Neuromovement Revolution With Anat Baniel

Fast, we can only do what we already know. This is how the brain works. To learn and master new skills and overcome limitation, the first thing to do is slow way down. Slow actually gets the brain’s attention and stimulates the formation of rich new neural patterns.In this podcast, Anat Baniel and Neil Sharp discuss:the tools for waking up the brain – the 9 Essentials of NeuroMovement®the perception of differences is the source of information for the brainthe Slow Essential and how it helps the brain to improve its ability to perceive differenceshow to use Slow with children with cerebral palsy, genetic disorders, and other special needsrelated questions from the audience

Movement is Life. The brain needs movement to grow and form. However, for successful learning and development, movement alone is not enough. Movement done without attention to the feeling of self only further grooves in existing patterns. With attention to what you feel as you move, billions of new connections are created that usher in remarkable transformations.In this podcast, Anat Baniel and Neil Sharp discuss:the tools for waking up the brain – the 9 Essentials of NeuroMovement®research that shows movement with attention creates new connections in the brainthe potential for everyone to have a stronger, better brain with NeuroMovementways to potentiate your brain and your child’s brain to grow and changehow to use Movement with Attention with children with autism, ADHD, cerebral palsy, brain injury, and other special needsrelated questions from the audience

Martha Herbert, MD, PhD, is a pediatric neurologist committed to making a real difference in the lives of children with special needs. When writing her book The Autism Revolution, she interviewed Anat Baniel, and discovered the transformational outcomes that Anat’s clients were getting with NeuroMovement®. Martha saw a unique opportunity to bring together all her knowledge and skills, and she joined Anat’s training program!In this podcast, Anat Baniel and Martha Herbert discuss:their commitment to improving outcomes for children with special needs, and all of their clientshow the brain of a child with special needs can be awakened using the power of human connectionthe amazing capacities of the brain to grow and evolve, when provided with the right conditionsthe personal and professional outcomes that Martha experienced with the practitioner training programhow NeuroMovement® and the 9 Essentials can help to make the impossible possible

We now know the enormous importance of the brain in everything we do. The good news is that the brain is “plastic,” meaning that the brain changes in response to its experiences. The challenge is how we can take advantage of the brain’s ability to learn and heal, and move the child with special needs past his or her limitations (and adults, too).  In this podcast, Anat Baniel and Neil Sharp discuss:how Anat discovered that movement is the way to communicate with the brainthe fundamental job of the brain and how it grows and evolveshow NeuroMovement® helps the brain to get stronger and better at its jobthe source of information for the brain and the conditions required for learning learning through perception of differences and the process of differentiation related questions from the audienceView some of the slides discussed in this episode here and learn more about differentiation.  

It took Jill Bolte Taylor eight years to fully recover from her stroke. That was before she met Anat Baniel and discovered NeuroMovement® and the 9 Essentials. Jill states: “Anat applies the exact same principles when helping people overcome limitation that I used to recover my brain and body from stroke. She understands that for any meaningful change to happen in the way we think, move, and use our body, the change has to happen in the brain.”In this podcast, Anat Baniel and Jill Bolte Taylor discuss: Jill’s experience of having a stroke and what it was like to learn skills she had lostthe importance of connection in recovery and learning (from “fixing” to connecting)the need for sleep and safety in the healing and learning processhow stroke recovery is similar to working with children with special needswhy Jill supports NeuroMovement and how it can help a variety of conditions 

The most normal and common response to a child having a challenge or limitation is to try and “fix” the child. However, the human being cannot be “fixed.” It is through learning and the brain creating new possibilities, that the child can move from his or her impossible to the possible.In this podcast, Anat Baniel and Neil Sharp discuss:the ways in which adults try to “fix” children with special needswhat it looks like when you are trying to “fix” and how to choose differentlythe brain is an information system, requiring a different approach what it looks like to “connect” with your child and how connection affects the brainrelated questions from the audience

When a child has special needs, those surrounding and caring for the child are laser focused on trying to help him or her get past their limitations, understandably so. However, have you ever asked yourself: “What is it like to be the child with special needs?” Exploring this question can be transformative for the child, the parent, the caregiver, and the professional.In this podcast, Anat Baniel and Neil Sharp discuss: their experiences using NeuroMovement® with children with special needs and their families how children feel and respond to interventions that are meant to help them what the brain of the child with special needs learns from its experiencescreating the conditions necessary for the brain of most any child to learn and grow with NeuroMovementrelated questions from the audience