NeuroMovement®

Children & Parents

Shifting from Fixing to Connecting

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Supporting Your Child’s Learning, Growth, & Well-Being

Every child learns in their own way. If you are looking for a gentle, respectful, and highly effective way to support your child’s development, NeuroMovement® offers an approach that honors your child’s uniqueness and strengthens the learning process itself.

My work with families includes hands-on lessons for the child and coaching for parents. Together, these two forms of learning create meaningful and lasting change.

An Alternative Approach to Learning & Child Development

The Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® takes a different approach from most traditional interventions. It is used worldwide with children experiencing a wide range of movement, cognitive, and social challenges.

Rather than drills or repetitive training, NeuroMovement® uses gentle movement and attentive connection to communicate with the brain. Practitioners meet the child where they are—physically, emotionally, and mentally—and follow their responses moment by moment.

This creates a playful, interactive learning process, similar to how young children naturally explore and develop. Through this respectful interaction, the child’s sense of agency and capacity to learn grow stronger, allowing new skills 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.

NeuroMovement lessons not only provide rich and varied learning experiences that result in improvements in movement, thinking, and emotional regulation, but they also upgrade the learning process itself — children learn to learn.

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Working With the Child

Providing the Conditions for Learning

My role is not to train or fix the child, but to create the conditions in which new learning can emerge. Through gentle listening touch, movement, and responsive interaction, I invite the child’s brain to notice differences, explore variations, and discover new possibilities.

There is no need to perform or meet expectations. We explore in a respectful, playful way that awakens curiosity and supports organic, self-driven learning.

Working With the Parents

Shifting from Fixing to Connecting

Parents play an essential role in their child’s progress. When a child receives a diagnosis, it’s easy to focus on what seems “wrong” with the child, but real change comes from improving the learning process—and this begins with how we relate and connect.

In parent coaching sessions, you learn simple, practical tools t help you create moments where learning can happen naturally, involving you in your child’s growth in a completely new way.

What I Offer

Lessons, Intensives, and Ongoing Support

You can begin with:

  • Individual lessons for the child (hands-on, in person)

  • Parent coaching sessions (online or in person)

  • Intensives: 4–10 sessions within one week, followed by time for rest and integration

Intensives often lead to the quickest progress because your child receives a concentrated learning experience. Parent coaching between intensives helps the learning continue at home.

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NeuroMovement lesson with a child with a rare genetic disorder.
Teaching a NeuroMovement lesson and the use of the Nine Essentials to the whole team—parents, grandparents, aunt and uncle, and nanny.

Who Can Benefit

NeuroMovement® can benefit every child — those facing challenges in movement, learning, or development, as well as those already thriving and ready to grow further.

This work is not about fixing what’s wrong, but about awakening the process of learning — in both the child and the parent. As the child discovers to move, think, and feel in new ways, parents also learn to see and connect differently. They begin to recognize moments of discovery, slow down, and create conditions that nurture learning in daily life.

I don’t focus on limitations, I focus on possibilities. I see people engaged in the process of becoming. My role is to support that process — bringing variation, attention, and presence so the brain can sense differences and make new connections.

NeuroMovement® supports children with developmental delays, cerebral palsy, and autism spectrum disorder, as well as neurotypical children. And it supports parents, too — helping them gain insight, confidence, and new ways to connect with their child through shared learning and curiosity.

Children with Special Needs

While every child and family could benefit from improving their learning process with 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

What You May Notice

  • Your child is happier

  • New skills

  • More comfort and ease in movement

  • Reduced spasticity

  • Greater strength and mobility

  • Greater awareness of self and others

  • Better self-regulation

  • Improved coordination and balance

  • Greater curiosity and willingness to try new things

  • More patient and better in problem-solving

  • Improvements in communication

  • Feeling more connected as a family

These shifts often emerge gradually and naturally over the course of an intensive and in the weeks following the lessons.

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