NeuroHorizons® / NeuroScanBalance®
Gentle impulses – profound change.
Tap into the natural intelligence of your nervous system to discover new ways forward. Without pressure or strain, your body—or your child’s—learns to move more freely and process sensory input more effectively. It’s the ideal way to regain your strength and balance when dealing with exhaustion, pain, or developmental delays.
Who are these methods suitable for?
Especially for:
Sleep disorders
Muscle tension and symptoms of stress
from high muscle tone to spasticity
Limited mobility and muscular dystrophy (including after accidents or surgeries)
Perceptual disorders
Concentration and learning difficulties
ADD / ADHD
neurological conditions (e.g., brain injuries, cerebral palsy/CP, MS)
genetic predispositions and developmental disorders
Down syndrome (Trisomy 21)
Consequences of birth trauma and preterm birth
This practice complements child therapy, developmental support, and neurological therapy in Zurich and helps children, adolescents, and adults in their daily lives.
Here's how a session works: personalized and stress-free.
Every session begins exactly where you or your child are right now. There is no set formula; instead, it’s a process that is tailored entirely to your needs.
Observe & Understand: First, I watch how you move. Where is there ease? Where are there limitations? With children, I pay particular attention to how they interact with their environment with curiosity.
Gentle Stimuli: Using this approach, I work with gentle touches and subtle variations in movement. This provides your nervous system with new information to release blockages and gradually expand your range of motion.
Quality over quantity: Your brain learns best when it isn’t overwhelmed. We work as intensively as necessary, but as gently as possible. The session ends when your brain has absorbed enough new information to process it effectively.
Time frame:
Children: approx. 25–35 minutes (depending on their attention span)
Adults: approx. 45–55 minutes
Intensive Course – Focused Learning for Your Nervous System
Experience shows that short, intensive study periods can significantly boost your progress. An intensive study block gives your brain the time and repetition it needs to deeply embed new patterns.
Duration: 3 to 5 consecutive days.
Schedule: 2 to 3 lessons per day, with intentional breaks in between.
Sustainability: The module is followed by a break lasting several weeks. This gives your nervous system the time and space to process the new information at its own pace and apply it in your daily life.
How does this method affect the nervous system?
Through gentle movement, touch, and kinesthetic experiences, a subtle connection is established with the nervous system. New information is perceived, integrated, and stored in the brain, allowing connections to strengthen and developmental gaps to close.
During the lessons, you or your child will be guided through simpler, more efficient movement patterns. The body begins to reorganize itself:
Movements become clearer and easier
Pain can be reduced
Function, mobility, and coordination improve
body awareness becomes more refined
Everyday life feels safer and more manageable
In this way, the method supports the regulation of the nervous system, motor development, and sensory integration, particularly for children and adults with special needs.
The methods that focus on children with special needs are based on the movement lessons developed by Moshé Feldenkrais (1904-1984), an Israeli physicist and judo master who used scientific observations about the human nervous system.
These methods are unique and cannot be compared with other therapies, exercise systems or routines. They are structured in such a way that the brain can reorganize itself and form new patterns of sensation, thought and action.
“Optimize every child’s developmental journey, regardless of the challenge or disability.”
Sylvia Leiner Shordike is the founder of the NeuroHorizons® Experiential Movement learning programs in the United States and Europe. She is a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (CM) and an Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® Children’s Mastery Practitioner.
“We create freedom in the brain.”
Kerstin Baldischwieler is the founder of the NeuroScanBalance® method. Among other qualifications, she is a state-certified physical therapist and an Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® Children’s Mastery Practitioner.
Press:
GEO Knowledge: “The Healing Power of Movement,” March 2023 issue
Stern: “Healing Hands,” July 2021 issue
Costs
Adults 120.- CHF
Children 80.- CHF
Please note that appointments must be canceled at least 24 hours in advance. Otherwise it will be charged in full.