Brain Body Play
Your New Favorite Hobby. Train Your Brain Through Play and Movement
Welcome to Brain Body Play Club
Have you realized the world is designed to make your brain and body lazy or less efficient?
I am here to change that!
Why Coodination Charts and Finger Games?
Play is superior in strengthening the brain & body
Using coordination charts is more like recess instead of homework for brain-body training. These games strengthen the connections between your eyes, inner ear, and muscles. This helps the brain and body communicate better, which leads to better cognition, focus, memory, coordination, balance, decision-making and more.
Hands use more brain power than your entire torso and legs combined.
Finger Games use your hands which take up a huge part of your brain's real estate due to a high number of sensory and motor nerve endings. Finger games challenge the part of the brain that is responsible for timing, accuracy, balance, motor learning, and coordination. The hands are highly effective in training your brain.
About me
Hi, I'm Feather
I'm a movement teacher, licensed massage therapist, applied neurology practitioner, and cerebellar stroke survivor.
For years, I've explored how the brain and body work together through movement, sensory systems, coordination, attention, and practice.
Brain Body Play is the natural evolution of that work.
A place where science, movement, curiosity, and play meet.
Because some of the most powerful learning happens when we stop trying to fix ourselves and start paying attention instead.
I had a progression through exploration that has gone from Pilates to mobility to applied neurology to brain games.
I have found brain games or movement puzzles help me just as much, if not more than, the brain drills I was doing, but FUN.
The combination of movement with the brain has had the biggest impact on me.
Brain drills helped me progress more than I ever did after my stroke, but brain games have helped me sustain it and progress even more, all while playing with my 6 year old son, who has also made improvements in his focus and executive function with these movement puzzles. It's fun for everyone!
Some games are easy, and some are difficult. Everyone is different in how they respond, but we can all make gains with movement puzzles.
Some shout-outs to people who have gotten me this far.
Missy Bunch is who I learned applied neurology from. You can check her out at MissyBunch.com
Coordination charts are a part of applied neurology, but Dr. Jackie takes them to the next level, which is where I learned so much about brain games. You can check her out at CoordinationCharts.com
