Michelle Wheatley
Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® Practitioner.
I can help you or your child:
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Learn gentle, effective ways to improve movement and well-being
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Discover new possibilities and greater ease in daily life
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Wake up the brain to create new connections and patterns
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Improve cognitive, physical and emotional performance
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Feel inspired, empowered, and positive
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 practical tools to support meaningful, positive change in your life.
ABM® NeuroMovement® is a gentle, science-based, whole-body approach that helps people of all ages move, learn, and think with greater ease and awareness. It supports the brain’s natural ability to adapt, grow, and reorganise itself—enhancing 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 well-being. Through this process, many people experience increased flexibility, reduced pain, improved coordination, and an overall sense of greater comfort and vitality in daily life.
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 Stroke survivor |
 Michelle and Anat |
 Training at the Scandinavian Center of Neurodevelopmental Movement |
 Lessons San Rafael |
 Lessons San Rafael |
 Michelle & Evan with Anat |
 Healing Festival IOW |
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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
Lessons
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One-to-one Functional Synthesis Lesson
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Group- Transformational Movement Lesson
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Online Lesson and coaching
A one-to-one Functional Synthesis Lesson. Lessons for Children and Adults
One-to-one Functional Synthesis Lesson (FS).
In a Functional Synthesis lesson, Michelle uses gentle, guided touch and movement to help the brain and body communicate more clearly.
These lessons create the conditions for the brain to recognise new possibilities, refine coordination, and form more efficient patterns of movement and function.
Each session is unique and tailored to the individual’s needs—whether the goal is greater comfort, improved cognition and mobility, or overall well-being.
Lessons for Children
Meeting your child where they are in their learning and development.
Michelle customises each lesson to suit your child’s unique needs, building their skills from their current abilities.
Using the 9 Essentials of the Anat Baniel Method®, Michelle creates an environment that helps your child notice subtle changes in their body, supporting the brain to map new patterns and form fresh neural connections.
Children with Special Needs, Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Dystonia, ADHD, Brain injury, Stroke, Genetic Disorders, Birth Defects, Undiagnosed Developmental Delay and Typically Developing Children. Find out more here.
Lessons for Adults
Meeting you where you are—whether in good health, recovering from illness or injury, or living with ongoing aches and pains—Michelle customises each lesson to suit your individual needs.
She’ll work with you to give you the tools to make what once felt impossible, possible again.
Would you like to: · Relieve pain, · Recover from an injury,
· Increase flexibility, · Improve balance, · Move with greater ease
· Reduce stress, · Enhance your sense of well-being
For General wellbeing, body and brain fitness, pain relief, anti-ageing and wellbeing, rehabilitation and recovery, high performers (musicians/athletes). Find out more here.
Lessons for groups
Transformational Movement Lessons (TML)
Through a series of gentle, guided movements—whether lying on the floor, sitting in a chair, standing, or kneeling—students are encouraged to bring awareness to how they move and to notice subtle differences and possibilities.
These mindful movement lessons can lead to transformational outcomes: pain relief, increased flexibility and stability, improved balance and coordination, cognitive clarity, and a greater sense of vitality and well-being.
Lessons are offered in person and sometimes online.
Online Lessons/Coaching
Online Coaching Sessions
Would you like to make positive changes at home and in daily life?
Through online sessions, I coach you in the 9 Essentials—simple, practical tools to bring more awareness, ease, and connection into your day.
We can talk about areas of home life you’d like to change or strengthen and find new ways to support growth and well-being.
Sessions are held via video call and can include:
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Parent or caregiver with a child
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Adult and caregiver
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One adult individual
Frequently asked questions
For a worldwide listing of Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® (ABMNM®) Practitioners please go to Find a NeuroMovement® Practitioner – NeuroMovement®
