Lara's Integrative Movement

Lara Polsky Gillease
Asheville, North Carolina
lara@integrativemovement.com
1. 877. 544. 2828

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.

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.

Bower has developed a deep sense of trust with Lara and
when she works with him he will explore the space around
him with ease, as he learns new ways to move. I have
seen improvements in vision, speech, fine and gross
motor skills since Lara began working with him.

Jennifer Lyman, mother of Bower, a 5 year old
with cerebral palsy and visual impairment

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, Grainger's teachers notice a big
improvement in his stance, posture and walking. He doesn't hunch
over out of habit anymore. Grainger tells me, "People can see how tall
I am now, not fake tall. I am happy that my back feels good."

Robyn Hite, mother of Grainger,
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

Lara Polsky Gillease began her training with Anat Baniel in 1995. In 2000,
she graduated and became certified in the Anat Baniel Method. She continues
to study with Anat Baniel and graduated from the Children's Mastery of the
Anat Baniel Method for Children in January 2010.

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