Reflexes & Brain Development

Learn how retained primitive reflexes affect brain development and posture, and how to identify these reflexes along with their influence on neurological growth and physical coordination.

Highlights include:
✔ An overview of primitive reflexes and what they do
✔ How reflexes relate to postural control
✔ First assessments for detecting retained reflexes

Examine how sensory pathways contribute to integrated movement, and how targeted exercises can stimulate reflexes to encourage stronger neurological development and postural stability.

Highlights include:
✔ Types of sensory inputs for reflex activation
✔ Ways to engage reflexes and promote balance
✔ Practical sensory-motor integration activities

Explore exercises created to reduce the impact of retained reflexes, and see how reprogramming reflexive patterns supports optimal alignment and movement of the body.

Highlights include:
✔ Corrective exercises, step by step
✔ Techniques for reflex inhibition
✔ Ways to enhance motor control

Explore how reflex integration relates to cognitive function, and how a balanced set of reflexes supports sharper focus, learning, and overall brain performance.

Highlights include:
✔ How reflexes connect with higher brain functions
✔ Exercises that reinforce reflex integration
✔ How reflex training affects cognitive tasks

Master approaches for comprehensive reflex integration and gain the tools to support long-term improvements in posture and movement.

Highlights include:
✔ Advanced reflex reprogramming
✔ Long-term strategies for keeping reflexes balanced
✔ Bringing reflex work into daily routines

Anyone with an interest in improving how the body functions will benefit from our programme.

It is also used by Athletes, Strength Coaches, Team Therapists and Coaches, Golf Instructors, Personal Trainers, Pilates and Yoga Instructors, Health Care Practitioners, Physical Therapists, Chiropractors, Rehabilitation Professionals, Osteopaths, Dentists, and Medical Doctors.

When examining how the muscle chains develop, innate movement patterns (primitive reflexes) are essential to consider. As you mature, these impulses become integrated into the brain's circuitry, and anything that delays their assimilation will affect how the different parts of the brain develop and communicate with one another.

Children with learning disorders (e.g., ADHD) are known to have retained primitive reflexes, which then contribute to their symptoms and levels of dysfunction. This is why assessing every child as early as possible matters so much.

In adulthood, primitive reflexes that remain unintegrated will contribute to an array of problems, including poor handwriting, pencil grip, fine muscle control, dexterity, fine motor skills, vision coordination, language difficulties, movement error cognition and bad posture. 

Living with retained primitive reflexes can drain your energy and promote overactivity of the sympathetic system, which amounts to unnecessary stress!

Primitive reflexes are an important part of your overall health, and they are well worth knowing about!

Straight away! Once the course is complete, you can build plans to integrate faulty motor patterns and see rapid results with your clients. Combine your existing knowledge with the Reflexes and Brain Development course and the results you achieve will likely be unlike anything anyone has seen before!

The course is organised to build a comprehensive understanding, moving from the basics of brain development and reflexes through to more advanced topics. It includes detailed explorations of individual reflexes, how they are tested, their effects, and integration techniques