BG Workshops

Professional Development Classes for Early Childhood Educators

These classes are PDIS approved (https://www.coloradoshinespdis.com/s/pdislogin?language=en_US) for licensing credit.

This hands-on, interactive 2 hour introductive class will provide you with take away tools for you to use right away with staff, and children of all ages. This course is an overview and introduction to why movement-based learning develops the WHOLE BRAIN and why whole brain activation is critical for optimal physical, emotional, and cognitive development in the most critical window of child development-infant-age 5.

Cost: $50.00 Fee : Email info@integratedlearningacademy.com for payment submission.

This class can be held via Zoom or in person in Boulder, CO.

Dive into the world of your own pregnancy and experience the curiosity, the wonder and the joy. Recognise patterns that have existed at this crucial moment and continue to appear again and again in your life to this day. In this workshop you will work on two levels: On the one hand, you come into contact with your curiosity and fascination of your own incarnation. On the other level, you will receive information on how to accompany and support pregnant women. In addition, you will receive relevant information on dealing with adopted children, foster children, as well as their families of origin.

• awareness from the beginning • mother/fatherhood • support during pregnancy • stages of pregnancy and the period after it • early bonding • balances

Workshop founder: Renate Wennekes

Regain the joy of movement! Improve body awareness, balance, coordination and mobility through gentle movements and exercises. Learn Brain Gym® Activities to improve focus, concentration, organization and communication and to feel calm, relaxed and centred. Learn how to move in daily life situations with more safety and surety. Pay what you can. Email dana.luekbe@sunergos.com for the link.

Go over different Brain Gym movements that can help with stress relief.
Also active questions and discussion to specific situations and environments.

Looking back on our early childhood, we rediscover some of our unconscious belief systems and programs. What have I copied, what have I accepted or created myself and what inhibits my happiness, my success and my ability to experience and perform ? Attitudes, values, behaviours of the family of origin, society and own experiences determine the framework in which I live. A journey to openness, truth, development and compassion. What am I holding on to ? With what rigid expectations do I try to impose my will on myself or others ?

This course in for Brain Gym® Instructor/Consultants who are interested in learning ways of working with seniors. The goal of the work is to provide people with a toolbox of inner resources and simple, enjoyable movements they can use anytime, anywhere to improve their brain-body connections and awareness, their balance, coordination and mobility, and to move with ease and joy.

Participants will learn from exploring the architecture of the human body, from movement and somatic experiences and by learning specific exercises and techniques. This course will focus on movement seated and standing. These methods have been used with success in community continuing education programs as well as private sessions and as a fall prevention program at a senior residence.

For more information and to register email or phone Dana Luebke.

The early childhood reflexes form the basis for physical, emotional and cognitive development. The reflexes provide us with the first movement experiences, control our birth and ensure our survival in the first months after birth. Experience this on your own body and discover what influence a lack of integration or inhibition of natural development can have on your posture, movement or reactions in everyday life, on learning and on relationships. Use this workshop to work on your posture and movement patterns and to support the development of the children.

• reflexes and reactions as the foundation of our development • protective, grasp and postural reflexes • balances

Workshop founder: Renate Wennekes

Experience a sequence of safe and simple activities especially for relieving stress. This includes several relaxing Brain Gym movements and a gentle acupressure-tapping technique frequently used to defuse the pain of extreme stress. The 90-minute session is designed to be immediately helpful and can be repeated on your own independently as often as needed afterwards, using the free follow-up materials. Usually Saturdays 10:00 AM Central. Dates and times are negotiable.

Interested in rapidly improving your ability to organize, focus, and communicate? Want some tools to share with your family or your students? In this active introductory workshop (which is the first day of "Brain Gym 104") learn how to use specially designed physical movements for relaxed alertness and sharp concentration. Brain Gym is a powerful, effective, and safe program leading to Peak Performance for all of our important moments!

BRAIN GYM FOR INFANTS, TODDLERS, AND PRESCHOOLERS – MAKING THE BODY/BRAIN CONNECTION WITH MOVEMENT 6-8 pm MST
Professional Development Classes for Early Childhood Educators

These classes are PDIS approved (https://www.coloradoshinespdis.com/s/pdislogin?language=en_US) for licensing credit.

This hands-on, interactive 2-hour introductory class will provide you with take-away tools to use immediately with staff, and children of all ages. This course is an overview and introduction to why movement-based learning develops the WHOLE BRAIN and why whole brain activation is critical for optimal physical, emotional, and cognitive development in the most crucial window of child development, infant-age 5.

Cost: $50.00 Fee: Email info@integratedlearningacademy.com for payment submission

Take a loving look at your own birth and experience once again how this fundamental change felt coming to this world. Explore how you deal with changes in your everyday life today. How does your birth experience affect your life in our modern, fast-paced world ? How can we prepare to “give birth” to something new ? In this workshop you will learn about childbirth and how you can support yourself and others in preparing for the birth process.

• preparation for childbirth • phases of birth • bonding • to be welcome and customise • balances

Workshop Founder: Renate Wennekes

Our ability to adapt to constantly changing circumstances depends heavily on the fact that someone is there for us who understands us and fulfils all our dreams. Who was able to receive all this ? The disappointment, the feeling of being left alone and the feeling of being separated casts a shadow on our adult love life, our partnership and our relationships. The early childhood bond during pregnancy, childbirth and in the months immediately after birth allows us to experience security, trust and closeness to the mother’s body. The bonding reflex is an essential support in rediscovering closeness to oneself and to others. Restore your natural ability to love and engage in relationships. The bonding reflex is a great help to rediscover the closeness within self and others. How connected am I within myself and others in relationship ? How do I feel about relationships ? Where do I lose energy ? How do I feel with closeness and distance ?

Workshop founder: Renate Wennekes

This 16 hour course is open to anyone. The goal of Brain Body Balance is to provide people with a toolbox of inner resources and simple, enjoyable movements they can use anytime, anywhere to improve their brain-body connections and awareness, their balance, coordination and mobility, and to move with ease and joy.
The course includes principles and techniques drawn from Brain Gym®, Movement Exploration, Qi Gong, body mapping and somatic practices as well as Dana Luebke’s extensive dance experience. It was developed working with seniors over 12 years. Participants will learn from exploring the architecture of the human body, from movement and somatic experiences and by learning specific exercises and techniques. The method has been used with success in community continuing education programs as well as private sessions and as a fall prevention program at a senior residence.

The workshop runs for the two days preceding the Brain Gym® Festival 2025, in Torre Pellice, 65 km from Turin, Italy.
More information and registration here:
https://www.kinesiologiaeducativa.it/festival-brain-gym-2025-torre-pellice/festival-program/pre-festival-english

During this 2-days course (16h), you will learn a very simple technique you will be able to use for your own healing and/or for supporting the healing of others.

This method was developped by Sharon Plaskett (Brain Gym® and Touch For Health International faculty) and is so easy that even a child can learn and use it. It consists of Interface process, a focused meditation for easing the effects and stress of trauma, combined with a canopy, that creates a space for healing. Interface is a powerful tool for relaxation and stress reduction, with a goal of turning stress into strength.

If you are a certified therapist, you may combine this technique with others you already use.

This class is open to everyone. There are no prerequisites.