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Lara’s Integrative Movement |
Lara Polsky Gillease Asheville, North Carolina lara@integrativemovement.com 828. 299. 8490 |
Everyone's goal is to help the child gain function in movement, thought, perception and feeling. The Anat Baniel Method for Children enhances the recovery of function in children with special needs well beyond the current norm. |
Anat Baniel Method for Children(sm) |
Lara working with a child |
Infants and children with Cerebral Palsy, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Developmental Delays, Brachial Plexus Injury, Genetic Disorders, ADD, Feeding disorders, Scoliosis, and Brain Injury have benefited from the Anat Baniel Method for Children. The Anat Baniel Method for Children is scientifically based and the results have been validated by medical doctors. |
We took Jonathan to his neurologist this morning for a yearly follow up appointment, and he could not believe how much progress he had made since he has been working with Lara. He said it made his day to see how well Jonathan has progressed since he last saw him a year ago. He said he was doing more and his eye contact was much better.... I'm also amazed at the fact that he now crawls up the steps by himself without bribing him and helping him. |
Elaine, mother of a 4 year old boy diagnosed with developmental delay |
This allows the child to feel him/her self and become aware of what he/she is doing and what is being done to him/her. As a result they become active, intelligent, happy learners just the way healthy children are. Once a child accomplishes a milestone, it continues to generate a great variety of small and large movements from which the next milestone will be carved. |
In the Anat Baniel Method for Children, movement and gentle touch are used to communicate with the brain in ways that allow it to decipher how to organize movement effectively. With it comes immediate muscular, skeletal and oftentimes mental and emotional improvement. |
The gentleness with which the guiding movements are done and the insistence on having the child move in ways that feel easy and are not beyond the child's true ability, creates a sense of safety for the child. |
It is important to remember that it is the brain that controls movement and the quality of its organization. Spasticity and limitations in the musculature and skeleton are a manifestation of the workings of the brain. |
Since starting to work with Lara, his teachers notice a big improvement in his stance, posture and walking. He doesn't hunch over out of habit anymore. He tells me, "People can see how tall I am now, not fake tall. I am happy that my back feels good." |
Robyn, mother of a 10 year old boy diagnosed with scoliosis |
Parents have reported that among the first changes they see in their child are: Greater comfort Increased alertness and focus Awareness of surroundings Better sleep |
Individualized Movement Learning Approach for Infants & Children |
Lara Polsky Gillease began her training with Anat Baniel in 1995. In 2000, she graduated and became certified in the Anat Baniel Method and started working with adults and children. She continues to study with Anat Baniel and graduated from the Children's Mastery of the Anat Baniel Method for Children in January 2010. She also completed an advanced Anat Baniel Method for Children course in April 2010 that only a handful of other practitioners completed. Learn more about Lara Polsky Gillease |
Functional changes that have occurred: More stability in sitting, standing, walking Improved ability to move: crawl, walk, run, jump and reach Improved speech Greater problem solving skills |