Support Through Therapy
When children recognize that they can communicate in their own way and are understood, they try out ever more new things. Music is a good way to express oneself and to show how one is feeling. What’s more, music can have a healing effect. But there are many other therapies that help us to address the diverse natures of "our" children.
Music therapy, physiotherapy and speech therapy are provided at our institution exclusively on the basis of a referral from an external medical doctor or psychologist.
Music Therapy
Physical, soul, and musical breathing combine in music to form a whole. In the therapeutic approach, music addresses the scope of soul experience, stimulates the creative abilities, and has a regulating effect on the interrelationships between the organs.
Since it is possible to have a musical experience even in reduced states of consciousness, this therapy helps to promote understanding, the ability to experience, and communication on a non-linguistic level. In addition, it helps to stimulate the hearing process and the ability to concentrate, as well as to facilitate movement processes.
Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy aims to detect dysfunctions within our body and to return it to its physiological and mobile state. It helps to guide movements, encourages the body and mind to become active, and has a therapeutic influence on diseases and injuries of the musculoskeletal system.
Furthermore, it corrects imbalances in the sensory and perceptual system and stimulates the vegetative system in its ability to effect stable self-regulation.
Speech Therapy
Language has creative and healing powers. It can enhance our life, soul, and spirit. Through therapeutic speech therapy, the lost inner connection to language can be rediscovered. It serves as basis for forming correct articulation, the rhythmization of the breathing process, as well as vocal treatment.
Therapeutic speech formation is used not only for speech, language, and vocal disorders, but also for physical, psychosomatic, and functional conditions, developmental disorders, as well as in remedial education and social therapy.
Speech, language, voice, swallowing, and hearing disorders are treated in speech therapy. Especially in the areas of motor and myofunctional swallowing and articulation, speech formation and speech therapy complement one another.
Movement exercises bring these areas back into a healthy balance.
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Therapeutic Eurythmy
The fundamental elements of Therapeutic Eurythmy are the sounds of human speech, transformed into movement and applied in specific ways according to the individual indication and therapeutic objectives. In the human being, the forces of the physical, emotional and spiritual-individual dimensions interact in harmony. This balance of forces can become disrupted. Through specifically selected eurythmic movement exercises, the aim is to restore a healthy balance and harmony between these dimensions.
Rhythmic Massage
Rhythmic Massage is a therapeutic treatment rooted in anthroposophic medicine. In collaboration with physician Ita Wegman, Rudolf Steiner combined his ideas with established methods of conventional medicine. The aim of anthroposophic medicine is to stimulate and support the patient's natural self-healing capacities.
In Rhythmic Massage, the basic techniques of classical massage are complemented by a variety of additional elements. All massage movements are performed rhythmically, flowing smoothly and harmoniously into one another. The intensity of touch is adapted to the individual needs of each patient. In addition, special massage oils developed according to anthroposophic principles are used.
Artistic and Music-Based Developmental Support
As part of our anthroposophical, therapeutic educational approach, we offer music enrichment as a complement to our educational programme. This artistic and musical support is designed to meet the individual needs of each child requiring special care and support, engaging and stimulating their individual abilities and senses through playful musical experiences. It is clearly distinct from clinical music therapy and does not require a medical referral.
Vocal Pedagogy and Voice Development
Voice development is a journey of freeing the human voice from blockages and habitual patterns, allowing it to discover its own unique, natural sound. In this approach, performance and singing without mistakes are not the primary focus. Rather, singing becomes a powerful tool for deepening self-awareness, allowing vital energy to flow freely and strengthening one's inner balance. Through targeted breathing, sound and vocal exercises, the body is supported in rediscovering its natural rhythm.