At Sanctuary of the Heart, our Brain Gym® Australia instructor, Michele Hansen offers this service to help you boost your brain functions, academic skills, improve communication skills, physical coordination and overall mental health. This service is offered to metropolitan Melbourne, and it’s surrounding suburbs as well as the Greater Melbourne area.

What is Brain Gym®?

Brain Gym® is an educational, movement based program which uses simple movements to integrate the whole brain, senses and body, preparing the person with the physical skills they need to learn effectively. It is based on the principle that moving with intention, leads to optimal learning.

Think of what it was like when you first started learning to drive – how difficult it was to co-ordinate the movements of feet on the pedals while observing the road, thinking about where you had to go, listening to the instructor. This is what our bodies and brains have to go through whenever we are in a new learning situation.

Brain Gym® can assist by improving academic ability with children, teenagers and adults by enhancing:

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  • Concentration and focus

  • Cognitive functions

  • Comprehension

  • Reading and writing

  • Maths and numeracy

  • Behavioural issues

  • Confidence

  • Physical co-ordination

  • Public Speaking

There are 26 specific movements and physical exercises which prepare the brain and entire nervous system for optimal learning. Brain Gym® is different because the learning model addresses the physical (rather than mental) components of learning. The philosophy is that “Learning is not only in the head”.

To learn effectively our body and brain have to communicate with each other. The muscles have to work in a relaxed way so that the physical aspects that take place during learning such as writing, reading (speech), listening, seeing, touching can all occur without undue stress on the body to perform those movements.

Brain Gym® is the movement program which forms the foundation of the Educational Kinesiology modality. Brain Gym® is a drug free, simple and a highly effective program practiced worldwide.

Brain Gym® movements stimulate nerve pathways between the brain and body and help to develop gross and fine motor movements, sharpen cognitive skills, eye teaming, auditory discrimination, proprioception and sensory integration.

History of Brain Gym®

Brain Gym® Founder, Paul E. Dennison, in 1981 was a remedial education specialist, who ran remedial group learning centres in California. He specialised in assisting children with learning difficulties such as learning to read.

In developing Brain Gym®, Paul Dennison drew from a wide range of work in the fields of education, developmental vision and personal development. His work was based on an understanding of the links between physical movement, language acquisition and academic achievement. Brain Gym® is a movement program that prepares students of all ages to practice and master the skills required for the mechanics of learning.

For more than 30 years and in over 80 countries Brain Gym® has been helping people from all ages and all walks of life from babies, children, teenages, adults to seniors

Benefits of Brain Gym®

The dramatic improvements Brain Gym® can offer include: increased self esteem, confidence, greater productivity, stress release, better concentration and comprehension, and to have fun with learning. Other everyday life benefits include:

  • Learning ANYTHING faster and more easily

  • Improved brain and cognitive functions

  • Enhanced living and learning through the science of movement

  • Improved eye coordination

  • Enhanced sports performance abilities

  • Improved ability for focus and organisation

  • Improved emotional stability

  • Starting and finishing projects with ease

  • Reaching new levels of excellence

  • Improved language development and communication skills

  • Encouraged creativity, self expression and self responsibility

  • Learning to use WHOLE brain learning

Download your free Brain Gym  - PACE (Positive, Active, Clear and Energentic)  handout

Melbourne Brain Gym® Course (4 day)

Interested in learning the 26 of Brain Gym exercises to help with daily life and improve your overall quality of life? Or perhaps for your own professional development?

We offer are offering Brain Gym® course Day 1 and Day 2 - commences on September 9th-10th, 2023.