NeuroMovement Revolution with Anat Baniel

A Conversation with Special Guest Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning science journalist, an author of six books, and an internationally recognized speaker. Her work explores the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, human emotion, and new opportunities and ways for healing. She is the bestselling author of The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine.

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A Conversation with Special Guest Linda Graham
Linda Graham, MFT, is an experienced psychotherapist and Mindful Self-Compassion teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. Linda integrates modern neuroscience, mindfulness, and relational psychology in her international trainings. She is the author of Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and Even Disaster and the award-winning Bouncing Bac...

A Conversation with Special Guest Linda Graham
Linda Graham, MFT, is an experienced psychotherapist and Mindful Self-Compassion teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. Linda integrates modern neuroscience, mindfulness, and relational psychology in her international trainings. She is the author of Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and Even Disaster and the award-winning Bouncing Bac...

Conversation with Special Guest Margaret Paul
Margaret Paul, PhD, is a co-creator of “Inner Bonding ®, a 6-step spiritually based therapeutic modality that heals shame, and the resulting self-abandonment, that is often the root cause of anxiety, stress, depression, low self-worth, addictions and relationship problems.” Dr. Paul is a relationship expert, noted public speaker, workshop leader, educator, chaplain, consultant, auth...

A Conversation with Special Guest Shelly Lefkoe
Shelly Lefkoe is a co-founder and Vice President of Lefkoe Institute, a San Francisco Bay Area firm whose mission is “to significantly improve the quality of life on the planet by having people recreate their lives and live as the unlimited possibilities they are.” Shelly has had the privilege of helping thousands of people examine and eliminate limiting beliefs, and one of her pa...

A Conversation with Special Guest Shelly Lefkoe
Shelly Lefkoe is a co-founder and Vice President of Lefkoe Institute, a San Francisco Bay Area firm whose mission is “to significantly improve the quality of life on the planet by having people recreate their lives and live as the unlimited possibilities they are.” Shelly has had the privilege of helping thousands of people examine and eliminate limiting beliefs, and one of her pa...

Whether home schooling or sending your teen to school under the Covid-19 requirements and restrictions, there are ways to calm yourself and your teen, reduce stress and anxiety, and create inspiring and effective learning processes for the teenager.

In this episode, Anat Baniel discusses:

• her passion for and approach in working with teenagers;
• the importance of being open and using the 9 Essentials to engage with teens;
• examples of...

Whether home schooling or sending your preteen to school under the Covid-19 requirements and restrictions, there are ways to calm yourself and your preteen, reduce stress and anxiety, and create inspiring and effective learning processes for the preteen.

In this episode, Anat Baniel discusses:

• the challenges of learning and studying at home, for both children and adults;
• how to connect with your child by observing (using awareness...

Whether home schooling or sending your child to school under the Covid-19 requirements and restrictions, there are ways to calm yourself and your child, reduce stress and anxiety, and create inspiring and effective learning processes for your young child.

In this episode, Anat Baniel discusses:

• the heightened awareness in typically developing babies and young children;
• how to use the Awareness Essential with your child to potentia...

Whether home schooling or sending your child to school under the Covid-19 requirements and restrictions, there are ways to calm yourself and your child, reduce stress and anxiety, and create inspiring and effective learning processes for your preschool child.

In this episode, Anat Baniel discusses:

• how we are born with a brain that is built to learn;
• that no matter what is going on, your child is learning;
• the importance of followi...

We Are the Medicine: Prioritizing Possibilities to Mitigate Childhood Trauma and Promote Healing and Flourishing
Christina Bethell, PhD, MBA, MPH, is a professor in the Bloomberg School of Public Health University. She also serves as the founding director of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI). Dr. Bethell established and leads the National Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health.

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Jill Bolte Taylor, PhD, is a Harvard trained and published neuroanatomist. In 1996, she suffered a stroke and as a result, she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. It took eight years for her to completely recover all function. In 2008, Dr. Taylor gave the first TED talk that ever went viral: My Stroke of Insight. Her memoir My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey spent 63 weeks on the NY...

Martha Herbert, PhD, MD, is a pediatric neurologist, neuroscientist, systems thinker, and writer who trained in medicine at Columbia University, Pediatrics at Cornell-New York Hospital and Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Herbert is author of The Autism Revolution and a certified Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® Practitioner.

In this episode, Anat Baniel and Martha Herbert discuss: 

• w...

Michael Merzenich, PhD, a world-renowned neuroscientist, is the “father” of brain plasticity science. Dr. Merzenich was awarded the 2016 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, for his work in discovering adult brain plasticity and applying its principles to improve the human condition.

In this episode, Anat Baniel and Michael Merzenich discuss: 

• how brain plasticity can be used to improve your life at any age;
• the key is to wake up the brai...

Growing the Inner Trifecta of Calm, Contentment, and Love
In these unprecedented times of the corona virus pandemic, developing inner calm, resilience, and well-being is especially important. For parents homeschooling their children, and for those with a child with special needs, these practices taught by Dr. Rick Hanson, a Master teacher, therapist, and scientist, are invaluable. 

In this episode, Anat Baniel and Rick Hanson d...

Geordie Trifa is a Canadian film producer, director, and director of photography who has an extraordinary gift for storytelling. He has produced and directed countless commercials and short films shooting on nearly every continent on the globe. 

In this episode, Anat Baniel and Geordie Trifa discuss:

• how he reconnected with his childhood friend Allie to tell the story of her son Nash in the documentary film A Life Unbound; 
• his ne...

The Art & Science of Seeing Possibilities - An Interview with Filmmaker Geordie Trifa
Geordie Trifa is a Canadian producer, director, and director of photography who has worked in the film and television industry for nearly a decade. Geordie’s feature documentary, A Life Unbound, was released in 2018. Geordie is currently in post-production for a feature documenting his personal experience as a parent seeking tools for opti...

How to Apply Positive Brain Change Principles for Success
Schooling will most likely still be affected by the impact of Covid-19 in the fall. Homeschooling will either be a necessity or a choice for many families. In this episode, we address some of the challenges facing children, parents, teachers, and caregivers as education is moved to the home and online. Anat discusses:

• the huge challenges with schools being closed duri...

In this podcast, Anat interviews Richard Miller, PhD, a world-renowned spiritual teacher, author, yogic scholar, researcher, and clinical psychologist. He has worked with veterans, homeless people, women who have escaped human trafficking, people suffering from chronic depression, and others with post-traumatic stress disorder. 

Dr. Miller is the founder of iRest®, a simple and accessible form of meditation designed for modern day l...