Based on decades of experience working with people adults as well as children with all kinds of movement issues, Chava Shelhav developed the Child’Space Method derived from the Feldenkrais Method. She saw that these issues were often due to incomplete movement development. Babies learn their own movements and automatize them to the foundation on which they build all later movements on. Children with underdeveloped locomotion often have issues at school too, especially with keeping up during playtime.

When I did the Child’Space Training, I had decades of experience with the Feldenkrais Method too. By seeing how Chava coaches babies and their parents, and by doing all those very subtle Developmental Movement Explorations (DME’s), I obtained a whole new insight in the development of movement. This development is from an early age on closely related to the parents and the psychological development of for example safety, self-confidence, and independence. Parents who think their child is totally depending on them, give their child a totally different message than parents who see their child as a personality and respect the uniqueness and competence of their child from the start.

While the child is developing his possibilities of movement, he is also exploring himself. By this, he builds a sensorimotor and psychosocial self-image. By moving and exploring, he will start to understand the world around him. This is so complex, that it needs space (child’ space) and time (childs pace) to flourish to its full potential. To miss this, has far-reaching consequences for skills on all kinds of levels that will be develop later in life.

With Child’Space, Chava Shelhav has developed an amazing way to teach parents how to lead their child with these very complex matters. It gives the child space to grow to its full, high potential. That is his birth right and it is such a pity if it cannot be realized completely.