TaKeTiNa® Rhythm Therapy

"My name is Dr. Ali Behzad and I have been working for 15 years at the University Hospital in Erlangen in the field of cancer medicine and since 2012 also in the field of naturopathy and complementary medicine. I came to TaKeTiNa because I was looking for an organic and superordinate principle to expand my hobby-musical skills.

During the TaKeTiNa teacher training I realized what this work, while “just making music together”, does to participants and leaders on a personal, emotional and psychological level. As a doctor who is always on the lookout for effective tools and methods to help patients on their way, I saw huge potential in this work and, in collaboration with Reinhard Flatischler and Frank Rihm, began to develop concepts to investigate the effects of TaKeTiNa on our patients.

I am interested in what TaKeTina does on a biological, cellular and psychological level, as well as what role it plays on the various levels of health and illness. In my work, I have learned how important it is to understand how TaKeTiNa works, especially in a therapeutic setting, in order to be able to work effectively.

And that is the unique thing about this training course. Not only do you learn the TaKeTiNa method, but you also use it consciously in the therapy setting under professional guidance. What is the right dose, where can I go deeper, what tools are available to me in this situation? By learning both TaKeTiNa and psychotherapeutic work, you develop a keen sense of what supports or hinders the process in which situation."

"The Taketina rhythm therapist training opened up a completely new and unique approach to therapeutic work with people.

I was able to experience the effect of TaKeTina rhythm work on my own body and soul during the training. This learning process touched deeply hidden longings in me for vitality, creative expression and belonging to the community. I also gained new access to stillness and to the greater forces of life.

Working with TaKeTiNa has restructured my inner space so that I can rest in my center even in difficult situations. But even when I fall out of this connection, I regain my bearings relatively quickly and reconnect to the inner source of vitality and awareness.

Although I am not a musician by nature, my training and involvement with rhythm gave me new access to music, my own voice, musical orientation and rhythmic movement. This has enormously improved and enriched my personal quality of life. I go through life more consciously and with more energy.

It fills me with great joy to work therapeutically with rhythm and to accompany people in exploring their inner spaces during rhythm journeys, gaining new insights about themselves and trying out new patterns of action. Yes, even to initiate healing processes through rhythm and to better process traumatic experiences and integrate them into the self-image.

I think the structure of the training is very well designed. It teaches and trains the practical skills for working with rhythm and the theoretical and practical foundations of depth psychology-based, body-oriented psychotherapy. It is practice-oriented and includes elements of self-awareness, practical exercises and reflection. It combines rhythm work with therapeutic interventions.

I can warmly recommend the TaKeTiNa rhythm therapist training with Reinhard Flatischler, Frank Rihm and Bettina Berger. I am very grateful for the professional and warm-hearted support at the highest level."

"TakeTiNa rhythm therapy is a very effective way of leading people from thinking to feeling in conversation - and in a very loving way - by sensing what the person sitting opposite me needs at that moment, and this can:

–be a rhythmic journey in which the topic discussed comes even further to the surface in rhythmic events.
–It may bring up a completely different topic that can be worked on further in the conversation.
– may be playing a drum.
–may be accompanying and supporting the conversation with a rattle, which I have repeatedly found to be very connecting during the process.

What wants to show itself in rhythm therapy is carried by rhythm. Rhythm provides me with the ground that supports me in a therapy session, holds me, gives me confidence to look, to allow, to remain in the feeling without reflecting.

What was very special for me in rhythm therapy was the experience of being able to meet people in depth with rhythm and thus stimulate processes that are hardly possible in a therapeutic conversation alone.

The practical relevance of the training was a moving process for me, in which I learned more about myself and others, in which I was able to understand myself better and experience and understand the connection between rhythm and therapy.

For me, rhythm therapy expresses something that I find very precious: the person confides in me - in rhythm and in conversation - and what I perceive from the person in this connection needs no words - it is a great gift - it only needs my perception, my presence, to be able to accompany and support the person in their process."