Children- Anat Baniel Method

Everyone's goal is to help the child gain function in movement,
thought, perception and feeling. The Anat Baniel Method and
Feldenkrais Method enhance the recovery of function in children
with cerebral palsy and other brain related disorders well beyond
the current norm.

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. In the Anat Baniel Method and
Feldenkrais Method, we use movement and touch 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. 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.