Brain Gym® 101 (24 hours)
Experience whole brain integration through whole body movement. Learn twenty-six Brain Gym® exercises, the Edu-K Balance process, and Dennison Laterality Repatterning. Discover a permanent tool for reaching personal goals. Applications for students, teachers, parents, artists, athletes, health care practitioners, and business professionals. Open to all.

Brain Gym® in New England: A Gathering of New and Experienced Brain Gym Enthusiasts
Come join us for the day of learning, moving and exploring the benefits of Brain Gym. If you are new to Brain Gym, this is a wonderful FREE opportunity to try out some Brain Gym activities and learn some basics. For those who have already ventured into the Brain Gym world, come expand your creativity, explore the new manual, share and learn how others are using this program successfully. 9am-noon prerequisite Brain Gym 101. 1pm-4pm open to all.

Brain Gym® Introduction (length of introductions vary, check with instructor for details)
Learning is a whole body event! Discover why this is so and learn exercises you can use immediately to reduce stress and open new paths to learning. This introduction also covers key Brain Gym® concepts. Open to all.

High Test Performance: tools to rid test-taking jitters.
High schoolers and college students: does just thinking about taking a test make your heart pound nad your throat tighten up? Are you able to access the information that you know? Are SAT's and MCAS getting you down? Change your test-taking experiences from feelings of anxiety to that of self-confidence using simple Brain Gym techniques.

Smooth School Re-Entry: tools for transitioning with ease.
Parents and children: would you like to have an easy transition into the school year? Come learn Brain Gym activities that are fun, energizing and easy to do. These great tools can help you be ready for a stress-free entry into the school year.

Brain Gym® Teacher Practicum (32 Hours)
The Teacher Practicum provides the skills to support the emergence of the authentic teacher in each participant. Completion of this course certifies the graduates to teach Brain Gym® 101 classes and present themselves as Edu-K consultants. The Teacher Practicum is a thorough training for successful facilitation and is highly transformational on the personal level. You will gain a deeper understanding of Educational Kinesiology and broaden your base and your use of Brain Gym®, both personally and professionally.
Prerequisites: Brain Gym® 101, Edu-K In Depth, Brain Organization Profiles, electives and Edu-K Foundation membership.

Brain Gym® Teacher Practicum Update (16 Hours)
Come and find out what is new within Brain Gym®, explore new teaching techniques, and share your expertise with colleagues. The Brain Gym® Practicum Update is offered to fulfill the requirements needed to maintain Brain Gym® 101 instructor licensure. Prerequisites: Brain Gym® Teacher Practicum. This course is required every 6 years, or the full BG Practicum, for those instructors who are teaching Brain Gym® 101. The course is required, or the full BG Practicum, every 2 years if an instructor wishes to stay in the teacher training track and has not taught 10 Brain Gym® 101 students. This course is available to all Practicum graduates as a course option, in lieu of another Edu-K course, if an instructor has taught 10 Brain Gym® 101 students within 2 years.

Business in Balance™ Intensive: Creating and Maintaining a Wealth-Healthy Brain Gym Business (32 hours)
Are you ready to focus your intent, flex those entreprenurial muscles and step forward as a successful business owner? Learn what's involved in owning a thriving business as you lay the foundation for your enterprise.

Edu-K In Depth: The Seven Dimensions to Learning (32 hours)
During these 4 days of fun and personal transformation you'll explore integrated brain-body learning. You'll apply the Edu-K In Depth process to your own life and rediscover the joy, ease and wholeness of learning. Exciting, innovative techniques, lucid, enjoyable demonstrations, lots of guided practice time and a relaxed atmosphere offer you a unique experience you can apply directly to your personal and professional life. Prerequisite: Brain Gym®101.

In Synch I, created by Rita Edwards, OT, builds a link between Brain Gym® and Sensory Integration. This 24 hour course looks specifically at those sensory connections that assist us in learning and living effectively. Rita travels here from South Africa. She is a Diplomat Occupational Therapist and is an International Faculty member for Brain Gym® International. Prerequisite: Brain Gym®101.

Integration of Dynamic and Postural Reflexes (32 hours)
Pamela Curlee, Instructor, as created by Dr. Svetlana Masgutova, www.masgutovamethod.comThis class counts toward licensure or re-licensure toward Brain Gym®.

• Learn about the concepts of Dynamic and Postural Infant Reflexes and explore the mechanics of their integration with the whole "Body-Mind" system.
• Explore the value and experience the benefits of "integrating" the reflexes into the whole body movement instead of 'extinguishing' the reflexes
• Learn how these reflexes influence motor development and take part in building movement patterns and influence developmental movements – for ALL AGES
• Explore the development of movement that crucially influences the development of the brain the mental and intellectual processes of a person throughout life.
• Gain deeper understanding of reflexes which are the neurological basis for the development of controlled movements, giving the possibility to make choices on a reasoning level. Enrich physical movement, mental-emotional skills, sports performance.
• Learn how these reflexes are important for our protection and for helping us to survive in stress situations. We learn that we need them and must take care of them and thank them, instead of blaming them for narrowing our behavior and thinking. In stress situations, we constantly revisit our first movement patterns.

Movement Dynamics (8 hours)
Sue Stepick, Instructor
Enjoy gentle yet energizing sequences from Brain Gym®, Vision Gym®, and other Edu-K menus, set to integrated music. Learn thirty new movements that help develop and refine your neurointelligence as well as your skills of coordination and flexibility. Feel the joy of movement as you relax your visual system. Participants explore Laterality, Centering and Focus Dimensions in terms of their unique dynamics of movement. The movement flows are adaptable for all ages and abilities. In addition to dance flows, the course includes six action balances. Wear comfortable clothing and socks.
Prerequitiste: Brain Gym® 101.


Optimal Brain Organization formerly Brain Organization Profiles (16 hours)
Sue Stepick, Instructor
Explore Paul Dennison's latest concepts on the Dynamic Brain and the three dimensions of the brain/body system. Optimal Brain Organization builds on the Brain Gym 101 course, providing additional movement activities and noticing techniques. The 16-hour course offers four new action balances that help to integrate all the sensory channels for improved performance and ease of learning. Special attention will be given to questions about the classroom environment. Prerequisite. Brain Gym® 101

Practice Evening (2 hours)
If you have taken kinesiology classes, practice evenings are a wonderful way to increase your balancing skills and confidence, and to share your experience and expertise with others. Feel free to bring a friend or family member along to practice balancing. Expert help will be close by to assist with any balancing challenges. Please R.S.V.P.

Touch For Health I (16 hours)
Come learn the ease and elegance of Touch for Health, a layperson’s technique of using acupressure points to strengthen the muscles of the body and help you to feel better. This class is experiential in nature, and you will leave with a solid basis of Touch for Health. Come prepared to move, learn and explore. No prerequisite.
Through the TFH Assoc, CEU’s are available for bodyworkers, aerobics instructors and physical trainers and contact hours for nurses.

Touch For Health II (16 hours) - builds directly on the TFH I - covers balancing using the 5 elements and the meridian wheel, concept of yin/yang in balancing , pain relief techniques, food testing, and more.

Touch For Health III (16 hours) - continues with more balancing techniques and concepts: balancing using color, reactive muscle balancing, gait testing and balancing, pain tapping for chronic pain, additional food balancing techniques, and more.

Touch For Health IV (16 hours) - final class in the series: balancing using sound, acupressure holding point theory, Luo points, figure 8 energy balancing, postural stress release, total 42 muscle head to toe balance, and more.

VisionCircles (24 hours) offers us an opportunity to discover the incredible world which awaits us as we open to our full sensory awareness. The course offers a developmental framework for understanding the acquisition of visual skills through an exploration of eight areas, or circles, or perceptual intelligence. Taken together, the circles help us to access and develop active vision. Prerequisite: Brain Gym® 101