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Koenigsfeld, Black Forest - Southwest Germany

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Penticton - Location to be announced at a later date

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Hanne Marquardt

50th Anniversary of Reflexotherapy of the Feet (RTF)
Friday 19th to Sunday 21st September 2008

This special Conference will take place in Koenigsfeld Black Forest, in the South-West of Germany. Due to the expected number of people we will perform the Anniversary weekend in a big tent.

Program

Friday 19th September

Registration from 10 am onwards. Offical Begin at 2 pm.
Entrance to the tent 1 pm, a friendly welcome with handorgan music.
Welcome speaches by the Mayor of Koenigsfeld, Hanne Marquardt and others. Live Music.
Two Guest speakers for the whole audience between 3 and 5.30 pm
- Wholistic tooth treatment and RTF, W. Burk, MD, holistic dentist, Oldenburg
- The whole and the parts – microsystems. J. Gleditsch, MD, acupuncturist, Munich
6 to 8 pm Evening meal for all in the tent.
8 to 10.30 pm Evening for all Senses: “Foot Theater“. Oriental dance. Feet and Language.
Saxophone and other live music. Tombola for our school in Armenia. Open-air fire works.

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Saturday 20th September

Between 9am and 6 pm: A choice of 23 seminars, connected to Reflexotherapy of the Feet
(RTF) in the classrooms of the nearby school. Participants may choose two in the morning
and two in the afternoon, each 1 ½ hours. They are listed on page two.
6 to 8 pm Evening meal for all in the tent.
8 to 10.30 pm Celebration Evening with review on 50 years by Hanne Marquardt and other
speakers. African Dance group with drums. Music from Armenia. Sufi Dance.

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Sunday 21st September

Three Guest speakers for the whole audience between 9 am an 1.30 pm
- Feet in good Hands – Spiral movements, sign of Life, Ch. Larsen MD, Zurich Switzerland
- What Feet know about Breath – in humans and animals, I. Halstenbach, Beathing therapist
- The Message of Water, Dr. Emoto, Japan. Wuppertal
Conference End 1.30 pm. Fare-well: Simple meal for all, acknowledgements, Live music.

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Conference Language: German. We will do our best to get the presentations of the guest speakers as a résumé translated into English beforehand.

Accommodation: Tourist Office Koenigsfeld, Fax 0049 7725 8009 44.

Conference Fee: “Early-bird“ payment until 31st March Euro 199. Later Euro 230. This includes: four 1 ½ hour workshops. All guestspeakers presentations. Two evening events. Meals in the tent on Friday evening, Saturday lunch and evening, and Sunday lunch.

“50 Years“ special bank account: Kreissparkasse Schramberg BLZ 642 500 40, account number 595 285.

Final Registration: 31st August 2008. p.t.o.

Topics for the 23 Workshops on Saturday 21st , 1 ½ hours each. Four to be chosen per participant. As some may no longer be available, please choose four more as substitute. Preferred topics: ( I ) Substitute topics: ( 0 )

1. RTF and the handicapped child
2. RTF around pregnancy and childbirth #
3. First Aid – teatment in acute situations. Quick and convincing with RTF
4. O.k. in the head and o.k. in the feet? RTF for geriatric patients #
5. Metamorphosis, the gentle, far reaching foot treatment #
6. Women with weakness of the bladder, specially in the menopause
7. Myofacial therapy and RTF in patients with fibromyalgia
8. Three hours introduction to RTF for newcomers
9. RTF and aromatherapy – a blessing, not only for feet #
10. Kids and difficult dentation? No problem with RTF
11. RTF and patients with tension headaches and migrane *
12. RTF in combination with body treatment #
13. Feet and Tradit. Chinese Medicine, a promising combination between East and West
14. The effects of RTF on body and soul
15. Health problems in youngsters – Meridians and Reflexology #
16. Why are there different sites of reflex areas, and why are all effectful? #
17. Hands – our special tools. Exercises to keep shoulders, arms and hands in good shape *
18. Meridian treatment in the “Microsystem Foot“
19. Craniosacral therapy in the reflex zones of the feet *
20. Dynamics of the feet as the base of a good posture
21. Ortho-Bionomy and RTF #
22. Su Jok, a Korean treatment on hands and feet
23. RTF and Boyesen treatment.

Legend:
* = Those seminars are full
# = Instructors speak fluent, resp. some English.

Please note: Although the instructors of the 1 ½ hours workshops speak or understand English, the workshops will be held in German. The instructors will, as circumstances allow, offer some translation help. A good number of the participants also understand and speak English. As almost all workshops contain, besides some theory, practical demonstrations, there will, all the same, be good chances to get well nformed.

Optional Tours on Saturday: Spouses or those accompanying the participants might enjoy the day long Black Forest bus tour or Geocaching (compass hiking). Enquiries and prices at the Tourist Office 0049 7725 8009 44. They are envited to join us for all other events: Meals in the tent, evening programs, guest speakers presentations, for Euro 60.

Mail and enquiries to: Lehrstaette Hanne Marquardt, Prof. Domagk-Weg 15, D 78126 Koenigsfeld-Burgberg, Fax 0049 7725 7080, e-mail: info@fussreflex.de.

Further information about books and charts in other languages: www.verlaghannemarquardt.de

Special announcement: On Sunday at 4 pm there will be a concert with the two outstanding young lady musicians from Armenia in Koenigsfeld Church Hall to support our RTF school in Jerevan .