RMT | Body Brain

RHYTHMIC MOVEMENT TRAINING

Rhythmic Movement Training (RMT) is a drug free approach to postural, learning, sensory, emotional and behavioural challenges.

Working with a system of gentle rhythmic movements and reflex integration activities, it helps to build new neural pathways - switching on the brain for developing emotional balance, learning ability, ease of movement and sensory integration.

Rhythmic Movement Training (RMT) is a primitive reflex integration protocol.

RMT is a movement-based programme; it is based on the prebirth and newborn infant movement patterns. The goal is to increase neural stimulation and build or strengthen neural connections by practising these movements in a consistent, coordinated and exact manner.

These simple healing exercises stimulate the ability of the brain and the nervous system to renew and create new nerve connections; and these exercises help a person to develop, mature and heal physically, emotionally and mentally.

RMT is about resetting the foundations of brain organisation and postural abilities that are not well established when the inborn primitive reflex pattern programmes are interrupted, and primitive reflexes are retained.

RMTi

Rhythmic Movement Training International (RMTi) borrows from the philosophy of kinesiology; and is one of many programmes that work with reflex integration.

Rhythmic movements, as practiced by RMTi consultants, uses an educational process; observing what resources each client has, and working with them to investigate the way reflexes have impacted their lives.

The aim of RMTi is to open up the possibilities of overcoming learning and behavioural challenges and neurological imbalances more effectively.

In RMTi, we are tapping into neuroplasticity - the possibility to create new pathways and connections and mature the brain - to reset those basic building blocks when there is some form of dysfunction or challenge.

RMT & Reflex Integration

The movements in RMT were first developed in the 1970s by Kerstin Linde, a self-taught therapist, in Sweden. Using the observational skills she had developed as a photographer, she devised a series of movements based on the natural rhythmic movements of the infant in the first months after birth.

Using movements and activities that mimic the innate movements made by a developing foetus & infant that are necessary to integrate primitive reflexes, establish life-long movement patterns, grow the brain, and develop head control and muscle tone.

RMT movements are seemingly simple movements. However, they do provide a substantial amount of vestibular, tactile and proprioceptive stimulation.

Fundamental to being able to do this (and integrate reflexes) is finding the rhythm, coordination and smoothness in movement.

RMTi recognises how coordinated, smooth, rhythmical movement lies at the foundation of efficient sensory processing, neurological growth, emotional development and how we learn to behave and live in the world.

Once movements are able to be organised, the organisation of the brain will follow.

Movement builds connections and connections strengthen cognitive functions.

Refinement of movement leads to refinement and organisation of the brain.

The greater the refinement of the body and movement, the greater the refinement of the brain.

The ability to perform movements in a coordinated, rhythmical, smooth, effortless way is one of the aims of RMTi.

Jerky, uncoordinated and asymmetrical movements are an indication that primitive reflexes are still active; the cerebellum is not yet functioning efficiently; poor sensory processing; or fixation of the joints.