August Featured Expert: Erin Jade (Movement With A Brain)
HandEyeBody Academy’s August Featured Expert is Erin Jade, founder of Movement With a Brain.
She will discuss benefits/implications of how hand-eye coordination games recruit the different areas of the brain. We’ll address the importance of recruiting rhythm, timing, bilateral and visual skills to performance and overall health.
Access to the live and recorded interview and workshop will be available through the HandEyeBody Academy member portal. Join live from 11:00am-12:00pm EST on Tuesday, August 25 2020.
Erin has a degree in art and considers creativity in its many forms to be a core value in her life, work and parenting her son. In addition to writing and making music, teaching and movement have been a mainstay in her life since teaching dance to her stuffed animals as a child. She has been offering yoga & movement instruction and manual therapy to a wide range of ages and abilities since 2004. Teaching a large spectrum of abilities and needs over the years has shaped her ability to adapt, invent and continually seek education for a generous tool box from which to draw. She believes that class content should translate to functional skills applicable to every-day life so we may remain and become confident to participate in all the activities we enjoy.
She considers it vital to assess and improve the way our nervous system functions because movement output quality and quantity hinges upon how we absorb and process information in the brain. We take in information by way of the inner ear (vestibular system) visual system (coordination and strength of eyes and visual areas of the brain including how vision informs posture, gait, balance and more) and proprioception (sense of body in space), and can make huge gains by training these sensory systems. She also considers play and imagination critical to evolving the human species.
In addition to vision and vestibular training, her classes incorporate breathing, joint mobilization, dynamic balance, foot mobility, active stretching, stabilization, coordination, floor work and deliberate rest. She frequently utilizes resistance bands, blankets, socks and balls for both brain-enhancement, play, therapy.
She also offers unique, brain-centered education for yoga and movement teachers looking to expand their knowledge base in a competitive market via online courses and a monthly membership.
Learn more about Erin and her work at www.movementfluency.net