage” throughout Japan was decided and started that way.

Now it has been 136 days since we have started living in the camper.

We have done more than 30 experiencial lectures, and more than 15 individual balancing sessions with over 800 peoples. We have done Brain Gym® with many people and groups: kindergartens, schools, housewives, nursing homes, executives, business coaches, professional baseball players, nurses and so on.

In order to start this traveling, we had to let go of the past.Yuki quitted the company in April before departure, and I winded up a lot of work for teachers and business coaching in the training company I worked in.

In the beginning, there was no appointment in our schedule. But now our calendar is almost full with requests from students and acquaintances. We planned in advance which countryside of Japan and when we would travel to with our camper — Northeast in August and September, Shikoku in October and November, Okinawa from December to January, Kyushu in February and March, and so on. I gave out information about the schedules on my website, and informed students who took Brain Gym 101 classes before. I will then receive calls from teachers for Brain Gym seminar in their schools, and my business associates and friends will gather their clients and acquaintances to my classes.

Besides seminars, we also did one-on-one balancing and consultation with children with learning difficulties and truancy. Four people are usually involved in a session: the mother, the child, Yuki and myself. In the first 30 minutes of a two-hour session, we play Double Doodle, juggling, and soccer.From the play, Yuki and I observe characteristics of their movements, postures, and the remaining primitive reflexes of the children.We also observe how the child communicates with his/her mother.

I found in these sessions that often the mother would have the same primitive reflexes as the child, or the intensity of the mother’s stresses had affected the child. I often do the balance and Brain Gym® through play, and the mothers do not think they were doing Brain Gym® exercises at all.

To my joy, I got reports from two mothers that their children who had been in truancy was able to go to school afterwards.The mothers became more relaxed, and so did the children.

I feel that Brain Gym has given courage and hope to many people.

Anyone often ask to me “Why do you do the camper trip?”

I tell them, “I want to do it.”

My belief is “Inner peace, outer peace, global peace” Doing simple PACE makes me feel peaceful!

I love Brain Gym® and Japan. I want to know and learn more about them.

In the future, we will go mainly to the rural areas and countrysides where people do not have an opportunity to get to know Brain Gym® because of money or time.

Although our activities may be done only in a small scale, I am looking forward to know what kind of flowers will be blossomed in one year.

Thanks to Brain Gym® and the people who support our activity.