For Parents, Teachers and Caregivers:

GET RESULTS AT HOME FOR LESS

At last - a light and sound technology safe enough and easy enough for anyone to use, even kids. 
 
The MindMoves® StudyBuddy Accelerated Learning System is a very special and unique program.  The StudyBuddy unit synchronizes the whole brain for specific learning functions.  The 2 ½ hour Instructional DVD’s demonstrate how to use the unit and how to develop good habits in the following areas:

-A good night’s sleep
-Waking-up the brain for learning
-Attentive Listening
-Memorizing new information
-Staying awake in class

For best results, please use The MindMoves ® StudyBuddy unit in tandem with the instructional accelerated learning program.  For Instance, Program 3 is to be used simultaneously while memorizing new information as demonstrated in “The MindMoves 7 Steps to Memorization”.  This system has had proven results in my private practice for more than 14 years. Students have moved their failing grades in spelling, math and second languages up to A’s and B’s in a matter of a week when practicing correctly 5 days in a row before taking a test!    

This program is designed to be used 4 -5 days a week during the school year.

PARENTS, WHY IS THIS A BARGAIN?

SLEEPLESS IN AMERICA
 
According to a National Sleep Foundation Poll, 32% of preschoolers and 27 percent of school-aged children don’t get enough sleep.  Studies consistently show that sleep deprived kids do poorly in school.  Another National Poll reports that “only 20 percent of teens get the recommended nine hours of shuteye on school nights and more than one in four report sleeping in class.”  Further research indicates that more than 50% of American adults experience drowsiness in the middle of the day, at least 4 days a week.
 
Sleep deprivation and excessive fatigue can lead to forgetfulness, inability to concentrate and focus. Decreased eye-hand coordination can result in reduced excellence in sports as well as academics, and tragically contributes to a higher incidence of motor vehicle accidents.  The sleep deprived may also experience depression, anxiety, extreme irritability, and a compromised immune system.

GOOD NEWS!  Did you know that a good night’s sleep can restore, recharge and regenerate your mind and body? It’s true. And now science, technology and ancient spiritual wisdom unite in making it easier to achieve that elusive state of calm and serenity  for a good night’s sleep along with a program that makes learning easier and lot more fun in just 4 easy steps!  The StudyBuddy audio visual technology is based on 14 years of private EEG brain research.    

WHAT ARE MINDMOVES?  MindMoves are physical practices based on kinesiology and breathing that effect brain function.  They are specifically designed to induce alpha waves for relaxation, or integrate and synchronize the mind and body for less stress, better sleep, learning, attention, listening, memory, and hand-eye coordination.

A Note from the inventor, Georgia K. Connor, Neuroscientist & Learning Specialist:

Why The MindMoves® StudyBuddy Accelerated Learning System is a world beyond other A/V units and why it is the best choice for ASD
(Autism Spectrum Disorder) and other learning challenges.  

OPENING THE GATES TO LEARNING

The MindMoves® StudyBuddy is not just an A/V system designed to exercise your brain.  It is light years beyond. This is a whole brain learning system that instructs on how to develop specific learning skills and how to design beautiful new memories.  The 2 hour DVD Instructional Program is to be used in tandem with the uniquely designed StudyBuddy unit.

The auditory portion of The StudyBuddy is specifically designed to synchronize the right and left hemispheres of the brain, so that kids who have ASD and speech delays can begin hearing words at the same rate their peers hear them.  Very often I will see five and six year-olds who have undergone heavy chelation, speech therapy and OT (occupational therapy) and still not be able to form their words well enough for comprehension.  It is not unusual to see my “students” begin speaking clear understandable words to their parents within a week of using only the auditory portion of Program #1. When you study the development of the human embryo as I have, you will understand the beauty of this.  The auditory and vestibular system of the brain is the first to fully develop in the unborn. It is only logical that hearing must come before speech and speech before reading. Other keys to success are balancing blood sugar and taking daily minerals.

What are MindMoves? They are physical exercises with special breathing practices that effect brain function.  MindMoves® “Open the Gates to Learning”. They are specifically designed for better sleep, relaxation, active listening, focus, attention, memorization, and hand-eye coordination. Many of these are taught in DVD # 2.

Karen Walker, a 3rd Grade Teacher from Whittier, California, writes about using MindMoves® in her classroom. “The results were almost immediate.  Within a week, I had 100% attentiveness from 19 of my 20 students, morning and afternoon.  Before each test, students begged to do a set of “counting crossovers”, then dug in with confidence.  On a few hectic mornings, we forgot to do our MindMoves, and the contrast was evidenced by lack of responsiveness and eye focus.  We stopped, did our set, and I was able to return to a group of invigorated learners. During our grueling two weeks of STAR testing…students were calm and confident, willing to take on the task and demonstrate the most of what they had learned.  As I scanned my test-takers, little pairs of hands would pop-up from time to time, fingers rubbing, and then disappear as the child resumed the challenge.  MindMoves maximizes the learning environment by increasing ‘metacognition’ and by making classroom management easy.”
           

A TEACHER’S TESTIMONIAL ON THE VALUE OF USING MINDMOVES
IN THE CLASSROOM – less stress, greater attentiveness, eye focus, confidence, and improved scores on state mandated exams.

While working comprehensively on my personal attention/memory/organization issues with Georgia Connor in December 2005, it occurred to me that several of her MindMoves might also help my third graders whose issues in any year include Asbergers syndrome, ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, second language issues, inadequate sleep, lack of parental support, and simply not knowing how to learn.  With the increasing level of achievement demanded by NCLB legislation, the rigorous academic day was taking its toll. Children were burned out by early afternoon at best, and those with difficulties and disabilities sometimes gave up before they started.  I decided to try to energize our classroom with MindMoves. 

 I told my students about my experience with Georgia and enticed them with an invitation to get smarter without doing any extra work (or testing!).  This was appealing (Wow! A freebie!)  So we began to do a 5-minute set of MindMoves every morning and an abbreviated set after lunch every day.  Our set includes 3 lion yawns, drinking a big swig of water, ear rubs, index to thumb finger rubs, 10 sacral pumps, and crossovers to the knee to a double count of 25 (1-1, 2-2, 3-3...), of course, while breathing through our noses.  After lunch, we did a set of the crossovers.   Finger rubs were also given as a strategy for keeping focused during a test, a lecture, while listening to others read and other tasks where students are required to sit quietly, but attend to a lesson.  I also recommended substituting water for soda at meals, which some claimed to do, especially girls.

  The results were almost immediate.   Within a week, I had 100% attentiveness from 19 of my 20 students, morning and afternoon.  Before each test, students begged to do a set of crossovers, then dug in with confidence.  On a few hectic mornings, we forgot to do our MindMoves, and the contrast was evidenced by lack of responsiveness and eye focus.  We stopped, did our set, and I was able to return to a group of invigorated learners.  One student, who came to class in September reading at kindergarten level, made two and a half years progress in reading between January and June.  My teaching was no different.  Imagine my surprise as we walked to class, when he began a conversation about the book he had read the night before, citing details and telling me all about the main character! 

 I observed yet another noticeable change during our grueling two weeks of STAR testing.  The students were calm and confident, willing to take on the task and demonstrate the most of what they had learned.  As I scanned my test-takers, little pairs of hands would pop up from time to time, fingers rubbing, and then disappear as the child resumed the challenge.   This level of buy-in on these state-mandated tests by my WHOLE class was unprecedented in eight years of teaching Title 1 students.  My conclusion is that while my teaching may be the key to what my students learn, MindMoves maximizes the learning environment by increasing the level of student ‘metacognition’ and by making classroom management easy.  My students were happy, industrious learners, and my focus could be where it belongs: on teaching, not discipline.  One other colleague was bold enough to try this little experiment, and had similar results.  We both found MindMoves a simple, yet effective way to involve students in their own learning in a kid-friendly, kinesthetic manner that opens their minds and optimizes not only the gift, but also the right of learning.

                                                Karen Walker, 3rd Grade Teacher from Whittier, California