Maud Paulissen-Kaspar & Barbara Roitner
Myoreflextraining
muscular functions of feelings

„We are in our body. We are our body which originates actions, movements and feelings. In our bodies and with our bodies we express ourselves and get in touch with the outside world. Our muscles are carriers and expressive systems. With specific muscle and movement melodies we make ourselves small, we duck, we freeze or we align ourselves to conquer the world. Our experiences and our biography imprint, create and form our posture, gesture and mimicry. We are our physical memory, where we are preserved and where we carry things about with us. Through our bodies we listen to ourselves.“

We will consciously sense, read and recognise tensions, emotions and wrong postures in our muscular system. Painfully shortened muscles and tense muscular chains as well as opposing muscle systems may be felt via pressure points and special exercises. Thus they may be trained and lossened with widened perception. We may sense emotions and experiences which we do not know consciously but which create limitations in everyday life. Our dynamic self-expression will be given the physical spiritual space for an open step forwards.
Through specific movements and kinaesthetic experiences using our hands, we will effortlessly change our perspective by learning to mirror ourselves. Moments of self-discovery, alignment and new patterns of action that come from the deep within, lie in that act of recognition. The experience of body, spirit and movement being unified in us is one of the most important aspects of this work.
We act out our emotions and feelings through our bodies. We research them, „lifting the veil“ of limitations in our history and enjoy the opening, the qualities of permission and ability. Physical success leaves traces in the brain and designs our movement apparatus like an architect. In a circular way we thus create the experiential situation of our psyche. What we experienced and lived in this process may be playfully re-created in everyday life.



Kerstin Kussmaul & Barbara Roitner
Myoreflextraining for Dancers
Prevention of injuries and the creative potential of Myoreflex therapy

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.




Maud Paulissen-Kaspar & Barbara Roitner
Myoreflex/Sensorik/Motorik GoldenAge
Health and dance movement for senior citizens

Preventive Health Care doesn't require any extraordinary effort, just the recollection of normal, physiological, innate patterns to sustain these natural, physiological conditions. This is exactly what people do in China for instance, where balancing and stretching exercises in the tradition of QiGong and TaiChi are practised on a regular basis in public parks in large, freely accessible groups.
In the West sitting through long years of school and in professional life has become widespread. Therefor almost all joints are continually subjected to bending which becomes a basic pattern. As a consequence important groups of muscles are shortened and retain a permanent state of tension. Playful exercise (originally imbedded in culture) through dance, ritual and sport is increasingly missing.
Intelligent, directed, playful inner and outer movement in "dancesteps" can prevent ailment and stiffness. Integration of simple exercises into our everyday routine fosters health on different levels and helps to activate the muscle-system - regardless of age.
Even after clinical treatment of sickness and pain, power-in-movement exercises offer an excellent instrument for follow-up treatment and sustainable stabilisation of health.
Though senso-motoric development takes place early in life, it is never finished. We are not subject to a particular development at a given time, but rather develop ourselves throughout our whole life.



Maud Paulissen-Kaspar
Maud Paulissen-Kaspar, born and grown up in the Netherlands, studied music and dance in Maastricht, Netherlands, and Vienna, Austria. She has been teaching a long time in professional educations for dance, acting and rhythmics, including the Conservatory of Vienna, the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (Vienna), and the Janacek academy for Music and Performing Arts in Brünn, Czech Republic. For many years she has been a member of the dance advisory board of the city of Vienna. She has been working as a music therapist for a long time, for ten years she has been more involved in dance for people with special needs and supports a "people first"- group in Vienna.

Barbara Roitner
Barbara Roitner studied therapeutic pedagogy in Vienna, and music and dance pedagogy at the University of Music and Performance Arts in Salzburg (Mozarteum). She is working as a musician and as a dancer, is a certified Shiatsu practicioner and has studied BMC with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in Amherst (Massachusetts) and Myoreflextherapy with Dr. med. Kurt Mosetter in Konstanz (Germany).