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Mixed Abilities Inclusive Special Needs Summer Program Herndon, VA

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Finally, a group class benefiting all children and families while supporting empathy training, emotional regulation, peer relationships and the ability to calm the body and mind through movement, dance, yoga and the expressive arts!

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A Program for Special Needs Children – an inclusive model in Northern Virginia featured at The Artory in Herndon, Virginia

To increase social-emotional development and intelligence, empathy, focus and concentration, and the ability to calm the body and mind

  • A Relationship-Centered Approach to working with Special Needs Children
  • Supporting your child’s social-emotional development through movement, dance, yoga, expressive arts
  • Siblings and Parents are welcome to participate (must apply to be a parent volunteer)
  • An Inclusive Model

Specialized Dance/Movement Therapy and Children’s Yoga for Mixed Abilities

featured at The Artory, 1141 Elden Street, Suite 218, Herndon, VA 20170

Summer Series – 6 Classes

Wednesdays, June 6 – July 18, 2012 (off July 4)

6:00pm-6:45pm Younger Children

7:00pm-7:45pm Older Children

Fall Series – 10 Classes

Wednesdays, September 5 – November 14, 2012 (off October 31)

6:15pm-7:00pm  Younger Children

7:15pm-8:00pm Older Children

Apply for a session!  Students will be hand-selected for the best fit!

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Infant-Child Brain Development in the Parent-Child Relationship

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What goes on in that brain of my baby?  What am I doing exactly that affects my child’s brain and development?

The essential role of the body in early infancy sets a permeable foundation for development in early childhood and onwards.  Movement and the nonverbal experience correlates to our neural-muscular pathways in the brain which help us understand information about self and other.  In most cases, “the other” is parent, caregiver, or sibling when referring to the child’s self.  Here is what you need to know about this interpersonal exchange.

  • Infant’s brain is experience-dependent, it is co-constructed at the nonverbal level
  • Self-Regulation is a didactic (2 person) relationship, it is interactive regulation at each moment, it is an improvisational dance
  • Baby is responding to Time, Space, Affect, Proprioception in the “other” person
  • These patterns of contingency are precursors to understanding sequencing, language and gaining self-confidence
  • The interactive dynamic is bi-directional, mutual, emotional, it is a psycho-neuro-biological process (mind, brain, body)
  • Critical time in brain growth occurs in early infancy on a physiological, body level

Can you bring this awareness to your interactions with your children this week?  Share with me what you find, by hitting reply to this email!  Or shoot me a question.

On my next note to you, I’ll share about the Body-Brain and how intelligence is everywhere in our body.

Brigitta White is the Founder of WholeMe! Programs, LLC, Master of Science in Dance Movement Therapy, Registered Dance Movement Therapist through American Dance Therapy Association, Holistic Family Specialist, Certified in Prenatal Yoga for Conscious Birthing, and in Children’s Yoga.  She offers a health and wellness program specializing in prenatal life through birth through the nonverbal years to early childhood.

What do you learn in a Masters in Dance Movement Therapy?  It’s a psychotherapy?

Neuro-psychology, early childhood development, parent-child attachment, infant development, mindful-awareness, the art of dance, movement and using the creative process, spontaneity on a body level supported by a psycho-dynamic framework through relationship-centered learning…plus MUCH MORE!  Group Therapy, Process-Oriented thinking, Research Methods, etc., etc.

Until Next Time!

Brigitta
http://wholemeprograms.com/about-whole-me-programs/

Loudoun Country Day School Summer Program + In the Community

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Yoga and Dance Choreography for children ages 6-11, a summer program at Loudoun Country Day School open to the public.
Yoga and Dance Choreography at Loudoun Country Day SchoolHello WholeMe’ers!  Happy Spring to you and your family.  Here is the latest!I’m offering a 1/2 day summer camp which is open to the public at Loudoun Country Day School in Leesburg, Virginia.  Yoga and Dance Choreography is a program that I custom tailored for the students and children who will attend the camp.  This 1/2 day camp will be offered twice during the summer.  Check out the description and the details.  Hooray!

Start your camp session with a full children’s yoga class that builds on
learning poses, stretches, breathing exercises, games, and partner and
group poses as the week progresses.  Then, feel calm, centered and ready to
create your own dances based on storytelling!  Each of you have a story to
tell whether personal, imaginative, or from your favorite movie; this is
the time to weave it all together with friends!  You’ll learn basic and
intermediate choreography skills or what is also called “dance
composition”.  You will always remember having this summer filled with
peacefulness and personal expression through dance and movement!  Come to
think of it, your parents may want something like this for themselves!

Bio:  Brigitta White, MS, R-DMT has her Masters in Dance Movement Therapy since 2007.  She has her Bachelor’s in Dance and Spanish,  and is also a Children’s Yoga Teacher.  Brigitta is the founder of The WholeMe! Programs, LLC which helps parents support their baby’s social and emotional development by creating a healthy parent-child bond through movement, dance, yoga and the expressive arts.  Brigitta lives for allowing children the opportunity to be comfortable with who they are and to be comfortable using body movement!  wholemeprograms.com

Grades 1-5     Ages 6-11
June 25-29 12:30-3:30pm
July 23-27   9:00am-12:00pm
CLICK HERE to see the course offering at Loudoun Country Day School and to Regsiter!

In the Community:

WholeMe! Programs, LLC will be exhibiting at the Loudoun ENDependence Center’s Disability and Healthy Aging Lifestyle Fair 2012.  The fair is for family and friends touched by a disability.  It will be held at the Rust Library in Leesburg, VA on Friday, April 13 from 11am-4pm.

Releasing Your Inner Child: a spring workshop for womena day retreat for women in Ashburn

Releasing Your Inner Child: a Spring Workshop for Women

Saturday, April 21 9:30am-3:30pm (Lunch 12-1pm)

This spring wellness day retreat is for reconnecting with your inner-child in the company of supportive women.  Spend the day immersed in healing movement circles, guided meditation, verbal sharing, clearing negative energy, and in celebratory ceremony designed to help you towards integration.

We will be setting individual intentions and goals.

Your Take-Away:

Self and Body Awareness
Learning Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
Movement, Yoga and Dance concepts for self-practice
Sense of Wholeness and Freeness for Better Health
Bonding with other Females
Whatever You Need to Take Away

Located at the Home Practice of Heidi Dupree, RN, CTN
43291 Swamp Fox Ct
Ashburn, VA  20147

$130  *****Please Register at  http://bit.ly/GRT14D  Call #            703-220-6239

Facilitated by Brigitta White, Founder of WholeMe! Programs, LLC, Dance Movement Therapist (wholemeprograms.com + brigitta@wholemeprograms.com) and Heidi DuPree, Holistic Energy Practitioner (heididupree.com/)

Flyer Link           Registration Link 

Until next time,

Brigitta White, Founder of WholeMe! Programs, LLC
Brigitta White, Founder of WholeMe! Programs, LLC

Releasing Your Inner Child: A Spring Day Retreat in Ashburn for Women

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I’m teaming up with Holistic Energy Practitioner Heidi Dupree in Ashburn, Virginia to present a spring wellness day retreat for reconnecting with your inner-child in the company of supportive women.  Spend the day immersed in healing movement circles, guided meditation, verbal sharing, clearing negative energy, and in celebratory ceremony designed to help you towards integration.

We will be setting individual intentions and goals.

Your Take-Away:

Self and Body Awareness

Learning Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

Movement, Yoga and Dance concepts for self-practice

Sense of Wholeness and Freeness for Better Health

Bonding with other Females

Whatever You Need to Take Away

Here’s the link to the flyer.  I hope you can come and bring a close female friend.  Releasing Inner Child Workshop Flyer April 21 2012

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My First Client

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Broadcasting Sunny, a new How-To video series maker invited my mom from UNO Translations and Communication, LLC and I to share about how we attained our first customers.  Now, over a year in business this interview offered me the opportunity to reflect and truly integrate all that happened the first year in business, and to re-align as I move my work forward into my vision of serving parents and their babies to create healthy parent-child bonds using research-based practices through movement, yoga, dance and the expressive arts.

Enjoy the video!

Yoga and Creative Arts

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At the end of our classes, once we’ve finished deep relaxation, the student participates in a creative arts project. By ending incorporating the creative arts process, the child uses their peaceful state to not just bring closure to their experience, but to solidify the internalization of their body and mind development in class.

From a choice of many colored pieces of pre-cut tissue paper, the child nonverbally allows their self to gravitate to the color they are drawn to at the end of class. Their choices show the myriad of colors that make up who they are! These color choices are visible in the small clear, plastic container with a lid that houses their, Personal Experience Container.

At the end of the series, the child takes home their Personal Experience Container as a record or memory. Many of the students say they will keep their container by their beds or on a shelf in their rooms! Talk about creating a meditation practice at a young age!