Often children enjoy doing their Neurodevelopmental Movement. Children, frequently comment that the movements help them feel calm, or more alert or “better”.

Sometimes children will find certain movements challenging at first, then much easier as they begin the process of integrating their reflexes. When movements are challenging, we do them in small parts, with lots of encouragement, and progressively work up to the whole movement sequence so that the child feels successful throughout the process.

While human beings are designed to move and to experience pleasure with movement, some children are very sensitive to movement or are lethargic and do not enjoy moving at first. With sensitive or lethargic children we begin with little amounts of movement and gradually build up to longer amounts. For very sensitive children, we’ve seen excellent progress when parents begin the movements while their child is sleeping.

We can also learn playful ways to engage our children while we do movement or we can offer playtime after we are complete with the more difficult movements. Besides the benefits from the movements themselves, children also enjoy connecting with their parents.