Eurythmy Therapy- what is this? - Liebe zur Erde

On this page you will find information about:

-  I - : What is Eurythmy Therapy?
- II - : About Anthroposophic Medicine
- III -: Origin and development of Eurythmie Therapy
- IV -: Indications for Eurythmy Therapy
-  V - : Wellness, Prevention and Salutogenesis

I

Eurythmy Therapy

Eurythmy therapy is a highly effective exercise therapy with a holistic approach: in addition to the physical symptoms is also considered the situation of vital force, mental situation, motivation, and in particular the way in which the disease did develop. She is one of the pillars of Anthroposophic Medicine, which is in Germany equated by the legislature to the conventional medicine. Eurythmy is a standard treatment in all anthroposophical clinics and sanatoriums, and is offered in therapeutics and practices of established therapists in collaboration with the physician. Eurythmy therapy was developed by Dr. Rudolf Steiner early last century, together with the Eurythmie as an art, and has since been successfully therapeutic applied all over the world.

• Disease-specific exercises are developed together with the patient and can be applied by the patient independently at home.
  

• Illness and healing are seen as ways of learning and changes, which occupy the patient in his whole being.  So healing requires also the activity of the patient, but with this he has the chance for a new evolution and to heal as a whole.
  

• Eurythmy therapy supports people in their independence, increase their own activity, developing new skills and motivation.
  

• The self-healing powers are stimulated in disease-specific form.
  

In addition to the spontaneous effects of the exercisesm which the patient often can directly live to see, is worked during the training sequences in the course of treatment also into the organic processes. This can induce even in serious illnesses to amazing improvement and healing. The therapeutic movements have encouraging effects on the aggrieved or understrength physiological processes in the body. Parallel to this often new psychological skills are developed.

Eurythmy therapy can also be performed sitting or lying. In case of intense weakness, the therapist supports the movements of the patient by manual control.

II

Anthroposophic Medicine

• is recognized by German law as equivalent to the medical school and science as a "special therapeutic direction."
  

• It sees itself as a humanistic extension of the mostly just materialistic orientated scientific medicine.
  

• Anthroposophic Medicine is based on a holistic view of man.
  

• Anthroposophical medical practitioners have additional to the usual univerity degrees a specific training in Anthroposophic Medicine
  

• The treatment methods, medicines and remedies are mainly part of the German power spectrum of statutory health insurance (§ 2 SGB V).
  

• Of course, also depending on the illness, all other usual and conventional therapies are used.
  

Eurythmy therapy is an essential pillar of this branch of therapy. It is one of the standard treatments of all anthroposophical clinics and sanatoriums, and in therapeutics and established free clinics offered in collaboration with a doctor. Anthroposophical doctors all have gone through a regular scientific medical university education. The certification for doctor of Anthroposophic Medicine  is available for purchase and recognized by the Medical Section of the School for Spiritual Science in Dornach, CH as well as by the associations of the individual countries. Anthroposophic medicine is working with allopathic and homeopathic medicines as well as with rhythmic massage, eurythmy therapy, art therapy, music therapy and speech therapy.

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An insight into the treatment:

This video, shot in the cancer treatment hospital in Lukas Klinik Arlesheim, Ch, gives an insight into the therapeutic approach of the cancer clinic in the syndrome -unfortunatley only in German language. The video shows also examples of excerpts from therapy sessions of art therapy, eurythmy therapy, speech formation and rhythmic massage:

http://youtu.be/sAdk5bgBejU

III

Origin and development of Eurythmy Therapy

With the beginning of the early development of Eurythmie as an art in 1912, the therapeutic potential was intuitive visible and had direct impact on the naming: "Eu" originates from Greek language, meaning beautiful or good, "Rhythm" speaks for itself. Eurythmy is thus usually translated as "beautiful movement" or "good rhythm." In the subsequent years, Rudolf Steiner gave instructions, which disposition can be treated with which kind of exercises. A systematic presentation of eurythmy therapy tock place in 1921 for doctors and therapists. In the years after, the eurythmy therapy proved to be effective in the various medical fields. It has since expanded worldwide and is still developing further by doctors and therapist.


         









Today are about 2,000 Eurythmy therapists in 35 countries worldwide in various profesional fields active: in hospitals, schools, kindergartens, free clinics, rehabilitation centers, nursing homes and in special education facilities.

The training course includes the now 4-year core art-eurythmy, to the most courses is an additional one-year teacher training connected. 3 years experience with the Eurythmy is a requirement for the Eurythmy therapy study, which lasts an additional 1 ½ years. The courses were in German-speaking countries until now largely in private hands and have been certified in the Medical Section at the Goetheanum in Dornach. The dutch "Euritmie Academie" in Den Haag offers a baccelor degree for eurythmy teacher and since a few years there is at Alanus University in Bonn-Alfter, Germany the possibility of a master's degree program for the different forms of eurythmy.

Training courses for eurythmy therapy are currently offered in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, England, USA, Brasilia and Russia.

More information and the adresses of the trainings courses you can find here:
http://www.medsektion-goetheanum.org/en/training/therapeutic-eurythmy/

IV

Main Indications

With few exceptions, almost all diseases, most in accompaniment to medical therapy, can be treated with eurythmy therapy:
Acute, chronic and recurrent diseases, functional disorders, organic disorders and mental disorders, developmental disorders of the child.

Eurythmy therapy is carried out at the doctor's prescription in individual sessions. If there is any disease predisposition visible, prophylactic treatment is possible.

Contra-indications: fever, acute psychosis. In the case of an existing pregnancy only after a thorough risk assessment.

Eurythmy therapy is applied for example to:

V

Eurythmy as a Spa - the Hygienic Eurythmy

          Not even get sick ...? How to do this?

                              Simple beneficial exercises to compensate your condition to practise at home
Courses with multiple parties or in separate individual work are possible
If there is any visible disposition to specific disease, prevention as a specific individual measure is possible
Subsidy of health insurances for prevention courses are somtimes available in Germany

The very invigorating, soothing and balancing exercises related to the so-called "hygienic eurythmy" are taught in individual sessions or in courses with groups. Participants will be offered in a concentrated manner and playful motion sequences that allow them to feel at home again within their body and which can bring their inner motion back into balance.

Eurythmy as wellness, often under the ancient name of hygienic eurythmy, combines the benefits of exercise therapy with those of relaxation exercises and is suitable for groups of all ages and fitness levels. Eurythmy as spa combines the fun of group activities by using exercises that rejuvenate the participants with excersises which can center the individual participant on himselves. Eurythmy as a wellness is based on the principles of substitution and salutogenesis, it differs from the subject at the Waldorf schools as well as curative eurythmy - in both cases, new skills have to be developed, which can initially partly be experienced as intensive and demanding work.


If you are looking for personal balance, relaxation and concentration of your forces, if you feel nervous, if you suffer from stress, tension, insomnia, poor concentration, restlessness or lethargy, or if you simply take pleasure in relaxing movements - then the hygienic eurythmy might be helpful for you.

Eurythmy is now also offered by many companies for their employees, the target is stress reduction, an improved business climate and the compensation of unilateral workplace conditions. Studies on the effect of the measures can be found here in German language:

http://www.liebe-zur-erde.eu/eurythmie_am_arbeitsplatz.html

Our era is characterized by strong demands and contradictions that often results in opression on the individual person with their everyday needs and concerns and which go beyond the personal capabilities and limitations. It requires us to seek new ways: to a new basic of internal and external balance, and to strengthen our defenses. A strong individuality, which is at rest within herself and is breathing in all the bustle of the outer life will be able to oppose the destructive effects of a hectic surrounding which includes often just a few contacts to keep at best. At this thickness, the hygienic eurythmy can help.

Links for Germany:
BVHE informes about prevention courses:  http://www.berufsverband-heileurythmie.de/
Addresses of therapeutics and medical practices:  www.gesundheitaktiv-heilkunst.de