What is MNRI?
MNRI (Masgutova’s Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration), founded by neuroscientist Svetlana Masgutova, is a method of bodywork that helps to organize and calm your nervous system. Dr. Masgutova discovered that using cross-body movements, mirroring, and specific sensory touch was able to take victims of severe trauma out of their protected state. This technique is used on both children and adults to treat a variety of neurologic, cognitive, and mental health disorders.
When you get on Tara’s massage table, she gives the body a stimulus (usually touch or sound) and observes what the response is in your body. Then, she does repatterning movements to redirect the pathway correctly to better allow your nervous system to come out of a protective state. Aside from helping our bodies [innately!] work through severe trauma, many of us go about our lives in a low level state of protection; this can manifest in the body disguising itself as pain, anxiety, depression, and many other cognitive dysfunctions. Through MNRI, your body is receiving the appropriate input to better allow your nervous system to go between parasympathetic and sympathetic states, thus strengthening your overall emotional regulation and vagal tone.
Links to MNRI Research Articles
Published: 2020
Published: 2016
Case study published 2015
Case study published 2015