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Brain Body Balance
May 29 and 30, 2025
with Dana Luebke
Dana is a professional dancer who has cultivated his art since childhood, with experience at the Minnesota Dance Theatre and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. In 1977, together with actor and director Robert Greenwood, he founded Sun.Ergos, a theater and dance company that has taken its shows to 25 countries.
Passionate about the relationship between body and mind, Dana discovered Brain Gym® in 1989 and embraced its principles, helping to translate and spread the method to Croatia during the war of independence, receiving recognition from the Educational Kinesiology Foundation.
Working with Carol Ann Erickson, Dana deepened the link between dance and Educational Kinesiology, integrating this perspective into her practice and teaching.
Dana has also developed an arts program in 14 countries, in which she explores the relationship between words, images and movement, and created a workshop for educators entitled Joy of Movement. Sensitive to the needs of the elderly, she designed Brain Body Balance to improve balance, coordination and mobility.
In 2020, he co-founded Brain Gym® Canada and continues to enthusiastically promote the growth of the Brain Gym® community.
Dana M. Luebke Licensed Brain Gym® Instructor/Consultant
130 Sunset Way - Priddis Greens, Alberta, Canada
VOICE: 403-931-1527 - dana.luebke@sunergos.com
Movement tools for the Brain balance
The goal of Brain Body Balance is to provide people with a toolbox of inner resources and simple, enjoyable movements they can use anytime, anywhere to improve their brain-body connections and awareness, their balance, coordination and mobility, and to move with ease and joy.
The course includes principles and techniques drawn from Brain Gym®, Movement Exploration, Qi Gong, body mapping and somatic practices as well as Dana Luebke’s extensive dance experience. It was developed working with seniors over 12 years.
Participants will learn from exploring the architecture of the human body, from movement and somatic experiences and by learning specific exercises and techniques.
The method has been used with success in community continuing education programs as well as private sessions and as a fall prevention program at a senior residence.
What participants will explore:
Explore the architecture of the human body to understand how our body is designed to move and thus move with more ease, efficiency, and safety.
Learn to use body mapping to improve neuromuscular coordination.
Explore balance and movement in three dimensions.
Incorporate Brain Gym® activities to attain more physical and emotional balance in each of the dimensions.
Techniques to improve balance and coordination.
Explore and practice fundamental/developmental movement patterns to support moving with more ease and efficiency.
Learn Qi Gong movements that incorporate the fundamental/developmental movement patterns.
This course will focus on movement seated and standing.
Practical information
The course will be held at the Foresteria Valdese on the same sites as the Festival.
It will be in English translated into Italian and French
On May 29 and 30, 2025 (9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.) with lunch and dinner at the Foresteria at a cost of 10 Euro per meal to be booked separately if not staying on site.
Cost: 220.00 Euro
Registration and information:Send application to festivalbraingym@gmail.com
Some Comments of Participants:
“Doing Brain Body Balance on a regular basis has helped with my alignment and balance. It has allowed me to move with ease, finding the right support, breathing and thought processes to make movements flow and not be strained. I now have a toolbox of exercises I can go to when I have certain aches stiffness or problems, which will help me on a daily basis. Dana is patient and attentive to the needs of the class and makes the classes both beneficial and fun.”
Ruth Burgess, BBB Participant, London
“I am learning a skill set that helps me focus and organize, balance my day by connecting brain patterns to body needs. It involves awareness and practice of body movements that promote brain/body connections.”
BBB Participant, Turner Valley, Alberta
“You really are a superb instructor and one that doesn’t mind sharing your expertise. Regarding the 26 Brain Gym movements… each time you used one, you demonstrated different points about it that I either had forgotten or was not taught in the same way you showed it. Connecting Brain Gym moves to the Fundamental Development Patterns gave me my aha moment! A new understanding of how to use the moves and draw in the patterns.”
Audrey Harkness, BBB Training participant
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