Movement Lessons for Children & Adults in Portland OR

Movement Lessons for Children & Adults in Portland OR

At Brilliant Movement, we offer a range of programs and services designed to empower and transform individuals through gentle movement that’s
targeted to change your brain wiring.

Here’s a breakdown of what we provide:

Child in pink with NG tube mirrors mouth shape of Phoebe MacRae during Anat Baniel Method Lesson for brain-body connection

Phoebe MacRae’s (Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® Practitioner) pediatric movement lessons enhance the child’s brain function and development through gentle yet potent brain-body connections.

Using techniques that the brain loves, this neuroplasticity-based approach helps children improve their physical and cognitive skills, fostering overall development and well-being. Phoebe’s lessons are custom tailored to support children with various challenges, aiming to unlock potential and improve quality of life through innovative techniques.

ABM NeuroMovement Practitioner Phoebe MacRae helps child with Neurodiversity

Brilliant Movement can help conditions such as:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder

  • Cerebral Palsy

  • Developmental Delays

  • Sensory Processing Disorder

  • Stroke (post-stroke rehabilitation)

  • Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE)

  • Periventricular Leukomalacia (PVL)

  • ADHD/ADD

  • Scoliosis

  • And more

ABM NeuroMovement practitioner Phoebe MacRae guides client to new levels of freedom from chronic pain and anxiety in Portland OR

Adult movement lessons offered by Brilliant Movement are designed to enhance and refine physical, emotional and cognitive functions through gentle, neuroplasticity-based movements.

Sessions aim to improve mobility, reduce pain, enhance flexibility, and optimize overall function and well-being for adults.

Clients served include folks experiencing a range of physical/emotional conditions or seeking performance enhancement. 

Sessions are personalized to address individual needs and to promote lifelong learning and growth.

Phoebe MacRae works with ankle and foot to create new brain-body connections for pain relief.

Brilliant Movement serves clients seeking help with:

  • Anxiety

  • Chronic pain management

  • Fall prevention

  • Fall recovery

  • Pre and Post Surgery support

  • Mobility lost in the aging process

  • Stroke recovery

  • Multiple Sclerosis

  • Parkinsons Disease

With Phoebe’s guidance you can implement the basics of Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® with your child in your own home.

These virtual sessions are designed to provide opportunities to create new neural connections to improve physical and cognitive functions.

@Home Coaching is great for medically fragile children because there is no need for travel. @Home coaching empowers parents to connect deeply to their child to nurture new brain connections that lead to developmental milestones and skill learning.

torso of a person in orange wooly sweater accessing a laptop for use in online neuromovement parent coaching

What's Included:

  • Customized guidance

  • Mindful movements that target your child’s brain to grow new neural connections

  • Techniques to help parents connect deeply with your child which leads to the child growing, developing and reaching developmental milestones

What our clients Say

  • Undiagnosed Child w/ Low Tone

    “S has been talking up a storm!

    Added a solid 5 new words and imitating a lot more!

    Really noticing a big leap after our lessons.

    She’s initiated walking independently toward something she wants a bit more too.”

    Esme

  • Child with Cerebral Palsy

    “H is doing great. He’s eating like a champion.

    He usually has some choking but since lessons it’s been totally coordinated on the purée eating.

    And he’s been sitting totally differently in his chair. On his midline and with relaxed legs.”

    Hannah

  • Child with Hypotonia

    "J’s made a lot of progress in the past few weeks since our lessons.

    She’s playing for longer periods of time in standing and doing a lot of cruising on furniture.

    She’s been getting down from furniture by slowly bending her knees and lowering instead of collapsing onto the ground.

    She’s a lot more confident in her movements”

    Erica

  • At Home Online coaching client

    “This morning we have been playing a lot, singing and I notice her attention is much longer if I sing.

    She doesn’t jump to another thing as quickly.

    I was able to go through a puzzle with animals with her, something that was in her toy box for ages and she never gave any attention to.”

  • Neck and Jaw tension

    “Oh my gosh - Phoebe!!!

    I still feel remarkably good, even after wrangling my mom and driving on I5 to lake Oswego!

    My face totally released at some point - eyes and jaw. Feels so good.

    Thank you, thank you for giving me your time, attention and energy!!!”

    Shannon Jones

  • Client with Plantar Faciitis

    "The results have been incredible in how I'm able to move and how alive I feel.

    But not just in being able to get back on my feet.

    It's also shifted how I think about my body as something - someone- to collaborate with rather than to force and throttle to do my will.

    My lessons with Phoebe are reshaping how I think about how I move and work and act in the world metaphorically too.”

    Liz

  • In-Home lessons

    "We loved the in-home lessons!

    It made a huge difference for us in terms of accessibility, and for S------'s daily rhythm."

    Esme

  • OnLine Client

    "We tried this last night right before bed. I've done this exercise before, but never so mindfully. That was very soothing, I went right to sleep."