Practice until you can choose to touch someone in a manner in which energy touches energy, without any overtones of coercion, need, sex, or even personality. It is easy to teach friends how to exchange shoulder rubs or foot massages, and your students will benefit from the relaxation these bring you. Movement Movement could be integrated into education in a way that helps free the flow of energy through the body, release and express emotions, integrate mental knowledge with body knowledge, and honor the rhythms of the body and the day. But even if there is not space to have students dance, create dramas and rituals, or do tai chi in a classroom, you can find room to do simple physical activities to energize, release, and balance. These might include stretching, bending forward and back, twisting side to side.
Breathing is essential, and so is awareness.
Exercises designed to build inner awareness and energy can be found in a number of books. At least once, you should try blowing up twenty balloons, one by one, and asking students to keep them all in the air, while at the same time conducting a normal, orderly class discussion of the subject you assigned. Use gestures and dance as a way of interpreting readings and as a prelude to writing. Touching is vitally important to students of all ages, though it can be difficult to touch adolescents in a manner that does not engage sexual energy. If you choose to teach students openly to develop greater awareness of energy, some exercises can help.