BRAIN GYM®
Peak Performance through Designed Movement!
The Brain Gym program is a holistic system based on the principles of kinesiology and learning theory, developed by learning specialist Paul E. Dennison, Ph.D. and his wife and partner Gail E. Dennison in California. In 1987 the Dennisons established the Educational Kinesiology Foundation, a nonprofit organization (now known as Brain Gym International) dedicated to the principle that intentional movement leads to optimal living and learning.
Utilizing 26 designed movement activities and related techniques, the Brain Gym system helps people reach their peak mental performance for life’s most important moments. The Brain Gym program offers a proven approach that addresses and incorporates the often-overlooked physical components of learning —visual, auditory, motor, and stress management skills. What started as a method to improve reading skills is now a program that has helped thousands of people in over 80 countries around the world to discover their peak mental and inner strength.
The three main benefits the Brain Gym program offers:
Reduces Stress: Eliminates the damaging effects of stress on performance with designed movements to create harmony mentally, emotionally, and physically.
Optimizes Performance: Performing every day on the stage of life is challenging. By cultivating the physical components of learning — visual, auditory, motor, and stress management skills — you can perform at your peak with ease and joy.
Achieves Goals: Our framework allows adults and children to develop a reliable set of tools to align the whole body, mind, and spirit towards reaching the goals in your life, at your own pace, and in your own way.
Are you an educator? Do you have difficulty getting students ready to focus and learn? Do you notice some especially struggling with assignments or acting out and wish you had the tools to support them? Do you wish you could combine your love for movement with education? This program helps teachers show their students a different way to reach their academic goals — often a welcome departure from conventional learning.
Peak performance in the classroom requires three things: clear goals, the confidence to reach them, and whole- body alignment. Equip your classroom with fun, easy movement-based practices. Over the past few decades, Brain Gym instructors have helped kids all over the world reach goals they never imagined possible. We’re confident we can help you do the same.
Parents, do you worry about your children’s ability to reach their fullest potential? Do they struggle in school or with behavior issues or with self-esteem? Maybe they have a learning challenge, and you wonder if they will ever be okay.
The Brain Gym program offers the tools to succeed in the important moments in life, whether that be a math test, recital, sports game, or homecoming dance. Our practices are specifically designed to be easy, fun, and understandable for kids of any age! Over the past few decades, we’ve seen the Brain Gym program help kids and teens reach goals they never imagined possible, with the tools to unlock their peak performance and confidence. We’re here to show your kids that everything they need to feel better and do better is already inside them.
If you are a senior citizen, are you worried about cognitive decline in your later years? Do you feel overwhelmed or stressed when it comes to showing up confidently for the important moments in life? Do you notice memory challenges for yourself or a loved one? Do you experience challenges with balance or worry about falling?
You deserve to fully enjoy life’s most important moments. The Brain Gym program offers designed movement practices helping you reduce stress, improve performance, and achieve your goals. The Brain Gym system can help keep your mind sharp and agile. Over the past few decades, we’ve helped senior adults from all over the world live more confident, easeful, and satisfying lives. We’re confident we can help you do the same.
Brain Gym® is wiping the "learning challenged" label off of students categorized often far too simply as ADD, ADHD, dyslexic, emotionally challenged or academically handicapped. Brain Gym makes this kind of positive difference in just a few minutes a day. It is easy to learn, is applied at a moment's notice, and works without equipment, textbooks or software programs. And it works equally well for both "top" and "struggling" students, raising state proficiency scores across the board. Higher learning and research centers acknowledge Brain Gym as one of the world’s leading educational technologies.
Teachers in several thousand public and private schools throughout the U.S. and 80+ other countries apply Brain Gym successfully on a daily basis. Recently 35 teachers in Palestine, Texas experienced Brain Gym, and their responses are summed up in one teacher’s testimonial - “It works!” - Jennifer Hart, Northside School. Mary Lee Pearson of Donna Park Elementary (H.E.B. Independent School District) reports that all students in her school practice Brain Gym daily, and that 100% of her third grade students recently passed the state reading exam. Tracy Krantz, one of 38 teachers attending an on-site Brain Gym seminar at Coppell's Riverside Butterfly School says "Brain Gym is an incredible innovative tool that all teachers should understand...great for parents also." Liz Jones Twomey, a teacher in Ontario, Canada, reports that twice as many of her third grade “at risk” students now achieve the high levels of 3 and 4 (A and B in U.S.) in reading, writing and mathematics.
By doing 3+ minutes of Brain Gym at the beginning of a class (sitting or standing beside desk), 50+ minutes of benefits follow - students comprehend more easily, learn faster, retain much more, test far higher, and are generally more relaxed and better behaved. The specific movements of this highly refined program bring about rapid and automatic improvements in concentration, memory, reading, math, spelling, listening, written and spoken communication, creativity, coordination, participation, emotional expression, relating to peers/teachers/parents, test-taking, and clearing stress for relaxed performance in all endeavors.
Brain Gym calms a person while simultaneously optimizing brainpower, both keys to high level learning and performance (including public speaking, drama, sports). Students/Individuals swiftly learn to self-apply Brain Gym, keeping themselves at their own personal best. Brain Gym works for teachers too, optimizing their ability to communicate and connect effectively with students, enhancing the creativity with which they educate, and assisting them to rise above the high level of expertise asked of them. For a school, it often provides those few percentage points needed for “recognized” or “exemplary” status (and keeping it). Parents definitely notice the difference in the attitude and grades of their children, and are often openly appreciative. Mostly, Brain Gym is a profound gift to students, who find their self-esteem rising even faster than their state proficiency scores.
Besides all of the above benefits, Brain Gym is a powerful stress-reducer, and is considered a positive counter to a tendency toward violence and substance abuse (or over-medication).
Besides its educational applications, Brain Gym is also used extensively by Occupational and Physical and Speech/Language Therapists, by business people in 100+ U.S. corporations, and increasingly, in Senior Citizen communities where it is found to be effective in sharpening memory and brainpower while simultaneously enhancing overall health and mood.
Brain Gym is used by athletes world-wide, including the 5 PGA professionals that Eric has trained, one of whom gave good press to Brain Gym after a tour victory the following week. (Eric Biskamp is a Dallas-area instructor.) Brain Gym is of lifelong benefit, both as a profound learning/performance enhancer, and just as vitally, as a highly effective stress-reduction tool for students and adults feeling the pressure to succeed.
Research (see Resources tab) and Testimonials are just a click away, as is information about Brain Gym International Instructor, Tracy Sellers. For teaching and therapy professionals who need CEUs, we provide the items most often requested for CEU pre-approval right on this website - simply print them out and submit them. Review our Seminars page for the specific seminar best suited for you or your fellow professionals; see Consultations page regarding private sessions for yourself or your child.
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