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Class Descriptions


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BRAIN GYM® Introductions (3, 6, or 12 hours)

This is an introduction to Brain Gym work--ideal for seminars in your school or to help with team building in office situations. You'll understand the basics of how the brain and body work together and experience a simple balance process. Intros can be tailored to your individual workplace or educational needs. Click on Seminars for more information about scheduling a seminar for your business, group, or school.


BRAIN GYM® 101  
This course is for Special Educators, Therapists, Parents, Teachers, Physical Education Teachers, and anyone else wanting to learn with ease. The class can count toward contact hours or CEUs for most therapists and nurses.

Brain Gym® movements stimulate brain function. The activities are easy and enjoyable and they bring about rapid and often dramatic improvements in concentration, organization, memory, reading, writing, listening, physical coordination and more. These activities promote more effective neurological functioning through stimulus of the proprioceptive, vestibular, voluntary nervous and other systems of the mind/body connections.

This course offers participants methods and techniques that can immediately be used with individuals or groups. Much attention is given to noticing/assessment skills.

 




     
BRAIN GYM® FOR SPECIAL NEEDS 

This course is for Special Educators, Therapists, Parents and General Ed. Teachers, and is taught by Cecilia (Freeman) Koester, M.Ed--a licensed Brain Gym® Instructor/Consultant, and author of I Am The Child: Using Brain Gym® With Children Who Have Special Needs
          
This course provides an in-depth study of how to use Brain Gym® with children and adults who have special needs. Therapists, teachers and parents will learn how to assess the needs of an individual who may have difficulty communicating, develop a Brain Gym® program to meet those needs, evaluate the effectiveness of the program and how to modify the program when necessary, for maximum results. This course provides excellent applications for a variety of mental and physical challenges. The participant learns simple movement that develops the brain's neural pathways the way nature does: through movement.

This course is distinctive because it addresses the physical components of learning. Brain Gym® requires little additional training for the therapist or classroom teacher, no testing, no technology, and it enhances (rather than replaces) current curriculum or therapy sessions. And, woven into this entry-level Brain Gym® course is an opportunity to observe Cecilia working directly with children. She invites you to share in the understanding and to empower yourself to assist others in their life's journey.

 



TEACHER PRACTICUM

The Teacher Practicum provides the skills to support the emergence of the authentic creative teacher in each participant. Completion of this certifies the graduates to teach Brain Gym classes as Brain Gym Instructors and to present themselves as Brain Gym Consultants. The Teacher Practicum is a thorough training for successful facilitation and is highly transformational on the personal level. This class will give the participant a deeper understanding of Educational Kinesiology and broaden his/her base in the use of Brain Gym, both personally and professionally. Licensure is through The Edu-K Foundation.


RHYTHMIC MOVEMENT TRAINING


Harold Blomburg, Stockholm, Sweden
This method is developed after observing the rhythmic movements that infants spontaneously make throughout their experiences of the early childhood reflexes. Kerstin Linde developed this method of whole body exercises that can be used by small children or adults. Dr. Harold Blomburg, a psychiatrist, has used the ‘Rhythmic Movement” with cases of ADD, ADHD, Cerebral Palsy and other conditions with great success. Participants of this class will learn the movements and how they relate to the reflexes.


BALANCING CHILDREN: REFLEXES, PLAY AND THE HEART

With Jon Bredal from Oregon. How to use a simple, yet powerful balance that flows easily with children and families.
How to integrate reflexes easily and incorporate play in balances.
How to simulate heart awareness and connection in balances.
How to work with difficult, hyper, or uncooperative children.
How to be more effective and achieve greater results.



Workshop Instructor Biographies

Carolyn Nyland, BS in Edu., graduate coursework in Elementary Education. She has served as Elementary Computer Coordinator and was an instructor for Instructional Technology Services of Central Ohio. Having used Brain Gym® in the classroom setting, she realized the value of  movement and learning. After thirty-three years of teaching, she has the opportunity to continue her quest for ease of learning through Brain Gym®. She offers Brain Gym® Workshops for Schools, Teaches Brain Gym® 101 and works with individual clients. carolyn@gobraingym.com

Dr. Harald Blomberg is a psychiatrist by profession. In 1984, Kerstin Linde developed Rhythmic Movements and Dr. Blomberg studied the science behind her work. For the last 14 years, he has worked in private practice, with adult patients using Rhythmic Movements along with other movement oriented programs. He has worked for over ten years as a psychiatric consultant at a Rudolf Steiner approach special school for youths who are developmentally delayed, autistic or with severe ADD.

Jon Bredal, M. A. Is a Brain Gym Instructor with a private practice in Oregon. He teaches Brain Gym courses throughout the country. He consults with schools , works with private clients and organizations. During the 15 years he has been working wiht Brain Gym®, he has made three major discoveries that have enhanced the Brain Gym® process. He includes the heart connection, uses play and games and incorporates reflex work in the Brain Gym® Balance process.


Cecilia (Freeman) Koester, M.Ed. is internationally known for her work in using Brain Gym® with children and adults who have special needs. She is author of the book I Am the Child: Using Brain Gym® with Children Who Have Special Needs and teaches workshops that provide an in-depth study of how to use Brain Gym® with children and adults who have special needs. Cecilia is both amazing and inspiring in her teaching. Not only does she teach Brain Gym®, she effectively models how to be present with another human being regardless of their level of capabilities. She presently lives in Hawaii and continues to enjoy doing workshops throughout the world.

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