What is Movement Education?

Enhancing Minds Thru Movement

Baltimore, MD. November 7, 2008. What can enhance your child’s ability to develop critical thinking, creativity, self esteem and overall fitness? It’s Movement Education, creatively taught by the Gerstung Center to over 90,000 Baltimore children over the last 46 years.

Movement Education combines Problem Solving, Creative Skills, Team Building and the development of Self Confidence embedded in many types of physical fitness training. For example, an exercise which asks a child to use only “three body parts” to climb up and down a piece of equipment requires the child to think through the process and realize that getting up and climbing down are completely different. Not only do they utilize different muscles, they have to learn to plan out their actions so they can successfully complete the exercise. This is just one example of Movement Education.

The criteria of Movement Education defined by the Gerstung Center are that it must be: fun, constantly different, engaging the whole group, non-competitive, welcoming and safe.

The Gerstung Center teaches Movement Education in its winter and summer day camps, after-school classes and parties. To facilitate learning these techniques, Gerstung has designed and developed a complete line of children’s exercise equipment (used all over the world). Additionally, Gerstung has invented a unique athletic floor which aids in preventing injuries. These floors are in use at the Kirov and Bolshoi Ballets, the Japanese Performing Arts Center, many schools, colleges, commercial gyms and corporate fitness centers.

Movement Education had its roots in Europe and was brought to America by Siegfried Gerstung forty-six years ago. Mr. Gerstung is the President and founder of Gerstung International Sports Education, Inc. located at 1400 Coppermine Terrace, just off Falls Rd in Baltimore Maryland.

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