Courses

Kinesiology Training

Whether you want to become a Professional Brain Gym® Educational Kinesiologist or use kinesiology for your family and friends – Your journey starts here.

When choosing an Instructor or Registered Training Organisation  make sure they are accredited with Breakthroughs International (www.breakthroughsinternational.org). This Foundation holds the Trademark Copyrights for the Brain Gym program, the main programme from Educational Kinesiology.

What is Brain Gym®?

Brain Gym is a programme of physical movements and exercises to improve “the physical skills of learning and performing”. Having the structural and physical foundations in place, they help to boost brain function, enhance learning ability and cognitive function, posture, and regulate emotions and behaviour.  The programme involves movement-based practices designed to promote well-being. 

At the heart of Brain Gym lies the concept of the mind-body connection. Movement plays a crucial role in this process. Have you ever noticed how a quick walk can clear your head when you’re stuck on a problem? That’s the power of movement in action. The Brain Gym® program is committed to the principle that moving with intention leads to optimal learning. Learning at any age is, of course, important to achieve change and better outcomes.

The idea is that specific physical activities can improve the way our brain receives and processes information, leading to better focus, memory, and overall mental performance. 

It involves 26 fun and easy activities. These are specific movements that were developed through research that began in 1969 by Paul E. Dennison, Ph.D. and his wife Gail. They are based on how the brain is developed in children as they go through the various stages of developmental movements. Brain Gym enhances the lives of people of just about any age! I have used Brain Gym on ages of 3 to 80 years old.

Brain Gym® utilizes an educational model to:

  • Promote learning through play
  • Draw out and honor innate intelligence
  • Build awareness regarding the value of movement in daily life
  • Emphasize the ability to notice and respond to movement-based needs
  • Encourage self responsibility
  • Encourage creativity and self-expression

The Brain Gym programme has been so effective that it has spread worldwide into over 80 countries. People are experiencing the joy and ease of enhanced performance in educational settings, the corporate world, athletic training, personal well-being, and more!

In addition to the Brain Gym Movements, there is the powerful Brain Gym Balance process, which you can experience during a private consultation or during the Brain Gym 101 Course. The theory behind how it works is that the balance process creates new pathways, and better connected neural networks in the brain. These connections serve as a new highway for using the whole brain.

Sometimes people get stuck in one side of the brain and find it hard to move forward or are in a state of stress involving certain activities. The balancing process assists people to move from a state of reacting to a more conscious mode which allows additional positive choices. Many people have experienced immediate changes that increase the ease of doing things.

The Brain Gym balance assists the right and left brain hemispheres to be in sync with each other and work together more efficiently for enhanced wellbeing and performance. This process may also involve even deeper structures of the brain, depending on your chosen goal. Deeper goals may include areas such as motivation, attention, and organizational abilities.

Who can do Brain Gym®?

  • Initially developed for young learners today it serves people of all ages
  • Sports people
  • Parents and Educators
  • Professionals in conjunction with their specialty
  • Those who wish to change their career and become instructor/consultant in Educational Kinesiology
  • People wanting to head into their old ag feeling young, active, fit, healthy and mentally sharp

Brain Gym is a wholistic approach to wellness that uses intentional movements,  acupressure points, neurological reflexes, and neurolymphatic points to improve posture and flexibility, enhance brain integration, and greatly reduce stress and pain.

You’ll be working from the inside out, discovering root causes rather than focusing on symptoms. Deepen your skill set by learning advanced techniques that yield immediate and permanent results!

Brain Gym® 104 Course

Brain Gym® 104 is THE beginner’s course into the Brain Gym® world

  • Are you  a parent,  teacher, or tutor and want to support your students in maths, reading, writing, listening, and vision skills, as well as with emotional and  behavioural issues?
  • Are you a student and want to learn more easily and organise your everyday life with ease?
  • Are you an employee, manager or self-employed person and want more focus, strength, motivation and less stress in your everyday working life?
  • Are you an athlete or artist and want to improve your coordination and creativity?
  • Are you a therapist, kinesiologist, energiser and would like to learn something new and complete a Brain Gym® training course?

Then this is for you! 

This lively 16 hours training course lets you experience for yourself and learn each of the 26 Brain Gym® movements, as well as gain a  deep understanding of each movement and the appreciative and supportive philosophy behind the Brain Gym programme.

THIS CLASS IS EXCELLENT AS A PREPARATION FOR THE MORE  ADVANCED “BRAIN GYM 101” TRAINING. Brain Gym® and its 26 activities promote your self-awareness, help you to recognise, develop and explore your potential in everyday life, when learning and even in challenging situations! 

Coordination, emotional stability, fine motor skills, gross motor skills, arithmetic, writing, handling tools, reading, seeing, hearing, attention, focus, self-organisation, communication, vision, balance, self-worth, confidence, self-expression, relaxation, ‘de-stressing’, endurance and much more are naturally encouraged. 

 

No prerequisites. You can get started right away.

 

  • Encourage natural, joyful  learning and  movement
  • Strengthen skills such as reading, writing and arithmetic
  • Improve coordination and fine and gross motor skills
  • Strengthen centering, be able to organise oneself well
  • Promote attention, stamina and relaxation
  • Reduce stress, release tension and negative emotions
  • Connection with oneself and accepting oneself

 

  • 26 Brain Gym® movements
  • Noticing = self-perception
  • Experience a positive effect on yourself
  • PACE The Learning Readiness Sequence
  • Five learning principles
  • The “Drawing out” model
  • Learning flow model

 

Course duration is 16 hours.

 

Course prices vary by  location and courses held in person or online. Please contact us for dates, location and current price.

Prerequisite for this course

No prerequisites. You can get started right away.

Course objectives

– Encourage natural, joyful  learning and  movement

– Strengthen skills such as reading, writing and arithmetic

– Improve coordination and fine and gross motor skills
– Strengthen centering, be able to organise oneself well
– Promote attention, stamina and relaxation
– Reduce stress, release tension and negative emotions
– Connection with oneself and accepting oneself

Course content

26 Brain Gym® movements

Noticing = self-perception

Experience a positive effect on yourself

PACE The Learning Readiness Sequence

Five learning principles

The “Drawing out” model

Learning flow model

Course duration is 16 hours.

Course prices

Course prices vary by  location and courses held in person or online. Please contact us for dates, location and current price.

Movement Facilitator Training

 

Should you wish to become an Instructor, called a Movement Facilitator, for Brain Gym 104 and teach the 26 movements, please click here for more information.

Brain Gym® 101 Course 'Balance for Daily Life'

Experience whole-brain integration through whole-body movement. What you learn in this course can be applied right away by students, teachers, parents, artists, athletes, healthcare workers, business professionals . . . you name it!

You gain insight into the importance of the integration of the two brain hemispheres, as well as the development and impact of our movements in three dimensions.

Expand your knowledge about theory and application of Brain Gym while experiencing unexpected personal development in the process.

Are you a parent, teacher, student, pupil, senior, employee, self-employed, athlete, artist, therapist, or kinesiologist looking for a self-help tool for your everyday life and its challenges? 

Do you need to feel more grounded, be more relaxed, have better physical coordination and clear focus? 

Would you like to express yourself better, more clearly, more confidently and clarify your thoughts?


In this course you will experience and learn the 5-step balance with 11 different Brain Gym® balances for yourself and for others. You will learn PACE and action balances to promote a positive attitude, improved vision, better hearing and easier writing. The unique Dennison laterality re-patterning pathway is also included to improve the workings of your midline field. You will experience the 26 Brain Gym® movements. 


In addition to the practical work, we will delve into the model of the dynamic brain, learn muscle testing and noticing, strengthen self-awareness and learn the importance of the learning flow model.

 

There are no prerequisites for this course. However, it is recommended to start with the BG 104 course.

 

  • Encourage natural, joyful learning and movement in three dimensions

  • Strengthen skills

  • Improve coordination and fine and gross motor skills

  • Strengthen physical, emotional and mental centering, be able to organise oneself well

  • Promote attention, stamina and relaxation

  •  Reduce stress, release tension and negative emotions

  • Connecting with oneself and accepting oneself

  • Self-development with personal goals

 

  • Learn a 5-step process of a Brain Gym Action Balance to build new neurological pathways in relation to specific goals

  • PACE The Learning Readiness Sequence

  • Brain Gym® language expression and establishing a goal

  • Noticing/self-awareness and muscle testing  across physical, cognitive and mental/emotional levels 

  • Balance for Calmness and Relaxation

  • Balance for Clear Vision

  • Balance for Hearing, Thinking and Memory

  • Balance for Writing and Fine and Gross motor skills

  • Balance for Accessing the Midline, for better integrated thinking and body coordination

  • 6 more Action Balances

  • 26 Brain Gym® movements  

  • Five learning principles

  • The “Drawing out” model

  • Learning flow model

  • Brain model of  ‘Brain under stress and in action’

  • Balance for everyday activities with the Dennison laterality re-patterning pathway

     

     

 

Course duration is 24 hours.

 

Course prices vary by  location and courses held in person or online. Please contact us for dates, location and current price.

Course objectives

– Encourage natural, joyful learning and movement in three dimensions

– Strengthen skills 

– Improve coordination and fine and gross motor skills
– Strengthen physical, emotional and mental centering, be able to organise oneself well
– Promote attention, stamina and relaxation
– Reduce stress, release tension and negative emotions
– Connecting with oneself and accepting oneself

– Self-development with personal goals

Course content

Learn a 5-step process of a Brain Gym Action Balance to build new neurological pathways in relation to specific goals

PACE The Learning Readiness Sequence

Brain Gym® language expression and establishing a goal

Noticing/self-awareness and muscle testing  across physical, cognitive and mental/emotional levels 

Balance for Calmness and Relaxation

Balance for Clear Vision

Balance for Hearing, Thinking and Memory

Balance for Writing and Fine and Gross motor skills

Balance for Accessing the Midline, for better integrated thinking and body coordination

6 more Action Balances

26 Brain Gym® movements  

Five learning principles

The “Drawing out” model

Learning flow model

Brain model of  ‘Brain under stress and in action’

Balance for everyday activities with the Dennison laterality re-patterning pathway

Prerequisite for this course

There are no prerequisites for this course. However, it is recommended to start with the BG 104 course.

Course duration is 24 hours.

Course prices

Course prices vary by  location and courses held in person or online. Please contact us for dates, location and current price.

Brain Gym Instructor Training

Should you wish to become a Brain Gym Instructor, Brain Gym 101, and teach the 26 movements and balancing sequences, please click here for more information.

Optimum Brain Organisation Course (201)

Every one of us has a preferred eye, ear, hand/arm, foot/leg and also a preferred brain hemisphere, which are predominantly used for action. This creates a very unique personal learning profile with specialisations on the left and/or right side of the body.

Not every profile is conducive to the learning and working process. Some of the profiles reveal blockages and inhibitions that are worth recognising and resolving, so that learning and working are easy and enjoyable. In this course, following the Brain Gym programme, there are four further profile balances in which dominance patterns and learning profiles are recognised and also interpreted. Some Brain Gym® contents are deepened. 

There are also variations of BG movements that make it possible to promote sensori-motor learning and enhance working with the use of our talents, resources and creativity.

This course is extremely interesting not only for all parents and teachers, with the aim of making learning easier for children and pupils, but also for anybody who wishes to enhance their cognitive functions.

N.B.: This course is mandatory for Brain Gym Instructor training.

 

Mandatory completion of BG 101 course.

 

  • What is brain organisation
  • Understanding and appreciating your own learning profile
  • Exploring the role of the profiles in different situations, e.g. family relationships, colleagues, etc.

 

  • What is brain organisation

  • Testing specialisations e.g. left- and right-handedness

  • Understanding and appreciating your own learning profile

  • Interpreting learning profiles

  • Talents and resources of the different profile types

  • Expressive and receptive processing

  • Balance for dexterity

  • Special Brain Gym® exercises,

    and much more.

 

Course duration is 16 hours.

 

Course prices vary by  location and courses held in person or online. Please contact us for dates, location and current price.

Course objectives

● What is brain organisation

● Understanding and appreciating your own learning profile

● Exploring the role of the profiles in different situations, e.g. family relationships, colleagues, etc.

Course content

● What is brain organisation

● Testing specialisations e.g. left- and right-handedness

● Understanding and appreciating your own learning profile

● Interpreting learning profiles

● Talents and resources of the different profile types

● Expressive and receptive processing

● Balance for dexterity

● Special Brain Gym® exercises,

and much more.

Prerequisite for this course

Completion of BG 104 course.

Course duration is 16 hours.

Course prices

Course prices vary by  location and courses held in person or online. Please contact us for dates, location and current price.