Myoreflex therapy works with the muscle sensors as a tool for regulation, thus reaching through this deviation the control center – the brain.
This physiological connection can be used to perceive specific muscles and to activate them in movement. Our brain’s capacity to discern, to modify and to complement is almost infinite. In this way we create new opportunities to translate our internal experience into movement.
Using specific touch and movement, we will clarify anatomical functions, details and relationships. We will focus on some notorious muscle groups that, depending on the kind of „use“, can create problems even in other regions in the body. As an example the inefficient use of the muscle goup psoas /adductors /tensor fasciae latae can arise as knee or lower back pain. Regulating the muscle tone will increase the range of motion and the functional muscle strings will work more efficently.
Muscle tone regulation can be achieved through exercises called „Kraft in der Dehnung“ („how to strengthen a muscle while stretching it“). This is a principle also well known in Hatha – Yoga which we will incorporate as well as the perspective of traditional chinese medicine, as the functional muscle strings relate to the meridians as recognised by the TCM.

Myoreflex & Yoga
This class focuses on the coordination of muscles and other body systems in the asanas. We will analyse anatomical and physiological phenomenons in order to translate them into a functional integration in movement. Strength in the stretch along the meridians and other kinetic chains and energetical excercises developed by Myoreflextherapy and Traditional Chinese Medicine will be combined with Yoga asanas in order to reach our aim - to be fully awake in an balanced body. Myoreflex therapy draws on kybernetic thinking, combining aspects of Ostheopathy, Orthopedics, TCM and Ayurveda.

Kerstin Kussmaul is a Somatic Movement Educator and a dance maker. She holds an MA in Music and Dance Education and studied Somatic Movement Education and TCM in Berkeley/USA, and is finishing her  Myoreflextherapy training with Dr. Kurt Mosetter and Yoga training with Sri Louise early 2011. She teaches movement as a somatic practice in Europe and the USA. Her artistic focus is on music/dance projects and on the development of new formats of mediation and exploration of movement.

Wednesday 23rd to Sunday 27th