Below are the three founders of three of the methods that I practice.
If you would like to find out more about each method, simply click on the links below.
If you would like to find out more about each method, simply click on the links below.
Svetlana Masgatova
Svetlana Masgutova is a Doctor
in Developmental and Educational Psychology, and has conducted extensive research in the field of neurology and child development. She founded the International Dr. Masgutova Institutes in Poland and the U. S. and developed the worldwide Masgutova Neuro-Sensory-Motor Reflex Integration (MNRI) ™ Method for reflex integration. The premise of her brilliant work is to use Developmental Movement and Reflex Integration processes to facilitate sensory processing, emotional recovery, motor-physical and sensory-motor rehabilitation, as well as learning and development. She developed her thinking in response to the challenge of working with severely traumatized children. She discovered how crucial both movement and purposeful, loving touch, in addition to the feeling of safety were as catalysts for these children to begin to activate the brain and neuropathways beyond chaos and survival, and toward new learning and development. She is renown for using movement and reflex integration to facilitate emotional recovery and physical rehabilitation processes. Dr. Masgutova has worked extensively with doctors, psychologists, educators and victims of catastrophe, war, childhood abuse, social crises, and individuals with physical, emotional, developmental, and learning challenges. |
Moshe Feldenkrais
Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais established a way to access the brain, to help it gain new skills, new patterns of movement, new patterns of thought. Dr. Feldenkrais trained as a nuclear physicist until a soccer injury threatened to render him
a paraplegic if he risked surgery. He embarked on his own healing quest by learning anatomy and physiology and combining that with his knowledge of physics, mechanics and the martial arts. He not only rehabilitated his knee, he also pioneered new theories of development and function that became the foundation of the Feldenkrais Method. While other scientists have been exploring how to incorporate their knowledge of neuroplasticity into rehabilitation in recent years, Feldenkrais recognized the neuroplasticity of the nervous system almost 60 years ago. The system he developed has helped thousands to rehabilitate from both complex and debilitating injuries. An essential part of the method is that the body can actually teach the brain, using touch and movement to forge new connections between the brain and the body. |
Anat Baniel
Anat Baniel had the unique opportunity
to train and work closely with Dr. Feldenkrais for a number of years. She recognized his brilliance and committed her life, first to learning what she could from him and then continuing to explore, expand and clarify themes of human learning and development. She also developed a particular talent for transforming the lives of children with special needs to help them reach their full potential, building on the foundation that Dr. Feldenkrais had established. It was through her work and miraculous successes with children that she describes nine essentials that the brain requires in order to successfully turn stimulation into information that the brain can use to effectively differentiate, grow and evolve. |