Supporting Wellbeing
Improving body awareness, brain-body connections, balance, and coordination assists us to live our lives and pursue our passions with less stress and effort and more ease and joy. Efficient, coordinated movement uses less energy. Tools that calm our nervous system and activate whole brain integration allow us to access our full potential.
The goal of this work is to provide people with a toolbox of inner resources and simple, enjoyable movements they can use anytime, anywhere
to improve their brain-body connections and awareness, their balance, coordination and mobility, and to move with ease and joy.
Learn how to move in daily life situations with more safety and surety.
Regain the joy of movement!
I am learning a skill set that helps me focus and organize, balance my day by connecting brain patterns to body needs. It involves awareness and practice of body movements that promote brain/body connections.
Barbara Zimmer
Doing Brain Body Fitness on a regular basis has helped with my alignment and balance. It has enabled me to move with ease, finding the right support, breathing and thought processes to make movements flow and not be strained. I now have a toolbox of exercises I can go to when I have certain aches, stiffness or problems which will help me on a daily basis. Dana is patient and attentive to the needs of the class and makes the classes both beneficial and fun.
Ruth Burgess
Explore Our Courses
These courses include principles and techniques drawn from such disciplines as Movement Exploration, Brain Gym®, Rhythmic Movement Training, Ideokinesis, Qi Gong, and other somatic practices as well as Dana’s extensive dance experience. Activities can be adapted for different abilities.
This program provides people with a toolbox of inner resources and simple, enjoyable movements they can use anytime, anywhere to improve their brain-body connections and awareness, their balance, coordination and mobility, and to move with ease and joy.
Participants learn to move with more ease and efficiency and with more safety and surety in daily life situations.
Learn a functional understanding of the architecture of the body and how it is designed to move. We will use activities drawn from Brain Gym®, Movement Exploration, Rhythmic Movement Training, Constructive Rest and Ideokinesis, Qi Gong and other modalities.
Activities can be adapted for those with limited mobility.
“I am learning a skill set that helps me focus and organize, balance my day by connecting brain patterns to body needs. It involves awareness and practice of body movements that promote brain/body connections.”
Participant, Turner Valley, Alberta
PREREQUISITE: Brain Body Fitness Level I
A series of 1 hour classes
This program provides people with a toolbox of inner resources and simple, enjoyable movements they can use anytime, anywhere to improve their brain-body connections and awareness, their balance, coordination and mobility, and to move with ease and joy.
Participants learn to move with more ease and efficiency and with more safety and surety in daily life situations.
Brain Body Fitness Level II moves beyond physical balance to emotional balance and a deeper understanding of our movement patterns.
Activities can be adapted for those with limited mobility.
PREREQUISITE: Brain Body Fitness Levels I &II or Brain Gym® 101 & Movement Exploration I
Weekly 1 hour classes
This weekly class provides an opportunity to deepen the embodiment of awareness, balance and coordination skills. The classes include somatic work and Qi Gong, and each one explores a different movement theme.
