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Michael Schruender
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TaKeTiNa and psychotherapy

The discovery of new possibilities within the framework of a therapeutic relationship can be effectively supported by TaKeTiNa and, Feldenkrais 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 TaKeTiNa and Feldenkrais. 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 and crises are part of every process of development. This is demonstrated in such a concrete and positive way through TaKeTiNa and Feldenkrais, 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 TaKeTiNa-rhythm work and Feldenkrais are often used to support various other therapeutic forms.

Learning through rhythm in this setting offers the chance of getting rid of conditioning and writing personal history anew.
People in acute crisis or depressed people lack a sense of being grounded and are unable to be flexible in their lives. The expression „bottomless fear“can be taken literally:
it is a condition where you haven’t got anything to combat the fear with. Most people are then either very agitated or seem to be paralysed by fear. If it is possible to lead these people to walk a few simple steps and thereby connect them to the power of a rhythmic field, then a dynamic grounding takes place and both these extremes – extreme agitation and paralysis – can be gradually brought into balance. These people become more lively, their eyes are focussed again. This is the point at which the first prerequisite has been fulfilled, so that the depression or numbness can be released.
Reinhard Flatischler