The RNP from Different Perspectives

The same approach, several ways to look at movement

Neuro-Postural Reprogramming (RNP) is not presented as a single method to apply, nor as a fixed protocol. It primarily offers a framework for understanding movement, which can be utilized from different perspectives, depending on what one seeks to understand.

Posture, coordination, stability, motor development, performance: these dimensions are often addressed separately. However, they do not correspond to distinct systems. They are different points of view on the same functioning: the way the nervous system perceives, integrates, and organizes movement.

This page brings together these different perspectives. Not to rank them, nor to oppose them, but to show how each illuminates a particular facet of RNP, while remaining connected to the others.

Why multiply perspectives on movement

In professional practice, limitations often appear when the perspective becomes rigid.
The same movement can be interpreted as a problem of strength, technique, posture, or coordination, depending on the adopted perspective. Each of these views can be relevant, provided they are not exclusive.

RNP follows a different logic. It considers that movement cannot be understood from a single point of view. It is the product of an adaptive system, sensitive to context, environment, and the individual's internal state.

Multiplying perspectives allows:

• to move away from a fragmented vision of the body,

• to understand why the same person can be stable in one situation and unstable in another,

• to avoid single explanations for complex phenomena.

The articles gathered here explore these perspectives, each from a different entry point.

Angle 1 — Posture: read a response, not correct a form

From the postural perspective, posture is not an "ideal" posture to impose. It is a response produced by the nervous system, based on what it perceives as stable, coherent, and secure. When trying to "correct" the form without understanding the logic, the body often returns to its original organization: not due to lack of will, but because the system is protecting something.

→ Associated article: Training in Posturology: Understanding Posture through Body Reading and the Nervous System (RNP)

Angle 2 — Primitive Reflexes: active foundations, not vestiges

From the perspective of primitive reflexes, voluntary movement does not erase the reflex: it is built from it. Reflexes are early forms of movement organization, and when they remain very present, the question is not "how to eliminate them", but why the system still relies on them (often to stabilize, simplify, secure).

→ Associated article: Training in Primitive Reflexes and Motor Development (RNP)

Angle 3 — Sensorimotor Loop: stability is not voluntary

From the sensorimotor perspective, stability and quality of movement are not effects of "control". They emerge from the perception → integration → action loop, which operates continuously, below the threshold of consciousness. When perception becomes blurred, contradictory, or overloaded, the system defends itself: rigidity, simplification, locking.

→ Associated article: Training in Sensorimotor Loop: Developing Adaptable Stability (RNP)

Angle 4 — Coordination & Balance: read adaptation under constraint

From the coordination perspective, a "clean" movement is not necessarily a robust movement. Two people can "succeed" in the same gesture with opposing neurological strategies: one through adaptation and availability, the other through rigidity and co-contraction. Under fatigue, stress, or unexpected events, the difference appears: coordination degrades, balance becomes costly, risk increases.

→ Associated article: Training in Coordination, Balance, and Injury Prevention (RNP)

Angle 5 — Functional Neurology: read functioning, not deficit

From the perspective of functional neurology applied to movement, the body is not an assembly of parts to "repair". Movement is a neurological output: an expression of what the nervous system can organize here and now, according to the internal state (fatigue, stress, attention) and contextual constraints. This reading allows moving away from the "local correction" reflex and observing global strategies.

→ Associated article: Training in Functional Neurology Applied to Movement (RNP)

Angle 6 — Performance: when abilities do not explain expression

From the performance perspective, the question is not only "developing qualities", but making these qualities exploitable. One can gain in strength, power, endurance... and yet plateau, because the sensorimotor organization does not follow: stability, timing, coordination, transfer. Performance then becomes an expression, not an addition.

→ Associated article: Training in Physical Preparation and Performance (RNP)

Angle 7 — Motor Development & NDD: movement as the language of functioning

From the child / NDD perspective, movement is not a result to normalize. It is a language: a way to see how the system organizes, explores, prioritizes information, and adapts. In these profiles, movement is often possible, but its organization is costly: instability, rigidity, avoidance, dispersion. The challenge is not to impose a form, but to create more favorable adaptation conditions.

→ Associated article: Training in Child Motor Skills and NDD (autism, ADHD, dyspraxia...) (RNP)

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You can read each article independently. But if you want to get the most out of the category, adopt a simple rule: do not stay in just one perspective.

Happy reading! 

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