Movement Lesson™ (ML) is a lesson in movement. It's a modality that empowers  parents, therapists, and professionals with knowledge of the fundamental, rotational principles of movement and how to influence it. 

It's more than patterning or putting someone in a movement like standing. With ML™ techniques, you teach the body how to be more coordinated and balanced so it can move correctly instead of waiting and hoping for the body will figure it out.

ML™ focuses on functional movement patterns that create what we deem as milestone movement (eg. rolling over, walking, eating, speaking, riding a bike, throwing a ball, driving a car, washing the dishes, climbing the stairs, and so on). 

ML™ is for anyone who wants to move better, or anyone you want to help move better.

• Moving better could mean helping your baby or child will their milestone development movements
• Moving better could be a child or adult who wants to enhance their athletic  abilities
• Moving better could be helping a person get in and out of their car better, wash the dishes without pain, walking up and down the stairs. looking back over your shoulder, the possibilities are endless. 

The people who often search out what ML™ offers are

• Parents who have children with special needs,
• Parents who are worried about their child and want to get the child off to the right start,
• Persons who have experienced surgery, cancer, strokes, hip and knee replacements, carpal tunnel, broken arms and legs, other injuries and so on. 

What all these people have in common is restriction in movement. So again, who is ML™ for? It's for anyone who wants to move better.

Now remember, Movement Lesson™ does not replace your doctor. When you need medical assistance, get it. But, for example, if you are going into surgery, ML™ should be apart of your pre and post operative care to help your body overcome effectively the trauma of the surgery. 

Several factors differentiate Movement Lesson™ (ML) from other modalities.

1. Most modalities focus on how the brain formats movement, when actually its the other way around. ML teaches you how a child's movements from the first days of birth and beyond. It's your child's learned movement vocabulary formats the brain which influences all of a child's developmental milestones and their ability to transition between those milestones.

2. Instead of focusing on developmental milestone accomplishments (like putting a child in all fours, putting a child in sitting, or putting a child in standing) like most other modalities. Movement Lesson™ instead focuses on the transitional movements between milestone accomplishments.

Transitional milestones are the movements that help a child independently get in and out of developmental milestone movements. Therefore, more focus is going into teaching the body how to balance and counterbalance within itself instead of being stuck in static movements.

3. Another key factor that differentiates ML™ from other modalities is its technique. No other modality consistently uses gentle rotational touch.  

Why is rotation so important? Without rotation in the body, functional movement cannot occur. 

Why is gentle touch so important?  Without gentle touch, rotation cannot be initiated, stimulated, or enhanced in a body system.

Movement Lesson™ is something that can be done at home or in a professional setting. Even the most uneducated parent could learn the principles of ML™ and have success with the technique in the home.* 

ML™ also focuses on teaching the system the foundations of movements, meaning the inchstone movements before the milestone movements. 

A baby doesn't just roll over. Balance, Vision, coordination, weight transfer, the pubic bone  all need to come into play for a child to roll over successfully. 

Another way to say it. We teach you the movements that make up a single milestone movemnet. 

*As disclaimer, in no way should the ML™ technique replace the care and advice of your physician. If you feel uncomfortable performing any ML technique stop. ML should be treated as supplemental care for your child movement needs. Nothing more than gentle touch should be used when applying ML™ techniques in the home. 

The most common response I get from a parent or adult is, "I wish I had found you x time ago." 

Once you try Movement Lesson™ you will see that it starts working immediately. Some persons experience soreness after their first few lessons, like a person does after going to the gym.

The ML™ touch is soft and gentle, but it's teaching the body to work in a more efficient way.  It's making the body work in ways it never has before or hasn't in a long time; therefore, it's normal for someone to feel soreness after a lesson. 

Whether it's your baby, or your own care, one of the most common responses a doctor gives someone when desired movements are not happening is, "Let's wait and see what happens in x time for a, b, or c to happen. If  a, b or c does not happen in x time,  then we'll take action."

For many we accept the answer, "Let's wait and see," because that's all we know to do. But it doesn't have to be that way anymore when it come to improving someone's movement abilities.

Why wait until tomorrow to move better, if it happens, when you can start moving better today? ML™ allows you to take action today so that in 3 months time, or 6 months time, You or your child is moving better than what the doctors expected to happen in that time frame. 

As you invest the time and effort in learning and applying Movement Lesson™ techniques, more often than not the results you get are beyond anything you could have hoped for. 

Let today be that yesterday you should have started, and move better today. 

When in doubt, schedule an appointment. Email [email protected]

In every appointment you are shown how to specifically work with your child's movement needs. 

You can also self evaluate your child using the Newborn Movement Assessment™ (NMA). Don't let the word "Newborn"  fool you into thinking that this assessment is not applicable to a toddler or older. I use this assessment regardless of the person's age. 

With this assessment you can identify the key areas of the body that lack rotation. When you have identified an area that lacks rotation, then that's where you work. 

For example. You do the NMA on your child and their wrist lacks rotation. Then you can search "hand" on the subscription site (www.babymovementlesson.com). Pick one of the videos and start working on putting rotation back into your child's wrist by doing what I do on the video. 

If you need something more step by step, check the products page to see if there are products that address the body part your need to work on. So in the case of the hand, there is a "Hand Series" you could purchase and work on the wrist that way. 

When you improve someones rotation, you improve their movement. If you improve their movements, then you are working on the right exercises for your child. But again when in doubt, schedule an appointment.

No you do not need to have a diagnosis of anything to benefit from ML™ techniques.

But if you do have a diagnosis, at Movement Lesson™ we work with every type of diagnosis: low tone (hypotonia), high tone (hypertonia), rare genetics, autism, trauma, surgery, anything.   

How can ML™ work with any diagnosis? Because regardless of the diagnosis the same techniques are used to help someone move better.

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