NeuroHorizons: A Child's Neural Map is Not the Territory




Optimize Every Child's
Developmental Trajectory
Regardless of the Challenge or Disability
via NeuroHorizons® Experiential Movement®


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Europe's premier movement training program
uniquely dedicated to the parents, caregivers & professionals supporting the Child With Special Needs


  ;  Experiential Programs & Practicums Focused on the Kids

  ;  Small, ln-person Groups = Personalized & Effective Learning


  ;  Empowering Tools & Skills, Sooner Than You Might lmagine





Parents & Caregivers
Empowering Themselves
to Empower the Child



CONGRATULATlONS
EU GRADUATES
CLASSES OF 2021 & 2023!



"The joy factor has exponentially increased in our life. I continue to be astounded by the profound physical, mental, and emotional changes within myself and for my Special Needs Child.

I could immediately use what I learned with my boy, and his movement and language are shifting and growing at a remarkable pace. After all the years of trying other modalities, my connection with my son has now transformed into a distinct experience of joy, freedom and flexibility."

Annemarie Miller
NeuroHorizons Graduate &
Mother of Special Needs Child


“For my Special Needs daughter I wanted a method applying the concepts of neuroplasticity. This training has greatly increased my awareness of all the interconnections of the body, which is particularly useful and interesting to me. It's been really enjoyable.”

Rahmi Imamoglu, Ph.D (Biochemistry)
NeuroHorizonsEurope graduate &
Father of Special Needs
Child




“I've learned to work with my daughter with cerebral palsy in ways I never knew were possible. Attentive movement has become an automatic part of our daily routine — if I am touching my daughter we are learning together.

Watching each little change through everyday neural plasticity has been amazing. This program has been a one-of-a-kind, life-changing experience for us both.”

Cassie Baker
NeuroHorizons Graduate &
Mother of Special Needs Child

“After each Segment I came away feeling empowered, gaining confidence in myself and my ability to help my Special Needs son. You deliver a wonderful, experiential learning process in which I discover new movements, tools, and understanding, and which allow me to re-create the process at home for my own children."

Aideen Roddy
NeuroHorizons Graduate &
Mother of Special Needs Child





"Dance" with
Everyday
Neural Plasticity
via NeuroHorizons®
Experiential Movement
®





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⦿   NeuroHorizonsEurope is the only small-group, entirely in-person, and fully individualized experiential learning program of its kind in greater Europe.

⦿   Master Practitioner and Teacher Sylvia Leiner Shordike has distilled her nearly 30 years of professional experience serving children into a unique synthesis of cognitive, experiential, hands-on, and practicum instruction.



⦿   The curriculum empowers parents and caregivers with new awareness, skills, and attitudes that bring more vitality into their own lives, while also optimizing the developmental trajectory of the Child With Special Needs.

You learn to empower yourself to empower the child.
Sooner than you might imagine.




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Individualized Instruction
with Master Teacher & Trainer


SYLVlA LElNER SHORDlKE

Founder of the
NeuroHorizons
® Experiential Movement® Learning Programs

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Author of

The NeuroHorizons Primer:
Empower Yourself to Empower the Child With Special Needs

The essential "big-picture" handbook for movement practitioners, parents, and caregivers seeking to elevate their service to Children With Special Needs.

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 Over ten 5-day training segments we explore the questions and challenges commonly faced by parents and caregivers supporting the Special Needs Child.
⦿   You experience the transformative power of neural plasticity for yourself, using the framework of intentional movement. By evolving this self-awareness, and personal “differentiation” and “organization” for yourself, you are then able to model them for your loved ones.


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  It is through your personal exploration of Experiential Movement® that you develop the new awareness, skills, and habits that empower you to embody a fluid, spacious, and skillful relational presence — keys to empowering the child or children you care for.
⦿  You are taught in-person (there is NO Zoom-type teaching) by Master Teacher Sylvia Leiner Shordike, author of The NeuroHorizons Primer. This assures a highly individualized and potent learning experience tailored to your needs. You bring more clarity, ease, grace, and pleasure into your life and family.

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“A huge awakening, and life changing for me and my Special Needs son. Far more integration, ease and freedom. As I experience my own skeleton and nervous system in new ways, how I work with my son also shifts; small, subtle, movements are really effective.

I came to this training for my son, but now I realize how much I need this for myself too, so I can grow old and still move :)”

Jean Smyth
NeuroHorizons Graduate &
Mother of Special Needs Child


"There are so many things I thought were not possible, or maybe only possible for others. But now I know they are possible for me. I started this training mainly for my Special Needs daughter, but then on top of that I really learned to develop myself."

Roland Mueller
NeuroHorizonsEurope graduate &
Father of Special Needs Child


“Exactly what I was looking for: The opportunity to learn about how I move my own body, so that I can be the best possible role model for my daughter.

I feel much better in my own skin, and there is a new sense of curiosity about options for myself, and for my child. Your embodied teaching, clarity, humor, passion, and generosity bring so much life to this learning. Thank you!”

Daniela I., Ph.D
NeuroHorizons Graduate &
Mother of Special Needs Child

Sylvia's insistence on a small group, in-person, personalized learning environment is so healing and empowering. Her teaching style is dynamic and down-to-earth, crystal clear and encouraging for the parents who have never studied this genre of movement work. Truly impressive.”

Verena Kurz
NeuroHorizons Graduate &
NeuroMovement Graduate

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NeuroHorizonsEurope Experiential Movement®
Enrollment now open (Series 3 begins July 2024)
Seligenstadt, Germany (next to Frankfurt)
Class size limited.


;  Find more program specifics on the "Program Details" page.


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Please Note:  As with all other movement education programs of our genre, these seminars do not offer or grant you any academic recognition, credit or credential, or opportunity for professional / governmental licensure. Nor will your completion of these experiential seminars by itself lead to employment or income in any job or occupation.





NeuroHorizons® is the registered EU, UK, Mexico, and USA trademark of Sylvia Shordike. Experiential Movement®, and A Child's Neural Map is Not the Territory® are registered USA trademarks of Sylvia Shordike.

Feldenkrais® and Feldenkrais Method® are registered USA trademarks of Feldenkrais Guild Corporation California.

Anat Baniel Method® and NeuroMovement® are registered USA trademarks of Movement Coordination Learning, Inc. DBA Anat Baniel Method Corporation.






Sylvia is a
Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner(CM) and a Certified Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® Childrens Mastery Practitioner. She is the founder of the NeuroHorizons Experiential Movement learning programs in the Americas and Europe.

The NeuroHorizons programs are neither affiliated with, nor sponsored or endorsed by, the Feldenkrais Guild or Anat Baniel or the Anat Baniel Method.

All text and photos ©2007-2023 Sylvia Shordike