The Anat Baniel method offers a groundbreaking hands-on approach to helping people overcome pain and achieve improvements by harnessing the power of brain plasticity. These improvements are substantial and lasting.
The method evolved from the groundbreaking work invented by Moshe Feldenkrais.
The Anat Baniel method offers a groundbreaking hands-on approach to helping people overcome pain and achieve improvements by harnessing the power of brain plasticity. These improvements are substantial and lasting.
The method evolved from the groundbreaking work invented by Moshe Feldenkrais.
The Anat Baniel method offers a groundbreaking hands-on approach to helping people overcome pain and achieve improvements by harnessing the power of brain plasticity. These improvements are substantial and lasting.
The method evolved from the groundbreaking work invented by Moshe Feldenkrais.
The concept of brain plasticity stems from the recognition that the human brain can “rewire” itself in response to new experiences throughout life. This wonderful characteristic of our brain is not only responsible for our ability to learn new things and unlearn old habits. It is also the key that unlocks our potential to recover from traumas, strokes, and diseases that disrupt or disable some of the brain’s functions.
The Anat Baniel Method uses movement and awareness as the main tools to develop, enhance, or restore one’s functional abilities. However, it stands in stark contrast to conventional physical therapy interventions and other rehabilitation approaches that attempt to bring change directly to specific joints or muscle groups.
Unlike other modalities, the Anat Baniel Method shifts the focus away from the “problem areas” to where the solutions actually lie, this is the brain.
The Anat Baniel Method uses movement as a language, a means of providing the brain with the information it needs to guide the body and mind to higher levels of functioning and coordination.
Anat Baniel Method sessions involve gentle touch and movements executed with close attention to what a person feels. Through these movement explorations, the brain “wakes up” to itself, becoming aware of how it currently interacts with other parts of the body and the outer world. As this process unfolds, the brain organizes the various sensory inputs into meaningful experiences. With which it spontaneously discovers new solutions that are more beneficial for the person.
A vital aspect of the practitioner’s role in this process is to convey the experience of safety, pleasure, and ease of movement that enables the person’s brain to operate in learning mode, exploring new possibilities. The practitioner avoids forcing the person into performing a desired action beyond his or her range of comfort. Because this would shift the person’s brain into protective mode and then its ability to acquire new advanced skills is vastly reduced.
The Anat Baniel Method for Children has been around for over ten years.
The ABM for Children is the brain child of Anat Baniel. Her method found an effective and efficient way to communicate with the child’s brain. Some kids if seen early enough by ABM practitioners no longer suffer from their brain injury. The Anat Baniel Method for children has been so effective that the brain absorbs the injury.
Anat Baniel’s groundbreaking work with special needs children was published in multiple professional trade magazines. There are numerous parental testimonials that state how this method transformed the lives of their children when doctors or other medical professionals told them there was no hope. There is scientific proof that the Anat Baniel Method works.
Conditions the Anat Baniel Method can help
• Scoliosis
• Cerebral Palsy CP
• Down’s Syndrome
• ADD, ADHD, and Autism
• Learning Disabilities
• Genetic Disorders
• Developmental Delays
• Congenital defect
• Birth related defect
• Brain trauma
• …
• Chronic back, neck, and shoulder pain
• Balance and coordination issues
• Limited movement and stiffness
• Recovery from trauma
• Recovery from injury
• Recovery from surgery
• Occupational stress or repetitive strain
• Neurological issues such as MS, stroke, and Parkinson’s disease
• Symptoms associated with aging
• …
Yes and no.
if the child is almost there and they are being guided by these well intentioned therapist in the right direction.
because some of these guided exercises have no meaning to the children. What is the point of propping a child up to stand when that same child does not know how to transition from sitting to standing on their own? How will this help the child walk? How does drilling the same movement or sounds over and over help him understand what it means and how to use them? It doesn’t unless the child receives these signals from within his brain to initiate these movements. Then they will truly know what it feels like to be standing on their own bones.
Interesting links about neuroplasticity
en.wikipedia.org
feldenkrais-method.org/
youtube.com/abmethod
anatbanielmethod.com
twitter.com/anatbaniel
normandoidge.com/
drmerzenich.com/
