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OFFICIAL SITE Wellness Through Movement for children

Learn what the body knows, the mind doesn’t.

What is Wellness Through Movement?

Learning the physical dimension that fuels vibrant qualities of all development.

regardless of the child’s condition.

WTM > Wellness Through Movement
GSA > Get Sensational Attention program
SB > Sensory Body

What is WTM about?

When the body and mind are harmoniously aware and working together, both function at their best. Children naturally discover an extraordinary sense, referred to here as the “Sensory Body” (SB), which transcends the traditional five senses. By integrating subtle physical inclinations with conscious thought, the SB enables individuals to navigate life through an enhanced interplay of internal and external awareness. This refined faculty of perception is attuned to the inner dimensions of physical experience. By blending insights from physics, neuroscience, psychology, and the innate joy children experience, WTM invites you to understand and embrace this unique perspective.

What age is WTM geared?

WTM lessons can be adapted for children ages 5 to 10 (and all individuals with open minds). For children younger than 5 years old, we work strictly with following their actions with the Feldenkrais® movement methods to enhance their spontaneous processing. For older children, the intellect has to become more involved. See Educational Teachers sub-links in the menu bar for different age groups.

Does your child need to feel a happier wellbeing?

Discovering your Sensory Body (SB) is akin to finding a cherished friend. The journey of understanding it is often more effortless in our younger years, so thank you for helping your children now. The SB serves as a guide, illuminating subtle signals of reality, even during the toughest moments. The SB is only learned by feeling it. Why? It comes from the feeling of wholeness, not just the brain. As neurologist, Jill Bolte Taylor, says, “We are feeling creatures that thinks. Not thinking creatures that feel.” Operate from the connection of the whole in human nature, and children get empowered in a life long skill.

More information can be found on the Science or Audience page.

How does WTM work?

All methods are based on the Feldenkrais® method, developmental movement, and becoming more fully alive. The sensitivity of children are their greatest gifts, if you show them the operating system. The operating system is the “feeling creature,” not thinking creature, they are. For them, they feel “movement” as not just an action but a tangible guidance and insight.

Once the senses, actions, and thoughts unite in sensory perception, children learn to utilize their uniqueness. Motion of sensory impulses, together with attention, become their teacher.

What conditions does this help?

Pick the Audience you are…

Were the WTM techniques tested?

Yes. There was twenty years of research and testing of the WTM program.

After twenty years of research and testing in elementary schools…
Parents report an enhancement of their children’s overall well-being.
Principal Danny Garcia, from our pilot school, praises about the improvement in social-emotional behavior and the elimination of bullying school wide. Listen to Principal Garcia’s Testimonial
Moreover, teachers say their academic performance boosted.

Does it sound too good to be true? We tested it. However, WTM is not about getting good grades, stopping bullying, or improving health. WTM is about learning from a place of the heart.

For forty years studying mind-body connections and thirteen years with schools, Catherine Mitchell and a team of educators, administrators, and child development specialists collaborated, refined, and tested the techniques with children. See the Audience page for more details on what was done with children

Four elementary schools participated. Specifically, Kohala Elementary School (our pilot school) (2008 to 2016) and Hawaii Preparatory Academy’s (HPA) lower school were foundational in helping test the program. See Audience page to read more.

Watch Video for an Overview of WTM

Joe Webster interviews Catherine Mitchell on WTM

Topics in the video above (click topic)

Introduction – Ages & Background

WTM Program – Main Idea, Results, Examples

Developing Intelligence– Foundation to Learning

Missing Key to Traditional Education– Adding the Other Half of Learning

Attention – Example of Internal and External Attention that Changed Learning

Internal & External– The Vessel that Learns

Home Breath– The Process and Science

Long Term Anecdotes– Sustainability

Conclusion– Helping Adults Too

Where do we begin?

Feel it!

We have Introductory lessons and Advanced lessons.

How do you engage an adult brain to recognize the differences in your children’s brains or ways of perceiving? Before you begin, experience the feeling of a lesson. Your body will show so much more than words can explain. Keep in mind this lesson is just a small introductory slice to the program.

Experience a Lesson Lessons for adults and children

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