“Unstuck” E-book Available for FREE Today!
I’m thrilled to announce the FREE release of my second ebook today: Unstuck. Check it out on Amazon! I’ve been hard at work on this project for many months, and in many ways it is actually the work of a decade. In Unstuck I describe the trajectory of my last ten years of physical activity and exploration, breaking down specific […]
How to Do a Handstand List of Resources
This week continues to be a wild ride! On Monday, I published my first book, “How To Do A Handstand” which hit the #1 Fitness Ebook on Amazon! In case you missed the excitement, here’s the description and cover photo. Below, you will find a ton of additional resources, including a Slideshare I created to teach […]
Where’s Robin? Join me for weekly (free) movement lessons.
There are a lot of new and exciting changes in my life. Over the last 2 years I’ve gone out social dancing 6x nights a week, training gymnastics until 10 or 11pm some nights, and working early into the morning hours. It was a not uncommon occurrence for a flatmate to be getting up for breakfast and […]
Why Movement for Special Needs Children – Robin Discusses Why Movement for Autism
Movement has always been at the center of my pursuits and practices. I now have the honor and privilege of taking more than two decades work of experience and applying these skills to children with special needs. Through an understanding of the basic science of human motor learning acquisition – or how people learn to […]
Try Something New – Robin Discusses Working with a Tantrum
I recently gave a lesson to a little girl with autism. Part way through our series of lessons together she had a tantrum. She is normally very calm. I hadn’t seen this before and I asked her mother if this behavior is usual or unusual. Her mother said that she didn’t really know what was […]
Children with Autism Improve – Reports from Parents
“What is the Anat Baniel Method?” “How does it work?” “Does it make a difference with children with special needs?” These are among the most common questions we hear. To begin to answer some of these we’ve compiled stories from the March 2013 Free Children’s Clinic of parents and children discussing their experience.
FREE Autism Workshop in San Francisco – Oct. 13, 2012
I’m really excited! I am going to be teaching an autism-focused experiential workshop. I’ve been looking for ways to teach parents the principles of the Anat Baniel Method and the Option Philosophy when I am not seeing their children. I also want more practice teaching groups! Thus, I am offering a ninety-minute workshop on the […]
Movement with Attention for your child
Note: this post is intended for parents of children with special needs. If that isn’t your cup of tea there are lots of other posts that may be. Anat Baniel’s first essential is Movement with Attention. The question is how to apply this essential with your child. What’s one new way? 1. Touch your child […]
Anat Baniel Interview
A very authentic interview of Anat on the Anat Baniel Method and Kids Beyond Limits. I love how straightforward she is in sharing her wonder at everyone’s capacity to change. Anat clearly and concisely discusses the difference between mechanical systems and the human brain, which is a learning, information-gathering system. She uses the metaphor of […]