Hi there.

With Judith in California, she asked me to do a guest blog entry, from a mother’s perspective on what’s been happening at the studio with my girl.

Judith has been seeing my daughter Sam since June of 2006.  It is just this past summer that we took to heart ‘doing a series of lessons’.  We have been doing 8 lessons in the period of 12 days and what a HUGE differentiation that has been!

We changed a couple of things…1  the time of the lesson.  For all but 2 of the 8, the lessons are done in the morning after Sam has eaten.  She is fed, rested and awake for the lessons.  The lessons where Sam slept still went in, but what I notice is that Judith can get to know Sam so much better as she sees how she reacts, what she’s willing to persist with, see how easily or not a movement differentiation that Judith provides can be utilized by Sam.  And then there is integration……

At the beginning of our September series, Judith targeted Sam’s pelvis.  Sam could always wiggle her hips form side to side and got many compliments on her dancing.  However, she could not bring her pelvis forward and back.  As you can imagine, this restricted free movement in many, many ways.  By the end of the 8 lessons, Sam could move her pelvis back and forth independently and went merrily away from that series finding every way she could to integrate that movement into her daily life…dancing, horseback riding, gymnastics…just showing off for Mom!  What a blast!

We are end of our next series where Judith took aim at the brains differentiation of where Sam’s feet are, how they stand.  Sam’s right foot always landed rolled over.  Her left foot landed more naturally however her left side all the way up was jammed, held tight, clenched.  Over the last series, significant progress has been made with the way her right foot is landing…and we can see when Sam unclenches that left side. Truly phenomenal when you consider that Sam’s limbs and feet have been clenched for years and we are seeing significant progress in weeks.

Judith is a tremendously talented practitioner, who truly loves the kids she helps for them to awaken their brain to their bodies and how they are moving.  Live changing to all those little lives.  We are so very lucky.

Carrie, Mom to Sam

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