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SYLVlA LElNER SHORDlKE
NEUROHORlZONS® EXPERlENTlAL MOVEMENT®

Empower Yourself to
Empower the Child With Special Needs

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Optimize every child's developmental trajectory
regardless of the challenge or disability
via NeuroHorizons® Experiential Movement®



North America's premier movement education programs uniquely dedicated to the parents, caregivers & professionals supporting the Child With Special Needs


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Fundamentals of Experiential Movement®

Seminar Series for Parents & Caregivers
Supporting the Child With Special Needs

Continuing Education Programs

for NeuroHorizons®, Feldenkrais®, NeuroScanBalance®, and Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® Graduates

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"The joy factor has exponentially increased in our life. I continue to be astounded by the profound physical, mental, and emotional changes within myself and for my Special Needs Child.

I could immediately use what I learned with my boy, and his movement and language are shifting and growing at a remarkable pace. After all the years of trying other modalities, my connection with my son has now transformed into a distinct experience of joy, freedom and flexibility."

Annemarie Miller
NeuroHorizons graduate & Mother of Special Needs Child


“I've learned to work with my daughter with cerebral palsy in ways I never knew were possible. Attentive movement has become an automatic part of our daily routine — if I am touching my daughter we are learning together. Watching each little change through everyday neural plasticity has been amazing. This program has been a one-of-a-kind, life-changing experience for us both.”

Cassie Baker
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 graduate & Mother of Special Needs Child





Focused, Experiential Seminars & lntensives.
Small, ln-Person Groups = Personalized & Effective Learning.
ln the Americas & Europe.

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“As a Neuropsychologist working with individuals on a spectrum of neurocognitive capacities and degenerative conditions, the NeuroHorizons program has shifted so much for me. In other movement programs I've been handed concepts and techniques, but it is here in our NeuroHorizons small group that I developed the missing piece — the much deeper embodied awareness and relational presence.

With this profound learning I've slowed down, become much more attentive to my own experience and that of others, and now bring far more of myself to my clients, to my family, everywhere. The outcomes are remarkable. Plus, I've never had so much fun learning!”

Erin Warnick, Ph.D
NeuroHorizons Graduate and Anat Baniel Method graduate

“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, as well as for us experienced practitioners to refine our hands-on work and deepen our embodiment.

It's amazing to observe the speedy learning by my NeuroHorizons classmates who are new to this work — their already deep understandings and gentle, attentive, relational touch after just a few segments. Truly impressive.”

Verena Kurz
Anat Baniel Method NeuroMovement Practitioner and NeuroHorizons Trainee

Entirely ln-Person.
lndividualized.
Experiential.
Empowering.


Individualized Instruction
with Master Teacher & Trainer


SYLVlA LElNER SHORDlKE

Founder of the
NeuroHorizons® Experiential Movement® Learning Programs

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Author of

The NeuroHorizons Primer:
Empower Yourself to Empower the Child With Special Needs

The essential "big-picture" handbook for movement practitioners, parents, and caregivers seeking to elevate their service to Children With Special Needs.

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California Seminars for Parents & Caregivers

Fundamentals of Experiential Movement®

ln-person and personalized learning
for parents and caregivers.

Sebastopol, California

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, offering parents and caregivers new skills and techniques that bring more vitality into their own lives, while also learning how to more effectively support the Child With Special Needs.

Through these seminars you learn to empower yourself to empower the child.

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⦿  Ten 5-day seminars teach you — through your personal exploration of Experiential Movement® — the new awareness, skills, and habits that empower you to bring an embodied, fluid, and spacious relational presence to the child or children you care for. By evolving this self-awareness and personal “differentiation” and “organization” for yourself, you are then able to model them for your loved ones.
⦿  The immediate, sustained, and individualized focus is your own multidimensional immersion (experiential, cognitive, and hands-on) into the fundamentals, skills, techniques, and activities of our method of enhanced movement. You simultaneously learn how to translate and transmit your growing personal awareness in ways that more effectively support your Special Needs Child. Advanced Practicum opportunities are also available.


⦿  You are taught in-person by Master Teacher Sylvia Leiner Shordike, author of The NeuroHorizons Primer: Empower Yourself to Empower the Child With Special Needs. The small-group setting (maximum 14 participants) assures a highly individualized and potent learning experience tailored to your needs.
⦿  Throughout the Fundamentals we explore the questions and challenges commonly faced by parents and caregivers supporting the Special Needs Child. You experience the transformative power of neural plasticity for yourself, through the framework of intentional movement. You will then appreciate how that dynamic process and the empowering tools and techniques of Experiential Movement can be placed in service of your child’s own journey.
⦿  Our ultimate purpose is that you bring more clarity, ease, grace, creativity, and pleasure into your life and family.


Fundamentals of Experiential Movement®
(Series 3, 2022-23)
Enrollment now open.
Sebastopol, CA
Class size limited.

For dates and details please see the "Program Details" page.

Please Note:  The Fundamentals seminars are designed and presented for your personal learning goals. As with all other movement education programs of our genre, these seminars do not offer or grant you any academic credit or credential, or opportunity for professional / governmental licensure. Nor will your completion of these experiential seminars by itself lead to employment or income in any job or occupation.

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Supervision lntensives for Practitioners

Experiential Continuing Education

Sylvia's Professional Supervision lntensives are the innovative, highly personalized continuing education programs she originated in 2012. They serve movement practitioners of all levels of experience who seek to hone their skill and craft working with children. Each 3-day PSI is limited to 10 participants, and is taught personally by Sylvia.

For worldwide PSl and Advanced Practicum schedules please see the "Program Details" page.

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✔︎  Observe a seasoned practitioner as she works with a variety of children and/or infants with special needs.
✔︎  Give lessons to these same children yourself, and interact with the parents. You are welcome to bring your own special needs client, if the parents agree to working in this supervision format.
✔︎  Benefit from direct feedback and professional supervision, in an intimate and supportive group (no more than 10 practitioners).
✔︎  Alternate between giving, observing, and experiencing lessons, with ample time for questions, discussion, and integration.
✔︎  Expand your confidence in identifying and supporting optimal developmental trajectories of children facing diverse challenges.
✔︎  Discuss concepts, techniques, cautions, and issues of professional practice.
✔︎  Three full days of multi-dimensional professional advancement. Ample time for supportive, collegial Q&A.
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NeuroHorizonsEurope: All About the Kids

Europe's Premier Movement Training Program


Europe’s Premier, Personalized
Movement Training Program
Dedicated to Empowering You
To Empower the Child With Special Needs

Sankt Aegyd am Neuwalde, Austria


Whether you are supporting your own Special Needs Child,
or want to serve others, our focused, dynamic, transformative
(and entirely in-person) training program gives you the
small-group education, experience, skill, and confidence to
optimize the developmental trajectories of these great kids.

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NeuroHorizons®, Experiential Movement®, and A Child's Neural Map is Not the Territory® are registered trademarks of Sylvia Shordike.

Feldenkrais® and Feldenkrais Method® are registered trademarks of Feldenkrais Guild Corporation California.

Anat Baniel Method® and NeuroMovement® are registered trademarks of Movement Coordination Learning, Inc. DBA Anat Baniel Method Corporation.

Sylvia is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner(cm) and a Certified Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® Childrens Mastery Practitioner.

My programs are neither affiliated with, nor sponsored or endorsed by, the Feldenkrais Guild or Anat Baniel or the Anat Baniel Method.

All text and photos ©2007-2022 Sylvia Shordike