For children with special needs
The brain learns best when the child is at ease
Nothing is forced here. Through slow, gentle touch and movement, your child's brain receives information it can actually use — and starts finding possibilities that drilling and repetition never reach.
What NeuroMovement is
NeuroMovement is a gentle approach using touch and movement to give the brain new information. With that fresh input, the brain can change how a child functions — becoming more organised for action, and more free in the body.
It was developed by Anat Baniel, building on the work of Moshé Feldenkrais. What makes it work isn't the movement itself. Moving on autopilot can actually deepen a pattern of pain or limitation. It's attention that changes things: when a child feels what they are doing as they do it, the brain gets information it immediately uses to grow.
How I came to it
I found this method when my son Mees was ten. We had tried so much that brought nothing that I was ready to stop looking.
After our first intensive in California with Anat Baniel and her team, my son looked me straight in the eyes — where before his eyes would always wander. A year later I began training to become a practitioner myself. I qualified in 2016.
What a lesson looks like
Your child lies or sits, dressed, on a low table or a mat. I move slowly, with light hands, and I watch. There is no programme to get through and no goal to hit that day. Children often laugh, talk, sing, or fall quiet.
Lessons usually work best in a short intensive — several lessons across a few days — rather than spread thin over months. The change tends to keep unfolding for weeks afterwards.
It's never only about the child
Parents and family are in the room, and the work reaches them too. Again and again I watch parents begin to see their child differently — less as a problem to be solved, more as a person who is already whole and is doing their own learning.
That shift changes the atmosphere at home more than any exercise does.
Bringing an intensive to your area
I closed my practice in the Netherlands and now travel for intensives — roughly six times a year — working with several children and their families in one place over a week. If you'd like to organise one where you live, write to me and we'll look at what it would take.
Let's talk about your child
A free intro call, 45 minutes. Tell me where you are and what you've tried.
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