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About ABM NeuroMovement
"Anat Baniel Method (ABM) NeuroMovement is a holistic approach to human functioning and action, based in the understanding that movement is the language of the brain. Movement provides information the brain needs to grow and organize itself. And, in return, the brain organizes all movement, thought, feelings, and action.
As the brain goes, so goes the body, and as the body goes, so goes the brain.
Movement includes not only movement of the body in space--the movement of the skeleton and muscles-- but also the movement of thinking, emotion, and feelings. All action includes movement in all aspects of the self." -- Anat Baniel
Movement is the Language of the Brain
With NeuroMovement, the person is seen as an integrated, highly complex system, where movement is the language of the brain and the mechanism through the idea that the body and the mind are one which has been advocated now for quite some time. Yet most people still think of "the body", or "physical movement" as separate, different, and independent from "mental" activity such as thinking, emotions, beliefs, feelings, and social behaviors.
Many people find it hard to comprehend how physical movement can help form and enhance thinking and vice versa. In actual practice, many interventions, such as different therapies and fitness programs, approach the physical as a separate entity from mental.
It is only after we have learned how to move and to think, and interact socially, that we can forget the intimate relationship and the oneness of mind and body.
You take away movement, there is no thinking; there is no movement And if you take away feeling, there is no action. It all works as one highly complex system.
The Brain is a Self-Organizing Information System
In ABM NeuroMovement, the brain is understood to be a self-organizing information system with mind and body integrated at all times. It gets formed and apprenticed holistically through its experiences of all aspects of movement.
In early infancy, movements are random and involuntary for the most part, yet these experiences feed the brain with information it uses to form recognizable patterns and to organize and control all dimensions of movement.
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About Peggy Ware, NeuroMovement Practitioner
Peggy first learned of Moshe Feldenkrais and his Method in North Hollywood in the early ’70’s while she was dancing with the Valentina Oumansky Dramatic Dance Ensemble. The Method created a fascination in her that she never forgot.
Through the years, Peggy found her own best growth, joy and satisfaction from honoring and using her body in movement, connecting with herself through training and participation in many forms of dance, yoga and yoga teacher certification, Martial arts, as well as exuberant activities like skating, bike riding, hiking, water skiing and snow skiing. She developed a deep reverence for the gift of the body and of the gift and language of movement.
She began to imagine what it would b e like to have every day be about moving, to have her life and livelihood be daily around movement. She could think of nothing better, and she began to imagine what that might look like. In 2012, while searching on the web for information on the Feldenkrais training, she came upon Anat Baniel’s website. She learned of a Children with Special Needs Workshop Anat would be holding in nearby Scottsdale, AZ, and she decided this was kismet and she must take that workshop. At the workshop she met Anat, some of her team and many people who had children with special needs.
What she learned and experienced there fanned the fire of her fascination and deeply touched her heart; it sparked a special kind of passion within her. Learning how movement can create an upgraded brain sparked her intellect! The possibility of a life that involved helping children develop through movement, and being introduced to the 9 essentials which seemed so intuitively resonant deepened the spark and at that workshop she decided to step forward on a new life journey, and this was the path for her to take. All signs and synchronicity confirmed it was so. She would do whatever it would take. That was in February 2012, and she hasn't looked back. She joined the Anat Baniel Method Professional Teacher Training which began 9/6/14 in Las Vegas, obtaining her accreditation in 2016 and then taking the Children’s Mastery training and graduating in 2017. In the Children's Mastery Training she had profound experiences, learning how this miraculous work helps so many parents and children who had really lost all hope begin to grow, develop and thrive beyond anything they had imagined or hoped for. This was truly love in action. Since then she has been in dedicated action, deepening her knowledge, skills and experience, and practicing the method with amazing, heart fulfilling outcomes for parent and child.