Meet Anat Baniel
A trained clinical psychologist, dancer, and close professional associate of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais for over a decade, Anat is perhaps best known today as the founder of Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement®.
Anat Baniel Is a Catalyst for “Miraculous” Transformation
Over the past 30 years, Anat Baniel has helped thousands, from children with special needs to stroke survivors to high-performing athletes overcome pain and limitation, and reach new heights of performance, making the seemingly impossible possible.
Anat’s work is at the forefront of the emerging brain plasticity field, helping wake up the brain to its greater potency for learning and change throughout life.
Anat Baniel Develops Her Method and the Nine Essentials
Anat Baniel has experienced over 30 years of remarkable outcomes with thousands of children with special needs and adults with strokes, injuries, and other limiting conditions. It is through this experience that she developed Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement®, a scientifically based methodology with practical tools for waking up the brain.
From the start, Anat understood the way to transcend limitations, including those that may look hopeless, was to communicate with and help the brain figure out solutions for the challenges.
As Anat observed the remarkable transformations in her very young and her older clients on a daily basis, she kept challenging herself with the questions:
What is it about what I am doing that generates such miraculous changes in my clients? What are the conditions that awaken their brains to spontaneously reach breakthroughs, often times dramatic ones, in what minutes before seemed impossible?
Anat spent years exploring these questions, which led her to define the 9 Essentials and her Method.
NeuroMovement and the 9 Essentials provide your brain with the information and conditions to thrive and to powerfully transform limitations into often surprising new possibilities. Learn more about NeuroMovement and the 9 Essentials.
“The approach here, far wiser, far more subtle, truly holistic, far more ingenious, far more in accord with how brain development occurs, shows ways to access brain plasticity and yields far greater results.”
~Norman Doidge, MD, Author of The Brain That Changes Itself and The Brain’s Way of Healing
Click here to learn why Dr. Doidge supports this Method.
Movement Is the Key to Positive Brain Change
Anat Baniel developed these tools, based on her understanding that movement is the key to positive brain change. It is an effective way to help children with special needs and adults at any age tap into a potent learning process to help them overcome injury, pain, and limitation.
Anat uses the same underlying process to help people (including those who are already high performing) reach breakthrough “plateaus” and new levels of performance. Her Method dramatically enhances physical, cognitive, emotional, and creative abilities. Discover how NeuroMovement can benefit adults.
Anat’s work with children with special needs is recognized the world over. It is applauded by parents, health professionals, and those at the cutting edge of neuroscience. Learn more about how NeuroMovement can help children with special needs.
Increasing numbers of leading brain scientists, leaders in healthcare, and others are taking interest in the underlying theory and applications of Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement®. They are looking for ways to adopt these principles in their fields. Professionals are also endorsing NeuroMovement® and the practitioners trained in this Method. See why doctors and scientists support this Method.
Anat’s Story
Anat Baniel was born in Israel to a scientist father and a poet and garden architect mother. She has a BA in Psychology and Statistics, and went to graduate school at Tel Aviv University to become a clinical psychologist. She worked in this capacity with the Israeli Army for a number of years. At the same time, Anat pursued her passion for dance.
Being unsatisfied with the traditional “talk therapy,” Anat looked to impact the functional well-being of people through movement and communicating with the brain. Her search led her to Dr. Moshé Feldenkrais—the founder of the Feldenkrais Method.
After graduating from his training program, Anat worked, traveled, and closely collaborated with Dr. Feldenkrais until his passing. Dr. Feldenkrais was adamant that Anat do the work in her own distinct way, allowing her Method to develop and evolve uniquely and fully.
Anat continued working with high performers such as musicians and dancers, with people suffering from pain or limitations, and with an ever-growing number of children with special needs. This combination of clients led Anat to have profound insight as to how the brain learns and changes.
Anat Baniel is the author of two highly acclaimed books about this transformational methodology: Move Into Life: NeuroMovement for Lifelong Vitality and Kids Beyond Limits.
Anat has trained hundreds of practitioners in this Method. She collaborates with leading neuroscientists, doctors, and educators including Dr. Michael Merzenich, Dr. Martha Herbert, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, Dr. Elizabeth Torres, and others. She and her team work out of the Anat Baniel Method Center in San Rafael, California.
About Anat Baniel
A trained clinical psychologist, dancer, and close professional associate of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais for over a decade, Anat is perhaps best known today as the founder of Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement®.
She is the author of two highly acclaimed books about this transformational methodology: Move Into Life: NeuroMovement for Lifelong Vitality and Kids Beyond Limits.
Anat Baniel has helped thousands, from children with special needs to stroke survivors to high-performing athletes overcome pain and limitation, and reach new heights of performance, making the seemingly impossible possible.
Anat’s work is at the forefront of the emerging brain plasticity field, helping wake up the brain to its greater potency for learning and change throughout life. Learn more about Anat Baniel.
Learn More About Anat Baniel’s Work
Anat Baniel’s Passion
Anat sees possibility for people. She sees the intelligence that is in each human being, waiting to express itself. Her passion is to provide the opportunities for as many people as possible to manifest their dreams and desires.
Anat shares this story…
When a student came up to Dr. Feldenkrais and asked him:
Will your work make my body more flexible?
Dr. Feldenkrais replied:
“What I’m after is not more flexible bodies, but flexible brains.”
Then he began walking away. He then turned, came back to the student, and said:
“Actually, what I’m after is to restore people to their human dignity.”
Anat sees the possibility of that human dignity for everyone.
Click here to learn more about the life and work of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais.
