Dear Anne,
I have known people to utilize the Brain Gym(R) work to improve many types of skills and activities besides academic skills, including vision. After five years of taking the Brain Gym training courses, including the Visioncircles course, my own vision improved to the point that my optometrist said I did not need my glasses anymore. My astigmatism had shrunk and my far vision had improved. I am now to the point where I need to start working on presbyopia though. In my first Indepth class that was taught by Paul Dennison I saw a person improve in this from one of the demonstration balances he facilitated.
I recommend you start with the Brain Gym work as there are some basics to improving vision in that work that are then built upon in the Vision Gym(R) work. The PACE process which consists of taking a drink of water, then doing Brain Buttons, Cross Crawl, and Hook-ups in that order, is important to integration of the sensory/neurological systems for any skill. Lazy 8s for the eyes, Earth Buttons, Space Buttons and Balance Buttons are some of the other basic Brain Gym exercises that are important to improving vision and relaxing the eyes. These exercises are described in the "Brain Gym" and "Brain Gym(R), Teacher's Edition" books though the word PACE is not used in these books. If you can find someone to show you how to do an Action Balance for Seeing or an X-Span Balance with a goal around vision, both of which are taught in the Brain Gym 101 course, these are usually helpful with improving vision.
Some people who have vision and eye comfort challenges do so because of how they were taught to read, regardless of the level of reading they have attained. Most of us were taught to read in a non-integrated/non-whole brained way without sufficient movement and other whole brain techniques to support development of reading into a whole brain activity for us. Some people manage to make reading whole brained for themselves anyway and others of us, even though we attain high reading levels, could experience reading as a more efficient process. I have seen gifted and talented students and doctoral candidates with high reading levels make improvements in memory of what was read, vision, eye coordination, and eye comfort from doing the basic Brain Gym work.
Once you have found the activities from the basic Brain Gym work that are helpful to you, you might then find further improvements by exploring the Vision Gym work.
Best Wishes,
Dave Saunders
