Mindful Movement with Michelle
Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® Practitioner
Would you like to move with less pain—or even become pain-free?
Would you like to improve your balance, flexibility, or overall sense of wellbeing?
If you answered yes to any of these, you’re in the right place.
Through gentle, brain-based movement, I help children and adults unlock greater comfort, ease, and potential—one session at a time.
Book a session with me and begin your journey towards gentle transformation.
I am a certified practitioner in the Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® (ABMNM), with specialisations in Children with Special Needs and Vitality & Anti-Ageing, as well as two additional mentoring programmes directly with Anat Baniel. I’m also trained as an online ABMNM coach.
With a background in education, I worked as a primary (elementary) school teacher in the UK, USA, and Asia for over 10 years. I also hold an MSc in Psychology and am a trained Mental Health First Aider.
My journey with ABMNM began while searching for help for my son, who has complex needs. After visiting the ABM Centre in San Rafael and meeting Anat Baniel in person, I joined the professional training in 2016—and never looked back.
I’m passionate about teaching, coaching, and supporting both individuals and families to create meaningful, lasting change. Whether you're looking to improve your own wellbeing or seeking support for a child with exceptional needs, I bring both professional expertise and personal experience to our work together.
Michelle Wheatley
Anat Baniel Method® Neuromovement® Practitioner - Isle of Wight
Whether you're in good health or living with a limiting diagnosis, the Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® offers tools to support meaningful, positive change in your life.
ABM® NeuroMovement® is a gentle, whole-body, science-based approach that helps people of all ages move, learn, and think more effectively. It supports the brain’s natural ability to adapt, grow, and reorganise itself—improving performance and helping to overcome limitations.
This cutting-edge method works by creating new neural connections in the brain, opening up greater possibilities for movement, cognition, and emotional wellbeing. Through this process, people often experience increased flexibility, reduced pain, better coordination, and an overall sense of greater ease in daily life.
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ABM Neuromovement
Anat Baniel, who was trained by Moshe Feldenkrais himself, worked alongside him and later taught future practitioners. She went on to expand and evolve the Feldenkrais Method, developing the Anat Baniel Method® (ABM®) NeuroMovement®.
With decades of experience, Anat identified the Nine Essentials—core principles that support brain development and learning, and enable positive neuroplastic change.
“Movement is the language of the brain.” – Anat Baniel
ABM® NeuroMovement® is a holistic approach to understanding how our development shapes who we are. While it considers how the musculoskeletal system moves through space, it goes beyond body mechanics. This method acknowledges the dynamic relationship between the brain and body—and how thoughts, emotions, and sensations can manifest physically and influence the nervous system.
Rather than focusing narrowly on a restricted part of the body or using repetitive movements to achieve a fixed outcome, ABM® NeuroMovement® practitioners consider how the entire system is functioning. This whole-person approach makes a wide range of outcomes possible, supporting physical, cognitive, and emotional transformation.
Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® Origins
ABM® NeuroMovement® Lessons
ABM® with Michelle
Coaching
Would you like to learn about ABM® NeuroMovement® through Online coaching?
Primary School Teacher
Find out about incorporating Abm and the 9 essentials into your school. Email
Wellbeing Program
Need a wellbeing program for a business or a residential care home? Email
ABM® NeuroMovement® Mindful Movement Lessons for Children
Using gentle touch and movement, Michelle Wheatley, Mindful Movement, ABM® NeuroMovement® practitioner, helps provide the brain and nervous system with the conditions and information required for it to fill in any gaps it may have in its understanding of itself and the body it controls.
Meeting your child where they are in their learning and development, Michelle will customise the lesson to suit your child and their needs, building their skills from where they currently are. Working with the 9 essentials, Michelle will help provide the environment for your child to differentiate and notice subtle changes in their body, enabling the brain to map and form new neural connections.
ABM® NeuroMovement® Mindful Movement Lessons for Adults
Using gentle touch and guided movement, Michelle Wheatley,Mindful Movement, ABM® NeuroMovement® practitioner, provides the brain and nervous system with the conditions and information required for it to fill in any gaps it may have in its understanding of itself and the body it controls.
Meeting you where you are whether that is in relatively good health, recovering from illness or injury or aches and pains, Michelle will customise the lesson to suit your needs. Michelle will work with you to give you the tools to make the impossible feel possible once again.
Would you like to:
· relieve pain
· recover from an injury
· increase your flexibility
· improve balance
Would you like to:
· move with greater ease
· reduce stress
· enhance sense of well being
ABM® NeuroMovement® Mindful Movement Lessons for groups
Group Lessons are called Transformational Movement Lessons (TML)
Taught through a series of guided instructions, laying on the floor, in a chair, standing or kneeling, students are encouraged to bring attention to their movements, observing subtle differences.
These Mindful Movement Lessons can lead to transformational outcomes, pain relief, increased flexibility and stability, improving existing skills and the acquisition of new ones, cognitive improvement and clarity, vitality and well being.
ABM NeuroMovement® Coaching sessions
Online Coaching Sessions.
Would you like to be coached at home in the 9 essentials?
Are there areas of homelife that you would like discuss?
Would you like positive changes in your life?
Working via a video call with parent/caregiver and child; An adult and caregiver; or 1 adult.
Frequently asked questions
What people are saying...
Testimonials
"I find the quality of the lessons on par with the centre in San Rafael."
"We so enjoyed coming here. S responds very well to you and I find the quality of lessons on par with the centre in San Rafael." Mummy of Miss S.
"Would highly recommend."
"Michelle is an absolute gem - she is personable, professional and as an ABM therapist, she's our favourite. She works so well with our son, she's a joy with him. We often see improvements after intensives with her, and it's so nice to take the time away at the Isle of Wight as a family. Would highly recommend, she's the best!" Mikaere's mummy
"I sleep better!"
"I felt incredibly at ease and relaxed throughout as well as being well informed about the therapy. After lessons with Michelle, I sleep better! My digestion is better. I breathe more deeply, I feel less stressed and the aches in my knee and neck have disappeared." Abi
"She has her wiggle jiggle back!"
"She has her wiggle jiggle back!
Rolling again, front to back.
Reaching while on her tummy.
Attempting to crawl!" Parent of a 3 year old.
"(The lessons) make me feel good!"
"I like them (the lessons) they make me feel good. Afterwards my body feels better. I have made progress. Michelle is excellent." Bob- a stroke survivor.
"I have less pain!"
"Most relaxing, informative and useful.
I have less pain in my right arm." Jacqueline C. -Torn rotator cuff.
"Digestion, speech, feeding and sleep are drastically improved."
"Wonderful! I have never seen Annabelle so comfortable and happy moving. Your ability to read her is Amazing.
She is stronger in her legs, core lower and middle back. Arms crossing midline and chin tuck occurring more regularly.
Digestion, speech, feeding and sleep are drastically improved." Mum to a 15th old with cerebral palsy and dystonia.
"..more smiles and cooing.."
"He is doing so much better so much happier, no more getting his head stuck, lifting his arms higher, more smiles and cooing and definitely using his vision more. I am so pleased." Mummy of infant Sam.