Meet Our Instructors

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    Kate Wagner

    Director of BRMT USA, International Instructor

    Kate Wagner has been integrating reflexes with BRMT for over 20 years. She studied directly with Dr. Blomberg and continues to carry on his legacy through her dedication to sharing BRMT around the world. She specializes in vision, reading, and dyslexia as well as working with adults experiencing chronic pain, anxiety, and fixations in their body.

    retrainthebrain.org

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    Dave Boyland

    Physical Therapist, Level 1 Instructor

    Dr. Boyland works with adults in New York State. He specializes in relieving chronic pain and tension, releasing stress and negative emotions from the body, and restoring clients to their natural states of wholeness and wellness. Dave is joyful and curious and creates beautiful changes in his clients’ lives.

  • PhD and former neuro anatomy professor brings a wealth of medical background to BRMT

    Amanda Conta-Steencken

    PhD, Naturopath, Level 1 Instructor

    Amanda is a brilliant and passionate instructor with a neuroscience background. She investigates the relationships between the fascia, the brain, and mitochondria, shedding light onto BRMT’s mechanisms of action in the body. Her research is alive and constantly growing - read more on her Substack.

    horaioswellness.com

    https://amandaconta.substack.com/p/what-are-primitive-reflexes-8f4

  • Specializing in BRMT and chronic inflammation and detoxification.

    Lisa De Garcia

    Level 2 Instructor

    Lisa currently teaches BRMT Primitive Reflex Integration Levels One and Two. She has a Master’s degree in Education and continues to empower parents and teachers to learn through movement by utilizing Blomberg primitive reflex integration into her Whole Child approach.

  • DPT and retired Pediatric PT in the BOCES system in NY state.

    Deb Herold

    Physical Therapist, Level 1 Instructor

    Deb lives in Clifton Springs NY. She has 41 years of experience as a Physical Therapist and spent 33 years working in homes and schools with children who have emotional, behavioral, developmental delays, coordination, visual problems and autism. She took her first class in BRMT with Dr. Harold Blomberg in 2015 and saw the benefits for pediatrics and adults. She continued to take classes and use his techniques with very good results. Deb is now retired but still sees adults and children privately.

  • DPT and avid BRMT provider for adults

    Diane Musial

    Physical Therapist, Level 1 Instructor

    Diane Musial PT lives in Rochester NY. She has 40 years of experience as a physical therapist. Diane currently works with adult clients to resolve chronic pain and anxiety, postural impairments, and autonomic nervous system dysregulation, with a focus on understanding the relationship between the ANS and the body to support optimal pain resolution

  • Pediatric OT and mother of 2.

    Riley Wagner

    Occupational Therapist, Level 1 Instructor

    Riley is a pediatric occupational therapist and mother of 2 young boys. She has been studying BRMT her entire life alongside her mother, Kate Wagner, and now loves to travel and teach as a dynamic mother-daughter duo. As an OT she specializes in early childhood development and makes great changes in the lives of her young clients.