Feldenkrais and psychotherapy
The discovery of new possibilities within the framework of a therapeutic relationship can be effectively supported by Feldenkrais and TaKeTiNa, since in baby- and early childhood, a time of early imprinting, social behaviour was also learnt and embedded in the development of self-control.
Every concrete physical experience you have that is successful, and which you didn’t really think you could do, strengthens your self-confidence. This happens repeatedly in Feldenkrais and TaKeTiNa. People who feel ‘stuck’ learn that change is possible and that mistakes can be used to make improvements. These kinds of experiences help you to relax and adopt a more forgiving and even humorous attitude towards your own supposed deficiencies. Chaotic phases (crises) are part of every process of development. This is demonstrated in such a concrete and positive way through Feldenkrais and TaKeTiNa, that it becomes easier for participants to let go of their negative feelings about themselves and make space for new development.
Feldenkrais is learning how to move, TaKeTiNa a process of musical learning - in both cases we are dealing with a human process of learning. Whatever is preventing the flow in normal life is mirrored in the realm of movement by imbalance or grinding to a halt, and in the TaKeTiNa process by a musical-rhythmical problem. These can be transformed by co-ordination work or rhythmic-musical work. This is why both Feldenkrais and TaKeTiNa-rhythm work are often used to support various other therapeutic forms.
In the early 1940s Feldenkrais observed that psychiatric treatment only had a lasting effect if at the same time a change in body behaviour occurred. If this didn’t happen, then the treatment was nothing more than an extended verbal procedure without a long-term effect. From the point of view of the patient, the talking had and continued to have no connection to reality – like when you translate words from one language into another without understanding the sense of the sentence as a whole, or, to put it in another way, as if you don’t understand what you know. Because comprehension is visible in the way a person uses knowledge.Franz Wurm