Myoreflex/Sensorik/Motorik
Health and dance movement for seniors

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.