Innate - Andrea Riem

12/08/2026

EARLY CHILDHOOD REFLEXES COURSE
Learn how to support your child, yourself and/or your clients with practical tools and procedures that may support the integration of retained primitive reflexes.

Who is this course for?
Parents • Teachers • Therapists • Practitioners • Anyone wanting to understand reflex integration

Retained reflexes may be associated with challenges such as:
• Anxiety & feeling overwhelmed
• Learning challenges & concentration difficulties
• Language delays
• Sensory processing challenges
• ADD/ADHD
• Behavioural & emotional challenges
• Bed-wetting
• Aggressive behaviour
• Separation anxiety & insecurity
• Balance, coordination & muscle tone difficulties
• Dependency issues
• Shyness — and more

WHY ARE PRIMITIVE REFLEXES IMPORTANT?
Babies are born with a series of automatic reflexes that form part of their foundational neurological development. These reflex patterns support early movement, development and the building of neural pathways needed for more advanced skills.
When reflex patterns remain active or are not adequately integrated, they may contribute to difficulties with movement, learning, emotional regulation and behaviour.

Reflex integration approaches can be used with children and adults of all ages.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
• The importance and impact of primitive reflexes
• Challenges that may occur when reflexes are not integrated
• How reflexes may relate to learning, behavioural and emotional challenges
• Practical reflex integration processes
• Balancing processes to support reflex integration
• Fun games and activities for children and adults

Early Bird until 5 Sept
Investment: R4 000
Normal price: R4 400
BGinSA members R3800
Normal price R4 000

Spaces are limited — book your seat!
📧 [email protected]
📱 Andrea: 083 646 8999

BOOKING FORM:
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Please note: Reflex integration approaches are complementary educational/developmental approaches and should not be presented as a treatment or cure for medical or developmental conditions.

29/07/2026

Could unintegrated primitive and postural reflexes be contributing to everyday challenges?

Children and adults who struggle with any of the following may have retained reflexes that are impacting their nervous system:
• Anxiety and feeling overwhelmed
• Bed-wetting
• Aggressive behaviour
• Separation anxiety or insecurity
• Poor boundaries
• Speech and language challenges
• Poor posture while writing
• Difficulty sitting still
• Poor concentration
• Handwriting difficulties
• Sleeping problems
• Balance, coordination and muscle tone challenges
• Dependency issues
• Shyness... and more.

The MNRI® Method (Masgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration) uses gentle, structured techniques to support the integration of these reflexes and help the nervous system function more efficiently.

Many people experience improvements in:
✨ Concentration
✨ Emotional regulation
✨ Anxiety and stress levels
✨ Sleep
✨ Handwriting and posture
✨ Confidence and resilience
✨ Daily functioning

MNRI® – the "missing link" in addressing many neurologically based challenges.
Simple, gentle and profound.

Supporting children and adults through reflex integration is my passion. There is nothing more rewarding than seeing someone become calmer, more confident, and better able to reach their full potential.

I'd love to help you learn more.
📞 Andrea Riem One-on-one MNRI® sessions
Early Childhood Reflex Integration Training
083 646 8999
Www.innatepotential.co.za

07/07/2026

Transform your life!
Shift out of Stress, Anxiety & Trauma.
For Adults & Children

Experience a mind & body Transformational therapeutic process for fast, long-term positive change.
1st Session:
· Dominance Brain Profile - showing you how you react under stress and why
· Your love languages and learning style
· Identify areas to help unblock learning / emotional difficulties.
· Learn natural and simple movements to shift out of anxiety & stress

1-on-1 sessions based in Weltevredenpark
Online sessions available

A travel to you option available for an additional fee in Johannesburg (area dependent)
Contact [email protected] or 0836468999
Testimonials - https://www.innatepotential.co.za/Testimonials/

22/06/2026

🌈📖 Have you ever watched a child struggle with grief, sadness, anger, or self-doubt and wished you could help them understand their feelings?
How Iggy Healed His Heart by Andrea Riem is a heartwarming story that helps children (and adults) explore:
💛 Grief and loss
💛 Forgiveness and healing
💛 The power of thoughts
💛 Friendship and compassion
💛 Finding hope after difficult experiences

Follow Iggy the Elephant on a journey from sadness and isolation to love, connection, and joy, with the help of his friends Soary and Angela.

⭐ "This story is about compassion, kindness, generosity, love and working with the forces of nature. It is beautiful, rich and moving." – Natalia Baker

Perfect for parents, grandparents, teachers, counsellors and anyone supporting children through life's challenges.

💌 contact Andrea directly for a signed copy - [email protected]

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04/06/2026

Fear of the dark – Separation Anxiety
“Great news my daughter slept in her own bed, with lights off in the bedroom last night. She is so proud of herself”, feedback from a client whose daughter (8 years old) had such a fear of the dark her brother had to sleep in her bed at night many nights and there had to be a lamp on in the bedroom. She couldn’t go anywhere on her own especially in the dark.

Fear of the dark can be linked to separation anxiety. A child’s need to sleep in their parents bed / bedroom, a child clinging onto a parent in social settings, can be Separation anxiety. Separation anxiety is the general fear of abandonment from another person, place, thing etc. This can be a deep down rooted fear which cannot be controlled by a child or even an adult that experiences this fear.
I have found that when working on the Fear Paralysis, Moro and Bonding reflexes, it dramatically reduces the deep routed separation anxiety and that "fear of the dark".

The bonding reflex is key when working with emotional fragility as well as co-dependent relationships. This reflex is the a complex reflex which forms the feeling of comfort, harmony, safety and feeling protected and feeling taken care of. This reflex also has a strong impact on our own ability to give and receive love. This reflex can be interrupted and have a delayed integration especially for those babies born and taken away from their mother those first moments of life.

To assist your child with re-integrating this reflex I would highly recommend quality bonding time with your child, hugging, squeezing and rocking with your child and affirming to them that they are loved, accepted and appreciated. This is a powerful embrace and can assist and strengthen a bond between parent and child. A powerful process to do for yourself as well, by giving yourself a self-hug and gently rocking from side to side and affirming positive affirmations of self-love to yourself.

I believe that to receive unconditional love, the key is to give yourself unconditional self-love. What you give to yourself you allow others to give to you.

Have some fun, give yourself a moment of self-love today and repeat self-love affirmations and let me know how that makes you feel today.

Sending much love to you all.
With love Andrea

25/05/2026

Teachers & Parents learn to assist your children: improve concentration, become calmer & less anxious as well as to be more effective. Learn how movement integrates the brain.

Become a Brain Gym® Movement Facilitator - complete BG104 (2day), Brain Gym 101 (4day) and BG110 courses.

Many teachers and parents have found that by doing Brain Gym® with the children for only five minutes a day improves concentration, the children are calmer and more integrated. Teaching has become easier for the teachers who do Brain Gym® daily with their class. (‘Grade 3 students at Breslau School Ontario, Canada, went from poor testing results to over 80% of the Gr 3 students achieving A’s and B’s in the EQAO – after exposure to Brain Gym®.')

Investment -
Early Bird - Book & pay by 28 March
R4000 for Non-BGinSA members
R3800 for BGinSA members
Full Fee:
R4200 for Non-BGinSA members
R4000 for BGinSA members
Contact Andrea should you require a payment plan

Email [email protected] to book your seat, or call Andrea 083 646 8999. http://www.innatepotential.co.za/Training/

21/05/2026

Trauma & Stress recovery & Healing the body
When you are feeling stressed or experience trauma – you feel it physically in your body: muscles tense up, heart palpitations, trembling, stomach & head pains. There is more research evidence now that trauma that is not fully processed or acknowledged “stores” in the body. Everything that happens to us emotionally and psychologically it happens to our bodies as well – everything is connected.

When we experience an overwhelming level of stress beyond the ability of the body and nervous system to cope, we enter trauma. Traumatic stress severely impacts personal functioning, interpersonal relationships and employment, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression and somatisation.

In acute stress conditions you can see - panic reactions, chronic anxiety, confusion, dissociation, lack of trust, insomnia, poor sleep patterns, and difficulty with basic self-care, work, schooling and relationships. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), hyper-vigilance, and emotional numbness.

Ever watch an impala escape from a lion? The impala will shake violently after the event. Animals release stress by shaking – it’s a physical release of a traumatic experience.

When stress & trauma is not fully dealt with or acknowledged it can become “stored” in the body and become somatised. Which is genuine physical complaints rather than emotional distress when the stress or trauma is too scary to process mentally. If we can’t talk about it, our body talks for us.

Healing Trauma:
By connecting more with your body through touch, reflex integration, physical movement, deep belly breathing, shaking, dancing, through a physical activation and release the stresses built up in the body can be shifted.

Reflex patterns govern our actions, behaviour, and thoughts in traumatic stress, they are also a key resource for positive survival and neurodevelopment.

The MNRI® method (Masgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration) for addressing Post-Trauma and PTSD is a gentle, rapid and effective intervention modality that restores the integrity of the primary motor reflex patterns and drastically improves the course of recovery from traumatic stresses.

Reflexes are essential for future motor, sensory, emotional, and cognitive development. MNRI, focuses primarily on protective reflex functions to improve stress resilience and neural connectivity.

Don’t let your past affect your tomorrow, commit to let go of your stressors and trauma. Move your body and allow the emotions to be released. Seek support to get your power back.

I would love to support you through it if you need the extra support.
Call Andrea 083 646 8999
[email protected]

20/05/2026