Category Archives: The Learning Switch

2. The Learning Switch – Bring in the New

Classes starting at Santa Rosa Recreation and Parks

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Our first official program for Transformational Movement Lessons (TML) at the Steele Lane Community Center in Santa Rosa starts this week!

Click here for class info at the Santa Rosa Recreation and Parks website

Leslie McClintock and I are the happy caretakers of what was previously known as the Feldenkrais Transformational Movement Class. We hope those who have taken Feldenkrais classes with Jan Peterson, or Dee Cope, will continue to join us Friday mornings at 11am as we explore learning to move with more ease and improve and expand our brain’s connections to moving well.

Neuromovement Transformational Movement (barcode: 78017)
Fri 11:00AM -12:00PM 02-26-2016 -03-18-2016
Hub Room-Steele Lane Community Center

Do you want more from your life? To experience greater ease and comfort? Reduce pain and limitation? Increase your sense of strength and mobility? Transformational Movement Lessons, based on the work of Moshe Feldenkrais and Anat Baniel, can help. Gentle, novel movements, help awaken your brain. Learning creates new neural connections and makes new movement patterns possible. These changes create differences that you can use in your everyday life. Wear layered warm, loose fitting clothing, and bring a towel for extra comfort. Min 12 Max 20 Instructors: Leslie McClintock and Barry Nordby, Certified ABM Practitioners

Source: Santa Rosa Recreation and Parks e-Reg : Classes

Home After a Stroke: Brain Plasticity Will Blow Your Mind

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“New technology confirms that nerve cells can sprout new branches.  For example, Marshall describes cortical regeneration associated with finger-thumb opposition. … New growth is called a neurite until it differentiates into an axon or a dentrite.  Researchers are still learning which chemicals support or hinder the neurogenesis seen in the video.  However, only repeated training makes new dentrites cluster together so they work efficiently as a group.  I haven’t seen research that says how much repetition is needed to produce neuroplasticity.  I’m pretty sure that a few minutes of exercise followed by hours of disuse isn’t enough.”

via Home After a Stroke: Brain Plasticity Will Blow Your Mind.

Education Week: Scientists Find Learning Is Not ‘Hard-Wired’

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“…people really do change their brain functions in response to experience,” said Kurt W. Fischer, the director of Harvard University’s Mind, Brain, and Education Program. “It’s just amazing how flexible the brain is. That plasticity has been a huge surprise to a whole lot of people.”

via Education Week: Scientists Find Learning Is Not ‘Hard-Wired’.