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5 Essentials for Feeding
Nov 10, 2026
As many of us sit down at a table to eat with friends and family, we forget how easy it is for us to 'eat'. This skill comes before walking. Most of us are unaware of this amazing skill.
There are key pre-feeding skills that need to take place.
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1- Cavitation. Many think of sucking as an infantile reflex pattern. I have found that it's one of our key gravitational responses. As the skull subluxation occurs during a vaginal delivery, a vacuum is created, and the tongue snaps to open up the lung cavities. Very similar science to a champagne cork response.
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2-Various forms of nursing and bottle feedings need to be experienced bilaterally. It's just as important to feed to the right as it is to the left. This is important to know if you only bottle feed your child.
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3-Rolling and tummy time start essential tongue movements as a baby babbles in all directions. If your baby is not doing these skills by 3 months of age, please get your child evaluated; early is critical.
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The Art of Feeding
Nov 03, 2026
The initial ability to respond to a tactile oral experience of objects and food stimuli. The movements through the mouth cavity create the organization of the head in relation to the pelvis. The simple yet complex act of nursing creates an extension of the central nervous system to move beyond its matter. A system that has suffered trauma or is impaired to eat creates an imbalance to the effects and force of gravity on its system functions.
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The development of gravity as the jaw and mouth respond to the simple act of sucking and bringing objects into the mouth creates a system response to opposing gravity. The central nervous system has a more sophisticated response to the development of temperature to the body. As an infant matures from sucking to head control and a more complex swallow of solid food, the internal rate of acceleration increases the same abilities for more complex fine motor skills. When a baby is unable to blow kisses or make raspberries, is it due to th
...How Sitting Affects Developmental Milestones
Oct 27, 2026
“W SITTING” vs. “SIDE SITTING”
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"W Sitting"
1. Painful
2. Locks the pelvis
3. Creates tunnel vision
4. Prevents child from crossing midline
5. Activates abdominal muscles
6. They are stuck in their body; therefore, they are stuck in what they are doing
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"Side Sitting"
1. The child is in neutral and can move in all directions
2. Child can interact with their environment
Principles of Therapeutic Touch
Oct 20, 2026
There is a bond when you touch or are touched by someone. That simple act is not only caring but has deep scientific principles. When do we bond with someone? It's the person who touches us in a way that is pleasing from the inside out.
When you are looking to offer someone help through touch. The initial thought is how to 'fix' them. What can I do to help you is the underlying cause, but we tend to think 'it would be so much better if you could.....'
I was taught that you can't touch or move this slowly. I took that as a challenge. I started thinking about the hidden application of touch. The bond or movement when a person doesn't know or think to know that you are touching them. It's that gentle.
Through many Movement Lesson™ sessions, I found and teach that true touch can be applied with the principles of gravity. When touch is slow, gentle and with rotational properties. An outer body can be applied to and inner body in unity.
You Can't Muscle Through Something You Can't Do!
Oct 13, 2026
You were told you need more muscle to increase stamina.
What if I told you to increase stamina = to less friction/force
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Here’s what we don’t know about gravity.
1- the origin of gravity.
2- how we organize within gravity.
3 - how to interact with it.
4 - the immature to mature levels of interaction.
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Even though the human body is not organized for exterior movements, most observations of accomplishments are valued by exterior performances? Why is that? Functional movement is movement that goes through all major and minor organs. To have more movement, a person needs more stamina. Most people view stamina as power. For instance, you may often hear people claim that, “I need to work out a lot harder for more endurance.” What if I told you that if you reduce friction, you have more stamina? One’s ability to move better with rotational movements in opposition to gravity equates to less friction in those movements.
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Currently, there are no artificial represent...
Understanding The Mechanics of Muscles And Movement
Oct 10, 2026
This is one of my presentations at the International Movement Conference 2017, Oxford University, Oxford, England. www.movementis.com 9-11 July 2017
Turner's Theory of Opposition to Gravity and Locomotion – Oral presentation
Perceptual Motion and Cognitive Development - Oral presentation with Medhini Singaraju
Perpetual motion in human beings: The relationship of movement and acceleration in locomotion - Oral Poster presentation
Initiation and Stimulation of Functional Movement and System Mechanics - Poster presentation with Kimberly N Huggins
Abstracts and select papers will be published in the journal Functional
Neurology, Rehabilitation, and Ergonomics published by Nova Scientific Publishers.
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Abstract: The interaction of the skeletal muscles function best within the immature development of a child’s mind and system mechanics. Muscles play a major role in performing day-to-day activities, and in infants, the ability of the muscle to respo...
How do we learn to move?
Oct 08, 2026
From birth, movement is introduced through the forces of nature. When these processes are interrupted, due to trauma, genetics, and/or environment, they need to be initiated through manual processes found in Movement Lesson™.
It's not about what's wrong. It's about what's missing.
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Our brains are constantly acknowledging Newtonian principles, often offering images of an apple falling from a tree, astounding and its receiver with a thump on the head. We don’t seem to ponder what prompted that particular apple to relinquish its bond to that particular tree. Where in actuality, it is only when an apple’s rotation and buoyancy fail to have an equal presence to gravity that the force of gravity becomes prevalent enough to create a superior binding force. Therefore, the apple does not fall from the tree, it succumbs to this overpowering force of nature.
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Forces, remain a constant, requiring and require no sudden or greater interaction to become dominant as the apple fa...
More Than The Milestones
Oct 06, 2026
The milestone is not the warning. Missing the milestone is not the warning.
Both are outcomes.
When we evaluate child development only by milestones, we are often looking at the end of a much larger developmental process.
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Did the baby roll?
Did they sit?
Did they crawl?
Did they walk?
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Those are important observations. But they don't necessarily tell us how the child's Movement became organized to produce that outcome. A child can achieve a milestone while important Movement relationships are changing underneath it. And a child can miss a milestone for many different reasons.
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That's why, in Movement Lesson™, I'm looking earlier.
What organization existed before the milestone?
What happened as the child moved toward it?
What happened to rotation?
What happened at the midlines?
How did vision participate?
How did the body organize within gravity?
Could the child transition into and out of the Movement...
Gravity: How Does the Body Organize Within It?
Oct 01, 2026
Gravity Has Always Been There. The Question Is: How Does the Body Organize Within It?
I was recently shown this page on Laban Movement Theory, developed in the early 20th century.
And yes—gravity is right there. The framework discusses movement as “giving in to gravity” or moving “against gravity,” alongside direction, space, time, flow, energy, and relationships.
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That history matters.
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But it also illustrates an important distinction in my work with Movement Lesson™. I am not introducing gravity into the conversation about human movement. Gravity was already there.
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What I have been investigating is something different:
How does the developing human body organize Movement within gravity?
A baby is not simply moving against gravity or giving in to it. From birth, the developing system is establishing relationships among gravity, rotation, buoyancy, midlines, vision, balance, counterbalance, acceleration, proprioception, spatial orien
...Chewing and Balance
Sep 29, 2026
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Does your child get these experiences while intubated? Unable to chew solids - due to lack of ability to move with rotational movements. At the same time, a baby delayed or unable to chew will also have issues with balance. We see this also with aging adults. Chewing movements is a huge benefit of a healthy nervous system and internal balance through these subtle yet significant rotational movements.
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