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TaKeTiNa is a profound rhythm experience,

in which the body itself is the instrument. A circle of people step in unison to a steady drum beat and respond to a leader who introduces ever more challenging claps and vocal rhythms.

Heidrun Hoffmann was 23 years old when she met the founder of the TaKeTiNa rhythm work Reinhard Flatischler, a musician all his life, pianist, composer, writer, and drummer of various cultures such as India, Korea, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Bali...She became his student and life partner for over ten years.

Heidrun grew up without much musical stimulation, but being thrown into the world of TaKeTiNa and concerts, drumming and traveling around the world, studying the dances and music other cultures was a sudden, intense exposure to rhythm for a long time period in her life.

"Every illness ultimately stems from a disturbance of the rhythmicity of our body", was a statement of the physiologist Dr. Köppchen, whom Reinhard worked with for some time. Looking at her own heritage, it made sense to Heidrun and so she joined the search for rhythm and its effect on a human's well-being.

Between 1986 and 1992 she assisted two trainings with Reinhard Flatischer and Dr, Wolf Büntig, the founder of Zist (Center for Individual and Social Therapy, Germany). He is trained in Lowens Bioenergetic, Perls Gestalt, and Hypnotherapy. TaKeTiNa in connection with terapy, and together with her earlier personal discoveries that movement and body awareness have a huge impact on a persons life, became crucial sources for her own experiences about the healing power of rhythm. This set her on a mission to provide a new path for people who like to implant the healing qualities of rhythm and movement in their lives. She started to develop Dance in Rhythm - Rhythm in Dance (DiRRiD), where she is constantly finding new tools for healing stimulations through dance and rhythm.

For more information about rhythm work see DiRRiD and DiRRiD Training.

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