Hi!

Many thanks for the interesting course in Jakobsstad. I have almost been euphoric since then. I work as a remedial teacher in a secondary school.

Immediately on the Monday after the course I tested the students and on Tuesday we started the movement training. Already after the first session a new student rose from the floor instead of the one who lay down. She sat down at her table in a new way and wrote letters in straight lines in a way I had not believed possible.

Another girl has also made enormous progress. Knowledge that we have tried to stuff into her head is suddenly there. She rattles off the alphabet. She sits and tells what time it is like the speaking clock. She tells long stories and in addition more clearly than before. It can also be noticed that her balance has improved.

It is fantastic after working for 25 years to get a completely new tool in teaching.

Ann-Christine Dahl

Finland

Dear Dr. Harald

I was following your class in KL a month ago, and I already use it in my clinic in Indonesia .

This technique answering a lot of my questions about how retaining the reflexes.

May I teach this technique to anybody else in my city?

May I copy your hand book?

Because I find this technique is very useful for our autistic kids in Indonesia .

Warm regards

Henry

Dear Dr. Harald,

In last academic year I use RMT (Rhythmic Movement Training) a lot for students and tell parents to do these exercises for kids. They grow and improve a lot, the result is impressive. Thank you very much.

I found RMT is one of the most useful and easy exercise for integrate their body. However I need your help, since some parents and teachers ask me why the rhythmic movements can gain such good result.

They ask for the theory behind. Can you give me some source.

Looking forward to seeing your reply.

Best regards

Christine Chan from Hong Kong

Hi,

Just a note of gratitude and thanks for your willingness to share the knowledge you have of rhythmic training.

I am so pleased at the difference I feel in my muscles especially the lower back.

Every week I can sense new awareness and strength in the area that’s been week too long.

All the Best

Sincerely,

Robert Shaw

Minneapolis

USA

I am a therapist at a Waldorf school and have used Rhythmic Movement Training for children and youths with multi handicaps, primarily of mental nature. I often work with children who do not communicate verbally. The most obvious improvement I have noticed is with balance, the awareness of arms, legs and trunk in space and gradually to find ones way in the room and finally with breathing. I have also noticed increased social awareness and signs of being less rigid. Earlier I used massage for the same purpose but I find this method more comprehensive, adequate and suitable to their developmental potential.

It is fun to work with Rhythmic movement training. You always see progress somewhere.

Waltraut Neushütz

Järna

Sweden

I have been holding courses on ”the importance of a child´s first three years of life” for fifteen years both in the form of a weekend course and also a year´s continuation course for personnel working with children in nursery school.

My views are based on Maria Montessori´s holistic perspective of child development.
Montessori had already observed a hundred years ago the fundamental importance of motoric activity for all other kinds of development such as development of the senses, social and intellectual development and development of the personality. When I met Harald for the first time and heard about the way he sees the infant´s motoric development and how important it was to observe the child´s pattern of motion during its first year, I realised that here was a very important part of the puzzle which would help us to obtain a deep understanding of the development of motoric function.

Since the year 2000 Harald has been a much appreciated lecturer for my student Infant Educationalists/Pedagogues. He is helping us to lay some of the most important corner stones of a child´s development. The extent to which children need to train their basic movements in the form of play - swinging, climbing, balancing, spinning, dancing, jumping - has long been understood in nursery school. But the idea of observing the individual child´s motoric development already at its beginning around the age of one has not been obvious.

Thanks to Harald´s knowledge I have understood the considerable measure of help we can provide for children who have one or more ´dents`in their motoric development And, in so doing, how we can prevent these dents from becoming worse with time, leading to difficulties in school and also in adult life with poor balance and co-ordination, concentration difficulty, back problems, eye problems, and reading and writing difficulties for example.

It´s important for an Infant Educationalist/Pedagogue not only to cross off and make a note of the fact that a child can eat, crawl, stand up and walk but also to see how they do it. And Harald has given us the tools we need to make corrections should they be neccesary

Camilla Carlberg, Bachelor´s Degree, Assistant to Infancy