⦿ The Fundamentals seminar series is the only small-group, entirely in-person, and fully individualized experiential learning program of its kind in North America.
⦿ Master Practitioner and Teacher Sylvia Leiner Shordike has distilled her nearly 30 years of professional experience serving children into a unique synthesis of cognitive, experiential, hands-on, and practicum instruction.
⦿ The curriculum empowers parents and caregivers with new awareness, skills, and attitudes that bring more vitality into their own lives, while also optimizing the developmental trajectory of the Child With Special Needs.
You learn to empower yourself to empower the child.
Sooner than you might imagine.
⦿ Throughout the Fundamentals we explore the questions and challenges commonly faced by parents and caregivers supporting the Special Needs Child.
⦿ Over ten 5-day seminars you experience the transformative power of neural plasticity for yourself, using the framework of gentle, intentional movement. It is through your personal exploration of Experiential Movement® that you develop the new awareness, skills, and habits that empower you to embody a fluid, spacious, and skillful relational presence.
⦿ By evolving this self-awareness, and personal “differentiation” and “organization” for yourself, you are then able to model them for your loved ones. You now have the keys to empowering the child or children you care for.
⦿ You are taught in-person (there is NO Zoom-type teaching) by Master Teacher Sylvia Leiner Shordike, author of The NeuroHorizons Primer. This assures a highly individualized and potent learning experience tailored to your needs. You quickly bring more clarity, ease, grace, and pleasure into your life and family.
“A huge awakening, and life changing for me and my Special Needs son. Far more integration, ease and freedom. As I experience my own skeleton and nervous system in new ways, how I work with my son also shifts; small, subtle, movements are really effective.
I came to this training for my son, but now I realize how much I need this for myself too, so I can grow old and still move :)”
Jean Smyth
NeuroHorizons Graduate &
Mother of Special Needs Child
“Sylvia's insistence on a small group, in-person, personalized learning environment is so healing and empowering. Her teaching style is dynamic and down-to-earth, crystal clear and encouraging for the parents who have never studied this genre of movement work. Truly impressive.”
Verena Kurz
NeuroHorizons Graduate & NeuroMovement Graduate
"I have been able to slow myself down, observe more, and become less stressed (which my husband appreciates :) From our very first Segment I've been connecting very differently with my Special Needs daughter, allowing her to do more, try more, make more mistakes, and thus have more experiences. She is becoming more alert, aware, and communicative. So, really big benefits for my family."
Christine Hengst
NeuroHorizons Graduate &
Mother of Special Needs Child
“Exactly what I was looking for: The opportunity to learn about how I move my own body, so that I can be the best possible role model for my daughter. I feel much better in my own skin, and there is a new sense of curiosity about options for myself, and for my child. Your embodied teaching, clarity, humor, passion, and generosity bring so much life to this learning. Thank you!”
Daniela I., Ph.D
NeuroHorizons Graduate &
Mother of Special Needs Child
Fundamentals of Experiential Movement®
Enrollment now open (Series 4 begins August 26, 2023)
Sebastopol, CA
Class size limited.
➤; Find more program specifics on the "Program Details" page.
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