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NEUROMOVEMENT® The Anat Baniel Method®
Experience
NeuroMovement -- explorations of movement that help
your brain and body to communicate in new ways.
What is NeuroMovement?
NeuroMovement, also known as the Anat Baniel Method,
www.AnatBanielMethod.com, offers a dynamic approach to communicating
with the brain in new ways through carefully designed and executed
movements that enhance your brain's "map" of your body and how it
can move.
The slow, gentle, varied movements we use can generate surprisingly
big changes. It is about creating and expanding possibilities by
engaging the nervous system with what is most available and building
upon that, rather than focusing on what is most compromised. (As
Anat Baniel likes to say, "If a person COULD do [fill in the blank],
s/he WOULD do it!")
NeuroMovement is not only for people who have a specific challenge
-- but where there is a challenge, including any sort of
developmental problem, existing abilities are highlighted and
strengthened. This supports the brain's capacity to expand this
learning and extend it to areas that have not been readily amenable
to improvement -- thus tapping into the increasingly well-recognized
plasticity of our brains, no matter our condition or age.
NeuroMovement is structured around "Nine Essentials" -- nine
principles that distinguish this process. It evolved from the
pioneering learning-through-movement innovations of Moshe
Feldenkrais,
www.FeldenkraisMethod.com.
More detailed information
about NeuroMovement and its scientific underpinnings is available
here.
What can NeuroMovement do for you?
NeuroMovement can be an adjunct or an
alternative to medical treatment, as well as helping people who want
to improve functioning in multiple realms:
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Improve posture, balance and coordination |
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Recover function after an accident, injury or stroke
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Reduce chronic or repetitive injuries |
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Boost executive functions (such as sustained, productive focus and better self-control)
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Improve performance for athletes, musicians and dancers |
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Increase calm, emotional well-being and vitality |
You can experience the benefits of NeuroMovement
in two ways:
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Private hands-on movement lessons while you lie on a
massage table or sit on a chair, fully clothed (45-60 minutes).
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Transformational Movement small group classes
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Sign up for a public class (contact us for information)
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Schedule a group lesson at your convenience
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My personal story
I
enrolled in NeuroMovement training after seeing extraordinary changes in
myself through study with a local practitioner. I began
taking NeuroMovement lessons in search of new ways to address some
long-standing issues that had been improved but not resolved through
years of dedicated practice of hatha yoga, weight training, lap
swimming, walking and dancing.
I was intrigued by the subtlety and
refinement of the NeuroMovement work. It somehow brought new intuition and
insights:
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I
began to notice ways to improve my lap swimming, fairly
regularly (and continuing to this day); for example, slightly
altering a stroke, balancing my breathing as I turned my head to
each side, making subtle shifts to my pacing.
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After several months, I had an Ah-Hah! moment when I actually
"saw" myself sitting in a somewhat awkward but habitual way and
realized that this was probably contributing to chronic lower
back discomfort. I am
now almost entirely free of this problem.
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My performance of improv comedy improved -- I am able to think and react more fluidly.
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AND .... my vision improved
significantly! This was a huge, very welcome surprise that
occurred a few months into my NeuroMovement training. I had tried vision
therapy and also yoga exercises for the eyes off and on for many
years because my eyes have trouble focusing together. After one of
our NeuroMovement training segments, I began to get headaches. I had a feeling
that I should pull out my spare eyeglasses, which were six years
old. Voila! My current eyeglasses had become too strong!
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Contact us:
Faith Halter, Insightful Transitions
Tel. 703-358-9489
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