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MNRI® Reflex Recovery Exercises for Individuals in Need: Introductory Guide for Health Care Providers
Dates: October 22-23, 2024
Location: Singapore
Address: To Be Announced
Instructor: Yichien Su
The Masgutova Method® is a set of programs focused on the restoration and maturation of primary movements, reflexes, coordination systems, skills for optimal performance of natural mechanisms, developmental processes, brain functioning, and sensory-motor integration. You can read more about Reflexes and MNRI HERE.
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The Mission of the Svetlana Masgutova Educational Institute (SMEI) is to provide health, wellness and educational professionals, parents, and caregivers with non-invasive techniques to address maturational, developmental, and life challenges.
Course Description
Primary reflexes first appear in infancy and remain active throughout life, supporting various functions essential to human survival and development. Proper and healthy primary reflex function provides a foundation for stress management, trauma recovery, proper neurodevelopment, and a healthy lifestyle.
This is a preparatory program on MNRI®, specifically targeted at health providers of individuals in need at any age, from infancy through later life. The goals of key MNRI exercises are to strengthen and improve the function of the nervous system and its effects on immunity, stress resilience, neuroplasticity, emotional-behavioural regulation, motor learning, and cognitive processes. The information and exercises aim to help with recovery from stress, trauma, developmental disorders, illness, or a particular life-challenging diagnosis. This program intends to show care providers how MNRI® can be an effective independent or complementary approach to therapeutic and medical interventions and other caregiving supports.
This program includes a summarized compilation of key MNRI® programs, including D&P, NeuroTactile, Archetype Movements, and Oral-Facial Reflex Integration, with selected basic exercises from those programs. This program proposes new combinations of exercises and shortcut techniques to address root causes and facilitate faster recovery. The generalized exercises will be shared in simple, sequenced protocols to support the individual's sensory-motor reflex integration and promote optimal physical and emotional health and neurodevelopment.
This course can be used as an alternative prerequisite for MNRI® Oral-Facial Reflex Integration Level 1.
Learner Objectives
Upon completion of this two-day, 16-hour MNRI® Reflex Recovery Exercises for Individuals in Need: Introductory Guide for Health Care Providers class, participants will be able to:
1. Describe the theory of the MNRI® Method and major concepts in supporting neural wellness in individuals across the lifespan.
2. List major primary reflexes and their potential roles in stress resiliency, sensorimotor development, and healthy lifestyle.
3. Demonstrate MNRI® reflex neuro-integrative techniques to facilitate motor control, emotional regulation, stress, and pain reflex management.
4. Describe basic tactility concepts in the MNRI® Method and corresponding goals for individuals with challenges.
5. Demonstrate NeuroTactile techniques for optimizing tactility, muscular, tendonous, and neurostructural functions, and the ability to support stress and pain management in a person of any age and with any diagnosis.
6. Describe basic MNRI® Dynamic & Postural Reflex Integration concepts and demonstrate selected primary reflex repatterning exercises to support optimal reflex function.
7. Describe basic Oral-Facial-Motor Reflex Integration concepts and demonstrate selected exercises for emotional regulation, eating, voice modulation and sound production.
Hourly Agenda
Hour 1-2:
• Introduction to the MNRI® program
• What is a reflex, and why is it important for an individual’s health, well-being and development?
• Reflex definition and introduction to MNRI® concepts of reflex integration
Hour 3-4:
• Different levels of stress (everyday, negative yet tolerable, toxic, post-traumatic)
• Stress and reflex integration. How reflexes are involved in the stress process, stress resilience, and stress / trauma recovery
Hour 5-6:
• Overview of foundational MNRI® programs
Hour 7-8:
• Practicum: Archetype movement concepts and basic exercises, with specific explanations of how the exercises aid in support of neurodevelopment and stress / trauma recovery.
Hour 9-10:
• Practicum: NeuroTactile Integration concepts and exercises for support of the health of tactility, the nervous and immune systems.
Hour 11-12:
• Practicum: D&P concepts and selected reflex repatterning exercises for support of maturation and integration of reflex patterns.
Hour 13-14:
• Practicum: D&P concepts and selected reflex repatterning exercises for support of maturation and integration of reflex patterns.
Hour 15-16:
• Practicum: Oral-Facial-Motor reflex integration concepts and selected exercises for emotional regulation and feeding.
Financial Disclosure: Yichien Su receives a stipend based upon an enrollment percentage.
Non-financial Disclosure: No relevant relationship exists.
Course Disclosure: The Svetlana Masgutova Educational Institute has developed and patented a licensed technology trademarked as MNRI®. Because there are no other like-kind products available, course offerings will only cover information that pertains to the effective and safe use of the above-named products. This presentation will focus exclusively on MNRI® and will not include information on other similar or related products or services.
Special Needs Requests: If you require special accommodations, please notify SMEI at events@masgutovamethod.com at the time of registration so that needed accommodations can be made prior to the course.
Course Completion Requirements: Full attendance is required to receive a certificate of completion and any available credit hours or CEUs.
Target audience:
Speech Language Pathologists, Speech Language Pathologist Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants, Nurses, Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Educators, Psychologists, Physicians, Massage Therapists, Mental Health Counselors, Other Health Care Providers, Parents.
SMEI Cancellation and Refund Policy
Courses are subject to cancellation due to lack of minimum required participants registered for the course within 10 days of the course start date. Full refunds (or transfer of funds to online account for future use) will be issued if the course is canceled due to the low number of attendees.
We recommend that attendees who will be flying do not purchase their flight until after the 10 day window has elapsed to avoid a nonrefundable circumstance with the airline. SMEI is not liable for any ticket costs related to the course being canceled. SMEI is not liable for any costs related to transportation (airline tickets, train, taxi, etc) due to the cancellation of an event.
- Participants will receive a full refund for registration cancellation up to 21 days prior to the course.
- A 10% administration charge will be retained for cancellations within 15-20 days prior to the course.
- A 25% administration charge will be retained for cancellations within 14 days prior to the course.
Manual Download Policy
Once a student has downloaded the manual or any course resources, payment for this course can be transferred to a different time and location of the same course; however NO REFUNDS and NO TRANSFERS TO A DIFFERENT COURSE are allowed, even if the course is cancelled by the LAC or Instructor.
Transferring Policy
Participants who wish to transfer registration and payment to another
SMEI course may do so.
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