NeuroMovement® for Children & Families
Helping children of all ages move, learn, and thrive through NeuroMovement®.
An Alternative Approach to Learning & Rehabilitation
The Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® takes a very different approach from most traditional interventions. It is used worldwide with children and adults facing various movement, cognitive, or social challenges, as well as with high-performing individuals.
Rather than using exercises or repetitive training, NeuroMovement uses gentle movement as a way to communicate with the brain. Practitioners connect with each person where they are—physically, emotionally, and mentally—and follow their responses moment by moment. This creates an interactive, playful process of discovery, similar to how young children naturally learn and develop.
Through this respectful and responsive interaction, the person’s own sense of agency and ability to learn are strengthened, allowing new skills and possibilities to emerge from within.
While many families look for “alternative therapies” to support children with conditions such as cerebral palsy, autism, or after a stroke, it’s important to understand that NeuroMovement is about learning and not a medical therapy. The process the method provides not only results in improvements in movement, thinking and the regulation of emotions, but it upgrades the learning process itself — children learn to learn.
Guided by the Child’s Curiosity
The practitioner and child form a responsive partnership, where the two nervous systems become one system, creating a safe and dynamic space for discovery.
Every session unfolds in the moment, guided by the child’s curiosity and responses.
Who can Benefit
While any child and family can benefit from NeuroMovement, it is especially valuable for children with special needs or developmental challenges, including:
Learning difficulties
Anxiety and challenges with self-regulation
Cerebral Palsy
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Asperger’s Syndrome
ADHD, ADD
Undiagnosed developmental delays
Brachial plexus injury
Torticollis
Scoliosis
Hypertonia and Hypotonia
Stroke or brain injury
Down Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome
Other genetic or neurological disorders
Explore My Services for Children & Families
Lessons for the child
I offer hands-on lessons for the child, also verbally guided lessons in case of an older child. To potentiate the learning, I schedule lessons in clusters (intensives) rather than weekly sessions.
Lessons for the parents
Both types of lessons (FS), hands-on and verbally guided (TML), are also very beneficial and informative for parents. It can be a way of familiarizing themselves with the approach and the 9 essentials or get a sense of the developmental movements and transitions their child is in the process of discovering. Lessons are of course also useful for self care, to address back aches and other issues. But I find if the lessons are in the context of the child, parents are more open to them. I often suggest for the parents to get 1-2 lessons for themselves during an intensive for their child.
Parent-Child Coaching
The coaching sessions for parents with the child are in my opinion as beneficial for the child as the hands-on lessons. After an intensive of lessons, the child kind of expects the organic learning process ABMNM facilitates to continue at home. Parents (and other caregivers, or therapists) can learn to keep it going by applying the 9 essentials in their interactions with the child.
Lessons in Ojai, CA
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45-minute NeuroMovement Session.
The sessions are always provided in clusters of 3-10 lessons (single lessons are not available).
For clients new to the method I recommend starting with a series of 4 lessons in 2 days (2 sessions per day).
Longer intensives can include 8-10 lessons in one week.
Plan for a break of 90 minutes or more between sessions. Please don’t do other therapies the same day/week.
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$150 per lesson
For home visits within the Ojai area a $15 travel fee applies.
5-Day Intensive in Los Angeles
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5 days of one or two NeuroMovement lessons per day. Each lesson is 45 minutes long with a break of 90 minutes or more in between.
Location: Hilton Garden Inn in Marina Del Rey (near beaches, restaurants, LAX)
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$975 for 5 lessons in 5 days
$1,950 for 10 lessons in 5 days
Parent Coaching
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Parent Coaching sessions can have different formats. They can include parent-child sessions and TML (verbally guided lessons for the parents only). They can be in-person or online. Their purpose is to experience and practice the 9 Essentials.
I offer this service as series of 4 sessions, each 45-60 minutes long, taken within 8-10 days.
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$550 for a series of 4 sessions.
Changes Parents See From NeuroMovement Intensives
“To be most helpful to your child, whatever you do with them needs to foster and empower their own spontaneous ability to perceive differences.”
Getting Better at Perceiving Differences — How Parents Can Help Their Child With ABM NeuroMovement®
Helping a child get better at perceiving differences is at the heart of NeuroMovement® lessons. Movement provides the opportunities and context for new distinctions, while the Nine Essentials create the conditions for this learning to occur.
These neuroplasticity principles are not only tools practitioners use. Applied in daily life, they can transform everyday interactions between parent and child into moments of discovery. Rather than prescribing exercises or routines, parent coaching helps you bring the NeuroMovement principles into your family life. It’s less about what you do and more about how you do it—how you slow down, pay attention, and introduce gentle variations that spark curiosity and learning in you and your child.
The Nine Essentials are described in Anat Baniel’s book Kids Beyond Limits (also available as an audiobook) in theory and through many stories. Translating these ideas to your own child—who may be younger, older, or simply different from the examples—can be challenging. In my coaching sessions I will help you find practical ways that fit your situation.
You’ll learn to “turn on the learning switch” in daily moments—feeding, dressing, playing, or resting—by creating conditions that allow the brain to make new connections. Essentials like Slow and Variation help both you and your child sense differences, notice subtle changes, and discover new options.
In this process, you and your child become students of learning together—partners exploring how to grow, connect, and adapt. These shifts support your child’s development and bring more ease, confidence, and joy into your experience as a parent. Parent coaching can be included in in-person intensives or offered online for ongoing support at home.