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Develops proprioception – your spatial and kinesthetic awareness.

Enhances whole-brain thinking – your left and right hemispheres work together.

Improves your eye teaming skills – essential for focus, reading, and writing.

Energizes your body and calms your mind – releases tension and stress.

Stabilizes your walking gait coordination – builds core strength.

Though it seems to be a fun, simple exercise, here’s what cross-crawl is doing for you physically and mentally: The ability to do cross-lateral movements with the body literally lays the foundation for other cognitive abilities, such as readiness for fine motor academic work. Through mind-body science, we now understand that physical coordination precedes cognitive coordination. You need to clear some cobwebs or recharge – cross crawl! How do these cross crawl exercises help physically and mentally? If you’re frustrated with a project – cross-crawl. If you’ve been reading and it’s time to go play soccer – cross crawl. Try it before homework, testing, or an important meeting, after anything stressful and between different kinds of activities. You will not only feel clearer, but you will also behave and perform better. Think of it as a basic part of wellness, like drinking plenty of water. Work on building cross-crawl into your daily schedule.

Because we are daily, hourly, being bombarded and impacted by multiple stimuli and tasks, practicing cross-crawl throughout the day is one of the best self-care activities you can do for yourself.

In short, any time you do cross crawl, you are re-integrating your brain and nervous system and re-organizing your mind-body connections (1). In addition to firing neural pathways in the right and left brain hemispheres simultaneously, a cross crawl movement stabilizes the pelvis while mobilizing the shoulders, reinforcing the the skills we need for walking. If you are interested in classes from our LEAP program, click here to view the LEAP Courses.What are the benefits of cross crawl exercises?Īs soon as we start to crawl, this cross-lateral pattern of movement stimulates more complex brain and nervous system development and integration. If you are interested in classes from our Movement Based Learning program, click here to view the MBL Courses or MBL Workshops If you’re having difficulty finding a course around a preferred date or if you want to bring international, national or regional talent to your local area, consider sponsoring a class – learn more here. You can find them by typing the word “online” in the SEARCH BY KEYWORDS field below. Many of our courses are available online. However, they have not been officially reviewed, and therefore no credit may be applied towards licensure. They are a great place to start and are filled with valuable information that you can begin applying immediately to begin achieving peak performance in any area of your life. Workshops are introductory Brain Gym training sessions that are developed independently and offered by licensed instructors or movement facilitators. Browse the Brain Gym Course Descriptions and find classes below. Courses are part of our approved curriculum – the content of each has been thoroughly reviewed by Breakthroughs International and licensure credit is available to students.