rhythmic movement therapy
Rhythmic movement training is a reflex integration program based on movements and other activities that replicate our earliest movement patterns to establish, strengthen, retrain the foundations of posture, central nervous system (CNS) maturity, vestibular function, sensory processing, memory, learning, emotions and behavior.
Rhythmic movement training originated in Sweden in the 1970s when a self-taught therapist Kristin Linde used the observational skills she has developed as a photographer to devise a series of movements based on what infants naturally do in the first months after birth. She observed that these movements starts as an uncoordinated movements and transitions into a coordinated smooth movements that are rhythmical in nature.
Rhythmic Movement Training International (RMTi) is established by Moira Dempsey to continue the powerful work into future from Dr. Bloomberg through a camp for special children conducted by Svetlana Masgutova, phD.
Rhythmic movement training helps with:
- Integrating reflexes
- Building neural pathways
- Creating postural foundations
- Stimulating the senses