Programs

FOUNDATION-YEAR PROGRAM: A first step is the Foundation Year, which serves as an introduction to Spacial Dynamics®. It includes two five-day sessions, one in the spring and one in the fall, and a ten-day summer session.

FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM: Students continue to meet three times each year to receive a thorough training in movement, including Spacial Dynamics® exercises, sports, indoor and outdoor games, exercises for the classroom, tumbling and acrobatics, stave exercises, stave fencing, circus arts, the five Greek Pentathlon track and field events, and Bothmer Gymnastics©, a spatially specialized movement discipline. Also included are posture and body alignment exercises, movement analysis and observation, teaching methods, therapeutic techniques, and remedial applications.

Students are further challenged to become equally flexible in thinking. The course will draw upon the ideas and practical applications of such thinkers as George Adams, Albert Einstein, M.C. Escher, Edward T. Hall, Heinrich von Kleist, Jean Piaget, Johannes Rohen, Theodor Schwenk, and Rudolf Steiner.

The goals of the training program are to develop (1) the quality of each participant's own movement; (2) the ability to perceive the effect of movements on oneself and others; (3) an understanding of the role of movement in the spatial development that takes place from child to adult; (4) the ability to teach and apply Spacial Dynamics® principles in any given activity; and (5) the capacity to recognize, understand and work remedially with problems that stem from incomplete or interrupted physical-spatial coordination.

It is not necessary to be an outstanding athlete to join the program. Former and present trainees vary widely in their experience, abilities, and ages. They are united in their desire to pursue a study of spatially oriented movement. Each person is encouraged to enter into each activity to the extent that they wish to be challenged.

For information on the upcoming training programs, please contact the SDI office at phone/Fax: 518-665-0082, or email sdiadmissions@earthlink.net

For more information and an application form for the upcoming training program, please click here or contact the SDI office at

518-665-0082, or email sdiadmissions@earthlink.net

GRADUATE COURSES: Those who complete the full five years of training may be invited to deepen their expertise through special courses in movement therapy, pedagogy, and Bothmer Gymnastics©.

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