Evolution of the Anat Baniel MethodSM 
From the work of mind-body pioneer Moshe Feldenkrais

Anat Baniel’s original and highly effective approach has evolved from her background in clinical psychology, creative expression (dance), and her extensive study and work with Moshe Feldenkrais. The Anat Baniel Method has grown out of the immediate, long-term successes she has produced with tens of thousands of men, women, and children the world over—from high performance athletes, business people, scientists, and musicians to people with neurological trauma and tiny babies with severe developmental challenges and from training thousands of future Feldenkrais Practitioners, Anat Baniel Method Practitioners, and 30 years of professional experience in her own thriving, highly successful practice.

"Anat uniquely combines her personal history with Feldenkrais, her ability to communicate clearly the theoretical and practical underpinnings of her work and her commitment to help practitioners apply the work in a profound way with clients to produce remarkable results. Having the opportunity to learn from Anat is a blessing in my life."
~ Clair Conley, ABM and Feldenkais Practitioner, President, CIC Consulting Inc.

Her studies and work with Feldenkreis have had by far the most profound impact on her thinking and practice. She has developed lessons and cutting edge techniques that offer highly effective natural pain relief, anti aging solutions, greatly increased flexibility in mind and body, and ways to achieve lifetime fitness and vitality.  She has developed a cutting edge highly effective method for working with special needs children.

Through her extensive knowledge of brain research and in-the-trenches experience, Baniel has identified commonly accepted but nevertheless injurious patterns—in our daily habits, in formal education, and in our earliest childhood experiences—that stop our brains from growing and evolving.  More important, she has defined nine key requirements—The Nine Essentials®—for our brains to wake up, grow beyond past limitations, and thrive, rewarding us with enhanced strength, intelligence, well-being, and ability to relate to others. These same nine essentials are the basis for the seemingly miraculous outcomes that Anat and the ABM practitioners she has trained, witness on a daily basis with children with special needs they work with.

In the thousands of hours that Anat spent being trained by Moshe Feldenkrais, observing him work with clients and groups, and later working with him and teaching side by side, coupled with her own extensive knowledge and experience, Anat continuously searched to understand more fully and clearly the principles and the thinking underlying his work. From the beginning, she experimented daily exploring alternate techniques and approaches while trying to help his and her clients. As a result of this process Ms. Baniel has organized this body of knowledge into a structured and communicable whole.

In addition to filling in gaps in explanation, theory, and practice in what she has learned from and observed of Feldenkrais’s work and teaching, she identified important additional areas where the same principles and understanding can and should be applied. Specifically, she has expanded the work to include the emotional, the intellectual, the spiritual, and the ability to feel in order to bring about transformational outcomes for her students, young and old.

Her deeply rooted knowledge, and years of intensely dedicated work with Moshe Feldenkrais, gives her a multitude of insights into every aspect of awareness and freedom of movement. Working with Anat Baniel is a total pleasure and exhilarating experience."
~ Daniel Kobialka, Violinist, San Francisco Symphony

Ms. Baniel’s past and current work training hundreds of Anat Baniel Method and Feldenkrais practitioners is a constant source for her continued experimentation further development of her method and the scientific principles of effective learning, change, and improved performance. Trusting in the evolutionary quality of the process, Anat constantly develops new understandings and new techniques and encourages her trainees to do the same in way of helping clients overcome limitations and discover delightful life giving possibilities. Her ABM method promotes not only the development of better movement and awareness, but also incorporates the evolution and improvement in the areas of thinking, feeling, emotion and human interaction.

"I am moved to tears over and over by the quality of Anat's contact with children and adults, by the changes that occur simply and quickly. Anat, thank you for your kindness and support in this work; I have felt the Method in a new way."
~ Josie Davenport, LMT, LCSW, Gestalt psychotherapist, Feldenkrais Practitioner, ABM for Children Practitioner

Anat Baniel & Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais

 “Anat has evolved to a point few can match, let alone surpass. She is indeed a unique asset to those who have the good fortune to come into contact with her."
~ Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais