Scoliosis: Go With the Curve How You Can Increase Your Flexibility and Strength and Reduce Pain Through Brain Change Saturday, June 29, 2013, was the first International Scoliosis Awareness Day. It's a day to "create positive, public awareness about scoliosis, promote education, advocacy campaigns, [...]
What Is the Good News About Scoliosis?Saturday, June 29, 2013, is the first International Scoliosis Awareness Day. It’s a day to “create positive, public awareness about scoliosis, promote education, advocacy campaigns, and bring people together with the condition.” In honor of this day, I‘d [...]
Anat Baniel Interviews John Gray: Tips for Parents of Children with Special Needs I recently got together with John Gray, a good friend and colleague, to discuss the unique challenges facing parents of children with special needs. I approached John because through my [...]
The Anat Baniel Method Foundation Website Is Live! We are THRILLED to announce that our Anat Baniel Method (ABM) Foundation website is live! It’s been a long time in the making… When Sophie Arau Nguyen, our new executive director, decided to come on board [...]
Transforming the Lives of Children with Special Needs in Canada Our recent Anat Baniel Method® (ABM) event Transforming the Lives of Children with Special Needs: A Workshop for Professionals and Parents in Vancouver, British Columbia, went extremely well. This was a first for us—traveling [...]
Anat Baniel Collaborates with Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood I’m thrilled to be collaborating with Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood, co-authors of the NY Times Bestseller, The Passion Test! We’ll be doing a teleseminar together. Janet Bray Attwood, a very passionate, brilliant, [...]
Brain Injury Awareness: How the Nine Essentials Can Help Did you know that 1.7 million people, including 475,000 children, sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the United States each year? This statistic comes from the Brain Injury Association of America, as well as [...]
Why Not Tummy Time? One of the questions that we get very often is about developmental stages, especially the topic of tummy time. With Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement®, we generally suggest that babies not practice tummy time and that the parents not be beholding [...]
Anat Baniel Teaches at Alison Armstrong's PAX World Tour Seminar This past weekend, I taught at Alison Armstrong’s PAX World Tour Seminar. It was an amazing experience! I love Alison’s work—she offers amazing workshops in the area of relationships and partnerships. Below is the [...]
The Center for Discovery: “A Community Inspired by People with Disabilities”I want to tell you about my recent visit to a very special place. It is called The Center for Discovery and it sits on 1400 acres of land in upstate New York about [...]
How Come Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® Works with Both Children & Adults? Part 2 What Adults Can Learn from Children In my previous blog post How Come the Anat Baniel Method Works with Both Children and Adults? Part 1, I pointed out some of [...]
AFOs and Other Assistive Devices: How Do They Affect the Brain? I get many questions about the use of assistive devices like walkers, standers, and ankle-foot orthotics (AFOs). Most importantly, you need to consider how this kind of intervention will affect the child’s brain. [...]