MNRI® BASIS | NeuroTactile (27-28.06.2026) + Archetypes (28-30.09.2026) + | The Netherlands
MNRI BASIS
NEUROTACTILE INTEGRATION • Dates: June 27-28, 2026 • Instructor: Susanne Wolmesjö • Location: Rijswijk
ARCHETYPE MOVEMENT INTEGRATION • Dates: September 28-30, 2026 • Instructor: Elina Akhmatova / Isabelle Renard Fontaine • Location: 's-Gravenzande or Rijswijk!
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Course Overview ARCHETYPE MOVEMENT INTEGRATION
Archetype Movement Program techniques work to activate and engage archetype movements that, for various reasons, have remained dormant in the body.
Archetype movements, less complex in nature than motor reflex patterns or schemes, are among the first reflexive movements to develop and emerge.
Once engaged, archetype movements remain present and active in the body, allowing normal range and flexibility of motion while providing support, balance, and stability for the upper and lower, left and right, and front and back parts of the body.
Archetype motor movements also play a subordinate role in the maturation and integration of progressively more complex reflexes, including primary motor reflex patterns, motor reflex schemes, and the development of learned motor skills.
If an archetype movement is not appropriately engaged, its impact can be great given the subordinate role it plays in maturation and development.
We encourage parents and professionals interested in learning more about the MNRI Method® and its various programs to attend this course early on, given the fundamental role it plays in overall development.
The MNRI® Archetype Motor Movement course explores:
• The general MNRI Method® and the role played by the Archetype Motor Movement Program
• The progression of motor movements beginning in utero and continuing through life
• Archetype motor movements and how they relate to primary motor reflex patterns and important coordination systems
• The role archetype motor movements play in establishing a foundation for motor, communication and cognitive development, and emotional and behavioral regulation
• MNRI® techniques designed to assess and facilitate the maturation and integration of archetype motor movements
• How to create MNRI® archetype maturation programs for individual clients
• How to incorporate use of the MNRI® Archetype Motor Movement course content into daily client and home practice
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this three-day, 24-hour Archetype Motor Movement course, participants:
1. Learn about the Masgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration, MNRI Method®
a. The innate nature of the motor reflex system
b. The role of a reflex and its sensory, motor and central nervous system mechanisms
c. When, why, and how the brain engages in protection versus learning and development
d. The maturational and subordinate role of archetype motor movements within primary motor reflex patterns and schemes
2. Understand the importance and progression of the various types of automatic motor movements, including,
a. Archetype motor movement:
• Body-Center Radiation (Core-Limbs Flexion-Extension) • Homologous Movement • Cross-Lateral Movement • Mouth-Spine Rotation • Homolateral Movement • Intentional Movement • Body-Righting Movement (Trunk Extension) • Lateral Spine Flexion-Extension
b. Rhythmic motor movements
c. Learned, intentional, and controlled movements and skills
3. Understand the relationship between archetype motor movements and related automatic reflex movements and patterns
a. Across developmental time periods -- in-utero, birth, post-birth, newborn, infant, early childhood, and lifelong
b. Relative to various body systems -- tactile, visual-auditory, facial, upper limbs and neuro-structural
4. Explore and understand the impact archetype motor movement maturation and integration, and related primary motor reflex
pattern maturation and integration on:
a. Body structure, posture and motor development
b. Advanced motor planning, communication, and cognitive development
c. Behavioral and emotional regulation of the body-mind system
5. Learn to implement the MNRI® archetype assessment and integration techniques
a. Learn through lecture, demonstration, and hands-on-practice, the MNRI techniques to adequately assess and integrate archetype motor movements
b. Learn through course discussion and instructor demonstration how to deal with unique and challenging client situations using MNRI Method® techniques
c. Demonstrate for course instructor the ability to appropriately apply assessment and integration procedures for each archetype motor movement
6. Learn to use course knowledge to create and apply an individual MNRI® Program for clients with various challenges
a. Use MNRI® pre-assessment to identify non-integrated archetype motor movements
b. Develop an individualized MNRI Program based on assessment results and targeted individual challenges
c. Explore with client family the potential impact the individual program can have on
- body structure, posture, and movement maturation
- motor, communication and cognitive learning abilities and emotional and behavioral regulation
7. Explore, evaluate and develop strategies to incorporate the use of the MNRI® Archetype Motor Movement course content into daily client and home practice. Pattern and Reflex Techniques Addressed in this Course:
Archetype Motor Movements
• Core-Limbs Flexion-Extension • Homologous Movements • Cross-Lateral Movements • Mouth-Spine Rotation • Homolateral Movements • Intentional Movements • Trunk Extension • Lateral Spine Flexion-Extension
Primary Motor Reflex Patterns
• Asymmetrical Tonic Neck (ATNR) • Flying and Landing • Leg Cross Flexion • Spinal Galant • Babkin Palmomental • Hands Supporting (Parachute) • Locomotion • Trunk Extension • Bauer Crawling
Additional Motor Reflexes
• Core Tendon Guard • Head Up-Righting • Spine Expanding • Foot Tendon Guard • Segmental Rolling • Spinning • Head Righting
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Course Overview NEUROTACTILE INTEGRATION
MNRI® Tactile System Integration Introduction: Skin, our largest organ, forms the boundary between our physical being and the outside world. It also houses the tactile system, which allows the body to access tactile sensations from the outside world. The skin possesses eleven different tactile receptors to distinguish the broad array of tactile stimuli input encountered by the body. This set of tactile receptors helps to inform and prioritize incoming sensory information for the central nervous system to process. Once processed, the central nervous system directs the body’s actions in response to ever-changing tactile conditions. Due to congenital issues or trauma (in utero, at birth, or anytime after birth), tactile system challenges can result, causing any one of the following conditions.
• Hyper-sensitive Tactile System – Also referred to as tactile defensiveness, this results in a negative, over-reaction to touch that typically would not be a problem. A person with a hyper-sensitive tactile system will often respond negatively to hugs, having their hair brushed or nails clipped, and complain about various textures, seams, tags and avoid wearing any form fitting clothes. A simple skin scrape can elicit a reaction expected for a far more debilitating wound.
• Hypo-sensitive Tactile System – A person with a hypo-sensitive tactile system often does not respond to tactile input that would cause most people to act. A deep cut, a hard push, or other forms of physical harm lead to little or no reaction. Tactile input important to taking action and avoiding harm, is often missed by a person with a hypo-sensitive tactile system, leaving them at risk for great harm. People with hypo- sensitive tactile systems often seeking more intense sensory stimulation in an effort to register sensation.
• Non-Functioning Tactile System – A non-functioning tactile system is simply not working.
The reactions of a person with either a hyper- or hypo-sensitive tactile systems, often seem bigger or smaller than normal conditions would dictate. Such disproportionate reactions are often an indication that an individual’s tactile system is not appropriately engaged and integrated. The MNRI Tactile Integration program uses neuro-tactile techniques to stimulate different receptors in the skin, working to appropriately engage and integrate the tactile sensory system within the complete mind/body system. When the tactile system is integrated, the brain stem relaxes defensive reflexes, and opens the entire system to an experience of safety in which emotion and behavioral regulation improves and healthy motor, communication, and cognitive development can proceed.
Professionals, parents and caregivers interested in learning more about the MNRI Method and its various programs are encourage to attend this course early on, given the fundamental role it plays in emotional and behavioral regulation, and overall maturation and development. The Tactile Integration course explores in great detail the physiology and psychology of the tactile system, the developmental effects of over- and under-sensitive receptors, and the importance of an appropriately integrated tactile system to the process of integrating all motor reflex movement and patterns.
The MNRI® Tactile Integration course explores:
• The general MNRI Method and role played by the Tactile Integration Program
• Tactile integration and how it relates to motor reflexes and other important body systems
• The neurophysiologic and psychological dynamics of the tactile system
• The role tactile integration plays in establishing a foundation for motor, communication and cognitive development, and emotional and behavioral regulation
• MNRI techniques designed to assess, activate, and integrate tactile sensitivities
• How to create MNRI® tactile integration programs for individual clients
• How to incorporate use of MNRI Tactile Integration course content into daily client and home practice
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of the two-day, 16-hour Tactile Integration course, participants will:
1. Learn about the Masgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration SM (MNRI®) Method
a. The innate nature of the motor reflex system
b. The role of a reflex and its sensory, motor, and central nervous system mechanisms
c. When, why, and how the brain engages in protection versus learning and development
d. The role tactile integration plays in motor reflex integration and advanced learning
2. Explore the neuro-physiological and psychological dynamics of the tactile sensory system
a. Learn to identify, explain and classify
• Types of neurons and divisions found within the skin, while exploring how the nervous system functions as a whole to control and coordinate the body systems
• The seven types of sensory cells found in the peripheral and central nervous systems, and the role each plays in processing sensory stimuli and establishing an individual’s relationship to self, others and the general environment
b. Learn to compare, contrast and differentiate between
• Conscious and subconscious somatic and specialized senses and how each impacts learning in various settings and social situations
• Subconscious somatic and visceral stimuli and gain an understanding of how stimuli variation influences learning, social/emotional and tactile development in challenged individuals
c. Review and discuss research regarding the relationship between individuals with challenges and tactile integration
d. Learn and explain the impact tactile integration can have on
(1) emotional and behavioral regulation,
(2) advancing maturational reflexes,
(3) motor, communication and cognitive development, and
(4) growth, learning and academic functioning throughout the lifespan
3. Learn to implement MNRI neuro-stimulation techniques designed to assess, activate and integrate challenged tactile systems
a. Review, discuss, and gain an understanding of the four general MNRI tactile technique variations
• How each activates, re-educates and integrates tactile receptors and the proprioceptive system
• The impact integration can have on improving function and learning
b. Learn through demonstration and application how to apply each of the four tactile technique variations, including lengthening and stretching, rotation, compression and traction, and deep pressure touch to:
• Activate physiological and structural connections between skin, muscles, tendons and bones
• Alleviate the negative physical and psychological effects of sensory stimuli
• Reduce stress at the physiological level, alleviating stress responses that would otherwise inhibit reflex integration required for core stabilization, improvement in joint mobility, range of motion and motor coordination
c. Learn through demonstration and application additional tactile program techniques to:
• Provide a kinesthetic sense of appendage length, size, and boundaries
• Provide an awareness of the sagital, axial and coronal planes of body coordination, coronal planes of body coordination and core integration
• Develop the clinical skills necessary to generate body awareness and enhance spatial skill development
d. Demonstrate for course instructor ability to appropriately apply all tactile integration techniques presented in class
4. Learn to use course knowledge to create and apply an individual MNRI program for clients with various challenges
a. Develop an individual MNRI program based on assessment results and targeted individual challenges
b. Explore with client family the potential impact the individualized program can have on
• Supporting the integration of archetype motor movements, primary motor reflex patterns and other motor reflexes and body systems
• Body structure, posture, and motor maturation
• Motor, communication and cognitive learning abilities and emotional and behavioral regulation
5. Explore, evaluate and develop strategies to incorporate the use of the MNRI Tactile Integration course content into daily client and home practice.