Swings & Sensory Integration

When bodies move minds it feels meaningful

You were taught to wrest 5 senses from the body. Well done.

Yet Proprioception's old wide web is still spun, Vestibular still hangs at the center. A menagerie is lurking in your basement, do you mind?

Use this specialised equipment to release the body's quieter senses, swing, wobble, and gently blow your mind.

Sensory Integration explained

Categories within Swings & Sensory Integration

Vibro Accoustic Sand & Water Deep Pressure Sensory Integration Swings Outdoor Special Swings Spin Rock Bounce Reaching Balance

Helicopter Swing - Indoor Swing

£120.00 excl. vat

£144.00

Hand Rails

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£23.00 excl. vat

£27.60

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feet only for Indoor Swing Frame

£92.75 excl. vat

£111.30

Vestibular, the sense of Balance.

Our nervous system is made up of many different sensory systems and making sense of all that information requires balance. Jean Ayres, the founder of sensory integration theory, suggested that the same balance processes we use to stay upright are used to organise our senses. In practice, this means that stimulating our sense of balance improves our ability to filter out noise and focus on the signal. Disabilities might require specialised equipment to overcome obstacles to play, for it is in play, rolling, wrestling and gambolling that all creatures best stimulate the vestibular.

Balance

The visible expression of vestibular function.

Spatial Awareness

Spatial awareness draws on vestibular, proprioceptive, and visual systems working together

Gravitational Security

Ayres' term for the sense of safety and stability that a well-functioning vestibular system provides. Gravitational insecurity is a powerfully motivating force.

Movement Seeking and Motion Sensitivity

Under and over sensitive ends of the spectrum.

Rhythmic Movement

Predictable movement is organising for the nervous system, long understood, rockabye baby.

Spinning

Intensely stimulating. Spinning and swinging (and bouncing) stimulate different parts of the vestibular system, at different intensities, with different effects. Play can hurt, but that is never its intention, please use these tools… carefully, especially spinning.

Vestibular Input and Sensory Integration

Beyond the visible the Vestibular is busy balancing the whole sensory system. The brain must prioritise, filter irrelevancies out and pay attention, this is sensory integration, and the vestibular system is central to it.

Sensory Integration

The brain's ability to organise information from multiple senses simultaneously. Vestibular stimulation is the most powerful way to support sensory integration.

Swings & Sensory Integration

When bodies move minds it feels meaningful

Categories within Swings & Sensory Integration

Tortilla Swing Seat

Helicopter Swing - Indoor Swing

Square Bolster

Monkey Swing

Vertical Bolster swing

Half Pipe Bolster Swing

Thin Bolster Swing Seat

Sensory Integration Room

Suspended Ball Pool

Bearing Bar