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History of Rhythmical Einreibung

Dr. Ita Wegman (1876-1943) founded the Clinical and Therapeutic Institute in Arlesheim near Basel on 8 June 1921.

This was the beginning of her intensive collaboration with Dr. Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) in the course of which ‘rhythmical massage therapy’ was developed out of ‘Swedish massage’ (as developed by Per Henrik Ling, Stockholm, 1813).

Ita Wegman liked to practise this form of manual therapy herself – whereby the nurses watched and learned by imitation.

Rhythmical massage therapy was one of the subjects taught in the nursing courses at the Clinical and Therapeutic Institute alongside the theoretical and practical understanding of the human being. These courses were initiated by Rudolf Steiner but could not be carried out until after his death.

In twelve years of collaboration with Dr. Wegman, Dr. Margarethe Hauschka deepened the basics of rhythmical massage therapy, rendering it more teachable. In 1962 she founded the ‘School for Artistic Therapy and Massage’ in Boll, at the foot of the Swabian Alb.

In addition to physiotherapists and massage therapists, she also trained nurses here. The question began to arise in the latter about a method by which the effect of the applied substances (ointments and oils) could be enhanced and supported. Margarethe Hauschka responded in 1967 with the first course for Rhythmical Einreibung.

When the community hospital was opened in Herdecke in 1969, it was the nurses who welcomed this method and integrated it into their nursing practice. Rhythmical Einreibung became an integral part of further and advanced training not only in Boll, but also at the Further Training Institute for the Nursing Professions founded in Unterlengenhardt in 1980 (since 1982 ‘Haus Sonnenblick’).

Meanwhile it is taught and practised worldwide in anthroposophical institutions specialising in the fields of therapy, nursing and special needs education.

The designation ‘Rhythmical Einreibung, as developed by Wegman / Hauschka’, which has been officially used since 1999, reaffirms both its origin and its connection with the anthroposophical view of the human being. There are meanwhile training centers for this treatment method worldwide. In Germany it is available at the Margarethe Hauschka School in Boll near Göppingen, the Carl Gustav Carus Academy in Hamburg, the Herdecke Community Hospital, the Filderklinik near Stuttgart and the Havelhöhe Community Hospital in Berlin, among others. Information and further contact addresses can be obtained through the Association of Anthroposophically Oriented Nursing Professions (Verband anthroposophisch orientierter Pflegeberufe) in Filderstadt.

Even though different areas of focus have developed in these training centres, they have all sprung from the same source. The training centre for Rhythmical Einreibung in Hamburg at the Carus Academy has been awarding recognised certificates since 1999. Since 1998, the Working Group for Training in Rhythmical Einreibungh has also been located there. In 1998, Edelgard Große-Brauckmann started a pilot project to train teachers in Rhythmical Einreibung. In 1998, Eva-Marie Batschko founded the Working Group for Rhythmical Einreibung Instructors at the Carus Akademy in Hamburg.