About BRMT
Who is BRMT For?
Blomberg Rhythmic Movement Training is built on the movements every baby makes in the first year of life. Those movements are how the brain organizes itself — how primitive reflexes integrate, how muscle tone develops, how the parts of the brain learn to work together.
When that process is interrupted, incomplete, or never fully happens, the effects can last a lifetime.
The good news is that the nervous system doesn't lose the ability to do this work. It only loses the opportunity. BRMT gives that opportunity back — at any age.
An active reflex is not a diagnosis. It's a sign of incomplete neurodevelopment. And incomplete development can be completed.
BRMT for Infants
BRMT is the only reflex integration program that can be used directly with infants.
If you are an early interventionist or a parent to a baby or a young child, BRMT is where you need to start.
The first year of life is the most important window for neurological development. Babies develop by moving. Rocking, kicking, rolling, pushing up, creeping, crawling — these aren't just milestones to check off. Each one delivers specific sensory information to the developing brain, and each one builds on the one before it.
What can interrupt this process:
Prematurity or a difficult birth
Cesarean delivery
Illness or infection in the early months
Long periods in car seats, swings, bouncers, or walkers
Not enough tummy time
Not enough free movement on the floor
Skipping or shortening a stage — crawling in particular
What you might notice:
A baby who doesn't seem to enjoy being on their tummy. Who is unusually stiff or unusually floppy. Who startles very easily and is hard to settle. Who is sensitive to sound, light, or touch. Who skips crawling and goes straight to walking. Who arches away from being held.
How BRMT helps
With infants, the work is gentle, passive, and rhythmic — a practitioner or parent providing the rocking motion the baby's own nervous system would otherwise generate. It takes minutes, requires no equipment, and most babies find it calming.
Starting early means the nervous system gets what it needs while the developmental window is still wide open.
Very often, this is the simplest and fastest work we do.
What parents and practitioners notice
Early interventionists notice that their clients progress more quickly and easily reach their goals.
Parents notice that their child will spontaneously begin developing more quickly and achieve their milestones.
This is not a coincidence - BRMT works very quickly in infants because these are innate movements that the babies’ nervous system already recognizes.
BRMT for Children
Most families come to us because something isn't adding up.
Their child is bright, capable, and trying hard — and still struggling in ways nobody can quite explain. They've been to appointments. They've tried therapeutic strategies. They've been told to wait and see, or that the child will grow out of it, or that the problem is attention or motivation or effort.
It usually isn't.
What retained reflexes can look like in a child:
In the body — clumsiness, poor coordination, low muscle tone, slumping, W-sitting, toe walking, difficulty with sports, unusual pencil grip, messy handwriting
In the classroom — difficulty copying from the board, losing their place while reading, trouble sitting still, fatigue by mid-morning, poor organization, difficulty following multi-step instructions
In their emotions and behavior — anxiety, meltdowns that seem to come from nowhere, sensitivity to noise, light, tags, or waistbands, difficulty with transitions, trouble making friends, needing to control situations
At home — bedwetting past age five, picky eating, difficulty falling asleep, needing to rest after school in a way other children don't
Why these things go together
Parents often describe a list of problems that seem unrelated — a coordination issue, an attention issue, an emotional issue, a sleep issue. From a neurodevelopmental perspective, they frequently aren't separate at all. They're what a single unfinished foundation looks like from four different angles.
How BRMT helps
We identify which reflexes are still active, then use specific rhythmic movements — gentle, brief, and requiring no equipment — to give the nervous system the input it needed and didn't fully receive. Most movements take under two minutes. Children generally enjoy them.
This work is done with a child, never to them. We check in, we watch, we adjust, and we go at the pace their system can handle. There is no judging, diagnosing, or labeling.
What families notice
Children often become calmer, more confident, more independent, and less impulsive. Focus improves. Sleep improves. Many families report changes in digestion, bladder control, speech, and academic performance. Children begin to assert themselves in ways they hadn't before.
Getting Started
Looking for a practitioner? Find someone trained in BRMT near you.
Are you a practitioner? Our Level One course teaches you to identify and address six primitive and postural reflexes, using movements you can implement immediately.
Want to understand more first? Start with a consultation or our BRMT Foundations Course.
BRMT for Adults
Retained reflexes don't disappear at eighteen.
An adult who never fully integrated their primitive reflexes has usually spent decades compensating — building strategies, avoiding certain situations, carrying tension they've stopped noticing because it's simply how their body has always felt.
Reflexes can also become active again later in life, through chronic stress, severe acute stress, trauma, whiplash and head or neck injuries, illness, surgery, or neurological conditions.
What this can look like in adults:
Chronic muscle tension — through the neck, shoulders, back, hips, or legs — that doesn't fully release no matter what you try
Anxiety, panic, or social phobia
Poor balance, motion sickness, or discomfort with heights
Low back pain, sciatica, or a rotated pelvis
Difficulty organizing, planning, or finishing what you start
Trouble making decisions, or difficulty knowing what you actually want
Feeling disconnected from your own body or emotions
Sensitivity to light, sound, or touch
Sleep difficulties
Fatigue that rest doesn't fix
The connection between tension and emotion
Long-term stress, anxiety, and repressed feeling are held in the body. Some people respond by tightening — chronic tension through the muscles and diaphragm. Others go the opposite direction, becoming slack and disconnected. Many carry both, in different parts of the body.
When that tension begins to release through rhythmic movement, emotion often releases with it. This is expected, and it's part of the work. It's also why we go slowly, why less is more, and why we teach practitioners to hold this process carefully.
How BRMT helps
The same movements that support a child's development support an adult's nervous system — the difference is pacing and preparation. Adults often experience reduced pain and muscle tension, better sleep, improved digestion, greater resilience under stress, more initiative and assertiveness, and a clearer sense of connection between what they think and what they feel.
BRMT is also used to support people with Parkinson's disease, stroke recovery, and age-related decline, where the same principles of stimulating the brainstem and basal ganglia apply.