1985

Out of the question of how to apply the principles of Spacial Dynamics and how to bring the history, art, and culture of the Ancient Greeks to life, the Children's Olympic Festivals were begun. Children from Waldorf schools in many parts of the world participate in these annual games and festivals.
The name Spacial Dynamics® was coined in 1984. It is now the servicemark name for a growing body of spatially oriented movement exercises, activities, and games, a unique spatial approach to posture, and a refined method of movement observation and analysis developed and worked out by Jaimen McMillan (SDI's Director) over nearly twenty years of intensive study, teaching, and therapeutic work with children and adults in the U.S. and Europe.
Spacial Dynamics® is the study of the interplay between the human being and space. Space itself has been perhaps the most neglected component in the study of human movement. When not overlooked altogether, it is often considered something abstract, limited, or--worse yet--merely empty. Students of Spacial Dynamics® learn to meet space as a vibrant medium, and movement as a dynamic force that is at their disposal to span distances and reach across what was once a void. They are guided to experience space as alive and to understand the principles involved in interacting with space in learning, in social, pedagogical, and therapeutic situations, and in personal development.