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➜ Empower Yourself to Empower the Child: EMBODY. ENVlSlON. ELlClT. EMPOWER.
via NeuroHorizons® Experiential Movement®

Whether child or adult, our brain continually learns, orients, and changes (the process of “neural plasticity”) through movement. So, our attentive and intentional movement is a great way to communicate with the nervous system and enhance our life, every day.

When we learn this for ourselves, we can then translate and transmit key experiences for the child.

A child’s development is a progression of learning through movement and sensation. Children With Special Needs often face an “impasse”: They are missing key experiences that the nervous system needs in order to take a next developmental step.

In the Fundamentals seminar series you learn how to gently move with the child through and beyond these impasses.

Over our 10 seminars (about 15 months) you explore 150+ Experiential Movement® Lessons in depth, including immediate hands-on applications.

Our multi-dimensional yet focused, integrated, and immediately practical curriculum is designed to shift your world, and the world of the child you care for.

One premise of our work is that a child’s habituated neural map is necessarily our starting point, but never the ending point.

Our finely crafted curriculum takes you on a developmental adventure of your own. This learning process loosely mirrors the child’s journey — complete with impasses and breakthroughs — on the path to new neural networks and possibilities.

Once we have embodied this journey for ourselves, we are in a far better position to envision and elicit the child’s native learning process and optimal developmental trajectory.

Our greatest gift to the child is the ability — through our embodied, relational presence — to creatively and fluidly “dance” with them through an expanding neural territory toward each new horizon.
➜ "Dance" With Everyday Neural Plasticity: GROW. SERVE. THRlVE.
Gentle Movement Lessons for Everyday Learning, Change

A child’s development is a progression of learning through movement and sensation. Children With Special Needs often face an “impasse”: They are missing key experiences that the nervous system needs in order to take a next developmental step.

In the Fundamentals seminar series you learn how to gently move with the child through and beyond these impasses.

Over our 10 Fundamentals seminars (about 15 months) you explore 150+ Experiential Movement® Lessons in depth, including immediate hands-on applications.

You gain a first-hand familiarity with the power of neural plasticity, and how intentional movement kickstarts the re-mapping process of the brain and nervous system.

Our multi-dimensional yet focused, integrated, and immediately practical curriculum is designed to shift your world, and the world of the child you care for.

By first embodying Experiential Movement for ourselves ("walking our talk"), we are setting the stage to powerfully translate and transmit our own learning into each personal relationship.

This is how we empower ourselves to empower the kids.

You can then bring these newly embodied attitudes, skills, and tools into a creative "dance" with the child, using Experiential Movement Lessons to envision and elicit their native learning process. You will both delight as the child explores and expands their own neural map.

More specifically, as you embody the work you become a daily source of key movement "lessons" for the child. You translate and transmit your own skillful presence.

Then — sometimes rapidly and sometimes incrementally — the child's brain and nervous system receive and assemble the novel kinesthetic experiences you provide.

Developmental gaps and deficits are mitigated or remedied. The child can then natively do, and be, in ways not possible before.

This is how we leverage the everyday power of neural plasticity.

And, through our seminar program you will start noticing the results very rapidly — first for yourself, and then for the children you care for.

Even after their very first training Segment, our participants report their new-found pleasure of embodied movement, a more vital presence, and improved function and quality of daily life — for themselves and for their loved ones.
➜ Fundamentals Seminar Segments / Dates / Tuition: The Fundamentals of Experiential Movement® seminar series comprises 10 convenient 5-day segments at Sebastopol, California, for a total of 50 in-class days over about 15 months.

Each segment tuition is US$1,200 (travel and lodging not included). Please contact Sylvia for full details regarding deposits (to hold your place) and program policies.

After completing the 10 seminar segments, at your option you may join our 3-day Advanced Practicums, in which you work hands-on with diverse Special Needs Children, with Sylvia's close supervision and support.

There will be modest additional inter-Segment assignments and "homework", mostly involving regular home exploration of the Experiential Movement Lessons as you integrate the work into your daily life.

Please Note: Each sequential program Segment builds on the previous Segment(s). So it is important for your learning, as well as for the cohesiveness of our small group, that you commit to attend all of the 10 Segments.

Please check the seminar dates below for any potential conflicts with your personal calendar.

Series 3 enrollment now open.
Class size limited.

Fundamentals Series 3
All seminars take place in Sebastopol, California
Daily 10:00 to 5:00 (except last day 10:00 to 3:00).

NOTE: All dates are subject to change based on public health circumstances.
2022 Dates
Segment #1: August 27-31, 2022 (Saturday through Wednesday)
Segment #2: September 28- Oct 2, 2022 (Wednesday through Sunday)
Segment #3: November 2-6, 2022 (Wednesday through Sunday)

2023 Dates
Segment #4: January 4-8, 2023 (Wednesday through Sunday)
Segment #5: February 25-March 1, 2023 (Saturday through Wednesday)
Segment #6: April 12-16, 2023 (Wednesday through Sunday)
Segment #7: June 7-11, 2023 (Wednesday through Sunday)
Segment #8: August 16-20, 2023 (Wednesday through Sunday)
Segment #9: September 27- Oct 1, 2023 (Wednesday through Sunday)
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.
➜ Worldwide Program Dates 2020 - 2023: Fundamentals Of Experiential Movement Seminar (FEM) USA Series 1
Fundamentals Of Experiential Movement Seminar (FEM) USA Series 2
Fundamentals Of Experiential Movement Seminar (FEM) USA Series 3
NeuroHorizonsEurope Training Segment (NHE) Cycle 1
NeuroHorizonsEurope Training Segment (NHE) Cycle 2
Professional Supervision Intensives (PSI) Europe
Advanced Practicum (AP) or Professional Supervision Intensives (PSI) USA
Professional Enrichment Seminars (PES)

NOTE: All dates are subject to change based on public health circumstances.
2020
PSI January 3-5, 2020 (Los Angeles, CA) COMPLETED
PSI January 24-26, 2020 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
PSI February 7-9, 2020 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
PSI March 11-13, 2020 (Maui, HI) COMPLETED
FEM1 Seg #1 July 6-10, 2020 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
PSI July 17-19, 2019 (Ravensburg, Germany) COMPLETED
NHE Seg #1 July 22-26, 2020 (Ravensburg, Germany) COMPLETED
FEM1 Seg #2 August 5-9, 2020 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
NHE Seg #2 September 23-27, 2020 (Ravensburg) COMPLETED
FEM1 Seg #3 October 14-18, 2020 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
FEM1 Seg #4 December 2-6, 2020 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED

2021
FEM1 Seg #5 February 10-14, 2021 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
NHE Seg #3 February 24-28, 2021 (Ravensburg) COMPLETED
NHE Seg #4 March 27-31, 2021 (Ravensburg) COMPLETED
FEM1 Seg #6 April 14-18, 2021 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
FEM1 Seg #7 May 8-12, 2021 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
FEM2 Seg #1 May 15-19, 2021 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
NHE Seg #5 May 26-30, 2021 (Ravensburg) COMPLETED
NHE Seg #6 July 15-19, 202) (Ravensburg) COMPLETED
NHE Seg #7 July 21-25, 2021 (Ravensburg) COMPLETED
FEM1 Seg #8 August 14-18, 2021 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
FEM2 Seg #2 August 25-29, 2021 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
PSI #1 September 18-20, 2021 (Ravensburg) COMPLETED
NHE Seg #8 September 22-26, 2021 (Ravensburg) COMPLETED
FEM1 Seg #9 October 6-10, 2021 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
FEM2 Seg #3 October 13-17, 2021 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
PSI #2 October 30 - November 1, 2021 (Ravensburg) COMPLETED
NHE Seg #9 November 3-7, 2021 (Ravensburg) COMPLETED
FEM1 Seg #10 November 17-21, 2021 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
FEM2 Seg #4 December 1-5, 2021 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
NHE Seg #10 December 11-15, 2021 (Ravensburg, Germany) COMPLETED

2022
AP January 7-9, 2022 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
FEM2 Seg #5 January 26-30, 2022 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
PSI #3 February 6-8, 2022 (Ravensburg) COMPLETED
PSI #4 February 10-12, 2022 (Ravensburg) COMPLETED
AP February 25-27, 2022 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
FEM2 Seg #6 March 5-9, 2022 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
AP March 11-13, 2022 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
PSI #5 April 5-7, 2022 (Ravensburg) COMPLETED
PSI #6 April 8-10, 2022 (Ravensburg) COMPLETED
AP April 22-24, 2022 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
FEM2 Seg #7 April 30 - May 4, 2022 (Sebastopol, CA) COMPLETED
PSI #7 May 14-16, 2022 (Ravensburg) COMPLETED
NHE2 Seg #1 May 18-22, 2022 (St. Aegyd, Austria) COMPLETED
NHE2 Seg #2 June 22-26, 2022 (St. Aegyd, Austria)
NHE2 Seg #3 July 23-27, 2022 (St. Aegyd, Austria)
FEM2 Seg #8 August 17-21, 2022 (Sebastopol, CA)
FEM3 Seg #1 August 27-31, 2022 (Sebastopol, CA)
NHE2 Seg #4 September 14-18, 2022 (St. Aegyd, Austria)
FEM3 Seg #2 September 28- Oct 2, 2022 (Sebastopol, CA)
NHE2 Seg #5 October 12-16, 2022 (St. Aegyd, Austria)
FEM2 Seg #9 October 26-30, 2022 (Sebastopol, CA)
FEM3 Seg #3 November 2-6, 2022 (Sebastopol, CA)
NHE2 Seg #6 November 16-20, 2022 (St. Aegyd, Austria)
FEM2 Seg #10 December 3-7, 2022 (Sebastopol, CA)

2023
FEM3 Seg #4 January 4-8, 2023 (Sebastopol, CA)
NHE2 Seg #7 February 11-15, 2023 (St. Aegyd, Austria)
FEM3 Seg #5 February 25-March 1, 2023 (Sebastopol, CA)
NHE2 Seg #8 March 29 - April 2, 2023 (St. Aegyd, Austria)
FEM3 Seg #6 April 12-16, 2023 (Sebastopol, CA)
NHE2 Seg #9 May 24-28, 2023 (St. Aegyd, Austria)
FEM3 Seg #7 June 7-11, 2023 (Sebastopol, CA)
FEM3 Seg #8 August 16-20, 2023 (Sebastopol, CA)
FEM3 Seg #9 September 27- Oct 1, 2023 (Sebastopol, CA)
FEM3 Seg #10 December 2-6, 2023 (Sebastopol, CA)

To schedule individual movement lessons for your child:
Please contact me through www.Sylvia.live

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.