How to Experience Brain Gym: Classes or Private Sessions?

Brain Gym Classes

You can learn the basic 26 Brain Gym^® movements and the fundamental steps for sequencing these movements in the basic Brain Gym 101 course or in one of the special interest introductory courses: Brain Gym^® for Educators, Brain Gym for Special Education Providers, and Brain Gym for Movement, Dance, and Sports Performance. The emphasis of the above listed courses is facilitating Brain Gym^® in others. You will need to take at least one of these if you wish to pursue licensure as an Instructor.

There are also several Brain Gym based courses that are available to newcomers. They are: Dennison Whole Brain Learning (241), Physiological Basis of Edu-K (260), Hands On: How to Use Brain Gym in the Classroom, and the "Switched on" courses, Switched on Golf (030), Switched on Selling (SOS), Switched on Network Marketing (SONM), and Switched on Management (SOM).

Brain Gym is the core program of Educational Kinesiology (Edu-K), the study and application of posture and movement to enhance academic, interpersonal, and physical learning. In addition to Brain Gym, Edu-K offers intermediate, advanced and professional-level courses that build on the Brain Gym learning model for those wanting to pursue further study.

Private Sessions

A private session will allow you to experience Brain Gym/Edu-K at as deep a level as you require and to use more exacting techniques than are taught in the non-professional level courses. Edu-K encompasses a growing body of techniques and applications, of which Brain Gym is only the foundation. In a private session, you will be able to experience Brain Gym as well as the more advanced work, if appropriate. During a private session, you may also learn selected movements not taught in basic Brain Gym courses.

A private session typically lasts 1 - 2 hours and focuses on a specific goal. The process you will experience, called a "balance," is complete when you feel and demonstrate noticeable improvements in your goal-related learning and performance abilities. The intention is that each time you then approach your goal, it becomes easier and easier for you to accomplish. The balance will have removed the block and create a bridge in your brain for that learning or action.

Can I Learn Brain Gym from Books?

Brain Gym^® movements are best learned when taught in person by a licensed Brain Gym Instructor/Consultant who can offer correct modeling of the movements as well as knowledge of how to combine and sequence these movements for optimal effectiveness.

That said, there is a small book simply titled Brain Gym by Paul E. Dennison, Ph.D., and Gail Dennison that gives brief information and illustrations of each of the 26 movements. More information is given on the movements in the book Brain Gym Teacher’s Edition, also by Dennison and Dennison.

There is also a book, Brain Gym For Business by Jerry V. Teplitz, JD, Ph.D. and the Dennisons that apply most of the movements to the business arena. It's divided up by the positions in an organization and then by the tasks people do in that position. It then has a list of a number of Brain Gyms to do to switch the person on for that particular task.

If you're interested in the science behind Brain Gym, Smart Moves: Why Learning is not all in Your Head, by neurobiologist Carla Hannaford, Ph.D., documents how and why the Brain Gym movements work in the brain.

These books and others can be found at the Brain Gym Bookstore.