Name: Workshop #2B: Teaching the Brain Safety Through the Body: Using Movement, Sensory Input, and Graded Motor Imagery to Reduce Threat
Start: 2026-10-15T10:15:00-0500
End: 2026-10-15T11:45:00-0500

Workshop #2B: Teaching the Brain Safety Through the Body: Using Movement, Sensory Input, and Graded Motor Imagery to Reduce Threat

Thursday October 15, 2026 10:15am - 11:45am CDT

King of Glory Lutheran Church

Teaching the Brain Safety Through the Body: Using Movement, Sensory Input, and Graded Motor Imagery to Reduce Threat Workshop Summary

This session will explore an integrative, body-based (somatic) approach to treating neuroplastic symptoms that complements pain reprocessing therapy (PRT) and emotional awareness and expression therapy (EAET). Drawing from a physical therapy and manual therapy background, the talk introduces the HEAL Method, with particular emphasis on Activity as a mechanism for communicating safety through graded movement exposure, sensory input, neurosomatics and graded motor imagery. Attendees will learn how graded movement, sensory-system engagement (visual, vestibular, proprioceptive), and motor imagery can support patients who struggle to respond to cognitive or emotional interventions alone.

Learning Objectives:

Explain and demonstrate how sensory-system engagement can downregulate nervous system threat and reduce symptom amplification in neuroplastic conditions.
Describe and demonstrate how neuro-based movement strategies using visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive input can recalibrate prediction error and modify threat perception.
Identify the role of graded motor imagery (left/right discrimination, visualization, and mirror therapy) in refining cortical maps, reducing nervous system threat, and supporting safe re-engagement with movement.

Speakers

Beth Winkler

PT, FAAOMPT, Magnolia Physical Therapy

Beth Winkler is a licensed physical therapist, co-founder of Magnolia Physical Therapy, and creator of the H.E.A.L. Method for chronic pain. She has been helping people heal in the New Orleans area for over 20 years and has more than 30 years of experience as a physical therapist.More... Read More →

Thursday October 15, 2026 10:15am - 11:45am CDT
King of Glory Lutheran Church

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