Great Idea, Have you used it yet? If so, how did it
go. Are the women receptive to something like this?
Where do you work? I live on the Navajo res and know
many women who qualify as battered. Kids as well.
Please let me know how it goes. Must be a great
feeling when you reach someone with such a fun
activity.
--- Vaughan Evans <skippingdancers@...> wrote:
> I am interested in helping battered women.
>
> One way to help women who have had emotional
> trauma-is to help them "discover the child in them."
>
> Friendship parties are one way to do this. One
> format would be to combine rope skipping with
> singing
> and dancing.
> FOR EXAMPLE:
>
> We could have a skipping game where the women
> pretend that they are alopine flowers.
>
> The two ENDERS would turn the rope-singing:
>
> Two Canadians went rambling
> 'Long the Garibaldi Way
> And came upon a lupind
> Merily did it sway
>
> At the word "lupin" the woman representing the lupin
> jumps ito the skipping rope-and starts skipping-and
> keeps skipping during the chorus.
>
> The same applies to the other women-they may be a
> glacier lily-or an Indian paintbrush-or an aster.
>
> At the end, the four women representing flowers
> sing
> this ditty;
>
> The growing season's very short
> Autumn is on its way
> In October, frost will sprinkle us
> And the skies will be gray
> In November, snow will bury us
> We will dream our cares away
> But next summer, we'll be in bloom again
> Hope you'll come back some day."
>
> I am using the melody of a song called "The
> Austrian."
>
> -Vaughan Evans
>
>
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