Brain Body Connect

Online movement program to integrate primitive reflexes

Does your child have difficulties with...

Sensitivities to sound, touch, taste, or movement
Feeling car-sick or motion sickness easily
Riding a bike, catching/throwing/kicking a ball,
Speech and articulation
Running, skipping, hopping, jumping, climbing or crawling
Avoiding obstacles, keeping their balance, coordinating movement
Difficulty sleeping (falling asleep/staying asleep)
Infant milestones either skipped or they were slower to reach milestones e.g rolling, crawling, walking and talking later than expected
Toileting or bedwetting
Vision/visual skills, or difficulty reading
Strong fears or worries (anxiety, frequent nightmares, often expresses worry)
Activity levels (highly active/unable to sit still or very lethargic and low energy)
Dyslexia, Dysgraphia or learning challenges
Not wanting to engage in tasks, frequent tantrums
Difficulty expressing their emotions or is emotionally sensitive

These challenges are often common for children who may have retained primitive reflexes, impacting on their ability to engage in everyday activities. If you have noticed your child displays any of these challenges, our online program would benefit their development and wellbeing.

In our program, we provide 1-1 consultations with parents to assess their child’s current challenges, and to develop an individualised movement-based program, to integrate primitive reflexes and support sensory processing.

What are primitive reflexes?

Reflexes develop in the first few weeks of life, while a child develops in-utero, in the womb.
As we grow and develop, several reflexes will emerge and integrate while we are still in the womb and before we are born. These reflex patterns create automatic movements (e.g baby kicking, moving around), so that when we are born, we already know how to start moving our body.

The central nervous system (CNS) controls our movement, thoughts/cognition, communication, social connections, processing our senses and connections between the brain and body.
Primitive reflexes are the blueprints for the development of our movement as an infant and a baby. These reflex patterns ‘disappear’ after around 2 years of age (although this is largely individual).

When primitive reflexes remain, children and adults might have difficulty with a range of skills related to reading, writing, movement, sensory processing, emotional wellbeing, cognition, self-care and learning.

Take the questionnaire

Take the questionnaire to decide whether you would like further support for your child with integrating primitive reflexes. At the end of the questionnaire, you may enter your email if you would like to receive a brief summary of the results you entered and information to help you to determine whether reflex integration would benefit your child at this time.

Take the free questionnaire below.

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What is Reflex Integration?

Reflex integration exercises support the neural networks of the brain and central nervous system to support the integration of primitive reflexes, control of posture, and processing our senses effectively.

Reflex integration exercises support the brain and nervous system from a bottom-up approach, to support the foundation of sensory processing skills, postural skills and to support self-regulation skills.