Making the Impossible Possible:
Developmental Feldenkrais
How do babies learn to move?
What can we learn by exploring movement from a developmental perspective?
How can a deeper understanding of sensory motor development support us and the children in our lives?
You will learn to:
Rediscover how it feels to move like a baby
Re-connect to a sense of ease, curiosity, flexibility and possibility
Understand a baby’s motor learning process & its relationship to other areas of development
Support babies and young children to learn to move with comfort, ease and grace
Learn to recognize how children’s furniture, clothing & equipment impact their motor development
The Feldenkrias Method® of somatic education and the Anat Baniel Method for Children® are innovative, developmentally-based approaches to learning that utilize movement + attention to enhance awareness, clarify and support fundamental movement patterns, increase our range of movement and thought, and refine our ability to learn.
Instructor:
Matty Wilkinson earned an M.A. from the Tufts Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development and taught in early childhood classrooms for 12 years. As a certified practitioner of the Feldenkrias Method® of somatic education and the Anat Baniel Method for Children®, Matty helps children with a wide range of challenges reach their fullest potential in motor, cognitive, social, and language development. He practices in Somerville, MA and travels to Denmark twice a year to work with children and families at the Scandinavian Center for Neurodevelopmental movement. He is the father of two young children who love to climb, dance, and explore the world of movement.
