Anat Baniel Method

NeuroMovement uses neuroplasticity exercises to rewire your brain to overcome pain and reach higher levels of physical, emotional, and cognitive performance; Anat Baniel Method NeuroMovement and the 9 Essentials can be used at any age for positive brain change.

Our brains are always changing in response to our every experience. This is called neuroplasticity. These changes can be positive—leading us to greater well-being and a more vibrant life. Or the changes can be negative (back, neck, and joint pain or limitation, and the deterioration after trauma or as people age).

Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement®—developed by Anat Baniel—is a groundbreaking, systematic, and highly effective way to communicate with the brain and take advantage of its natural ability to make positive, immediate, and powerful changes.

This Method taps into neuroplasticity through movement and the Nine Essentials which Anat defined. Supported by neuroscience research, these principles provide the conditions that the brain requires to bring life-changing results to children and adults.

“Scientists have defined the ‘rules’ governing brain plasticity. Anat Baniel, working in parallel along a completely different path, has defined almost exactly the same rules and interprets them in practical and understandable human terms as the Nine Essentials.

These powerful, practical strategies for improving your abilities and building a better, stronger brain, should also contribute richly to your own, more enlightened parenting, grandparenting, or clinical intervention.”

~Dr. Michael Merzenich, PhD, Professor Emeritus UCSF, “Father” of brain plasticity science, Winner of the 2016 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, and Author of Soft-Wired

“Laird is now reading, he’s adding numbers, he’s close to crawling and sitting, he’s feeding himself, and he’s talking a lot more. We have Anat Baniel Method to thank for all that he can do.”

“I’ve been in bed for three-and-a-half years, and I started windsurfing again this year, religiously…and it’s easier and I go faster every time I do less; so I beat the boys on the water.”

“In four relatively short lessons, I feel like an absolutely new person. I have fluidity in my knees, I have fluidity in my hips, my walking is a lot better…I don’t have foot pain anymore…it is quite amazing.”

The Nine Essentials are the brain’s requirements for waking up the brain to do its job well. Each Essential helps the brain create new connections and avoid the rigidity of limiting patterns and habits. The 9 Essentials open up delightful, and often surprising, new possibilities.

Help your child with special needs become a brilliant learner and make the seemingly impossible possible. You and your child will find hope, joy, and well-being.

Discover how to access your brain to move beyond pain and limitation into exuberant, sensual living with our safe and drug-free NeuroMovement® programs.

Improve your fitness level while movement becomes easy and pleasurable. Gain greater strength, flexibility, stamina, coordination, self-awareness, and well-being.

Learn how to improve your mind and body and safely regain flexibilty, creativity, strength, energy, mental clarity, and joy. Live life to the fullest at any age.

A trained clinical psychologist, dancer, and close professional associate of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais for over a decade, Anat Baniel is perhaps best known today as the founder of Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement®.

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 her innovative, scientifically based approach with concrete and easy-to-use tools—the Nine Essentials—that enable children and adults to move beyond their limitations, making the seemingly impossible possible.

Anat Baniel’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 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.

In 2019, the Anat Baniel Method®NeuroMovement® (ABMNM®) team were approached by Lloydminster Catholic Public School District in Alberta, Canada to explore the possibility of bringing ABMNM® to their six schools.

In 2019, the Anat Baniel Method®NeuroMovement® (ABMNM®) team were approached by Lloydminster Catholic Public School District in Alberta, Canada to explore the possibility of bringing ABMNM® to their six schools.

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