Lara’s Integrative Movement

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

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The Anat Baniel Method and Feldenkrais Method for Children with Special Needs

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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 and Feldenkrais Method, we use movement and touch to communicate with the brain in ways thatallow 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.

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