Recommendations

 The TaKeTiNa process is direct and intensive.

It is direct because all experiences are made with one's own body. Rhythm and its effect are immediately felt – the experience is not "conveyed"; every participant feels it for him- or herself. Rhythmic competence is not "taught", but experienced.

It is intensive:

• Because there is nothing between the individual and rhythm – no instrument and no composition
   
• Because the experience is done in a group – that is, by communicating and interacting with others
   
• Because the leader adapts the process to the group and the individual participants at all times. This means that everyone is accepted at the level they bring to the process at any particular moment – there is no "curriculum" and no assumption of "prior knowledge". All participants are supported in their own individual learning processes.
   

The immediacy and intensity of the process also depend on how much time and space are available to get involved in the TaKeTiNa process. Whether one attends a short evening workshop or goes to a weekend-workshop is certainly decisive in terms of how intensive the experience will be and thus, what its lasting effect will be.

We recommend attending weekend workshops if at all possible, because intensive participation with TaKeTiNa over several days (including the unconscious processes that take place during sleep) noticeably increases the depth and lasting effects of the process.

Evening courses, possibly lasting for many weeks, do not generally result in such deep individual experiences, but it can still be fascinating to see whether or how the TaKeTiNa experience surfaces in everyday life and how the body's knowledge of rhythm is reawakened on every course evening.