Finding Breakthrough From Stress mental health neuro coaching reduce stress Mar 27, 2025

Often the way to breakthrough and freedom is through the challenge, not avoidance of the challenge. The very thing that can bring release is often that ONE THING we just really, really want to avoid. 

When talking about stress this often looks like a person wants to avoid what makes them feel stres...

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Neuro Pathway Growth: Fundamentals of our Early Childhood Pre-Parkour Program early childhood program Mar 24, 2025

Our Early Childhood program focuses on helping children as young as 12 months old and as old as 4 years old create neuro pathways that will help them for the rest of their life.

As we introduce movements a child may not have been exposed to yet, this helps them create new neuro pathways in their br...

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Reduce Effects of Dyslexia and other Learning Difficulties with Parkour dyslexia reduce effects of learning difficulties reduce stress Mar 20, 2025

Stress causes a reflex reaction that triggers the eyes to "move peripherally so they can take in as much of environment as possible." (Smart Moves, Hannaford). This means if a child finds school stressful (common among children with dyslexia) their body will trigger a response that makes it even har...

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The Mind and Body Connection support healthy brain development supporting academic growth Mar 17, 2025

The mind and body are not two separate things that develop on their own. They are two very connected elements that play a vital and intertwined role in the development of a child. A strong body creates a healthy environment for a mind to thrive and grow. 

As a child moves and plays and learns new p...

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Why Regular Use of the Corpus Callosum is Important benefit neurodivergent children corpus callosum reduce effects of learning difficulties Mar 13, 2025

The job of our brain job is to keep us alive and safe. To simplify things our brain makes neuro pathways in areas that it things are important. It decides if something is important based on how much we use it. The more we trigger a neuro pathway, the more the brain knows that particular thought, pro...

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Parkour and Neuroplasticity benefit neurodivergent children reduce effects of learning difficulties Mar 10, 2025

Parkour is way more than jump on things and run on roofs! Actually, running on someone else's roof without permission is trespassing! Parkour is about learning how to become the best version of yourself you can be. On the first look it looks like learning to overcome physical challenges and develop ...

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My Child is Has Autism or Dyslexia, What Now? benefit neurodivergent children early childhood program reduce effects of learning difficulties Mar 06, 2025

Often a diagnoses from a doctor or label from a teacher can feel like a death sentence. Diagnoses and labels are handed out in our society so nonchalantly as if to say, "Here is the limit we have placed on your child, accept it and move on."

One of the most important things for a parent of a child ...

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Is Stress Aggravating Your Child's Learning Difficulties? benefit neurodivergent children reduce effects of learning difficulties reduce stress Mar 03, 2025

Stress is normally not thought of as a positive thing. Reducing stress is often considered good. However, stress often is present in areas we don't realize. Stress is also often a major contributor in a challenging situation, often more than we may be aware.

Stress triggers a reflex that causes the...

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The Power of Strengthening the Corpus Callosum for Children with Neurodivergence benefit neurodivergent children corpus callosum early childhood program reduce effects of learning difficulties Mar 01, 2025

Hannaford shares in Smart Moves that "Research shows that two regions at the front of the Corpus Callosum in ADHD... are markedly smaller than those of non-ADHD people."

Melillo explains in Autism that the Corpus Callosum is "the bridge that links the two sides of the brain." Melillo also shares in...

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Why Skipping is Important benefit neurodivergent children early childhood program reduce effects of learning difficulties Feb 28, 2025

Skipping is more than a playful thing that kids do (or used to do). Skipping is a brain development movement that engages both sides of the brain and causes the Corpus Callosum to develop. Having a strong Corpus Callosum is critical to developing full logic reasoning skills as well as being able to ...

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Movement in Fun, Not competition alternate to competitive sports encourage life long enjoyment of healthy living reduce stress support healthy brain development Feb 22, 2025

Stress is known to not be good for overall health. Beyond general health, the effects of stress on a child's mental development is tremendous. A brain cannot properly process and develop while under stress. This is why movement in a non-competitive environment is important for a child's health and d...

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Reduce Effects of Learning Difficulties - Early Childhood Pre-Parkour Program (Part 2) benefit neurodivergent children early childhood program reduce effects of learning difficulties Feb 21, 2025

Every child's brain is different. Genetic genes leading towards Dyslexia, Autism and and other learning difficulties can't be changed; however, the impact they have in the child's growth, development, and life can be impacted.

In a study at the University of Illinois rats who did precise, nimble mo...

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Stimulate Brain Growth - Early Childhood Pre-Parkour Program (Part 1) benefit neurodivergent children early childhood program reduce effects of learning difficulties support healthy brain development Feb 20, 2025

Developing the ability to use both sides of the body in a coordinated manner is a major development milestone. It starts with learning to crawl and expands to being able to walk, balance, and eventually run.

The more opportunities a young child is given to practice tasks that require balance, the m...

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Micro-Interventions for Learning and Processing Difficulties Through Parkour - Formal Reasoning Skills (Part 1) benefit neurodivergent children reduce effects of learning difficulties support healthy brain development Feb 19, 2025

Formal reasoning skill comes when the brain can process efficiently between both sides of the brain.

As a child grows they develop Neuro networks which provide the foundation for the rest of their life.

The more a child uses both sides of the brain the more the areas of the brain that communicate ...

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Early Childhood Pre-Parkour Program (How it Impacts Toddlers) benefit neurodivergent children early childhood program reduce effects of learning difficulties support healthy brain development Feb 14, 2025

Our Early Childhood Pre-parkour program is designed to support growth and development in toddlers in many critical areas. At the core of this program is the benefit of developing neural networks that prepare a child for a life full of movement, healthy choices, confidence, creativity, ability to thi...

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What We Are NOT at Parkour East Texas about us Feb 10, 2025

At Parkour East Texas we are not a cheap program that throws a bunch of kids into one class so the cost to the parent is less.

We are not about quantity over quality. We are committed to serving less students deeper instead of more students in a cheaper manner. Cheaper means less quality that we ca...

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How The Rise-N-Lead Internship Started leadership training rise-n-lead internship Feb 06, 2025

In 2022 we had our first group of interns. This was created as a way to take the learning, leadership, and character development opportunities deeper. It was also created as a way to raise up new coaches. 

This first internship was 1 day of me fire housing everyone with a TON of material that I cra...

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How Parkour East Texas Started about us Feb 03, 2025

In 2013 I, Hannah, was looking for a method to connect with youth of the community in a meaningful manner that the would enjoy. I was introduced to parkour by a friend and from the first day I knew parkour was going to be my thing. I started driving the Dallas to train at a gym there. In 2014 I took...

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The Mission Of Parkour East Texas: Partnering with Parents in Raising Unusually Confident and Humble Leaders (Part 4) about us leadership training Jan 29, 2025

One of the biggest and most impacting steps of our Pre-Assistant Coach Intern Track to coach journey is obtaining an individuals ADAPT Level 1 certificate.

This is about so much more than a piece of paper with a coaching certificate. 

Starting in October of 2025 Parkour East Texas will only higher...

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The Mission Of Parkour East Texas: Partnering with Parents in Raising Unusually Confident and Humble Leaders (Part 3) about us leadership training rise-n-lead internship Jan 28, 2025

The last few blogs we talked about part 1 and 2 of our mission at Parkour East Texas to partner with parents in raising unusually confident and humble leaders.

Part 3 is our pre-assistant to coach training program. This is our deepest program of leadership, personal development, and radical transfo...

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The Mission Of Parkour East Texas: Partnering with Parents in Raising Unusually Confident and Humble Leaders (Part 2) about us leadership training rise-n-lead internship Jan 27, 2025

Part 1 of our mission at Parkour East Texas to partner with parents in raising unusually confident and humble leaders is teaching character development lessons through movement and a fun environment which feels like play to youth.

Part 2 of this mission is coming alongside parents in hands on leade...

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The Mission Of Parkour East Texas: Partnering with Parents in Raising Unusually Confident and Humble Leaders (part 1) about us leadership training rise-n-lead internship Jan 25, 2025

Our weekly classes start with a focus on character development through movement. Play is the best form of learning! With play we learn deeper and remember more of what we learned. That is what parkour seems like to kids. Play. Our coaches are specifically trained to add elements of play and fun as o...

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What are the R.I.G. Team Tryouts? r.i.g. team tryouts Jan 20, 2025

R.I.G. stands for resilience, integrity, and grit. The R.I.G. team tryouts are a fun way to get active as a family and focus on developing these characteristics. Once you complete the challenge you earn the special R.I.G. Team shirt for the year which is a symbol of your spot on the R.I.G. Team. The...

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Give Your Child the Gift of Deeper Community - Rise-N-Lead Internship rise-n-lead internship Jan 17, 2025

Our monthly internship trainings will have two parts this year. The first hour is committed to introducing new interns to basics of coaching, leading, communication, and confidence. Second and third year interns get to dive into deeper concepts of coaching, personal growth and practice building on t...

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