"So indeed, with this sequence of Tao-sounds an

„instrument has been given into our hands, 

to truely perceive in us the Humanly.""

(Hermann Pfrogner

citing Rudolf Steiner

 in his writing: TAO- a Legacy)

This short segment for our english-speaking visitors show you the very essence of our activity: the Tao-Instruments.

The beginnings:

Going back to a lecture given by Dr. Rudolf Steiner in 1924, two inspired man, Lothar Gärtner and Edmund Pracht made the first four string Tao-Lyre, wich was originally a kind of meditative instrument mainly for eurithmists, shortly later through Dr. Ita Wegman it found its way to the healing pedagogy ("Sonnenhof" Arleshein, CH). A music scientist, Hermann Pfrogner devoted a short but important writing on the Tao-sounds, meanwhile Heinz Heinrich Engel, a medical doctor made a kind of school in Switzerland for working with these special musical scale. After several decades of intern but intense work with this four-note-scale and its diverse derivatives, a student of Maria Schüppel, who was the actual founder of the anthroposophic music therapy school in Berlin, Victoria Ryan, a music therapist and healing pedagogue in Vienna mandated in the nineties the music instrument maker Andreas Lehmann in Germany, to make the first, three octave so called "Tao-Lyre". Robert Benedek in the early 2000s getting contacted with and helped by Lehmann, he then started his own  career and fertilized the new Tao-impulse with the specific vibro-acoustic application of the Tao-Lyra. In a several year of intuitive-artistic research periode Robert Benedek developed not only his own method of playing the Tao-Lyra with direct body contact, but he invented new instruments to intensify the Tao-Impact on the human spirit, soul and body (Tao Sound-Bed and Tao Sound-Cabin). Then this method of resonance-based play of him -through tough resistance and opposition- finally found its way in the anthroposophic medicine: in the Filderklinik  (Filderstadt, Germany) and in the Ita Wegman Klinik (Arlesheim, Switzerland) the Tao Sound-Bed are became one of the main healing instruments of the music therapy departments with astounding effects. The results were such, that first in the Ita Wegman Klinik a pilot clinical study with very remarkable data was made, an then on the basis of this, a very serious, four-step clinical study was initiated in the Filderklinik (joint with the Ita Wegman Klinik) wich is now in the final stage and is partly already published and will be the content of a dissertation in The University of Tübingen, Germany.

A pilot study with significant results was also made in psychiatric environment in Hungary and a big, serious clinic study in Helsinki  with 100 test persons is just right now presented by the initiator Pia Teckenberg Jansson (music therapist).

Spiritual science approach:

Having been speaking on the language of the science today till now, if we speak on the language of spiritual science, we can formulate, that this very unique tone-sequence has a superb and astonishing effect on the whole human constitution: it brings one in to the body, compressing, warming, energizing it, smooths, harmonizes the soul and open up the spirit- we can call it a kind of archetypal therapeutic state.

It looks to have the effect to organize the limbs of the human being -physical body, aetheric body, astral body, I-body, as Dr. R. Steiner systematized it- in an order of original state.

This is quasi some kind of archaic and archetypal peak experience of the individuum, of the person: to come in contact with the very inner being of oneself, having a correcting sight on ones live or just being putted in a state of well being, joy and self acceptance: a kind of paradise-experience.

Because of this universal feature, the Tao-Instruments can be used very widely -and the  are used very widely indeed- in very different fields: pain-therapy in the oncology, breath-therapy: being able to breath again, generally, to give the soul the needed "kick" to go on; to center,  to come to oneself, to to get contact with the inner being; in the healing -and kindergarten pedagogy and so on.

Ordering:

The best way to contact us is via email, you can use our contact form -if you don´t get any answer within a few days, it could mean our spam filter has malfunctioned (it happens tine to time). Please do contact us via phone in this case (+43 681 104 66 270). You can use our contact-form too: click the "Kontakt" button on the left side.

We need a written order (email or postal) with name and address (for the invoice) and -if it differs: the shipping address. The payment can be done by money transfer, you get  the invoice per email (PDF) with all the account informations you need. The two paying modalities are:

a. payment in advance with 3% discount or

b. prepayment of 40%, the remaining sum after shipment (two separate invoices)

Your order is binding after receiving your payment (payment in advance or prepayment), then you get a confirmation email from us and you will be also informed about the approximate date of shipping. Please notice, that the queuing of the orders are carried out by the chronological order of the payments. The lenght of time for building an instrument can vary quite widely: in case of the Tao-Lyra from 2 up to 8 weeks, in case of the Tao Sound-Bed from 4 up to 12 weeks depending on our workload, the period of the year and so on.