Transformative Movement Lessons (SM)

The Anat Baniel Method(sm) is a learning modality that consist of gentle, simple, slow movement sequences that improve your balance, coordination, flexibility and breathing. The lessons are based on developmental movements that babies use to roll, crawl, and get from lying to sitting. Since all functioning stems from the brain’s ability to organize movement, the lessons tap into the brain's  learning capacity to create new connections and patterns. 

Through movement explorations led by the teacher, students are encouraged to learn how their most basic movement functions are organized. With awareness, students differentiate for themselves between a movement that is limited by hidden habits of contractions and a movement that is effortless and easy. This is a difference between a painful or a pleasurable action.

Since it is the brain that controls movement and its organizational quality, the movement lessons provide the brain information it needs to organize more effective movement. In this way, the inherent ability of the brain to change and move optimally is accessed. New possibilities of moving and sensing are the results. In the explorations of bodily movements, one also has the opportunity to be aware of the movement of thought, feeling, intention and action. It is at this junction that change occurs.