Balance Protocol We frame our sessions together in a form called a balance*. This simple and powerful framework helps us clarify, commit to, and realize our goals. Balance form is consistent, but its content can be infinitely variable. Our movement menu can range from Brain Gym® to building with blocks, from reading to role play to infant reflexes, from conversation to craniosacral work, from breathing to Bach. The Form of Balance We calibrate our bodies and minds with a few simple movement activities. We line ourselves up 100% behind a goal. We perform an activity, and take note of our experience. Are we grounded? In pain? What are we thinking? Feeling? We move. Our movement is specifically directed toward laying the neural pathways that help us realize the goal. Once our movement menu is complete, we repeat the original activity. We note the differences we experience in body and mind. Do we feel grounded? Has the pain shifted or disappeared? How have our thoughts and feelings changed? Positive neural change requires positive reinforcement. We celebrate our achievement! We may have homeplay — ways to help us maintain the goal in our daily lives, now that the balance is complete. Completion can be felt immediately. Or we may need time for the goal to integrate into our lives. Often, this process is so gradual and natural, that we hardly notice the change. *The balance is a form that comes to us from Educational Kinesiology, or Brain Gym®.   The movement menu of a balance is personal, and is not necessarily from Brain Gym®.   Balance form is taught in Brain Gym® 101, a course taught by Eve Kodiak as well as many other licensed instructors.   More information about Brain Gym® courses can be found at www.braingym.org. “Movement is the door to learning.”                  —Paul E. Dennison, Ph.D., Brain Gym® founder < Workshops  |  Private Sessions >