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What Is Ortho-Bionomy?

Ortho-Bionomy provides an effective means to bring people of all ages and conditions into more comfortable relationship with themselves by helping to support and restore function and regulation of the nervous system. The vitality of the nervous system and harmony among its different branches is crucial to a person’s coordinated use of the senses, physical coordination, ability to focus and to pay attention. As Ortho-Bionomy practitioners, we work with the body’s self-corrective capacity which strengthens the ability of the nervous system to not only recover from stress and injury, but also to respond healthfully to various life situations.
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An Interview with a Principal

We always talk about creating healthy relationships, Ortho-Bionomy is a huge, healthy relationship.  Because it doesn’t just affect the kid who goes back to the class, it affects everybody around his circle. If he can be focused, everyone else around him is focused too. The kids that you actually work with go out like a ripple in a pool, rippled out into their classrooms, and into their homes.
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Creative Approaches, Methods and Tools
We sometimes work as two practitioners with one child. In some cases one of us meets the child e.g. in his or her playfulness while the other does Ortho-Bionomy, and in other cases we both do Ortho-Bionomy. That means that each practitioner has to be attuned to what the other is doing as well as to the child. We track and integrate the work of the other practitioner.

The other kind of help came with the activity tools which we use either one on one or two on one. For example, one practitioner playfully uses a tool while the other does phase 4 , 5 or 6, cranial, etc.
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