In the field of neuroscience, leading thinkers like Doidge,
Amen, Perry, Ratey, and Medina describe how movement stimulates
the brain's lifelong growth and plasticity. Starting in the
1970s, educator and reading specialist Paul E. Dennison began
to explain learning as incremental changes in attentional behavior
and function. He anticipated our modern understanding of the
brain by demonstrating how specific movements for eye-teaming,
hand-eye coordination, and whole-body awareness bring swift
improvements in reading, writing, understanding, and comprehension
in students of all ages. He created a technique (Dennison Laterality
Repatterning) to make these movements even more universally
effective. With his wife, Gail E. Dennison, he developed a field
of learning known as Educational Kinesiology (Edu-K). The original
movements are now the 26 Brain Gym®
activities (called "the 26" for short) - part of the broad Brain
Gym®
curriculum for self-initiated learning.
One Edu-K premise is the inherent pleasure of the learning experience:
that of using the hands, senses, and whole body to explore new
ideas. This is quite different from learning that inhibits the
sensory modalities through tension and strain. Human beings
are natural learners. When people of all ages can look, listen,
and move easily and without stress, they are curious to use
their senses to interact with the world around them. Use of
the Brain Gym®
26 cultivates multisensory learning, supporting the development
of healthy visual, auditory, and kinesthetic skills and improved
attention and memory.
The Edu-K work meets learners where they are, supporting current
abilities while identifying and addressing those not yet integrated
into function. Students experience three primary kinds of movement
and the associated skills: sensorimotor coordination
(laterality-the two-sidedness fundamental to reading, writing,
listening, or speaking); stability (centering-merging
one's center of mass and center of balance, being able to self-calm);
and locomotion (moving from place to place with optimal
muscle length for focus and ease).
People with varied needs enjoy daily use of the 26 for integrating intention and function during breaks and before work, study, or sports. Some experience even more direct results in private consultations, where they set a goal and make shifts in movement patterns and behavior via Edu-K's Five Steps to Easy Learning. The breakthroughs that occur in such private sessions can be expanded on over time.
Be wary of Brain Gym®
imitators. Some YouTube films claim to show how to do the 26,
yet very few demonstrate the actual movements, and those that
do rarely show them correctly. It's for good reason that Brain
Gym®
Instructors receive many hours of training before being licensed
to teach the courses!
More Information:
Click below to view more infomation about our authorized
distributors, available translations and requesting
permission to use Edu-K materials.
Since 1981, Edu-Kinesthetics, Inc., has published
and distributed books and manuals written or recommended
by Paul E. Dennison, Ph.D. and Gail E. Dennison, the
creators of Brain Gym and Educational Kinesiology
and the founders of Brain Gym®
International.
"Movement is the door to learning"
- Paul E. Dennison, Ph.D
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