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In our work we combine the method of Structural Integration and SKAN. In the language of the Lakota, North American natives, Skan means "what moves". SKAN physical therapy has its origins in Wilhelm Reich's vegetotherapy and orgontherapie. The American psychologist and physical therapist Michael Smith was the pioneer and founder of SKAN. His teacher, Al Bauman, himself had therapy from Wilhelm Reich. Al Bauman ensured that the original, no-frills directness and effectiveness of "classic" vegetotherapeutic physical work has been preserved. Loil Neidhöfer and Petra Mathes made SKAN known in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

SKAN Body Work is based on the ability to relate, and confronts all the great variety of relationship avoidance tactics, whether these be physical, mental or emotional in nature. Technically, this largely consists of the "classic" instruments of vegetotherapy. We teach our clients to experience their breathing as a healing, cleansing and revitalizing force, and to achieve permanently deeper and rhythmic breathing. Various forms of massage and touch can be used in parallel to this, and also forms of voice, expression and movement work, and work with the energy field. The repertoire of techniques is inexhaustible and is never applied mechanically, but recreated in every specific situation.