Brain Gym is a program of
physical activities that enhance learning ability.
The activities are easy and
enjoyable, and they bring about rapid and often dramatic improvements in
concentration, memory, reading, writing, organizing, listening, physical
coordination, and more.
Brain Gym develops the
brain's neural pathways the way nature does: through movement.
Brain Gym grew out of research
started in 1969 by Paul Dennison, Ph.D., who was looking for ways to help
children and adults who had been identified as "learning disabled."
His research led him to the study of kinesiology, the science of body
movement and its relationship to brain function.
At the time, it was already
well established that coordinated physical movement is necessary to brain
development. Babies and young children naturally perform what experts in early
childhood education call developmental movements. These movements
develop the neural connections in the brain, which are essential to learning.
Dr. Dennison discovered ways to
adapt and sequence these movements so they could be effective for older
children and adults. The result is a system of targeted activities that
enhance performance in all areas – intellectual, creative, athletic, and
interpersonal.
Endorsed by the National
Learning Foundation
Brain Gym has been taught
worldwide in thousands of public and private schools. It has been shown to be
effective in published studies, and it is being incorporated into a growing
number of corporate, institutional, and athletic training programs.
Since 1990, Brain Gym has been
selected annually by the National Learning Foundation, the private-sector
branch of the White House Task Force on Learning, as one of today's leading
technologies for education.
Visit the official Brain
Gym website.
