International Newsletter Nr. 10, December 2012

Goetheanum School of Spiritual Science Medical Section International Coordination Anthroposophic Medicine/IKAM Eurythmy Therapy Department: Angelika Jaschke

Leading Thought

“The healthy social life is found, when in the mirror of each human soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the community the virtue of each one is living.” The Motto of Social Ethic by Rudolf Steiner

Out of the strength of these words we actively build the substance of our International Eurythmy Therapy Forum. A social organ which only exists through our common goal and combined efforts.

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From the Medical Section Principle of Individuality and Organisation (from the work in IKAM) 4 Annual conferences 2012 and 2013 5 Perspectives conference of the Medical Section 5

Eurythmy Therapy within the Medical Section 9th Eurythmy Therapy Delegates‘ conference (ForumHE) 6 Deceased colleagues and doctors 8 The Eurythmy Therapy Coordination Team 8 Collaboration between young doctors and young therapists 8 Interview with Angelika Jaschke 9 How can we finance our work? 10 Donate and help 11 Publicity work 13

Training / Research Reports from training and further training courses 14 International Trainers‘ Council 17 IKAM accreditation and training for auditors 18 Documentation and research 19 Update on the Eurythmy Therapy Bibliography 19

Professional Associations From the international Working Group of Eurythmy Therapy Professional Associations (IAg-HEBV) 21 International Federation of Anthroposophic Arts and Eurythmy Therapies (IFAAET) 22 Some further thoughts on a higher understanding of the rights sphere 22 AnthroMed® 23

Country Reports Reports from 40 countries 24

Fields of Practice On the importance of the work within the fields of practice 39 Early years 39 Schools 40 Curative education and social therapy 40 Private practice 41 Clinics 41 Elderly people 42 Catastrophe and conflict situations 42

... that‘s life Worldwide Hallelujah for 100 Years of Eurythmy — Whitsun, 27th May 2012 43 100th anniversary of eurythmy in Georgia 43 „Steadfast I stand“ 44 South African Journey 45 International further training 46

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Dear colleagues, dear doctors, dear friends of eurythmy therapy worldwide.

We would like to invite you to look back at the year 2012 through this newsletter; and to become aware of the diversity of what we intend for the future. This year we have been engaged in radical internal change and have considered many fundamental issues. The Eurythmy Therapy Forum‘s new, seven-strong coordination team got down to the nitty-gritty of its new tasks, producing a great deal of activity. We try to work together closely in our bigger group, so as to maintain our usual clarity and transparency in the service of the worldwide professional community —in such a way that work in different areas can be deepened and new impulses from our professional community taken up. Our collaboration with the International Young Physicians’ Forum has borne fruit already in the form of the Whitsun Conference which we have been planned together for 2013; it is aimed at students and those at the beginning of their careers, in whichever professional group. We wish to give our wholehearted support to this anthroposophic medical work between the professions, which is such a hallmark of the younger generation. The Perspectives Conference took place in Dornach on 16th September 2012. It united co-workers from all fields of anthroposophic medicine around the question „What would we like the different fields within anthroposophic medicine to have achieved by the year 2020?“ Our work together was informed by a sense of responsibility for the whole of our medical movement and by a concern for the spirituality within it. I hope we all particularly enjoy reading the reports from the different countries: our suggestion was to describe the ground under our feet, on which we carry out eurythmy therapy with our patients. I myself have experienced very clearly on my travels what a strong effect aspects of the landscape can have on the human being and their engagement with eurythmy therapy.

With warmest wishes,

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From the Medical Section www.medsektion-goetheanum.org

There can be absolutely no good that needs to be striven for only as a once-and-for-all, tranquil good; far rather does the good arise only in that the human being can continually swing toward two sides, like a pendulum, and find through their inner power the possibility of balance, of the middle gauge.“. (R.Steiner, The Spiritual Foundation of Morality, GA 155)

P P dilettantism R nepotism R I fraternal competencies I N collaboration that are relevant N C C inherent compulsion: I cash in exchange „I have no alternative“ I arbitrariness for influence P lazy compromises P L voluntary ability L E agreements to compromise E

O tactical O pedantry compromises F „It is wholesome only when F esoteric circles the whole community shapes corruption itself in the mirror of the I voluntary mandate (impera- O human soul and the power N association tive/representative) R of the individual soul D G is living in the community“ I A cliques Rudolf Steiner assumption V of authority N I I D based on initiative needs a goal S to be reasonably effective U and committment A A T L I luciferic impulse s I luciferic impulse s O like vanity, needs the community based on work assignment like vanity, T ambition . . . ambition . . . to be reasonably effective and compulsory service N Y

ahrimanic ahrimanic impulses like impulses like assumption of assumption of authority ... authority ...

Luciferic Impulses Principle of Individuality Ahrimanic Impulses such as personal vanity and Committing oneself out of one‘s such as abuse of office and ambition free initiative abuse of power

social after-effects: social after-effects: social after-effects: esoteric circles voluntary association cliques arbitrariness voluntary agreements pedantry nepotism fraternal collaboration cash in exchange for influence

I can achieve the greatest gain in „It is wholesome only when the Efficiency arises when I exploit my „image“ when others admire whole community shapes itself in other people‘s competencies and my competencies and I can act the mirror of the human soul and exploit financial resources in by virtue of my position. the power of the individual soul order to optimise the growth is living in the community.“ of my power. R. Steiner

dilettantism competencies that are relevant inherent compulsion: „I have no alternative“ lazy compromises ability to compromise tactical compromise corruption mandate, obligation abuse of office, abuse of power

Principle of Organisation

From the work of IKAM (International Coordination of Anthroposophic Medicine) April 2012

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From the Medical Section www.medsektion-goetheanum.org

Annual Conference, 13–16 Apart from the content in the overall Annual Conference, 12–15 September 2012 (review) theme of the Conference, it became in- September 2013 (preview) creasingly apparent that the space in the programme for working together „Anthroposophic Psychiatry, Psy- in one‘s own professional grouping was „The Human Heart“ (provisional chotherapy and Psychosomatics“ beneficial and made sense, as people working title) (The basis in human studies, therapy and prevention of psychiatric We shall consider the culture of the heart illnesses) in the history of humanity; work on its pathology and perspectives for therapy One thousand and ten people applied for arising within the threefold human or- this year‘s conference. That has never ganism; and address the prevention of happened before! We felt we had hit on cardiovascular illnesses. a particularly topical theme this year. Each day was devoted to an overall Eurythmy therapists who have particu- aspect: the soul as arena for dramatic lar experience with these conditions and struggles — the body as a reflective or- who would like to offer a course from gan for illnesses of the soul — and the the perspective of eurythmy therapy spiritual and karmic sphere with its he- are welcome to get in touch with me by aling power. March 2013. (AJ)

The preparation group facilitated by Dr Wolfgang Rissmann guided us with great had come together from forty nations all clarity and calmness through this major over the world. A beneficial rhythm aro- interdisciplinary conference. se in this way between the overarching conference themes and more professionally specific sharing and exchanges in relation to one‘s own discipline. (AJ)

Perspectives Conference of In the evening plenum, in which the fin- • Treatment concepts for twenty the Medical Section at the dings of the conversation working groups agreed clinical pictures will be ela- were shared, one could sense how, in borated by each professional group Goetheanum each group, the seed of future tasks was and brought together. reflected and worked at realistically with • The TOPICS database will be es- Sunday 16th September 2012 considerable openness and an emphasis tablished as a collecting point all (2.30–10.00pm) on earnestness. findings relating to anthroposophic The detailed working questions and fin- medicine. Around one hundred invited activists dings are available via the Medical Sec- • The future basis for all research in from the field of Anthroposophic Medici- tion or, in the case of eurythmy therapy, anthroposophic medicine will be ne divided into eight groups in order to from Angelika Jaschke. Cognition-Based Medicine / indivi- review the intentions — whether achie- Here are the most striking cornerstones dual case study. Through Kiene and ved or not — of the previous Perspec- and descriptions of aims for the enti- Kienle the method is now internati- tives Conference of 2000; to survey the re anthroposophic medical movement onally recognised. We now need to current situation; and to elaborate a re- — affecting all professional fields and populate it with content from all the alistic perspective up to the year 2020. groups in the coming years. professional groups within anthro- The following five themes were assigned posophic medicine. to the profession of eurythmy therapy: • The idea for an anthroposophic medical academy with an interprofessi- • The approach to individual case study must be learned in the trainings 1. Inter-professional training issues onal basic module in human studies („How do I document my practi- (Shaina Stoehr, Dr Wilburg Keller- for all professional groups will be ce?“). Roth) elaborated. • Trainings and Fields of Practice are 2. The TOPICS project, an internati- • Training for trainers in all professi- essentially responsible for the qua- onal database on anthroposophic onal groups is essential for our sur- litative evidence of anthroposophic medicine and its publications (Aðal- vival. medicine. heiður Ólafsdóttir) • Accreditation of all anthroposophic • Anthroposophic medicine as a „mys- 3. Research and academisation; Cogni- medical trainings is necessary for tery medicine“ must leave the mys- tion-Based Medicine (Hermo Beer) the implementation of the Anthro- posophic Medical System and is terious behind and show how it adds 4. Professional esotericism and ethics being elaborated further. value in real life though the quali- (Mareike Kaiser) tative, therapeutic actions of its re- • A clear description of methodology 5. The legal and political situation of presentatives from all the Fields of is a prerequisite for demonstrating anthroposophic medicine (Monika Practice. the diversity of methods in anthro- Eichele) (Summary, AJ, posophic medicine. 27th September 2012)

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Eurythmy Therapy within the Medical Section

Not national — but universally human

„…the Anthroposophical Society should be something that is really permeated by a spirituality born in community, … in such a way that it would eventually come to a situation where it would have more meaning for a person to feel themselves in anthroposophical spirituality than in Russian or English or German spirituality. Only then would the communal really be there. … …the human being in our modern age has given up living in history and knowing that the Christian principle of universal humanity must now be taken seriously; for otherwise the Earth would loose its goal and its inner meaning.“ Rudolf Steiner

From: 1923: A Fateful Year in the History of the Anthroposophical Society — From the Burning of the Goetheanum to the Christmas Conference (GA 259 — not translated)

9th Eurythmy Therapy Delegates‘ Conference

September 12, 2012, Dornach, CH

Angelika greeted the 31 participants who met in Dornach on the 12th September (national representatives, representatives of trainings and fields of practice, and eurythmy therapy coordinators) by saying ‚we are like the „beat of heart and lung“, because we wish to perceive each other, meet, share, and go back again with renewed energy‘.

We started by singing our ‚Song of the Grail Knights‘, then began the conference proper by describing concrete examples to illustrate the different situations of eurythmy therapy. We were in for a surprise: each of us said something After the break, Angelika gave a re- Our ‚internal agreements‘ have been in our mother tongue — how different port on the Medical Section‘s work. The brought up to date and will now be cal- they sounded!!! Fifteen different langu- year‘s theme was the relationship of ‚In- led ‚agreements between delegates and ages! I will only give a brief sample of dividuality and Community/Individuality coordinator‘. what we heard, as you will be able to and Organisation‘. Both are necessary! read reports from the national represen- The danger of egoism can be countered Finances: Angelika is filled with admira- tatives further on. if the individual is embedded in the com- tion and gratitude for the €25,000 which South Africa has seventeen languages, munity and if the community empowers has come in through contributions; she of which eleven are official; whereas the individual. still needs to find sponsors to finance the Germany has just one official langu- multifaceted activity of the Forum. Each age, in spite of which we have quite a Important questions and concerns about professional group in the Medical Sec- hard struggle to understand each other. eurythmy therapy have arisen. Where tion is still responsible for finding its own In Norway, which is cold and high, it is are the roots of eurythmy? Where are funding. It will take quite an effort! so difficult to meet… in delightful, warm its boundaries in relation to other thera- Italy a visit from Angelika helped broa- pies? How is it protected? A year ago, Angelika entrusted seven den the outlook to take in more of the colleagues with specific tasks within the world… the Dutch soul would really pre- Six countries have so far received the Forum. The colleagues active in the eu- fer to keep calm, but actually finds itself AnthroMed® licence. America and Swit- rythmy therapy coordination group intro- getting rather agitated. Everywhere zerland joined the scheme this year, duced themselves and their activities: there is a wish in eurythmy therapy for while four others are on the way. Mareike Kaiser, who visits many coun- qualified training and the opportunity for Angelika spoke about the ten years of tries with courses on eurythmy therapy going deeper through further training. good collaboration among the coordi- for the teeth, nurtures contact between Irene Poewelse of the Netherlands and nators in the International Coordinati- representatives of the fields of practice. Christiane Wigand from South Africa gui- on Group for Anthroposophic Medicine Monika Eichele is actively engaged in ded us beautifully through the eurythmy (IKAM). She also mentioned the Perspec- assuring the public presence of the In- meditations ‚Steadfastly I take my stand tives Conference that had taken place ternational Professional Associations for in existence‘ and ‚Light streams upward, on the 16th September 2012, where an Eurythmy Therapy and of the Internati- weight bears downward‘, going from the expanded group considered anthroposo- onal Federation of Anthroposophic Arts artistic over into eurythmy therapy. phic medicine into the next ten years. and Eurythmy Therapies.

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Ursula Browning, responsible for the Delegates‘ Conference After- Reflection on the exercise: eurythmy therapy trainings, was rep- noon Meeting on the Theme of • taking the initiative to become ac- resented by Dr Wilburg Keller-Roth on „Social and Artistic Encounter“ this occasion. The basic precondition for tive; missing out on something be- (September 12, 2012) recognising eurythmy therapy trainings, cause I am too much in myself and anywhere in the world, is that they meet not carrying the entirety of some- A brief summary: certain standards; the basic conditions thing within myself. have been elaborated. There are cur- The afternoon of the Delegates‘ Con- • creating pauses; gaining an over- rently eurythmy therapy trainings for ference was devoted to the question as view — not being completely invol- physicians in Britain, Georgia, Germany to how the work of delegates had gone ved in the game. and the Baltic countries. over the past year, and what scope for Swantje Harlan, of the Young Phy- • we had pauses too! shaping activity might arise in future. sicians‘ Forum, wishes to work with us The overarching theme for our work to- • everyone got straight into the dyna- to coordinate the collaboration between gether was „Individuality and Commu- mics of the game! eurythmy therapists and physicians. nity: the Delegate between the Poles of Anja Meierhans has concentrated for • getting to know each other in a dif- Duty and Self-Responsibility“. The aim of years on developing clarity in eurythmy ferent (movement) context; percei- this session was to nurture and train our therapy methodology and on documen- ving different sides of the other. capacity for mutual perception based on tation and research. shared experience. • how did our language develop in the Monika Margesin keeps in contact with course of the game? Were its quali- the forty national representatives in con- In a joyful mood of anticipation we ga- ties still based on content? nection with reports for this newsletter. thered in the Goetheanum‘s North Room At last we were able to meet Regina and sat on the chairs which John Brow- • the group was able to bear with Delattre who, over many years, has ning, of Britain, had placed in three cir- transgressions against the rules — supported our professional group in eve- cles of ten to twelve chairs each. John this was almost a miracle! rything to do with layout and typeset- explained the movement game that ting. She has also helped give our web- • parallels with our working situations we were going to play, which called for site and newsletter a visible presence in (or with our work as national repre- attention, quick reactions and a good the world; and will continue to work with sentatives and delegates): measure of equanimity. us into the future. • what sort of mood comes toward John explained the game, which we then toward the delegates from the pe- After a good lunch, John Browning and played joyfully and without inhibition, riphery? Anja Meierhans led us into a group in a seamless flow from English to Ger- game, which gave us opportunities for • playing different roles in life — being man. the most varied social experiences and adaptable; different patients, dif- cognition, which we made use of later in feren professions. In the group conversation work which the afternoon. We became more aware followed, we evaluated and discussed • my actions and their dynamics have of different roles that we are always ta- the game/exercise (which lasted ten to consequences for everyone else. king on, and that every action has con- fifteen minutes), the group dynamics sequences for everyone else. In conver- which it revealed, and the role play and • how can I become well-informed? sations in pairs, we next looked at the behaviours which it involved. We did Too much information can result in impulses which carried us over the past this in three stages; a reflection of the apathy and resistance. year and which we would like to take exercise; finding parallels with our own into the coming year. • moving too quickly: others can feel work-based relationships; and scribing under compulsion or less free. the results we came to on a flip chart. Our review at the end of the day reve- The conversation was both lively and aled that we had created a warm, cordi- Many thanks to all the participants for jolly. al atmosphere, enabling a real, human the wholehearted way in which they encounter, where joy, impetus and gui- entered into this afternoon of social and We shared our most important expe- ding vision could be reawakened. Our artistic movement. Special thanks too to riences and insights in the plenum which heartfelt thanks went to Angelika Jasch- John, who gave us such clear guidance followed. This feedback included the fol- ke: eurythmy therapist, social artist and into this playful activity with its wealth of lowing themes. coordinator of our Forum. Our thoughts experiences. turned, too, to our colleagues who had died. Anja Meierhans

We finished by singing the Song of the Knights of the Grail, and said farewell to each other until our next meeting on Wednesday 11th September 2013.

Monika Margesin

Heartfelt thanks, too, to Margret Thiersch, who gave a deepening course in eurythmy therapy, in the week between the Medical Section Conference and the Mi- chaelmas Meeting of the School of Spi- ritual Science, for colleagues from afar who were attending both.. (AJ)

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The Eurythmy Therapy all the elected or appointed mandate hol- They are: Coordination Team ders, from all of eurythmy therapy‘s are- • Ursula Browning for Trainings as of work, meet to share and exchange. A basis of trust has developed which is • Anja Meierhans for Documentation „Very much depends today upon human and Research beings in the world coming together in the precondition for implementing com- • Monika Eichele for Professional As- the right consciousness.“ (Rudolf Stei- munally developed tasks and aims. In sociations ner: Course for Young Doctors, p.201, the rhythmical interplay of giving and GA 316) taking, imparting an impulse and recei- • Mareike Kaiser for Fields of Practice ving, becoming and dying away, inter- • Swantje Harlan for Collaboration national activity and attentive listening, After a pioneer phase lasting ten years, with Young Doctors the eurythmy therapy department in the a communal stream of will for eurythmy therapy can come to being. • Monika Margesin for Compilation of Medical Section has developed a „face“ the Newsletter and its own status. It has gradually been possible to elabo- It has become increasingly clear that • Regina Delattre for Publicity (Web- rate the threefold structure (with nine only the autonomous power of each in- site, Newsletter, Layout, and so on) tiers) of the levels in which we work; dividual I can share in shaping this com- this has been achieved in life, from life munal stream as it comes into being. and through life. Following the „principle As coordinator I have the overview — My warmest thanks go to these seven of becoming“ (Rudolf Steiner: From the but I cannot keep my ear to the ground fellow-helpers who will to bring their History and Contents of the First Section everywhere, to give due care to all the professional competence and join me in of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, GA detailed issues and impulses. I realised building the future of our free communi- 264), we keep all solidified forms - mo two years ago that we need a person for ty, the Eurythmy Therapy Forum in the bile, although they are still binding ag- each level of work, someone who can Medical Section. reements; through the mandate holder completely devote themselves to this (AJ) and their international associates they listening activity out of their overview remain oriented toward a current reality, of the whole. We are few and the few and must thus always remain in transi- are completely bound up in their work- tion. place. Where however are the people Coordinating Eurythmy who can and want to make it their (ad- Therapy • There is the field of eurythmy thera- ditional) task to weave the connecting py trainings — and the correspon- threads between the different individu- ding field of qualitative research. „The eurythmy al elements — for the wellbeing of the therapist … can • The field of national/legal Profes- whole? act only in relation sional Associations, which are the As I described in the previous Newslet- with a doctor. … crucial international voices repre- ter, I made the attempt to find such peo- Eurythmy therapy senting eurythmy therapy‘s profes- ple within our own ranks. A new pioneer can be carried out sional status and development. phase, which will hopefully benefit you only on the basis • And the increasingly significant area all. Now we are busy becoming a real of a proper dia- of social and economic work in the team, where each must know and keep gnosis.“ (Rudolf Fields of Practice — through every an eye on the needs of the whole, and Steiner in Exten- single eurythmy therapist with their from this perspective establish auto- ding Practical Me- patients in their locality. nomous work in their own area. dicine)

Above and beyond this, as the heart (in The eurythmy therapy coordination Reality shows that in many cases col- the sense that „the periphery gives im- team will describe itself in the different laboration between eurythmy therapist pulse to the centre“), we have the Inter- sections of the Newsletter through its and doctor as described above unfortu- national Delegates Conference, in which tasks. nately does not happen. Almost half the eurythmy therapy national representatives at the September 2012 Delegates‘ Conference reported that this was a se- Deceased colleagues and doctors - 2012 / 2011 rious issue in their country. There are various reasons: too little knowledge of Elke Bormhorst † 23.02.2011 how a different profession works; over- Verena Boger † 28.03.2011 CH load in one‘s own work; lack of interest Elisabeth Widmer † 16.04.2011 Zuerich, CH in collaboration; or simply that there is Sophia Andrea Habluetzel-Groh † 18.05.2011 Ruettihubelbad, CH no anthroposophic doctor available. Christine Marie Luise Brauer † 23.06.2011 Kempten, DE Eva-Marie Autenrieth † 21.07.2011 Murrhardt, DE The wish arose in the Eurythmy Thera- Titia Pauline Jonkmans † 09.09.2011 Zeist, NL py Coordination Group to strengthen Gundi Johanna Schmidt † 17.11.2011 Murrhardt, DE collaboration between eurythmy thera- Ilse Bierbrauer † 21.02.2012 Stuttgart, DE pists and doctors. Because I have been Gunvor Kumlander † 08.05.2012 Jaerna, SE engaged intensively with eurythmy and Elizabeth Kotzuba † 05.09.2012 Capetown SA eurythmy therapy at the time of my Ekkehart Wacker † 30.09.2012 Dresden, DE medical studies and later while working Kathy Tuttle † 30.10.2012 Jaerna, SE as a doctor (two years of a eurythmy Meike Koehler † 21.10.2012 Murrhardt, DE training; the part-time eurythmy therapy training for doctors in Unterlengen- Doctors: hardt; and much else), and because Dr. Wilhelm Kenzler † Juli 2012 Brazil this collaboration is close to my heart, I Dr. Christhild Blume † 03.02.2012 have been asked to be the contact per- Dr. Hanna Doemeling † 22.02.2012 son. Dr. Ulrich Speidel † 22.02.2012 Dr. Wolfgang Gravelmann † 11.03.2012 How this collaboration might be strengthened is still an open question

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which should become more apparent A particular concern of their hearts is in- It sounds as if training issues are over time (I look forward to receiving ter-professional learning right from the particularly important to you? your ideas and suggestions). The fort- start, and an entry into professional life hcoming 2013 International Whitsun based on a communal anthroposophical The trainings are the basis of our profes- Conference at the Goetheanum has ari- foundation in medicine and human stu- sion; if there are questions in that area, sen from a basically similar impulse: to dies. (AJ) I prick up my ears and do what I can to bring together all those who are active help — in consultation with the Council therapeutically with the patient and of Trainers. Apart from that, I find that make time for sharing and exchange contact with the graduates is important: („Strengthening the Heart“ — www.en- they will be shaping the future of our lightening-the-heart.org — an initiative Interview profession. of the Young Doctors‘ Forum). This is a with Angelika Jaschke reality for the patient and a deepening The Professional Associations have na- for individual therapies. If the eurythmy tional tasks that are quite different. My therapy exercises are to be valued as a impulse for the future there lies more remedy, their effect needs to be included in enabling AnthroMed®, and building in the patient‘s whole therapy concept. competency through professional dee- Such a moment of sharing between eu- pening in the Fields of Practice. These rythmy therapist and doctor (what is the are shared, supranational tasks. The patient lacking? what therapy do they three-year-long Auditors‘ Training finis- need?) can be really effective for the pa- hed this year; it prepares auditors to ac- tient. credit the trainings in a mutual process using comparable criteria. Trainers from In this spirit I hope for a lively sharing all the professional therapeutic groups in and exchange for the 2013 Whitsun the Medical Section took part. Conference in particular, but also for collaboration between eurythmy therapists This was a moving and historic achieve- and doctors well into the future! ment, to have trained our own anthroposophic auditors and to be in a position to help each other across the boundaries Swantje Harlan of our professions; we are all faced with the same challenges at this time.

You did a great deal of travelling again this year. Could you perhaps In respect of content, where did the describe any particular features Collaboration between last year take you? Looking back that stood out? on the year, were there particular young doctors and young points of focus? therapists I travelled once more to countries where I was able to have direct con- In the International Coordination of An- Medical students and young doctors have tact with my colleagues, and where throposophic Medicine, we are revising come together in a search for the origins we could see the crucial collaboration our book Structures of Responsibility of the Young Doctors‘ Courses, and have between each individual and the world- and Ways of Working in the Medical Sec- occupied themselves with Helene von wide anthroposophic medical move- tion. Grunelius‘ question to Rudolf Steiner ment. Inner and outer solidarity, after We have again undertaken an inner pro- „How do I become a good doctor?“ all, give us a chance for survival. cess of clarifying our intentions, based Rudolf Steiner described three funda- • In Sweden I was able to take part as on the feedback which we have received. mental innovations: a co-auditor in the accreditation, on We have again focused on the actuality behalf of the International Coordi- of individuality and community. We were able to put in concrete terms 1. The full inclusion of spiritual reali- nation of Anthroposophic Medicine, of the eurythmy therapy training in how these two principles engage with ties in the confrontation with illness each other, and how we find them em- and healing Järna. Good, transparent structures were brought about, and I was very bodied in actual life in such a way that 2. The significance of community - for glad to hand over to the Järna car- they serve each other. ming for the development and nur- rying group the Certificate of Accre- I have tried to illustrate this in the gra- turing of anthroposophic medicine ditation from the Medical Section. phic image presented at the Annual Con- ference (see page 4). • In South Africa, active impulses were 3. Applying the staff of Mercury as the To take it really seriously and implement given for an International Postgra- central medical paradigm it in our daily life and work for coordina- duate Medical Training, as well as tion — in all the essential aspects of our for the preconditions leading toward It became clear from this that anthropo- social interaction, right into our feeling a eurythmy therapy training. sophic medicine is unthinkable without life involving all our eurythmy therapy the therapies. • In Britain another graduation in colleagues — that is a challenge which I Out of this impulse, the young medical the eurythmy therapy training took am convinced is worth the effort to take students and doctors would like to join place. I was able to get to know the up. with all young therapists (or those who students and hand over the Medical have stayed young) for an intimate sha- Section diploma. It was in this spirit that we in the Euryth- ring and to learn from one another — for • In Italy we worked together on my Therapy Forum attempted this year one another — with one another. issues to do with the Associ- to lay down a real basis, including the ation, in order to smooth the necessary awareness, for the changeo- Our first concrete step will be the Whits- way toward the AnthroMed® ver to a coordination team. un Conference 2013 in Dornach. Stu- licence for eurythmy therapy — our dents and recent graduates will shape it international trademark. together in such a way that a real thera- . peutic encounter can take place.

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…… and quite concretely, in relation How can we finance Eurythmy Therapy Bibliography; the In- to eurythmy therapy? our work………? ternational Coordination of Anthroposo- phic Medicine‘s accreditation process for I am very concerned — as are many Expanding the eurythmy therapy coordi- eurythmy therapy trainings; or for proof my colleagues worldwide — about a nation work through the new team en- ducting newsletters, and so on). number of issues. tails financial challenges. My own work is covered on the basis of invoicing expenses, not by a contract of The sound as „medicament“ is rapidly At the moment our annual budget runs employment. disappearing. In many respects we have at about €40,000 — please see the finan- turned into an unreflective, psychologi- cial statement for 2011 on the Forum‘s Our professional community is now sing culture of movement for wellness, website: www.forumhe-medsektion.net/ served by a seven-strong, professional that has lost any connection to Rudolf en/Annual reports group of colleagues; previously its work Steiner‘s methods of eurythmy therapy. was voluntary, with some expenses We have an urgent task here to bring We now manage to find more than half being reimbursed. In some areas this an explanation of our methods into the this sum within the International Forum, will probably always be necessary. So world and say goodbye to the main- through the valuable „solidarity contri- far, no financial support is in prospect to stream therapy mix. Anyone can now butions“ from our colleagues working in cover Monika Eichele‘s enormous achie- learn elements of eurythmy therapy many different countries. Please accept vement for the survey of the profession; for their profession and use it as they my continual admiration and deep grati- or for Mareike Kaiser‘s creation of a net- will. This complementary mishmash will tude! Our agreement that every euryth- work among representatives of the fields not lead to a sharpening of our profile my therapist in the world make available of activity; or for Regina Delattre‘s work or recognition in the medical or political the fee from one therapy session for the maintaining the website and keeping it worlds. And what about our responsibi- Medical Section‘s international euryth- up-to-date, as well as producing news- lity to the profession? Are we just going my therapy work has proved reasonable letters including this one. This situation to stand and stare — or even look away? and equitable. This means that we are is not sustainable in the long term! Or will we find the right ways and forms united together not just in the realm of to maintain eurythmy therapy and de- ideals and awareness, but also through I would be very grateful if you could give velop it further? Our whole professional the stream of will manifesting through this some thought, and if you might be community is faced with intensely bur- money; and can enable this helpful net- able to help find further sources offi ning questions. work linking us all — and representing nance for our international cohesion eurythmy therapy in the world. and solidarity. (What is the situation with doctors in your country? Are there Knowing you as I do, I wonder So far, by dint of much effort and with umbrella organisations for anthroposo- whether you have a vision for the a degree of insecurity each year, I have phic medicine which would like to sup- year ahead — and the longer-term been able to find charitable trusts to port our work? Are there wealthy pati- future? which I could communicate our need ents who have come to value your work for donations to cover our basic budget. and who would like to help support our I could neither live nor survive without A large part of these funds is used for professional community? Are you awa- a vision! „If you know not the goal, you translations into English, for subsidising re of any available legacy funds or other will not find the way“ — freely quoted travel costs to international conferences charitable trusts? … and so on?) from Morgenstern. That is my motto and for administration. Funding for pro- in this respect. Such visioning always jects is supported through my applica- We have our own account with the Foun- arises in collaboration with other peo- tions to various trusts (for instance for dation for Anthroposophic Medicine for ple. These are not some notions I have the updating by Beatrix Hachtel of the our international eurythmy therapy work woven together in my head. They crys- (see below). tallise in me and are then „polished“ by real life — or modified, sometimes even With heartfelt thanks for your dissolved. This is the risk I take on. assistance in seeking suppor- ters who wish to help the work The Medical Section‘s Perspectives Con- Bank account: — they surely exist, if we can ference, looking forward to 2020, has only find them… just taken place. One hundred of us Volksbank Dreiländereck EG sought a broad perspective on this sca- Med. Sektion / Förderstiftung AM With warm wishes le for the whole world movement of an- KONTO: 970760 Angelika throposophic medicine. I am now trying Bankleitzahl: 683 900 00 to distil this specifically for eurythmy Reference: 1258, donation, name and year therapy and bring it into a dialogue with all my professional colleagues. 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Publicity work within the of the website. There you will find news but also contribute to strengthening our Eurythmy Therapy Forum on training courses, conferences and re- presence: regular tweets on eurythmy levant events. We look forward to your and eurythmy therapy come from Celia input! Schönstedt, of the Association of Wal- I‘ve taken care of dorf Schools; „Eurythmy Therapy“ (my the Forum‘s pre- Regina Delattre account, which only tweets on eurythmy sentation to the Coordination publicity therapy); and „Love for the Earth“, which outer world for in the Eurythmy Therapy Forum condescends to partake of the depths of several years. of the Medical Section name-dancing tweets and discussions, at the Goetheanum, Dornach, and makes people aware of the idea. This work always Switzerland Still on the subject of Twitter, a group focussed on two [email protected] of around fifteen people joined Celia principles: There Schönstedt and me one afternoon in should be a pro- January to give eurythmy on Twitter a fessional presen- kind of birthday serenade under the slo- tation both in the gan „100 Years of Eurythmy“ in the form print and the web media. But it should Eurythmy Therapy on the of a „Tweet firework display“: following also serve to facilitate the communica- Internet — the Somewhat an intensive public relations action it re- tion within this globally active network. Different Publicity Work ceive considerable attention. Since then Thus the annual newsletter is a kind of eurythmy tends to crop up in Tweets gleanings on the past year with all imp- considerably more frequently. portant topics within the field, whereas I felt obliged to look round on the internet and see what there was on the sub- I have also established a public Face- the website is geared at offering up-to- book forum on eurythmy — so far only in date information and offering access to ject of eurythmy and eurythmy therapy and what was said about them. German. The basic idea was that nothing all important documents, addresses and of this kind had so far appeared on the important information. Eurythmy appeared on Twitter almost exclusively in connection with forthco- internet, where non-professionals could ming events. Waldorf pupils like to go on also participate and ask questions. Anyo- Apart from general information for the ne with a Facebook account can read the public, the professional group will find a about „dancing your name“ — the most delightful jokes and comments go out posts on the forum. If anyone wants to plethora of information and documents join in the discussions, they have to ap- which are important for the profession of into the world under this keyword — and many of them are quite pleasant. Quite ply for membership of the forum, which eurythmy therapists as such but also for I always allow. I haven‘t refused anyo- their everyday working life. a few Waldorf pupils maintain that they enjoy „dancing their name“, but the joke ne so far, although I have had to issue netiquette guidance once. One dyed-in- One part of the website which is meant element clearly predominates. A small, extremely disenchanted and embittered the-wool Waldorf jester who was allowed to help with exchanging information is to join has so far not uttered so much called „Addresses“. Here you can find faction agitates intensively against Wal- dorf schools and hence also against eu- as a peep. The purpose of this attempt all contact details of the country repre- has been to enable non-professionals sentatives, the professional associations rythmy. Over the last year, a few stal- warts have come along to disseminate and eurythmy therapists to share expe- and training institutes. We try hard to be riences in such a way that questions can up to date - but we also have to rely on on a regular basis something of more substance on eurythmy and eurythmy be raised; the expression of criticism is your help. Please let us know when your explicitly invited. So far this functions details will change or when you detect therapy — experiences, publications, research, and answers to various tweets really well: there is a high level of dis- errors on our pages. course (for instance, the difference to We are going to develop another part on the theme. If you have a Twitter account, you can not only follow these Qigong, the public image of eurythmy therapy, what should publicity look like, where can experts on this or that be found, where can you find something that has been published, and so on). Thanks to my work on the Bibliography I can point people to existing publications in many cases. Comrades in arms are welcome, as also —I would again like to emphasise this explicitly— are those with different views! A group on eurythmy therapy is likewise planned for XING, the social software platform for professionals. XING offers many possibilities for getting better known. You need, however, to be able to demonstrate broad interest, and the number of colleagues represented there is not yet enough.

All in all, these experiments take up a lot of time. I can only encourage those of us with a computer and internet access to visit the sites occasionally — or more often. Fellow campaigners — whatever their opinions — are very welcome! Af- ter all they say „we exist, if people are talking about us“.

Beatrix Hachtel [email protected]

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Training/Research

TRAINING

Preamble the Summer of 2001 to January 2005. USA / Copake Therapeutic Eurythmy Training We are glad to Through its collegial work the Eurythmy in America - TETNA say that there are Therapy Coordination Team intends to a number of initi- maintain contact with professionals and The Therapeutic Eurythmy Training in atives worldwide training courses worldwide, so that re- North America began it‘s fourth course for new Eurythmy levant themes coming up, for instance, in the Summer of 2011. It is a part time Therapy training at the Council of Delegates may also be training over 3 years. We meet twice a courses which, it is adopted in training courses. There is a year - for 5 weeks in the Summer and 2 hoped, will lead to need, for example, to establish a clear weeks in February. It is hosted by Cam- a Medical Section picture of the difference between hygie- phill Village, Copake in upper New York diploma. The mood nic eurythmy and eurythmy therapy. state. Our students have the opportu- and the life situa- nity to study and live in this therapeutic tions are different in each country, and On the other hand it is also important setting. There is a lively give and take the ideal is that the individual and the that the concerns and suggestions of between the training and the village as shared aspects can live in each course. students and tutors in training courses is exemplified by the weekly eurythmy should reach everyone in the world of groups which they offer to everyone who Questions which need to be taken up eurythmy therapy. lives in the village. This is a highlight anew again and again are, for examp- not only for our students, but also the le: What are the criteria a trainer must village. meet? There is also no longer a con- sensus on conditions for admission to Ursula Browning This course has 9 students. Although a training course in eurythmy therapy. Coordination training they are a very international group, all These are burning questions, especially in the Eurythmy Therapy Forum of the of them are currently residing on the in Europe, that were also considered by Medical Section North American continent. They have the Council of trainers this year. Can we at the Goetheanum, Dornach, now been introduced to all of the the- meet the needs of non-eurythmists who Switzerland rapeutic eurythmy exercises, so after wish to do a Eurythmy Therapy training [email protected] the Summer session most of they begun without having to make compromises their placements. These students will when it comes to eurythmy therapy? Are graduate in February of 2014. there possibilities in working with the ba- We plan on starting a new course in the sic trainings to reduce the training from Summer of 2014. six to a maximum of five years? These issues are currently under discussion in Anne Ree,Seth Morrison the British Isles. E-mail: [email protected]

Our colleagues in South Africa, while working at their full-time jobs, are also preparing for an IPMT conference in Ja- SWEDEN nuary 2013. This will increase awareness and support for the evolving eurythmy Läkeeurytmi-Utbildningen i therapy training. Norden

A training course is being developed in The Eurythmy Therapy training that Kiev. started in August 2011 has continued this year with the two new block courses In Vaihingen/Enz in Germany, a Euryth- of four weeks each. my Therapy training will be on offer for fully trained eurythmists from January Block I took place in January with ten 2013. At the moment, there is no ac- students. The theme was lectures 1-5 creditation for the initiative of a further of the Eurythmy therapy course. Other training in Eurythmy Therapy for profes- subjects were: Rhythm, Awake and sionals in the field of medicine. Sleep, Metabolism/ Digestion. Training in observation should help the students An initiative which has been running for to improve their capacity to perceive the many years in Israel is now in contact patient. with the Training Council. The second Block took place in August In Brazil, they are beginning to think and had nine students. The central about a further eurythmy therapy trai- theme was “child development”. A lot ning course. Gertrud Mau and Titia Jon- of examples from the eurythmy therapy kmans already ran one such course from work with small children, children from

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preschool age and school were given. Student‘s report dicine and therapies, it offers real help Common study was “Revelations of Kar- to people who want to work with hea- ma” (R. Steiner) and continuing work In January 2012 the Hohepa school in ling themselves and those in their care. with the eurythmy therapy course. Napier hosted the first block of a unique Lakshmi challenged us to look at a child eurythmy therapy training course in the from the child‘s point of view, staying In January one student from Estonia re- Southern Hemisphere. Twelve students connected to them, asking deeper ques- cieved her diploma and likewise one of including ten eurythmists and two doc- tions such as ‚how can we respect their the earlier student from Sweden. tors from Australia and New Zealand, spiritual choice?‘ and recognizing illness In September the training had their IKAM attended the course bringing the possi- or developmental obstacles as some- accreditation granted by the Accredita- bility of a new wave of eurythmy thera- thing that has to be worked with much tion Mandate Group and will receive its pists for our region by 2014 when the consciousness from the inside to over- certificate as an accredited eurythmy training is due to be completed. As a come illness or to help strengthen the therapy training in Sweden from the Me- recent eurythmy graduate in Melbourne, body. In this way the meditative life of a dical Section at the training conference this was a wonderful opportunity for me therapist becomes necessary to develop in November. to meet, work with and learn from the a healing will - the will and courage to eurythmists, doctors and teachers in the facilitate healing. Dr. Anita Jülke Drufhagel course. An important part of this work includes E-mail: [email protected] The faculty of teachers brought a wealth working with the soul and strengthe- of experience and expertise to the training the I AM, helping to bring it more Renee Reder ning – Ute Stoll-Kuwilsky, Alfred Busch strongly into the body so that the human E-mail: [email protected] and Patrice Orange kept us going at a being can really find themselves, to wake lively pace, always mindful of how we up to who they really are. David obser- were managing our own care, health ved that healing happens better when and wellbeing. This included plenty of people are taking up their destiny and breaks and a wealth of opportunities working with the soul processes., mee- with guest therapists working with the ting the healing process with their own NEW ZEALAND students to introduce us to the wider soul/spiritual work. Eurythmists, he told South Pacific Eurythmy Therapy therapeutic picture including speech with us, need to develop a very fine feeling for whether a person is more metabolic Training Napier Astrid Anderson, oilings and external ap- plications with anthroposophical nurses or nerve-sense in order to help restore Tessa Therkleson and Lisbeth Kouwen- the balance in the body. I now have a In July 2012 we completed the second berg , and guest doctors Roger Leitch, renewed appreciation of how important block of the South Pacific Eurythmy David Ritchie and Lakshmi Allamsetty. rhythm is to ongoing balance and health Therapy Training. The 12 students grow With them we covered topics from the and why it is so important in the early together as a group and learn and work human skeleton to modelling of the la- years for health in later life. intensively with each other. During this rynx and exercises in metamorphoses, Our eurythmy therapy teachers helped block, we introduced the soul exercises the threefold and fourfold human being, us to experience and practice many and had a longer working period about the invisible man, embryology and the things, one of my favourites being over- child development with lectures by doc- first three years of child development. coming gravity and entering levity. Have tors and eurythmy therapy, now after Other experiences included rhythmical you every wondered why in eurythmy the second block there will be a second massage, visits to the Weleda shop, an therapy there is always (or often) jum- placement and many of our students will evening with the New Zealand General ping? It is the experience of levity, of work at a school. Secretary Sue Simpson, also a fellow the momentary space in lightly jumping eurythmist, an outing to see Arthur Za- where spirit can enter, where you are for We want to give the word to one of our jonc at the anthroposophical society in a moment free, and it can be light and students, who wrote her impressions of Hastings, a cello concert with Reinhild joyful, a space for the healing impulse to the first block down for the New Zealand Cleff, the warm welcome and support of enter. My picture for this was the whales magazine Sphere. the Hohepa community and co-workers ‚breaching‘ where they lift their massive and the organisational support from Hei- bodies out of the water into the air in

ke Houben, another eurythmy therapist sheer joy, a beautiful example of lifting Heike Houben who also works at Hohepa. into space and experiencing that free- What did we learn about eurythmy thera- dom. We worked strongly with the vowel py? For me, it opened out to an amazing and consonant sounds as they are rep- world, where with anthroposophical me- resented as archetypal forms in the eurythmy figures and though this learning more about the organs and how they also have a psychological aspect. We will be back in July for three weeks at Hohepa, then next year and a final block in January 2014. This training is very special as it is one-off, so we are all appreciating it and making the most of this wonderful opportunity in the beautiful land of New Zealand. We will try to keep you updated about the course and its progress in future articles.

Leanne Sarah, eurythmy therapy student, Warburton, Australien

On behalf of the Carrying Group: Alfred Busch E-Mail: [email protected] Heike Houben E-Mail: [email protected]

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GREAT BRITAIN the participants, each to one assigned GERMANY Eurythmy Therapy Training sound. Individual therapy lessons with Eurythmy Therapy at Alanus experienced eurythmy therapists are in Great Britain University for Arts and Social provided before or after the meeting. Sciences On every weekend we had also arran- In April of this year 12 of our students ged the visit of an artistic performance graduated as eurythmy therapists and The MA studies in eurythmy therapy at of Eurythmy which means a lot to people two others are continuing their practi- Alanus University begin and end in Sep- coming from so far away! ce placement work. We will take a new tember every year at Michaelmas. We We feel the need to prepare every week- group of students in March of 2013 and have been fortunate to have various qua- end with an extra meeting in-between. plan to link with the therapeutic speech lified guest tutors contributing to these There are still five weekends to come training once again, sharing medical lec- courses and helping guide their students until January 2015 but already we know tures and giving the two groups opportu- toward graduation. Many thanks! about interested participants for a se- nities to meet each other and experience cond run. both disciplines. Our training takes place This year two groups of students com- in 5 modules over 2 years and is located pleted their MA studies and presented Wilburg Keller Roth in Stroud, Gloucestershire. their theses. E-mail: [email protected] We are also currently exploring the idea On the 10th and 11th September, six of of integrating more fully with the basic the twelve participants in the full-time eurythmy trainings in this country. Our course presented the themes they had thoughts are to provide more founda- SWITZERLAND chosen. Some of them had undertaken tion for eurythmy therapy as a profes- Eurythmy Therapy Training research on individual cases, such as sional pathway during the fourth year. at the Goetheanum early childhood developmental distur- This would be followed by a fifth year bances, lactose intolerance, hyperlordo- which would consist of the completion In March of this year, fourteen students sis, neurodermatitis; measuring the of the therapy training, with further mo- gained their diploma. It was the first development of warmth in eurythmy dules, and include practice placements. course which we have given with the therapy by means of infrared thermo- The fourth year modules would also be new training concept (part-time, in six graphy, using a heat-imaging camera; open to qualified eurythmists who wish blocks of 3–6 weeks each). Nearly all or the healing power of eurythmy, using to enter the therapy training. This is a the graduates are already active in their the sound A. new model that addresses the fact that new profession. The four from Japan are It was interesting to find „measuring ins- some students in their final year alrea- urgently needed there. Others are going truments“ for the individual case studies dy know that they would like to become to Sicily, the west coast of America, Fin- with which one could make a reading to therapists. We are in dialogue with the land, Poland, Germany and Switzerland. show whether the therapy had helped eurythmy schools in Great Britain and On the 5th August we welcomed a new the patient or not. These ranged from hope to give more shape to our future group. Thirteen students began their thermometers, blood pressure monitors, plans within the coming year. training, full of enthusiasm. They come X-ray images, medical diagnoses and from Taiwan, Georgia, Rumania, Poland, evaluated questionnaires, to a thermal France, Germany and Switzerland. For imaging camera. On behalf of the Carrying Group: Shai- many of them who had already been At the same time, eurythmy therapy na Stoehr Ursula Browning, working for many years as eurythmy movement diagnosis informed a per- Ingrid Hermansen teachers in schools, the motivation for ception of the constituent parts of the [email protected] studying eurythmy therapy was to gain human being; observations of the three- a deeper understanding for what they fold organism; observing how individual are doing; also because our present time sounds were carried out in relation to Eurythmy Therapy Training is crying out for eurythmy therapy for the three eurythmic media; and an ap- for Doctors in England children. proach incorporating the twelve senses — all in order to show what had changed The eurythmy therapy training for me- The course began with two weeks wor- between the beginning and the end of dical doctors and dentists in England king on medicine in the Anthroposophic treatment. now continues with 8 participants as Academy for Therapy and Art, where This gave a wide panorama of effective one of the students from Warsaw who the different therapy trainings come to- factors and instruments for perception. had supported the whole initiative right gether to study basic principles in me- There is a wide field here to research from the beginning got seriously ill and dicine. There were then a further four and describe. needs intensive hospital care before she, weeks in which the developing eurythmy hopefully, will join us again. The parti- therapists deepened those medical stu- From the 20th to the 23rd September, cipants come from North (Oslo), South dies, as well as working on the basics twelve out of the thirteen graduating MA (Athens), East and West. All appreciate of the exercises given in the eurythmy eurythmy movement and enjoy the in- therapy course. tensive eurythmy lessons with Andrea Further blocks will take place in No- Damico Gibson and Katherine Beaven, vember (four weeks), April 2013 (four especially performing little group forms weeks) and Summer 2013 (six weeks). together. We have now started off in the In between these, and after the last field of consonants with the third lecture Summer block, practical placements will of the eurythmy therapy course. Specific be undertaken; they will be completed speech exercises with Christopher Gar- by the final block. vey were impressive and helped a lot to give a living understanding of the lec- Angelika Stieber ture. So far three participants have given interesting contributions out of their On behalf of the Carrying Group: Kas- experience with the observation of cons- par Zett, Beate von Plato, titution and movement, two are dentists Angelika Stieber and one a school doctor. Next time we meet we expect first contributions from E-mail: [email protected]

16 International Eurythmy Therapy Forum Newsletter No 10 December 2012 students on the part-time course presen- 1½ years. Apart from a classical training International Council of ted their theses. They were trained eu- in eurythmy therapy, the focus of the Eurythmy Therapy Trainers rythmy therapists who wished to attain a course will be on training our perception, professional MA qualification. There was and on actual contact with life and work (27th October–4th November 2012) a wide range of themes, from individual in a hospital. case studies; to problems in childhood The International Trainers Council is a such as eye, hand and foot coordinati- The eurythmy therapy training is carried group of the Medical Section responsible on; treatment of hyperactive behaviour; by a group of colleagues. for eurythmy therapy and meets once a promoting the integration of the senses year in Dornach. During the Council‘s No- in children; „preventive eurythmy in This year, two eurythmy therapists took vember conference, decisions are made the ninth year transition“; disturbances on responsibility together for the euryth- by representatives of all the trainings brought on by anxiety; as well as sus- my therapy aspect of the training. worldwide through democratic voting. pected cases of premature birth. There They are Katharina Gleser, a eurythmy Between meetings whatever has been were studies on „Promoting Health in the therapist from Kassel, who has been decided previously is taken as binding. Workplace“; and suggestions for euryth- working as a eurythmy therapist for 24 New paths of training can be decided on my therapy based on Rudolf Steiner‘s years and has many years of experience and mandate groups formed to pre-plan lecture on „Overcoming Nervousness“. in different trainings; and Irene Ott, a these pathways in a differentiated way One participant worked on „Eurythmy eurythmy therapist in private practice, and elaborate them; in order then to Therapy in the Light of Modern Scientific who has been a tutor in the training for establish them communally in the con- Research“; and a participant from Japan three years and a member of the carry- ference as new, binding, fundamental presented a study on „Trauma Therapy ing group. conditions. The agreements are binding in Areas of Japan Suffering from Natural We are very glad to have been able to for all the trainings — but there is flexibi- and Nuclear Disasters“. This group gifted find a seamless and „local“ solution. lity in relation to changing needs. a cherry tree for Fukushima, which was planted in front of the wooden eurythmy The medical aspect of the training conti- This year the members of the Trainers therapy building. (As part of the Japan nues to be carried by Dr Gudrun Merker, Council met for a week-long retreat, to Project, a cherry tree will be planted for Dr Mathias Sauer, Dr Sabine Sebastian work on the parallel and related courses each of the 22,000 people who lost their and Dr Barbara Zaar. They are joined by for doctors (GA 313 Anthroposophical lives in the disaster.) two more senior doctors at the Paracel- Spiritual Science and Medical Therapy) sus Clinic, Dr Konrad Bäuerle and Julia and eurythmy therapists (GA 315 Eu- Immediately after the MA graduation, Veil. rythmy Therapy) in chronological order. the new full-time course began with The lectures were read, spoken about twelve students from all over the world. The Eurythmy Therapy Training for together and the relevant eurythmy Their next step is to merge the „inner Doctors is currently training its third therapy exercises worked on. Dense- individual eurythmy maps“ into a shared group with around 45 doctors taking ly concentrated substance came about process for studying eurythmy therapy. part. The graduation will take place in through combining the differentiated The next two-year part-time MA course autumn 2013. views arising from the medical and eu- for trained eurythmy therapists started A further group is planned. rythmy therapeutic perspectives, and on the first weekend of October. The training is carried by Dr Gudrun through the attempt to go through this Merker, Dr Sabine Sebastian and Ange- process consciously. The next full-time graduations will be in like Stieber, eurythmy therapist. September next year, before the long Later, new initiatives in Cape Town practical placements leading to accredi- (South Africa), Kiev (Ukraine), Harduf tation. On behalf of the Carrying Group: (Israel), Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Vaihin- Katharina Gleser und Irene Ott gen-Enz (Germany) were presented by We would like to thank Renée Reder, [email protected] the mandate group, followed by conver- who was a co-carrier of the training. She [email protected] sation. has now moved to Portugal. All the very The training for eurythmy therapy trai- best for this new phase in your life and ners was further elaborated, as were heartfelt thanks for your dedication over steps toward deciding what it would be the last four years! necessary for the trainers to include in a description of their methodology. On behalf of the Carrying Group: Annette Weißkircher E-mail: [email protected]

UNTERLENGENHARDT Eurythmy Therapy Training at the Paracelsus Centre in Unterlengenhardt

The new year of the eurythmy therapy training began on 16th September 2012 with a special festive celebration of the centenary of the first eurythmy course, which had taken place in Bottmingen near Basle.

Nine students from four countries came together for this full-time training over

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We wrestled intensively with the issue IKAM ACCREDITATION Öschelbronn Clinic); Lilla Boros-Gmelin of protecting the being of eurythmy and Raymond di Ronco (process facili- therapy: through the increasing num- tators from the Social Science Section); bers of courses and trainings, it is en- Training for Auditors and Angelika Jaschke (ICAM coordinator dangered in its effectiveness through for eurythmy therapy/mediator and su- those implementing it. What happens The mutual accreditation procedure for pervisor). to the substance of eurythmy therapy all therapeutic trainings in the Medical as a „medicament“ if people with no ba- Section, which has been developed jointly sic eurythmic or medical training utilise since 2009 has elements of eurythmy therapy without brought about having gained a basic professional qua- a three-year lification? How can the missing -euryth training for au- mic skills, which are to be transformed ditors. Trainers through eurythmy therapy, be made from nearly all good later, or in advance? professional groups apart We also worked intensively on the ques- from doctors tion of further professional development have under- courses in eurythmy therapy for the gone a profes- medical profession; including in conver- sional ability sations with Barbara Lampe and Isabel and competen- Martin, representatives of the further cy training training initiative in Vaihingen-Enz in which conclu- Germany. After a careful study of the ded on 21st project, the Council of Trainers were un- April 2012 with animous in the judgment that there are a specialist so- currently too many open questions to cial and artistic agree support for this intended further examination. training in eurythmy therapy for mem- It was a very bers of the medical professions. We took special occa- into account fundamental issues, such sion when Dr for instance as the structure of the curri- Rudiger Grimm culum; criteria for receiving a qualifica- handed over Medical Section certificates As most participants brought a wealth of tion; and the realities of how graduates to ten participants. Two further partici- competencies with them through their of the course might practise professio- pants will do the exam later, making a own activities in trainings, a wonder- nally. total of twelve trained ICAM auditors. ful flowing together of experiences and a communal learning from each other It should also be said that Michaela Glo- We were especially pleased that Rüdiger came about at a high level. It was con- eckler will closely accompany the Vai- Grimm, an ICAM coordinator, could find sistently found helpful that the professi- hingen-Enz initiative as a pilot project, time to take part in this festive occasion, onal groups of nursing, arts therapies, initially for three years, in order to make as the impulse for „collegial accreditati- eurythmy therapy, rhythmical massage a decision — based on evaluation of the on“ of the training institutes came from therapy and therapeutic and social ped- experiences made — as to the type of him in 2006 when he was on the Curative agogy had come together to work jointly certification and the best way to take the Education and Social Therapy Council. on the issue of supervision of trainings project forward. (continuing professional development The training was carried out by Ursa of our anthroposophic therapeutic trai- AJ, Council of Neuhaus (nursing/adult educator); Bri- nings). Meantime the ICAM Accreditati- Eurythmy Therapy Trainers, gitte Wessels (eurythmy therapy/super- on Handbook has been elaborated, in- Michaela Gloeckler visor and mandate holder for quality at cluding differentiated profession-specific needs and requirements.

In September 2012, the director of the further training for doctors, Guus van der Bie, indicated that it would affiliate Diploma Conferments in 2012 with the ICAM accreditation process (in addition to other obligatory medical ac- Järna, SE January 2 students creditation requirements). Dornach, CH March 14 students Unterlengenhardt, DE March 3 students Further annual professional development courses for auditors to share experiences Stroud, GB April 13 students will take place at Alanus University. Me- Alanus Hochschule, DE September 13 students thods of training for those who wish to Wilde latecomers/ train as ICAM auditors in future will also Lila Valle March 2 Students develop from this work.

It was a very rich further training — based entirely on good, interprofessional Training courses in 2013 collaboration between trainers. Visions will be held in Dornach, Alanus, Unterlengenhardt, Vaihingen/Enz., of the future arose in me … ! (AJ) England, America, New Zealand, Sweden, South Africa.

Eurythmy therapy courses for doctors will be held in Germany, Great Britain, Georgia and Finland.

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DOCUMENTATION must be nurtured in its inner, therapeutic clinical pictures, including by authors substance. I have deep respect for this who are not anthroposophically inclined. AND RESEARCH work and carry it out with the greatest It is very surprising how many of these possible attention. books now discuss eurythmy therapy, recommend it or mention it as effective. At the same time, eurythmy therapy is more frequently mentioned or cited in Preamble Anja Meierhans research. Anthroposophic doctors too Coordination Documentation/Research have begun to declare in research what Ten years ago the in the Eurythmy Therapy Forum other therapies were implemented — question of docu- of the Medical Section additional therapies were mostly passed mentation and re- at the Goetheanum, Dornach, over in silence in former times. Research search in eurythmy Switzerland studies now tend to speak predominant- therapy was new dokumentation@forumHE-medsektion. ly of overall therapy concepts. territory, whereas net now many diffe- Eurythmy therapy now appears in many rent research me- more books by anthroposophic doctors thodologies have than before. You can see from this that been developed. the efforts and research of previous As a professio- years (AMOS studies, CBM studies and nal group, we are so on) are beginning to lead eurythmy called on to support various research therapy out of its „esoteric corner“. Our projects and to transfer our practical Update on the Eurythmy own doctors refer to it much more open- knowledge onto specially prepared ques- Therapy Bibliography ly in research publications on overall tionnaires. (2005–2012) therapy concepts — this is a real step forward! These formalised questionnaires serve to For some months now, I have again research (for instance, within a quanti- been busy on researching literature in Thanks to Angelika Jaschke, a wealth of tative study) individual medical and the- order to update the Eurythmy Therapy material has come about because she rapeutic topics, such as the prevalence Bibliography. Up to now, my research saw to it that the proceedings of the big of and indications for eurythmy therapy. has been on the internet with the aim of eurythmy and eurythmy therapy con- The questionnaires are systematically finding published research and books. ferences appeared in print — a master- organised and constructed according to The list currently shows 190 new publi- stroke in relation to the establishment of the questions and those to whom they cations, of which 40 are bilingual (ma- our profession in the media, for which I are addressed. king 230 individual entries). Even so by would like to thank her warmly here! Their purpose is to analyse the profes- no means all sources have been inclu- sional field, and they provide a basis for ded. Furthermore the Association newsletters professional positioning in occupational and their authors — YOU, that is — are and educational politics. Thick books, which discuss a spectrum beginning to blossom: we are gradually of recognised or possible treatments, going beyond the beautiful scenery, the Apart form all the formalised questi- have been published on a multitude of kind hospitality, the way being moved onnaires and lists of criteria, it is urgently necessary further to train and develop our judgment-forming capacity in eurythmy therapy.

As someone who is responsible for trainings and courses in documenting eurythmy therapy, I am constantly asking myself the crucial question: what me- BULLETIN COLUMN thodological basis is needed in order to recognise and designate the reality represented in work with a client.

New Publication - A Short In this complex context, competence can Therapy - Eurythmy Active Exer Sabine Petersen: be promoted through reflection on one‘s into the Antroposophic professional activity in all its layers and Introduction cise Therapy therapy levels; as well as through communication of eurythmy in- explanation The book with professionals in one‘s own discipline A systematic concise picture. any pre- short and without using reader of this and in interdisciplinary contexts. the interested possibilities forms about the New Publication vious knowledge Clearly this question cannot be an- multifunctional form of therapy. Theodor Hundhammer: - From Place to swered here once and for all. It requires it is availa wards the Potentials of Eurythmy TherapyWord - a Way To- 978-3-8482-2348-0, 2012. Euro continual, fundamental research into our pages, ISBN 84 since September The correlation in bookstore of the astrologic practice, not only taking into account ble and the application on the field of eurythmynotions with and oureurythmy body perception of specifically eurythmy the- 6.90 at Amazon, CHF 8.40 at Ex libris. therapy. Description E-mail: [email protected] of exercises for independent rapeutic movement, but also fostering a prejudiced experiments. and un- differentiated approach to the forming of 180 pages,ISBN 978-3-8482-2349-7, concepts and judgment. available in December 2012.

Further information: www.bewegteworte.ch Besides all these formalities and research E-mail: [email protected] designs, the immediacy of the therapeutic moment needs to be protected and preserved. Work with the human being seeking healing must be protected, and

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was so nice and our great gratitude, to where actual, substantial and professio- Themes of the MA Theses in Eurythmy Therapy nal comments are included. This means at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, it has been possible to list them as offi- September 2012 cial publications, which are so precious because they often represent the only On-the-job MA Course (for certified eurythmy therapists) written mention that may exist on a particular theme! Please keep this up! Eurythmy Therapeutic Individual Case Study for Delayed Emotional Development Similarly, the accreditation of Alanus (Hedwig Armstorfer) University with its MA courses has led to a multitude of announcements. The Eurythmy Therapeutic Individual Case Study for Anxiety Disorders only trouble is that I still do not have the (Susanne Beer, Germany) theses themselves; there seems to be some sort of blockage somewhere… Project on Preventive Eurythmy in the Ninth Year Transition (Rubicon) „How One could assume that I will be able to many teeth does a hippo have?“ (Manja Wodowoz- de Boon, Netherlands) find 400–550 sources by 2012, particularly if results from the international „Overcoming Nervousness“ — Lecture by Rudolf Steiner on 11th January 1912 search are included. If one tracks down in Munich — as a Stimulus for Eurythmy Therapy in Relation to Methodology in new publications up to 2013 or 2014, Diagnosis and Therapy (Rosemarie Felber, Germany) the number of new entries will with luck be of the order of those in the current A Project for Promoting Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination and Gross Motor Skills Eurythmy Therapy Bibliography, which through Eurythmy Therapy in Three Groups of Pre-School Children in Kindergar- covers more than ninety years. tens (Hildegard Klima, Germany) The list can currently be found at the following link, which you are welcome to Eurythmy Therapy and Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder pass on: — Evaluation of Scientifically Based Individual Case Studies for Treatment of http://www.liebe-zur-erde.eu/publikati- Hyperactive Behaviours (Herbert Langmair, Austria) onen.html What have been completely missing up Promoting Integration of the Senses in Children till now are publications in languages (Angela Tischbein-Madsen, Sweden) other than German. In this respect, translations of existing publications are The Effect of Eurythmy Therapy in the Preoperative Preparation of Patients just as important as original publica- (Liliana Pedrazzoli, Switzerland) tions. A request to colleagues in other countries: send me a list of all the texts Eurythmy Therapy in the Light of Modern Scientific Research you know in which eurythmy therapy is (Iris Poloczek- Jordan, Germany) mentioned, with the following information: Eurythmy Therapeutic Individual Case Study on the Treatment of a Patient in whom Premature Birth is Suspected (Barbara Trapp, Germany) 1. Author 2. Title of book or text The Effectiveness of Eurythmy Therapy — An Individual Case Study on the 3. If published in a periodical: number; Theme of „Trauma Therapy in the Regions of Japan Affected by Natural year of publication; page numbers and Nuclear Catastrophe“. (Emi Yoshida, Germany, Japan) from and to 4. Publisher; place of publication; year Promoting Health in the Workplace through Hygienic and Therapeutic Eurythmy of publication; page number, if it is (Andrea Windler, Switzerland) a book (page number from and to, if it an anthology) Full-time MA Course for eurythmists: I can input Cyrillic, Chinese, Thai and Ja- panese characters directly, if the text is Eurythmy Therapeutic Individual Case Study on Neurodermatitis sent me in that form (please include a (Jenny Blasweiler, Germany) note as to what language it is), in which case the sender is responsible for che- The Healing Power of Eurythmy - Using the Sound A cking its accuracy. If there are sufficient, (Vera Koppehel, Germany, Switzerland) lists of foreign language entries will also be posted online. The Development of Warmth in Eurythmy Therapy — Research Based on Infrared Thermography (Elvira Menne, Germany) I look forward to a lively correspondence to: Eurythmy Therapeutic Individual Case Study on Hyperlordosis (Verena Muspach, Germany)

Beatrix Hachtel Eurythmy Therapeutic Individual Case Study on Childhood Developmental [email protected] Disturbance with Primitive Reflexes and Trauma (Corinna Sper, Germany) www.Liebe-zur-Erde.eu Eurythmy Therapeutic Individual Case Study on Lactose Intolerance (Theresa Wuttka, Germany)

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Professional Associations

Preamble A report from the International Working Group of Eurythmy Therapy Professional Associations In Autumn 2010, Angelika Jaschke asked me whether I would like to take In the 15th conference of council members of the professional over the coordination of the Professi- associations we set ourselves two tasks for the coming year. onal Associations in their work on the Every association should have its own website by September Statutes of IFAAET. That was the start next year. Aðalheiður Ólafsdóttir of Iceland has offered her of my collaboration with the Councils of support and will assist associations in this respect. the Associations. Getting to know each other in the work and building mutual When it came to the fundamentals of eurythmy therapy, we trust between the Councils, Angelika had a conversation as to how eurythmy therapy can demarcate and me led to my being able to take itself from ‚hygienic‘ or ‚vital‘ eurythmy. More and more eu- on the coordination of the Professional rythmists, for instance, are taking exercises from lecture 5 of Associations last Autumn. the eurythmy therapy course into their work with groups or individuals; thereby blurring the boundary between eurythmy As representatives of the rights sphere, the Professional As- and eurythmy therapy, thus harming the profession of euryth- sociations form the middle between the areas of the spiritu- my therapy, including public perception of it. The associations al sphere (training and research) and the economic sphere now wish to work out an agreed definition of the area between (Fields of Practice). Both these spheres must meet in rhythmic eurythmy therapy and hygienic eurythmy. A working group of mediation in the rights sphere and find a balance. people from different associations will be set up to work together on this theme and prepare international guidelines. This year the urgent necessity became apparent to define the boundary of eurythmy therapy with so-called hygienic eurythmy (also known as vital eurythmy). This task will be elaborated jointly with the trainings and with researchers, as they can contribute input based on matters of substance.

From the economic point of view, the focus is on maintaining workplaces for eurythmy therapists in the different Fields of Practice through an even clearer definition of the profession.

In the rights sphere of the Professional Associations these two areas can be combined through regulation and protection of eurythmy therapy‘s methods. This could form a legal basis in relation to trainings that do not conform to the required standards; on the other hand in relation to eurythmy colleagues and amateurs who offer eurythmy therapy without an accredited diploma and thereby impair the already fraught work situation of our eurythmy therapy colleagues.

Thus the areas of training and Fields of Practice impinge on the rights sphere, where it should be possible to sense the direction developments are taking, in order to create a balance between constricting, hardening structures and chaotic tendencies, both of which could prevent a lively development for eurythmy therapy. We also spoke about the threat to our profession from non- All the Professional Associations are actively engaged in their professionals through eurythmy therapy courses and trainings own country with national issues. Coming together in a wor- being offered without the precondition of a basic training in king community such as the International Working Group of eurythmy. Professional Associations for Eurythmy Therapy can bring about a mutual strengthening. When you see how similar We need to raise awareness in order for our profession to have tasks need to be fulfilled in every country, such as professional a future. We wish to clarify the issue of whether eurythmy accreditation, promoting public relations work, AnthroMed® therapy can attain legal protection for its methods. certification, a great deal of time and energy can be saved for Professional Associations by exchanging information and News that the Association for Therapeutic Eurythmy in Nor- documentation such as guidelines, ethical guidelines, dossiers th America has received an AnthroMed® licence was greeted on health insurance and so on. Every country does not need to with enthusiastic applause. invent the wheel again from scratch and can take advantage of earlier work done by other colleagues and associations, adding their own new work to what exists already. Monika Eichele Coordination of Professional Associations in the Eurythmy Therapy Forum of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland [email protected]

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International Federation of Anthroposophic Associations and the different countries. The survey will be repeated every two years. In this way we hope in a few years Arts and Eurythmy Therapies (IFAAET) to have obtained a picture of the development of the artistic therapies within anthroposophic medicine.

The first Conference for Complementary Medicine took place in Brussels on the 9th October, after six years of preparation. IFAAET was invited by the International Federation of Anthro- posophic Medical Associations and Monika Eichele took part. Compared with the presentations, which showed that Comple- mentary and Alternative Medicine is more efficient, cheaper and has fewer side effects than conventional medicine, it became clear that Anthroposophic Arts Therapies and Eurythmy Therapy are not visible and were only mentioned in passing in one presentation. This indicates IFAAET‘s tasks in the immedi- ate future: presenting and describing the therapies publically so that they become known.

As members, all the Associations and Country Representatives are warmly welcome to collaborate in the further shaping of IFAAET and the development of our profession at the international legal level. The first members‘ meeting of the International Federation of Anthroposophic Arts and Eurythmy Therapies (IFAAET) took place in Dornach on the 11th September 2012. IFAAET was Monika Eichele founded last year by the Professional Associations for eurythmy therapy in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Great Website von IFAAET: http://ifaaet-medsektion.net/en/ Britain and Ireland, Italy and Russia; and by the arts therapies (under construction) associations of Austria, Switzerland, Britain and the Nether- lands.

They were joined this year by ten further members: five Asso- ciations (Eurythmy Therapy & Anthroposophic Arts Therapies …some further thoughts on a higher in Belgium; Anthroposophic Arts Therapies in Brazil; Eurythmy understanding of the rights sphere Therapy in France; Anthroposophic Arts Therapies in America and Canada; Anthroposophic Arts Therapies in Sweden); and The fourfold reality of law the five countries Iceland and South Africa (both Eurythmy Therapy), and Japan, Russia and Croatia (all Anthroposophic Between the state prescribed legal dogma (based on Roman Arts Therapies). IFAAET has thus expanded internationally, law) determining our often over-regulated everyday world; from Europe with its eleven members, towards the East, West, and the unregulated, chaotic conditions in which arbitrariness North and South, so that it now has 21 members. Korea (Eu- and lack of commitment are the determinants — there is a free rythmy Therapy) and New Zealand (Anthroposophic Arts The- space for actively shaping the law. A space of freedom for cre- rapies) are showing interest in joining. ative shaping, which gives us a possibility for development. Here is to be found our feeling for rights, which is inherent in Laura Ridolfi (Bri- every human being, as well as our consciousness of rights, tain — Anthroposo- which can develop in interpersonal relationships. phic Arts Therapies) From our own experience, we can distinguish different quali- and Sigrid Gerbaldo ties of rights. (Italy — Eurythmy 1. Normative law forms our legal system. It lends order therapy) were una- though directives and prohibitions. It provides a foundation: nimously elected to „the same law for all“ applies; and it fosters consistency and the council by the gives security through mutual commitment. Members‘ Meeting. 2. On another level, human beings can develop an active Laura took over the shaping of rights as an element of life. New binding agree- office of Vice - Pre ments can be sought and found communally. Subjective points sident; Sigrid was of view are replaced and, in a mobile, flowing, process-orien- appointed Secreta- ted shaping activity, become binding agreements (contracts). ry; Nurene Armajani 3. On the level of values there is no longer a „higher autho- Treasurer; Monika rity“ which can determine the individual‘s values and ideals. In Eichele is President. this area, we have to find agreement on shared values out of our free will. Ideas on rights can be developed through mo- In its first year, ways ral phantasy; they can lead through processes of cognition to of working together were developed; now responsible groups communal deeds, oriented toward action. Coming into being can be formed so that this new legal organism can carry out and dying away again are the carrying qualities here. its task in the world. 4. All-embracing justice springs form moral intuition and comes to realisation in the dignity of each individual. Here The urgent survey of the state of the profession was initiated each person autonomously shapes the circumstances of their by sending out sixty questionnaires (24 responses). It became own life and becomes their own legislator. This level in our clear from the graphic diagram that Switzerland was the only consciousness of rights is still difficult to grasp. This sentence country in the world where we are professionally accredited. of Rudolf Steiner‘s from the Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual There is hardly any public relations work at all. We are well Path can help us gain a sense for it: represented in the Fields of Practice. When the survey has „To live in love of action, and to let live in understanding of the been evaluated, the results will be available in each country. other‘s will, is the fundamental maxim of free human beings.“ The questions will be developed further in collaboration with (AJ)

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Six countries have now been licensed through their Professio- nal Associations (Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzer- land, Hungary and North America [United States and Cana- Professional associations for eurythmy da]). France, Italy and Sweden are preparing for this step. therapists were founded in following countries: It is now up to every individual eurythmy therapist to decide whether they wish to help join in shaping AnthroMed®, this edifice for the future. • Austria (www.heileurythmie.at) • Finland (www.... under construction) We hope that all those not yet involved will find the necessary awareness and insight! (AJ) • France (www.... under construction) • Germany (www.berufsverband-heileurythmie.de) „When one dreams alone, it stays a dream. • Great Britain (www.... under construction) When many dream together, it is the beginning • Hungary (www.... under construction) of a new reality. • Italy (www.... under construction) (Dom Helder Pessoa Camara) • Netherlands (www.euritmietherapie.nl) • Russia (www.... under construction) • Sweden (www.... under construction) • Switzerland (www.heileurythmie.ch) • USA (www.athenaeurythmy.co.nr)

AnthroMed® Practical information

ELIANT is increasingly succeeding in establishing anthroposophic pedagogy, medicine and agriculture as Non-Government » » » » » » » » » » » » » Organisations in the political arena. Our political and legal representatives are making themselves heard more and more and it is no longer possible to „overlook“ us. Finally, the ideal power paste for cleaning the eurythmy copper rod got found! In anthroposophic medicine in particular we have the ten-year goal of bringing the all the professional and occupational fields Available at: worldwide under the international trademark AnthroMed®. Nicole Hollenstein, Ahornstrasse 5 This will make it clear that we are a worldwide medical move- CH-4313 Möhlin - Tel. +41 (0)61 8514025 ment comprising the system of anthroposophic medicine. The [email protected] variety of our medical and therapeutic approaches will thus become visible; patients will be able to recognise that, as a and Britta Frank, Im Mattenberg 11 world community, we stand behind the quality of this spiritual D-79592 Fischingen - Tel +49 (0)7628 800688 approach to medicine coming from the spirit of anthroposo- [email protected] phy. Recommendation and regards, Through the Professional Associations we now have established clear quality criteria for eurythmy therapy which must be Margrit Hitsch-Schindler complied with for membership in each of the twelve Profes- sional Associations. Fulfilling these criteria means that every eurythmy therapist can be authorised by their Professional As- » » » » » » » » » » » » » sociation to use the trademark.

At the international meeting of all the eurythmy therapy Pro- fessional Associations in Dornach on 11th September 2012, New: Eurythmy Therapy in Anxiety case we were able joyfully to celebrate the awarding of the Anthro- report: a DVD with high resolution video Med® licence to the Dutch and Swiss Associations. We were showing the eurythmy therapy exercises particularly moved to know that the Association of Therapeutic used, Eurythmy in North America has been able to work through all the criteria and become the first non-European continent It can be purchased from the filmmaker at: to attain the international licence. Warm wishes to all our http://anikon.org/video-port colleagues overseas! This represents a further step in drawing closer to our spiritual impulse in this common cause — with all our national and individual differences! That is where the future lies.

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INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Preamble

In 41 countries eurythmy therapy is represented by our colleagues. Here are their reports. We got to know each other through reports going back and forth. I experienced a wonderful journey round the world through you. Now we can really set off, the newsletter acting as a mediator to bring the light of contact from person to person.

A special welcome message to new countries and their representatives: Katrin Vaik from Estonia, Beate Kosowicz just beginning in Poland and Gabriele Kurmann in Hong Kong where she is taking her steps. On behalf of all my colleagues, I wish you health, courage and confidence. Thank you all for your time and efforts and I would like to send some joy and warm greetings to all of you until the next year, the „climate-topic.“

This is a quote from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from the article: „The Granite“ (1783), which came to me through a detour to Cape Town in South Africa, from Julia O’Leary. „.. Here at the oldest eternal altar, built directly on the depth of creation, I offer a sacrifice to the Being of all Beings. I feel the first, firmest beginnings of our existence; I overlook the world, her rockier and her gentler valleys and her distant, fertile pastures; my soul is lifted above itself and above everything and longs for the closer sky.

Monika Margesin Coordination newsletter in the Eurythmy Therapy Forum of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland [email protected]

AUSTRALIA: AUSTRIA: Geologically, Austria is very diverse, Josefin Porteous Maya Kuesgen with a great many different rock strata. (> [email protected] <) (>maya.kuesgen@therapeutikum-linz. For example there is the high plateau of at<) granite and gneiss, the Molasses Basin Australia is part (a conglomerate of clay and sandstone), of the original Last year, Anja the Flysch Zone (marl, shale, sandstone), continent of Meierhans led us the limestone Alps (chalk and dolomite), Gondwana, and in a further trai- the Greywacke Zone (of metamorpho- is recognised as ning course on sed clay and arenaceous shale, iron ore, the earth‘s fifth ‘Documentati - copper, magnesite…) and others. continent. This on’. She is due to vast continent come again next The Vienna Basin is a tectonic syncline lies between the year. This year I and connects the eastern Alps with the Pacific Ocean took over chair- western Carpathians. The basin’s bed- to the East and manship of our rock corresponds to the geological zones the Indian Ocean to the West; it has six professional association, and would like of the Alps: composed, from South to states (including the island of Tasmania) to thank Mareike Kaiser for providing me North, of greywacke, crystalline lime- and three territories. with such a good prior foundation, and stone and flysch. The east coast is the most densely po- for continuing to support me. pulated, and has well-known cities such Steiner (GA 65) said of the Vienna Ba- as Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, The following theme is increasingly co- sin, home to the majority of the Austrian further to the south. There are great de- ming to the fore for us: population: “The unity of geological di- serts in the West and North-West. Sa- How can we define our professional versity exists in this basin. It is, you can vannah and rain forest predominate in profile in eurythmy therapy and gain a say, a microscopic imprint of the whole the tropical northern regions. The rest of foothold in the public domain? In these of the earth’s geology.” the continent consists of level plateaus, critical times there is much work to be marked by extensive, dry desert. The done to protect and safeguard the eu- All this is reflected in Austrian socie- massif which includes Uluru (or Ayers rythmy therapy profession. ty – a rich diversity of qualities: “This Rock as it used to be known), the Abori- whole multiplicity of life that challenges gines‘ ancient holy place. Austria is a country of much diversity, in the soul. This diversity, that has to be There are currently seventeen colleagues both geological and geographical terms. experienced at first hand and cannot be working in Australia; most of them in Lying in Central Europe, it is surrounded dismissed in a few words or ideas, lives Waldorf schools, some also working in- by eight other countries whose cultures here - in these singular and in a sense dependently. Most contact between them course through it. It is a meeting place closed-off natures. is by email, because of the vast distan- of both western and eastern impulses ces involved. It is almost impossible for and their attendant worldviews. eurythmy therapists in this huge continent to meet together. (AJ)

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BELGIUM: meeting and it was a joy to experience, rythmy Association, which includes all Mia Lemaitre in this warm-hearted gathering, the dif- aspects of eurythmy: educational, arti- (> [email protected]<) ferent tasks of each country. I have met stic, social and therapeutic. We call the a great deal of perseverance in our pro- association ABRE (Associação Brasillira Belgium lies on fession. In countries with many euryth- de Euritmia). the North Sea my therapists it is possible to specialise; Between 2001 and 2004, the ABRE orga- in North-West as also in places with specific tasks, like nised a eurythmy therapy training which Europe. We Arlesheim. had twenty graduates, fifteen of them share borders eurythmy therapists, five physicians. Ti- with the Nether- This is not yet the case in Belgium. tia Jonkmans und Gertrud Mau were our lands, Germa- In our practice we work with children, tutors for eurythmy therapy, while Shei- ny, Luxembourg adults and people with particular sup- la Grande was responsible for the medi- and France. port needs. With our new colleagues we cal aspect of the training. In 2004, ABRE The country ex- may be able to extend the areas of ap- organised a course with Erika Leiste on tends to 30, 528 plication of eurythmy therapy. eurythmy therapy in schools. Active eu- square kilometres and has a little over rythmy therapists have organised them- 11 million inhabitants. The largest city selves into a group in São Paulo called is the capital, Brussels, which is also the the IAO Group. The group comes toge- seat of the European Parliament and the BRAZIL: ther once a month for intensive mee- centre of the European Union. Belgium Juliette Schardt tings and to work together. It still comes has 349 inhabitants per square kilomet- (> [email protected] <) under the umbrella of ABRE and is a long re, making it one of the most densely way from any possibility of accreditation. populated countries in Europe. All the geologists Once a year we organise a mini congress Wallonia, in the South, has more nature agree: Brazil has for all the eurythmy therapists in Brazil and agriculture, with beautiful hills, val- an old lands- to learn, share our experiences, get up leys and forests in the Ardennes, rising cape! to date and deepen our work. to its highest point, the Botrange, at 694 Earth move- The aims of our group are: metres. The configuration of the lands- ments and shifts, • to inaugurate a foundation or an as- cape is marked by an interplay between climate chan- sociation for eurythmy therapy limestone and the various rock strata. ge from cold, • to attain accreditation and legal The coastal region of Flanders is flat through warm, recognition in Brazil for eurythmy and sandy; the land was reclaimed from to hot and dry therapy the sea through canals and a drying-out have caused a • to start a new eurythmy therapy process. In northern Belgium there is a great deal of erosion. The new stratum training course in 2014 central plateau with numerous rivers; laid down over the land through all the- • to deepen our knowledge of the there are also coalmines. se movements formed the Andes. Brazil needs of the country, through re- is right where the old stratum still sur- search projects What is the outlook for eurythmy thera- vives. This ancient stratum has parti- • to create the necessary conditions py in Belgium? cularly fertile soil. Whatever you plant for organising deepening courses in We have been fortunate to welcome two there thrives!!! eurythmy therapy in Brazil new colleagues into our small associa- Brazil is a very large and diverse coun- • to foster closer relationships with tion. try. If you go to the North it is always tutors from other countries. Kristina Lucia Parmentier completed her very hot; after all the equator is there. training in Alfter; Marie-Claire Brugge- The land is sandy and gradually turning Our current situation: man in Stroud. There are now six eu- to desert under the influence of the de- There are fifteen active eurythmy - the rythmy therapists in Flanders, but so far forestation of the Amazon rainforest. It rapists in Brazil, for eleven of whom eu- none in Wallonia. is surrounded by a steppe landscape. rythmy therapy is their main occupation, Marie-Claire‘s aim is to work with people In the South there are miles of plateau from which they support themselves. seeking new meaning and joy in their land with hills and steeply dropping slo- Five have other jobs as well. Only two life, after difficult events in their lives. pes. The Chapada da Diamentina is the- eurythmy therapists are employed by an Her graduation thesis was titled „A Mea- re, with its huge, beautiful waterfalls. organisation. All the others work inde- ningful and Joyful Life without Drugs Further south, toward the centre of Bra- pendently in various organisations, such through the Activity of the I“. zil, is the glorious mountain landscape as schools, kindergartens, curative edu- Kristina Lucia‘s aim is to research how of Minas Gerais, rich in noble metals and cation, medical practices and so on. eurythmy therapy works in patients with precious stones. sleep disorders, particularly in settings Further south are the beautiful granite We work in all fields: not based in anthroposophy. Her thesis mountains, with the Iguazu Falls. In • with children, young people, adults was on „The Consonant Jumps in Euryth- the far South are the remarkable gra- and elderly people my Therapy“. nite rocks which one can hack open to • in psychiatry find the most delightful crystals — mul- • in eurythmy therapy for the eyes or Three of us work in education and eu- ticoloured agates and crystalline forma- the teeth (some of us) rythmy therapy. One of our main tasks is tions. • with eurythmy therapy in the field to raise awareness of the effects of our Were we to travel North again along the of prevention work. We are fortunate to have anthro- Atlantic coast, we would see a remar- • therapeutically posophically trained doctors in the area kable geographic phenomenon: on one • with people suffering from drug de- around Ghent and Antwerp. side the beautiful, blue ocean; on the pendency and other addictions other the highland chain, where the gra- • giving courses in the different trai- We will meet again as eurythmy thera- nite formations have shaped sculpturally nings: rhythmical massage therapy, pists after our Eurythmy Centenary on expressive mountains, which reach right therapeutic education, medical trai- 20th October. We are looking forward into the north. All this makes up Brazil‘s nings, biographic counselling and to sharing experiences once more; and paradisal landscape. artistic therapy. I will report on the meeting of national Here in Brazil we do not have a profes- representatives at the Goetheanum. It sional association for eurythmy therapy. The only criterion for joining the IAO was the first time I had taken part in this Instead we are part of the Brazilian Eu- group is to have completed a eurythmy therapy training.

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We have a Google group for our inter- CHILE: cine. At the same time foodstuffs like nal communication, but no website. Our Veronica Ortuzar millet, sesame, manioc, squash, rice and national representative mediates infor- (> [email protected] <) numerous spices are also grown. These mation from the Medical Section. We are are then processed into whole food in the not recognised by the national health in- At the end of the diabetic centre‘s dietary kitchen. It has surance system. world, beneath become apparent that an organic who- This is enough for now! This report is a a night sky fil- lefood diet obviates the need for insu- summary of all that goes on in the tropi- led with stars lin in mild diabetes; while improvement cal country of Brazil. you could almost in the condition of more serious cases touch, under is possible. Savings on insulin products the sovereignty amounted in a few years to several tens of the Southern of thousands of American dollars for the CANADA: Cross, lies Chi- Cuban health system. Quality testing Michael Chapitis le — a country takes place in the research laboratory of (>[email protected]<) which hardly Matanzas Medical University and is su- looks at its neighbours. It is cut off in the pervised by the Cuban Health Ministry, Canada is the North by deserts, in the East by the high as is the dietary kitchen. second largest Andes with its volcanoes, in the South country in the by the South Pole and in the West by the Growing the herbs and nutritional plants world, spreading Pacific Ocean. Hence there are no dan- on the farm of Miguel Quinteros, an or- over 6,000 km. gerous animals and the climatic zones ganic farmer, comes under the Ministry between 2 oceans; and landscapes are so different, clothed of Agriculture. The work is thus supervi- the east which is in the most manifold colours. It is as if sed by two ministries. on the Atlantic, to God had taken everything left over from the west which is the other countries (other than a tropical Cuban experts are open to biodynamic on the Pacific. The farming and eager for knowledge, advice largest area of po- climate) and packed it all into this long, and expertise, even from overseas and pulation stretches along the belt of USA. narrow country. from different cultural traditions. There, lies Canada‘s largest cities. From east to west we have the metropolis of I am still the only eurythmy therapist in Montreal, Toronto and then Vancouver. Chile; I live in Santiago, the capital city. During my time in Matanzas I have done Although Canada is officially bilingual, In Santiago there are many anthropo- hygienic eurythmy with people with alco- french is spoken mainly in the provin- sophic doctors, two therapy centres and hol dependency in a psychiatric self-help ce of Quebec. The largest stretch of the a curative education initiative. The In- group; with people with diabetes; and country goes from the 45th parallel up to ternational Postgraduate Medical Trai- with patients suffering from Parkinson‘s the arctic. Besides the prairies, the key ning has been taking place regularly disease. In this way I have been able to features are forest and lakes, including for some years now. In Chile we are in mediate life-forces. the five Great Lakes. A characteristic urgent need of more eurythmy therapy of Ontario the „Great Canadian Shield“ colleagues. There is so much to be done I worked in this agricultural and medici- (granite and quartz) which joins toge- here! nal project in Matanzas for ten years, se- ther at Georgian Bay with the Niagara ven of them with a permanent residence Escarpment (limestone). This is unique permit. I am Argentinian with German to the world. In the 1920‘s, the known The eurythmy therapy training had its roots. For family reasons I am living in artists „The Group of Seven“ painted this first graduation this year. Some of this Hamburg at present. inspiring landscape. group of very gifted and committed eurythmists will take up the eurythmy Canada is a multicultural country with therapy training and find their way into many immigrants and continues to be on therapy work. one of the highest ranks by UNESCO. CZECH REPUBLIC: Besides the watery element, the quality Hana Giteva of light is a strong entity of Canada in- (>[email protected]<) cluding the large skies and vibrant red CUBA: (Indian Summer) colours. The third out- Miriam Caro Czech Repu- standing quality is the open space. (>[email protected].<) blic – a paradise where eurythmy In this huge country of Canada, one can therapy is able to count the number of eurythmy thera- The „Ytibo“ ripen as well as pists on one hand. Here in Toronto we project in the hops do … are two, I am in my fourteenth year. Matanzas With a population Most of the eurythmy therapy work is This project is of about 10 mil- taking place in the four Waldorf Schools described as lion, the Czech in southern Ontario. I work four days a „Agro-ecologi- Republic is a pa- week in the schools. cal Production radise, Bohemia, in Central Europe. It Located at the largest Waldorf School, for a Diabetic comprises three historic lands – Bohe- there is a home for the elderly and a Diet“. Its name mia, Moravia and Czech Silesia. Czech Christian Community and also an an- is „Ytibo“, deri- throposophic therapy center which in- is the official language, but the three ved from Ytibocaiobau (Mother Earth) in regions have their own traditions and cludes four physicians and five therapists the language of the original inhabitants (painting therapy, massage therapy and distinct languages. of Cuba. The name was given in con- eurythmy therapy). Our weekly meetings begin with eurythmy. There I work nection with the „Pacha Mama“, often The mountain ranges along the borders one day a week seeing 10-12 patients mentioned by the Bolivian president Evo give the country its clear topographical through the doctor‘s office for a seven Morales. structure. It consists of a number of bas- week cycle. For the past several years, ins surrounded and divided by mountain Pegasus Remedies has been hosting an- This research project involves growing ranges. In Upper Austria people tend to nual medical conferences with internati- organic medicinal plants (calendula, cha- say: ‘I’m driving down into Bohemia’ and onal speakers. momile and lemon grass), with the aim not ‘to Bohemia’. of producing high-quality natural medi-

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The Czech Republic borders on four brød) is unthinkable. Warm-heartedness a very thin layer of humus, while in the countries - Germany to the west, Poland and sociability play an important role. South the limestone is covered by strata to the north, Slovakia to the east and Contact with our fellow human beings is of sand and clay. Austria to the south. more direct — after all, only the queen The Bohemian Forest lies on the is addressed with the formal personal The thinness of the humus layer has southwestern border of the Czech Repu- pronoun „you“. On the other hand, it is made it difficult for the inhabitants to blic, the Ore Mountains in the northwest more difficult to get things going. grow enough crops to feed themselves. (Klinovec, 1,244 m); the Krkonoše (Giant Continuous effort has enabled life in Es- Mountains) in the north reach a height of So this is by way of being an obituary, tonia to progress. The Anthroposophical 1,602 metres at the Sněžka mountain. somewhat lugubriously looking back at Society managed to come though all the Two important rivers ‘mark’ a flowing T my time in the Forum; grateful to you difficulties and anxieties of the Soviet sound on the map of Bohemia. The Vlta- all for the feeling of being part of a great occupation. va runs north to Prague from the south, world community. I have formed deep and to the southeast of the Ore Moun- attachments (you know who you are) The new freedom enabled the Anthro- tains the Elbe extends to either side. The — but have perhaps not fully lived them. posophical Society to continue its work two rivers meet and merge not far from Thanks to you all! legally in the nineties. Doctors too have Prague. This is an appeal to you, dear Danes, to been able to train on a spiritual scientific Moravia includes part of the Carpathi- continue the work and not to lose the basis. This has resulted in there being ans to the east and the southern part of thread to the Eurythmy Therapy Forum an association of anthroposophic physi- the Vienna Basin (Lower Moravian Vale). (unfortunately it is so damn hard to find cians in Estonia with ten members. In The Beskids and the White Carpathians a suitable successor)! Tartu they work together in the Jacob mark the boundary to Slovakia in the Therapy Centre while in Tallinn, and to east. The basins are most fruitful lands. Still connected to the Northern Lights by an extent also in Tartu, anthroposophic Hops are grown in Bohemia (one of the a silken thread, I will in future continue doctors are working successfully in the traditional beer-brewing countries), as to take an affectionate interest in life in state system. One doctor has a practice are wheat, potatoes, etc. and around the forum. in Finland, and two others make short Eurythmy developed very fast once the working visits there. For some years, the Iron Curtain went and has now become seven Waldorf schools have had a ‚tra- part of many spheres of life. At present velling doctor‘ who visits them periodi- seven eurythmy therapists have gained ESTONIA: cally. I am particularly glad about this, their diploma. Just now we are celebra- Katrin Vaik as the physicians were often able to ad- ting the establishment of the Milos Brabi- (>[email protected]<) vise me. The pupils of only one of the nek Academy. The three-year part-time Waldorf schools (near Tallinn) have been training in anthroposophical medicine able to do eurythmy therapy, since I am Estonia, also started there on 28th September 2012, the sole eurythmy therapist in Estonia. I known as Maria- and eurythmy therapy will be part of this also work with adults from an increasing Land, is by the for the whole three years. We are thus circle of acquaintances. sea. The North able to go through the eurythmy therapy and West are course eurythmically with the people of We have a longstanding intention to washed by the our country and make Czech physicians found a therapy centre in Tallinn, and waves of Baltic more familiar with this therapy. are certain that little Estonia is large en- Sea; to the East What more can one ask for? ough to sustain a second centre of an- the border with throposophic medicine. Russia is marked by the long DENMARK: stretch of Lake Peipus and Lake Worts. Matthias Gorges If you look at a map of Estonia, you gain (>[email protected]<) the impression that the country lies in FINLAND: the lap of waters. To the South is the Anne-Marie Somero border with Latvia. After ten years (>[email protected]<) of activity as a The landscape is largely flat with many eurythmist and Finland, the land lakes, rivers and upland moors. These eurythmy thera- of a thousand upland moors are very interesting: na- pist in Denmark, lakes. ture reserves thousands of years old, I was asked at Finland‘s surface with upland moor forests and pools, the beginning area is slight- where the water levels are always high- of 2011, for ly smaller than er than in the country‘s other lakes. The personal rea- Germany‘s. It is landscape becomes more hilly to the sons, to come one of the most South till you reach the ‚highest peak‘, to Dornach. Im- northerly coun- Suur Munamägi (Big Egg Mountain), 318 mediately I began to miss (and still do) tries in the world, metres high. the breadth and freedom of the Danish lying between landscape and mood of soul. Wind and the 60th and 70th degrees of latitude: Estonia was graced with beautiful gifts wave, storm and rain — and the splen- a third of the country lies within the from the last ice age: granite rocks from did Scandinavian summer months, with Arctic Circle. The country extends 720 Scandinavia, scattered all over the coun- their inexhaustible light and richness, miles (1160 kilometres) from North to try, ranging from small to the size of a provided the backdrop for creative and, South. The longest border, with Russia, house — the drumlin fields, which rep- above all, free activity. And we eurythmy is 789 miles long (1269 kilometres). To resent Estonia‘s main topography. The therapists all knew each other, helped the West, Finland shares a border with North-South movements of the ice often each other, studied together — yes, we Norway and a meandering border with left closely packed drumlins, averaging relied on each other. Sweden along a river. Finland lies on the 1½ kilometres long and up to 30 metres But the Danish soul always seeks a per- Gulf of Bothnia to the West, on the Gulf high. Carbonaceous shale is mined, for sonal encounter with the other human of Finland to the South. use in the country‘s power stations. 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officially 187,888 lakes over 500 square the mercury and care given path of the What does the eurythmy therapy torso kilometres, of which 56,000 are larger hexagon, to meet despite all adversities, look like? Where millions of years ago than 1,000 km2. The country‘s largest and still hope for anthroposofic medi- the Alpine massif was formed through lake is Saimaa at 4,400 km2. There are cine, for arts therapies, for therapeutic the interaction of powerful forces, there nearly 100,000 islands on lakes, so it is eurythmy and her recognition from the is a focal point of activity. The special no wonder that many people have their state. That the trial will comfort our wil- Northern light qualities, on the other summer home on their own island. lingness to continue and enhance a fruit- hand, and the bright summer nights with The bedrock in Finland consists predomi- ful and warm interdisciplinary collabora- their sense of ease, are the sources of nantly of the pre-cambrian rocks of the tion around our patients… many different initiatives. The mineral Baltic Shield (gneiss, granite and schist). processing in the West, exploiting raw So we stand on solid bedrock. There is materials and formative forces to the very little limestone in the ground. uttermost, might perhaps have been an Copper, nickel, zinc, chrome and gold GERMANY: influence in founding the state-accredi- are all found in Finland. Between the Thilo Riebold ted training which has been running for many lakes are forests and bogs. The- (>[email protected]<) a few years now. And hopefully the East, re are many fir trees, pines and birches. with its interplay of different and some- The earth produces wood and peat. In This country lies times conflicting qualities, may also re- the forests live elk, bears and wolves. at the centre of veal its potential! The national animal is the swan. Europe, bordered by many other In big organisations or little pioneering The eurythmy therapy situation: countries and by endeavours, the work of our eurythmy Last autumn we founded the „Suomen two seas. It has therapy colleagues is as diverse as the eurytmiaterapeutit ry“ professional as- a shape which, country — and I doubt there will soon be sociation, with seventeen members. with a little ima- any blank spaces left on the map… We will continue to publicise eurythmy gination (!!!) and therapy with short articles and so on. if you screw up Most eurythmy therapists work in Wal- your eyes (!!!), dorf schools, kindergartens or curative looka a little like a torso! GEORGIA: education. None of us works solely pri- Nino Waschakidse vately, as we have no therapy centres. Two seas rest on the shoulders of this (>[email protected]<) As we live very far from each other torso, left and right of the neck, in air (125–500 miles or 200–800 km) we de- and levity, with the brilliancy of the light Georgia is in cided to meet up twice a year. We work at your discretion (or one could say ins- the Middle East, on a case from the book by Rudolf Stei- pired by our Scandinavian neighbours). although its inner and Ita Wegman Extending Practical On the left is the North Sea with the East habitants call Medicine — both medically and with eu- Frisian Islands, very much characteri- it the balcony rythmy therapy — in order to immerse sed by ebb and flow. They speak of the of Europe. At ourselves in a clinical picture, to educate „stiff breeze“ which blows in your face, around 26,900 ourselves, strengthen ourselves and give and of squalls which laid waste the land square miles each other mutual encouragement. centuries ago. On the other side is the (69,700 square Baltic with its milder climate and home kilometres), it to the old commercial Hanseatic cities. is roughly the FRANCE: There too is Rügen Island, with the most same size as Bavaria. Mountains and sunshine in Germany. foothills cover 87% of the country. The Yolande Marx 620 mile long Greater Caucasus moun- (>[email protected]<) In the West are many cities where in the tain range (1,000 kilometres) along past people had gone to earn a living, Georgia‘s northern border. Its peaks rise HEXAGON, sur- for instance in mining during the period to between sixteen and a half thousand rounded by of industrialisation. Rich deposits were and nineteen and a half thousand feet seas, tides and brought up into the light of day and then (5,000–6,000 metres). In the South are winds, formed processed. Many people lived close to- the western ridges of the Lesser Cauca- by mountains, gether in the smallest areas, as they still sus and the edge of the volcanic Armeni- Pyrenees, Alps, do. an highlands. The Colchis plain stretches Vosges, crossed as far as the Black Sea in the West; in the plain, looking If you look East, the landscape broadens the East the Transcaucasian Depression at herself in the out and the population density decre- reaches to the Caspian Sea. Eastern and Parisian Basin ases. There are big industrial zones here western Georgia are divided by the Lichi chalky, brooding too, as well as agricultural areas. mountain range, which stretches form in her breast the fire of the ‘Torbieres’, Eventually, on the sandy soil of Branden- the North to the South. volcanoes .. assembly stones, granite, burg and among its many lakes, we re- volcanic rock, limestone, sandstone, ach the new and old capital city. Is it the From the Lesser Caucasus in the carved, built in chapel, church, cathed- heart within the torso? South, Georgia‘s longest river, the Kura ral .. stones becomes images, memo- (Mt‘k‘vari in Georgian), flows eastward ries ... Christianised geology… hexagon Big cities and little villages, delightful for 220 miles (351 kilometres). The lar- or consonant sounding and resonating landscapes and dense traffic mark the gest lake is Paravani, 6,800 feet (2073 here and there another voice, or accents lower part of the torso, bordered by metres) above sea level, with an area revealing the dance, rhythm, melody of the massif of the Alps, with their partial of 14½ square miles (37½ square kilo- elements according to the region .. Eu- mantle of snow. This is where our Ger- metres). At 7,200 feet (2190 metres) rythmisant ... man-speaking neighbours live. below ground, the Krubera Cave is the The entire landscape is crisscrossed by deepest known cave in the world. In this diversity, a few dedicates to rivers and streams, with lakes here and live consonants and vowels, to find the there — they all shaped the landscape, The western part of the Lesser Caucasus rhythm for everyone to create space but played a bigger role in the past than consists of folded sedimentary rock and and to form it…. distributed from east today. 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old); in the central and eastern regions hills and plains, especially in central Ireland the hexagonal basalt columns (160 million years old) there is evidence and southern England. In the South- of the Giant‘s Causeway are similar to of volcanic activity in the solidified mag- West there are the granite batholiths those on Staffa. A very large part of ma permeating the folds. The mountain of the moors and Land‘s End (these are Ireland, that known as the central plain, ranges have been rounded by erosion. the deep roots of acid volcanoes) sur- is a huge irregular basin or saucer of The Lesser Caucasus only reached its rounded by sedimentary rocks ; shales, carboniferous limestone seldom rising present height of 10,000–12,000 feet sandstones, slates and limestones. In above 100 metres. In the south, the (3,000–3,700 metres) with the formati- the South-East there are chalk cliffs with mountainous tracts and uplands of Ker- on of the Greater Caucasus. the chalk extending forty miles inland to ry, Cork and Waterford are formed lar- the rolling Downs of Kent and Sussex. gely of Old Red sandstone or Devonian Geologically, the Greater Caucasus is On the East coast there are the flatlands rocks. On the West coast there is ‚‘The considerably younger at two million years of East Anglia with its glacial tills which Burren‘‘ an extensive limestone pave- old.Its central part consists of a granite have produced its rich loamy soils .The ment landscape with its own particular core which descends toward the East. central spine of the Upland Pennines, of flora. Ireland is, like Scotland, a land of Around the core is a mantle of schist. mainly carboniferous limestone, stret- many lakes and rivers. This formed through metamorphosis of ches from Derbyshire to just south of igneous and sedimentary rocks under the scottish border, acting, in the nor- In Euythmy Therapy the main event of the influence of heat and pressure. th, as a barrier between Lancashire and the year was the annual conference and Numerous mineral and hot springs, as Yorkshire. AGM which was attended by a third of well as the frequent earthquakes, show the members of the association. All who that the mountain forming activity is not Much of Wales is mountainous, particu- came to it were enriched and enlivened yet quite complete; Turkey has been larly in three main regions: Snowdonia through the work with Christiane Rust particularly badly affected by these in the north west, the Cambrian moun- who works as a Eurythmy Therapist at earthquakes over recent years. tains in mid Wales and the Brecon Be- the Ita Wegman Clinic. The theme was acons in the south. The mountains as- ‘Sound sequences alternating between Seven eurythmists trained in Europe sumed their present shape during the the polarities of consonant and vowel currently work in the capital Tbilisi which last ice age, the Devensian glaciation; and their relation to the intervals‘‘. We has one and a quarter million inhabi- evidence of glaciation is conspicuous in were very grateful that she came and tants. Four of them have also trained the area round Snowdon. All geological was prepared to dive into English again in eurythmy therapy. They practise this periods are represented as outcrop; the and give all the sessions in English! special therapeutic art in different fields influences of sedimentary and igneous The substance of what she brought sti- of work. In the smaller cities of Batumi competing in the landscape. (Cambria mulated the Eurythmy Therapists in (118,297 inhabitants) and Gori (46,680), is a Roman word for Wales, and so it is Stourbridge to continue working with the there are nine anthroposophic doctors Wales that gave its name to a geological theme which, in turn, led to the South- who have studied eurythmy therapy. A system that is now known throughout West region re-commencing their mee- group graduated this summer. We have the world). The Preselli hills in Pembro- tings to share the fruits of this work and planned regular postgraduate courses keshire were the source of the bluestone is now having study days on Tone Eu- in eurythmy therapy for all eurythmy at Stonehenge. Myriad valleys radiate rythmy Therapy led by Shaina Stoehr. therapists and doctors, starting from down to the south coast with numerous There are not any really new develop- autumn 2012. Intensive courses with wonderful waterfalls in them.. A lot of ments to report. Eurythmy Therapy visiting tutors Margret Thiersch and Dr coal mining took place in these southern continues to be strongly present in the Gudrun Merker are scheduled for next valleys with quarrying for slate in the Waldorf schools. The Eurythmy Therapy year (2013). north west. The coast is a mixture of Training will start with its next group in flat coastal plains, rocky outcrops, cliffs, March and the training for doctors con- Our aim and concern is to gain official re- estuaries and long sandy beaches. tinues. AnthroMed® registration should cognition for this special way of healing. take place through the Council for An- Our vision for the future is to continue Scotland is a mountainous land with a throposophical Health and Social Care nurturing a close collaboration between coastline ringed by hundreds of islands. (CAHSC). doctors and eurythmy therapists so that The geomorphology was formed by the it continues to flourish! action of tectonic plates and subsequent erosion arising from glaciation. The major division of Scotland is the Highland HUNGARY: Maria Scheily GREAT BRITAIN Boundary Fault which separates the land into the ‚highland‘ to the north and west (>[email protected]<) + IRELAND: and the ‚lowland‘ to the south and east. John Browning There are many peninsulas on the West Geological fea- (>[email protected]<) coast with sea lochs stretching far in- tures: land with high hills on their flanks. Lewi- Measuring 93,032 Great Britain and sian gneiss in the Western Isles, gabbro sq. km, Hungary Ireland, two lar- on Skye, Devonian sandstone on the Or- lies in a basin enc- ge islands with kneys, Quarzite in the Torridons and the losed by the Car- many smaller hexagonal basalt columns on Staffa are pathian mountains islands on their among the sorts of rocks to be found. and the Alps. At a western and Peat covers many of the hills, with pools rough estimate, northern coasts. and stagnant water providing wonder- Budapest is equi- Water has playful breeding places for midges as the distant from Barcelona, London, Oslo, ed, and plays, warmer weather and the tourists arrive. Stockholm, Helsinki and Moscow. Two a large role in big rivers flow through the country: one, the forming of Ireland‘s indented coastline measures the Danube (Duna) from the North-West the landscape, whether it be the seas about 2,200 miles (3,600 km) including and the other, the Tisza from the North- around the islands, the rain falling from many great bays and sea loughs. Cliffs East. With their tributaries, like arteries, the skies or the ice of the glaciers. The border a great part of the Atlantic coast, they bring life and fertility to the land. older rocks are in the north and west in and some of exceptional grandeur rise South-West of Budapest lies the great both Britain and Ireland. 2,000 feet (600m) into adjacent moun- Lake Balaton, measuring 598 sq. kilo- England‘s terrain mostly comprises low tainous ground. On the north coast of metres.

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The Hungarian Basin is an extensive low- ICELAND: for example, by Ita Wegman. lying plain that arose in primeval times Heiða (Adalheiður) Olafsdóttir Hundreds of years before the official through land subsidence. A volcanic zone (>[email protected]<) settlement, men lived on the island; formed at its margins, as witnessed by these were highly spiritual Christian men the widespread bauxite strata, where, at Last June after 6 (no written proof of this has been found deeper levels, crude oil and gas can also years of studies though the combination of different lite- be found. I arrived back rature show this to be so). The oldest rock stratum consists of mica, in Iceland. The Travelling to Iceland about 1000 years slate, granite and red sandstone. At a work is exciting ago was a difficult and dangerous un- later period, when the inland Pannonian but also challen- dertaking as reflected in the description Sea filled with mud flowing down from ging, mostly due of “monsters” and natural phenomena in the Carpathians and the Alps and gradu- to the lack of for ex. St. Brendan’s Navigator (ca. 570 ally dried out, chalk formed, containing other therapists AC). manganese ore and dolomite. Hydro- and doctors. thermal processes have also given rise The settlement of the island officially to zinc, copper and lead deposits. I work in a couple of fields of practice. I took place around 870. Around 1200 (the Uranium is found in the Mecsek moun- give eurythmy lessons in a Waldorf kin- time of the Edda and other treasured li- tains. dergarten (children 4-5 y.o.) , a Waldorf- terature) it is described in Heimskringla school (class 1-10/ always two classes how a Norwegian King sent a sorcerer Hungary has distinctive geothermal at- together) and in a home/farm for people to Iceland with the task to find out if an tributes: the solid earth layer (lithos- with mental disabilities (once a week), army could be moved to the island. The phere) is only 24-27 km thick, around for the school children and the people sorcerer took the shape of a whale and 11 km thinner than elsewhere, and thus in the farm I give eurythmy therapy as as he came to Iceland’s shores he met closer to the magma. well as to some private patients every four gigantic beings in each quartile of For this reason copious warm springs can week (all in all about 20 therapy sessi- the island in the company of smaller one be found. Of the 219 mineral springs, ons week). of their kind. In the east he was met 211 provide bathing water and 20 also with a mighty dragon, in the north a bird drinking water. At the annual conference in Dornach I whose wings spread between the fjords decided as one of two eurythmy thera- mountains, in the west a gigantic bull ‘Héviz’ is the location of the world’s only pists in Iceland to found a group around and in the south a mountainous giant warm lake with a peat bottom. Measu- an Icelandic therapy orientated initiati- carrying an iron rod in his hand. These ring 4.44 hectares, it is Europe’s largest ve. This idea came out of my need for were the islands guarding patrons. To- warm lake. A distinctive feature of the cooperation with other therapists and day, since 1919 these patrons are on our lake are the beautiful “Indian red water eventually also doctors in Iceland. Du- coat of arms. lilies”, Nymphaea rubra var. Longiflora. ring these days I also went to Basel to Much has been left out, but while ending visit the Munster Dom where I bought my report, I hope - despite the exube- The water is rich in calcium, magnesium, postcards of the four evangelists and rance in the not so concrete text - you sulphur, radon and, due to the peat bot- their four winged figurative symbols. Co- have been able to find some sort of a tom, organic compounds also. ming back home I showed the postcards connection which can bring you further to my young brother who immediately down road of “imagination” and even Ten eurythmy therapists work in Hun- noticed we have the same images on our might have woken your interest for gary, and this year they were granted Iceland’s “geology”! ® coins. But how do our heathen images the AnthroMed quality trademark. come to relation with the four evange- They continue to work mainly in Waldorf lists. schools, and only two colleagues work INDIA: exclusively as eurythmy therapists. Iceland lies between America and Euro- Dilnawaz Bana pe, or better said America and Europe (>[email protected]<) The first students of the three-year an- meet in Iceland. The continental plates throposophic medical training (director: divide the country through its centre in India lies in the Henrik Szőke) graduated in June 2012. two parts which distance widens with 2 tropics, around They are now taking their qualifying cm every year. Where the two continents 20º north of the medical exams at a Hungarian medical pull away from each other there is a lot Equator. It is thus university. of turmoil in the earth crust, which cau- hot and humid. se the known volcanic outbursts and the The Himalaya is Five physicians and ten therapists from loved hot springs. So it is described in right at the top this training course wish to continue to a simple way, but in reality the island to the North (the take part in regular eurythmy courses. is born out of the sea. Continuously but cool head), with The physicians in this group also wish to slowly the oceanic ground of the Mid-At- a large triangle in take the three-year physicians’ training lantic Ridge reverts and rises, and in my the South, surrounded by the ocean. in eurythmy therapy. “imagination” America and Europe move There are thick jungles, a big desert at each other in a chafe like manner in a (the Thar) and large agricultural areas. This year we also started the further trai- never ending continuous way. The seven largest rivers are named for ning course in ‘eye eurythmy therapy’ Vatnajoekull, Europe’s largest glacier Hindu goddesses and correspond to the with Frau Margret Thiersch, and further in volume, covers 8% of the island. A country‘s seven classical dance styles. courses are due to follow. mountainous desert landscape is given Nature is alive and fertile — the people little or no shelter from trees. The ele- too. ments prevail in Iceland, as can be seen All that they need in order to live grows in the gnomes, dwarves and trolls for- in India. Below the ground are beautiful med by the lava, these give the island a jewels, semi-precious stones and mi- mystical character. nerals. One may truly say that India is a world in miniature and contains eve- The question about the real location of rything that is to be found in the wide Atlantis is not certain though Iceland has world beyond. often been mentioned in that context,

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I am still the only eurythmy therapist in they may have been there at the time of ITALY: India and work with doctors as much as I Christ’s Crucifixion. Maria Teresa Fossati can. I also have opportunities to work in (>[email protected]<) different trainings, such as the Waldorf Returning to the theme of Geology teacher training and the International – that is, the stones under ones feet: This year small but Postgraduate Medical Training organised here there is also both great variety and significant steps by Michaela Glöckler. I also work with te- the inescapable connection with the cul- have created the achers and parents at the country‘s Wal- tural past. To site only one example: the space for some dorf schools. In November we are be- stone which is in the foundations of the important events ginning a two-year eurythmy course in Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in the country. Bombay where specific aspects of hygie- in the Old City of Jerusalem and is known In June, the 6th nic eurythmy will be covered, especially as the middle of the middle of the earth. course of euryth- for Waldorf parents. Eurythmy therapy According to the Talmud it was the first my therapy for will not be part of this short course. I part of the earth to come into existence teeth with Mareike have realised that eurythmy therapy is (or, as Manfred Schimidt-Brabant rela- Kaiser took place important for children, but that hygienic ted, this is where the first condensations in Milan, well attended by eurythmy the- eurythmy is even more important for pa- of warmth arose on Old Saturn). Near rapists and dentists. Angelika Jaschke rents and teachers. this place the earth was gathered from was with us. She told us of the extensive which Adam was created. On this stone work of the HE-Forum, as part of the Me- sacrifices were made by Cain, Abel and dical Section. The soul space expanded Noah. Here Abraham prepared to sacri- space and the audience felt intensely ISRAEL: fice his son Isaac, and Isaac’s son Jacob connected to this great task. Jan Ranck (later known as Israel) dreamt of the An- We prepared to request the Anthro- (>[email protected]<) gels climbing down and up from heaven. Med® - quality mark: we got the natio- On this rock King David planned to build nal trademark protection for our profes- Israel is a small a Temple, which plan was accomplished sional association, AIET. land (approx. by his son King Solomon. Here the Holy We will celebrate ‘100-years-eurythmy‘ 20770 square of Holies was built and inside the Ark from 6 - 9 December 2012 in Milan, wi- kilometers, of the Covenant was placed. From this thin the annual meeting of the Anthro- roughly the size rock the Prophet Mohammed is said to posophical Society, with demonstrations of New Jersey) have risen to heaven accompanied by from the soul calendar and an evening located on the the Angel Gabriel, and to have prayed performance from the pupils of the Wal- Mediterranean with Abraham, Moses and Jesus. dorf school in Palermo. Sea at the junc- tion of Europe, In conclusion: if this is the case with Where do we live? But here: Italia, come Asia and Africa. The distance between just one stone, perhaps it will be for- sei bella! the massive snow mountains in the nor- given that the report ends here with a A petite figure dancing in pure balance th (snow only in winter) to the colored- warm recommendation of the (unfortu- in the blue Mediterranean. As you can sand craters in the south is only approx. nately untranslated) book by Suchant- see on the map. The head of the country 400 Kilometers, but the great variety of ke, Schmutz, Schad and Fackler “The is surrounded by the snow-covered tops impressions along the way makes it feel Middle of the Earth – Israel in the focal of the Alps. The width of the Lombard much longer when driving through. As point of natural and cultural historic de- plains of the Po, in the cities of the nor- the “middle of the Earth” Israel contains velopment” - for that is how it is... th, is home of the most eurythmy thera- in miniature something from the lands- pists (about 13). capes of the whole world and more -- in As to the situation of therapeutic euryth- the vicinity of the Dead Sea (the lowest my in this special country: The body of the peninsula, supported by point on earth) the area resembles a In December 2012, during a visit by Mi- the „backbone“ of the Apennine Moun- moonscape. In fact it is speculated by chaela Glöckler, there will be a conference tains, extends boldly into the Mediterra- some that it was from this point which for anthroposophical doctors and thera- nean, only few colleagues operate there. the moon separated from the earth in pists during which the question whether In Bologna, a steady job is hold by one the beginning of the earth evolution. the time has come to found some sort eurythmy therapist and Rome is supplied of legally recognized association will be monthly with eurythmy therapy. As far as geology is concerned, Israel is discussed. As reported previously, the- a land in which it is often necessary to rapeutic eurythmy is on the list of thera- In the top of the “boot”, the mountai- dig through uncountable layers of cul- pies partially reimbursed by the national nous Sicily, with its fiery and powerful tural remains before reaching the actu- insurance when the patient purchases an explosions, the Etna, a „fresh-baked” al bedrock. The past is so close to the additional coverage for alternative medi- colleague works. present that dinosaur tracks can be seen cine. However, such sessions are very just meters away from the Jerusalem badly paid and until now none of the few So now three German colleagues toge- Academy of Eurythmy. (It has not yet eurythmy therapists in the country (11, ther a „roman“, who lives in the heel of been ascertained whether their gait was but with several not practicing in the the boot, are holding the guard at the three-fold...) field) has taken up this possibility. The borders of the country, in the Aosta Val- initiative of meetings between anthro- ley (north-west of the Alps) in Sardinia There is also hardly any geographical posophical doctors and eurythmy thera- and Sicily. The distance between Aosta feature which is not connected with the pists is entering its fifth year with a re- and Palermo, about 1,200 km, is by- cultural past. The Carmel Mountain Ran- latively constant attendance of 5 doctors passed. The possibility of holding toge- ge in the north is known to contain the and 5 eurythmists. The current theme ther is given. cave in which the Prophet Elijah hid; the is Anxiety and Depression. Quite a few Jordan, Israel’s largest river, is known as doctors and therapists, among them two the site of the baptism of Jesus of Naza- eurythmists, attended the medical sec- reth; the large fresh- water Sea of Ga- tion conference this autumn and at the lilee (Lake of Gennesaret) is known as next meeting in October impressions of the fishing grounds of Christ’s disciples; the conference will be shared. and on the Mount of Olives near Jeru- salem there are trees so ancient that

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JAPAN: preventive eurythmy, say that whereas The highest point of our country is the Kimiko Ishikawa formerly the woods and mountains were ‘Vaalserberg’ in the very south-east, (>[email protected]<) like a gift of nature, now they can no 322.7 meter above NAP. longer pick apples or pears there, or ga- The lowest point is in Nieuwerkerk aan This year we were ther chestnuts. “Nature,” they say, “has de IJssel, 6.76 meter below NAP, in the meant to describe become our adversary.” west part, about 30 km behind the dunes the landscape in of The Hague. which we work, but Mothers were very anxious and many I had a sense that families evacuated to a radiation-free On many places in the Netherlands, both I ought to write area. There are a great many families in the west (low) part and in the east about the situation where the mother and children move (high) part, peat has been dug in the here following the away from Fukushima while the father past to use as fuel. Most of it is gone events of 3 March stays put to continue earning a living – now. 2011! I therefore decided to write about and thus families are separated. In other the “present landscape” after the great cases, children and mothers drive out to Our country lies in the centre of a del- catastrophe of the earthquake, tsunami radiation-free regions every weekend ta area where three rivers flow into the and the accident at Fukushima nuclear to avoid radiation, and recuperate from North Sea: Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt. power station. Almost 16,000 people their worries. Situated along the see our country has a lost their lives in the wake of this ca- moderate maritime climate with almost tastrophe, and 3,000 are still missing. A trial on thyroid conditions found that always wind and clouds. “Dutchmen 340,000 people took refuge in other lo- 36% of children have cysts and lumps. like the wind in their hair.” “Cycling ( in cations. Dutch: fietsen) against the wind makes Since March this year, demonstrations you strong”. The landscape of Japan has altered a are being held every Friday outside the great deal since 3 March 2011. The Prime Minister’s official residence about Even in the sky there is a lot of water, by beautiful coastal landscape was simply everything relating to this situation. On which the famous Dutch skies arise. wiped off the map. At Ojika peninsula, in 29 June 2012, 170,000 people demons- „Thanks to the wide horizon without Tohoku (North-East Japan) the land shif- trated on the streets when the Ohi Reac- mountains we bear to live together with ted 5.3 m eastwards – that is, towards tor started up again. so many people” once said one of our the sea – and sank by 1.2 m. anthroposofical doctors. The social awa- Finally, briefly, people often tell me that, reness is often strongly present. Rebuilding the region where over 500 through the eurythmy practised regu- kilometres of coastal region were swept larly in affected areas, they have found When we try to compare the character of away by the flood is a long, slow- pro themselves again, or can overcome an- our country with its inhabitants we can cess. The harbour, for instance, has gra- xiety and find new courage for life. And notice the following: dually been rebuilt but no specific plans we eurythmists and eurythmy therapists - the soil is soft and offers our feet litt- yet exist for rebuilding destroyed towns. are planning a gathering next Februa- le footing: many people have flat feet Much therefore remains at a standstill ry to exchange thoughts on the theme, - because of all the water many children and many people live in temporary ac- “How can we protect and strengthen our have to visit the otolaryngologist becau- commodation. The mighty tsunami wave etheric forces?” We hope we can find se of inflammations of ear, throat and left 18,000 tonnes of ruins and wrecka- in the etheric sphere the source of our lungs; our family doctor calls it “a re- ge behind, of which only 30% has so shared work and community, so that we claim problem”. Also because of all the far been removed. 21,500 hectares of can make a contribution to the current water rheumatism is widespread. agricultural land have been damaged, situation in Japan. and again only 30% of this has been We are perhaps not rooted very strong recultivated. Wild birds can however be and have a lot of interaction with the en- seen again in the recultivated areas, and vironment. However in thinking a lot is people are trying to grow such things as possible, like the wide skies; not much cotton, which can also grow well in salt- NETHERLANDS: boundary, could make us chaotic or flee- contaminated soil. Irene Pouwelse ting, but also creating new things. (>[email protected]<) The four Fukushima reactors still appear In eurythmic movements the feet are just as they did a year and a half ago Half of the Ne- often a week point, the forms however since, due to continuing high radiation therlands lies flowing. The interspace between the eu- levels, work is greatly hampered. If the- below sea level rythmists is experienced as important re should be any interruption to the cold (and is actually and this is often trained intentionally. water coolant supply (e.g. if the cooling withdrawn from I think there is a lot of creativity; many system stopped functioning) there is still the sea). small groups work with each other. We the risk of a hydrogen explosion. Reac- When you draw a need to go on faithfully and steadfast to tors 1 to 3 are still emitting radiation. line from Knokke give it “hands and feet”. Reactor 1, in particular, remains in an (Belgium) to unpredictable condition. Outside Fu- Hamburg (Ger- An instruction of Rudolf Steiner for Dutch kushima railway station, 0.6-0.8 micro- many) left of it eurythmists is the following: Sievelts per hour are being recorded, lies under sea level (NAP, Normal Ams- In speech there are short vowels like which is around 20 to 30 times more terdam Water Level), which means that à,ò,ì,ù, which you can form with bowed than in other regions. this part would be flooded at high tide if arms or hands, by which the lightness there were no dykes (and water was not of the speech can be expressed better. Radiation-contaminated water flows pumped away continuously). However this demands an alert con- 3000 kilometres out into the Pacific Oce- sciousness to elaborate it exactly. an from Japan, and there sinks to the This part mostly consists of clay soil. The ® ocean floor. Complex radiation conta- part right from the line is mostly sandy This year we got AnthroMed , the label mination affects soil, forests and rivers. (or peaty) soil. for the Antroposophic Medicine. Our re- People whom I often visit in Ichinoseki search work on cancer and depression in City, where I do eurythmy therapy and cooperation with Leiden University has reached the practical stage.

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We are going to work with our pro- ped and used for hundreds of years as The mountains rear up in mighty, mi- gramme and try to find out if it works bathing places. neral form, range upon range of blue and if it should be applied. We are loo- mountains receding ever further into the king for more representatives of the Thus the mountainous regions of North distance (“blåne bak blåne“). The forest fields of practice. This year we are much Island are of volcanic rock while flatter cathedrals of dark evergreens hem the concerned about our registration with areas (such as Hawkes Bay) are formed feet of the mountains and ascend a few the health insurances. They think that of sedimentary deposits (sandstone/li- hundred metres; but crag and mounta- we have to take more training in the field mestone). in dominate the landscape. As school- of medical knowledge in order to be able children we learned that only 2%of Nor- to keep our accreditation. We do hope South Island is chiefly characterised by way is cultivated land. that we can make the best of that. alpine fold mountains and glaciation. Large parts of Norway are mountain ty- The bedrock is granite, gneiss, greywa- pes originating in the earth’s primeval cke and mica schist. Here too the flatter eras: Precambrian, dating back 2,800 areas are primarily sandstone. One of million years. They are called ‘primary the few volcanic regions in South Island formations’. The most ancient of these NEW ZEALAND: lies close to Christchurch. No one was primeval mountains are found in the Heike Houben expecting the severe eruption and vol- Arctic North, the Finnmark area, in the (>[email protected].<) canic activity last year which you will no Lofoten and Vesterålen islands - moun- doubt have read about in the media. tainous islands in the Atlantic, North of Around 200 mil- the Arctic Circle - and in the West of the lion years ago, New Zealand is a country rich in natu- mainland. Mountain peaks rise sheer New Zealand ral deposits: coal, gold (prospecting is from the ocean’s surface, some of them (at that time again underway), silver, platinum and all over 1000 metres high. just South Is- possible minerals. Gneiss is as ancient as the land itself, land, which was and a major constituent of the prima- of much greater It is a miracle that one actually feels ry formations. Other types of mountain, extent than it so safe in a country exposed daily to such as granite, arrived in later geologi- is today) belon- the potential risk of natural catastro- cal epochs. There is a wealth of minerals. ged – along with phes. The houses are built to withstand Iron ore, copper ore, iron pyrite, silver Antarctica and earthquakes, and the nearest volcano and gold have been mined from deep wi- Australia – to the primeval continent of is usually a long way off. On North Is- thin the dark bowels of the mountains. Gondwana. About 85 million years ago, land, sandstone makes it hard to get a The glaciers of the Ice Age have carved the Antarctic and subsequently the Aus- foothold, but all in all we live and work deep incisions into the mountains and tralian plates split off. A separate flora as people do anywhere. The 12 euryth- left behind deeply shelving inclines and and fauna developed in New Zealand, my therapists are scattered across the peaks. When the ice melted, there were and broad, low-lying swamps formed, country, most of them in big cities like radical geological consequences: long producing the great coal deposits of to- Auckland and Wellington. 5 of them are moraine ridges formed, as nature’s own day. After a quiet phase, low-lying shel- here in Hawkes Bay, and a student on stone fences. ves rose up from the sea about 35 mil- our eurythmy therapy training course Jotunheimen is a large mountain mass lion years ago and formed today’s North will practise as a eurythmy therapist in in southern Norway. In times of ancient Island. Christchurch where – after the trauma- Nordic culture, trolls were said to live in tic experience of the earthquake, and its the ‘Home’ of the ‘Jotun’ or giants. You Today, New Zealand is situated where still continuing after-effects – she will no can still feel and experience something the Australian and Pacific plates meet. doubt be very much needed. of this if you go there. Trolls appear in Although the two plates are not moving every crag and mountain. Heavy rock is frontally towards each other, they exert piled on heavy rock. The ways are steep, a great influence on the country. Two hard-going, desolate and infertile. forces emerge, with frontal and trans- NORWAY: “Troll, be sufficient to yourself!” said verse actions. The frontal force forms Simone Wantz Henrik Ibsen. The challenge to us today, shifts and faults that exert pressure on (>[email protected]<) though is: To become oneself but not be diverse rock strata and thus continual- sufficient to oneself alone! ly raise the ground level. The second, A brief sketch of transverse, force - by means of which Norway’s geology the Pacific Plate is still today pushing (Bente Katja Bø): Eurythmy therapy (Simone Wantz): itself under the Australian plate - leads “Norge“ means There is, no doubt, most going on in and to frequent earthquakes in the coun- the ‘path or way around Oslo, but eurythmy therapy is try, some of which have radical effects to the North’ – and also alive and well further South in Sta- on the landscape and also represent a this path unwinds vanger, Haugesund and Tönsberg; then continual threat to the population. (In deep into northern in the West in Bergen; and North of Oslo Hawkes Bay we often wake up at night lands. If you cross in Hamar and Kapp; and, at times, also to find the house swaying back and forth the Arctic Circ- around Trondheim. or juddering like the washing machine le and enter the on spin cycle.) The countries that bor- Arctic, a further third of the country still Of the 40 names and addresses on the der the Pacific plate belong to the Paci- stretches northwards before you. The list of Norwegian eurythmy therapists, fic Ring of Fire. New Zealand has some coast is as long as the country, very in- around 20 (as far as we can tell) give a of the world’s most active volcanoes, dented and the longest coastline in the few sessions of eurythmy therapy each concentrated for the most part at the world. Grey-blue, cold Atlantic ocean week – chiefly in schools and curative centre of North Island., in the Taupo re- hammers incessantly against beaches homes. As far as we know, 7 eurythmy gion. Mount Ruhapehu recently erupted and islands, cliffs and mountains. therapists work between half- and full- for the first time in 130 years, sending Norway has a blue tinge. Over the in- time as eurythmy therapists. Recently an ash-cloud in the direction of Hawkes fertile landscape rises an ice-blue sky, some have also tried working freelance Bay. Besides the volcanoes, the powers which is reflected in thousands of lakes a little. of the earth are apparent in 67 thermal like clear, blue eyes. The eyes of the The shared work that began in 2011 is springs or geysers that lie along the Pa- people are usually blue too. Blue is the continuing. We meet on four Saturdays cific Ring of Fire, and have been develo- prevailing soul colour here. each year for shared practice, encounter

33 International Eurythmy Therapy Forum Newsletter No 10 December 2012 and dialogue. A “core” of 6-8 people has forgotten what it was like when there PORTUGAL: formed, and we hope that this work will were no fertilizers and pesticides. Only a Fernanda Wessling grow (we need each other!). few decades ago, the Philippines hosted (>[email protected]<) We are still pursuing attempts to gain many agricultural technicians from the official recognition from the NNH (asso- neighboring Asian countries. They stu- Although Por- ciation of Norwegian natural therapists), died at the University of the Philippines tugal is a small and new questions have arisen as we do College of Agriculture in Los Banos, and country, the so: NNH expects its members to take a did researches at the International Rice geology is very basic training in naturopathy. This would Research Institute. Returning home, diversified, and mean being a naturopath who works they made their countries into the ag- one can even with eurythmy therapy. ricultural wonders that they are now. say that most Sadly the Philippines is now several de- types of rock can A weekend celebration of “100 years of cades behind in capacity. For instance, be found here. the eurythmy movement” was held in we even import rice from Thailand! Along the coast Oslo in May 2012. It was a wonderful there is sand, fine yellow sand, sands- celebration, at which eurythmy thera- On the sunny side of things, the re- tone and sediment rocks, but granite py was also presented in the form of cent years have been bringing positive can be easily found, and in some areas an introduction, courses, discussions changes. With the start of the adminis- granite interspersed with marble. and presentation of a research study. A tration of President Benigno Aquino, the In the middle and middle south we can question often heard there was, “Why people are hopeful again that develop- find clay soils and big marble areas – not isn’t eurythmy therapy better known in ment will benefit the great majority, who so long ago white marble was quarried Norway?” belong to the less fortunate. in Alentejo and sold to Italy, whereit was We hope that young, enthusiastic people then again sold as “Carrara” marble, due will join us and use their energy to help The Philippines is also blessed with mi- to its high quality! further. neral resources:gold, copper, mangane- In the middle north and the north one se. And on the island of Romblon (which finds granite and slate, sometimes quite May joy and love for eurythmy therapy, has been identified by geomancy expert, near each other! and courage and will, strengthen our Marco Pogacnik, as the heart chakra of In the Islands – Madeira, Azores, one path here in the North and carry us on in the Philippines), there is marble. With also finds a lot of basalt stone, due to to the future. the Pacific Ocean to the East and the past volcanic activity. China Sea (now called West Philippine Casa de Santa Isabel is built at about Sea) to the west, the country has rich 550 mts above sea level, on the north fishing grounds. Wet markets with an side of our highest mountain range – PHILIPPINES: incredible assortment of fish and other Serra da Estrela. Despite big slate areas, seafooods draw locals and tourists alike. granite is predominant, and where I live Dr. Grace Zozobrado and work, granite is very present, which (>[email protected]<) And when one speaks of land resources, makes for light and not so rich soil. one will have to mention the current un- The Philippines stable situation in the Spratly Islands/ From the point of view of the work, the is an archipela- Scarborough Shoals. Claimed by Chi- number of eurythmy therapists has had go, with 7100 na, the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei and a 100% increase – we are now 2, sin- islands. Not all of Taiwan, these group of islands sprawled ce the beginning of September, which of them are inhabi- over a huge area to the west of the Phil- course is very promising. ted, since some ippines is where 60% of the ships of the Pamela Lippke, from Germany is taking should actually world pass. Rich fishing grounds and a sabbatical year and has joined our be called „islets“ oil fields have now made this important community for the equivalent time. because of their crossroad an area of conflict. We can We shall continue working with our spe- extremely small only pray that there will be no escalation cial (needs) people, and colleagues, size (a tent of a modern day Robinson of the militarization in the area and that whenever necessary. Crusoe would be all that would fit!). cooperation among the claimant lands will instead be the basis for future ac- In the olden times the Philippines was tivities. referred to as the Pearl of the Orient. RUMANIA: Konstantin Gruia Discovered in 1521 by Magellan, who Yes, a country blessed by sun and wind (>[email protected]<) was in search of the Spice Islands, the and sea, but which has seen much de- country was named after the Spanish vastation due to short-sighted and making, Philip. terialistic practices (which have resulted Romania, a coun- The land itself is divided into three so- in landslides, flooding, deforestation, try in southeast cio-political areas, which would close- and unsustainable megacities) the Phil- Europe, is also ly be equivalent to the thinking pole in ippines is now waking up to the harsh known as Sub- the north, a feeling middle area (where realities. It can only be hoped that the carpathia. The the language is also more of a singing pain of the past, which has now given Carpathians de- character), and a will pole in the South, rise to a growing consciousness, will veloped as lime- which is also where the Moslem popula- move the country to act wislely now to stone and sand tion is mainly living. ensure the future. deposits at the The soil is rich, and depending on type of bottom of a vast plants, agriculture is possible the whole ocean in the Ter- year through. We grow rice, corn, sugar- tian Period. Present-day Romania is bor- cane, coconuts, coffee, cacao, bananas, dered to the west, north and northeast and vegetables. We say that we can put by these tall, steep mountains. The low- a seed into the earth on any day, and lands are to the south. Mineral resour- it will grow in a few days. Unfortuna- ces consist in tremendous salt deposits tely, the Green Revolution of the 60‘s in caves the size of vast cathedrals open has destroyed vast areas of the coun- to visitors. 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today. They developed due to volcanic sleep, the sphere of metabolism and the summer again with M Kaiser, on the changes. These riches are to be found the will. Where there is much moisture, theme of “Exercises for anomalous bite mainly in the southern Apuseni moun- the rich, black earth continually renews in cases of misaligned teeth”. tains, the western Carpathians. Apuseni itself – the prerequisite for vegetation Astonishingly, extremely gent- translates as ‘where the sun sets’. and agriculture. In areas of little moistu- le, flowing motions are needed to act A great, fruitful lowland region lies to the re, aridity prevails in extensive, withered on the teeth - which are, after all, the south. plains. (Eurythmists at Rostov-on-Don hardest substance in our organism,. We The Danube, Europe’s biggest river, runs and in neighbouring Ukraine.) very much enjoyed practising these mo- to the Black Sea in the southeast of c) In central Russia the opposite kind of vements, and felt how our teeth respon- Romania. The Danube Delta is a World terrain is found in the forested steppe: ded to them. Cultural Heritage region famous for nu- forests alternate with fields, plains with merous birds of many different species. regions of high ground. Rivers cut their 3. Between 18 and 21 July 2012, a semi- The climate is very hot in the summer way through the wave-shaped relief of nar on “Social Eurythmy” led by Rachel months and very cold, with much snow, this zone and connect its different areas. Maeder from Ittigen took place in Mos- in winter. Here, analogous to the human rhythmic cow. The participants were eurythmists, system, Europe’s biggest river (the Vol- physicians and Waldorf teachers. Rachel There are still the two of us representing ga) forms. Fields are not as fertile as in shared her experiences in old people’s eurythmy therapy. Nelu continues with the South. (Eurythmists in Moscow, Ya- homes, industrial workplaces involving her work in Simeria. roslavl and Samara.) repetitive monotony, and with office em- Family reasons forced me to discontinue Thus the personality qualities and traits ployees. It became apparent how one my work at the Corabia school in Bucha- which develop naturally to some extent can introduce people to eurythmy who, rest, the capital city. I am now living in in these different zones need to be en- due to the nature of their work, look with the country, outside of Bucharest. Time hanced and extended by consciously cul- some scepticism on such things as the will show where or how and when I can tivated powers: by will in the North, by art of movement and anthroposophy. take up eurythmy therapy again. Eve- thinking (form) in the South and by the She showed how their interest in each ry now and then I am able to visit ‘my’ powers of the I in the central region. other, in movement and in the world can Corabia school. They are carrying on as be kindled. usual – with great difficulty. We are al- The Ural mountains mark the boundary ways struggling to survive there. between European Russia and Asia. 4. The book compiled by H. B. and E. I continue to be in touch with Prietenia, Further East the marshy plains give E. von Laue, entitled “Zur Physiologie the workshop for adults with special way to an extended peak district. In the der Heileurythmie” (“The physiology of needs, sharing ideas with them. midst of the neverending Siberian tai- eurythmy therapy”) has now been pub- Let us hope that this momentary break ga lies a fresh-water sea (Lake Baikal). lished in Russian. The book contains Ru- from eurythmy therapy will give me real The development of Siberia still lies in dolf Steiner’s lecture “The Invisible Man strength and health in future. the lap of the future. In Asian Russia the in Us”. rivers flow northwards, leading the- po pulation away from the area of contact This report is based on ideas by G. with Asia’s ancient culture. Kavtaradze and contributions by RUSSIA: О. Rozanova, М. Romanova and Tatiana Strizhak In European Russia, by contrast, the ri- М. Sazanova. (>[email protected]<) vers mostly flow in a southerly direction, and for centuries have brought western Plains – endless culture into the country, connecting plains – are the Scandinavia with Byzantium (“The Va- key image, and rangians’ route to the Greeks”). SOUTH AFRICA: over them the Christiane Wigand arching dome of (>[email protected]<) the heavens (cf. News from eurythmy therapy work in GA 158, 14 No- Russia: reports from seminar students “There is no se- vember 1914). paration between E u - 1. In January 2012, Rudolf Steiner’s “12 that which is ropean Russia moods” were performed (as part of the shaped and for- consists of the fourth Russian Eurythmy Festival”). The med by the hu- low-lying Russian plains (the world’s performance marked the conclusion of 2 man spirit and second largest plains). These lie on the years of collaborative work by a group that which is Russian plate which is formed largely of of Russian and Ukrainian eurythmists of shaped by the granite, and is divided into three regi- diverse disciplines. divine spirit of ons: the northern, southern and central Realised under the direction of Margrit nature –there IS zones. Hitsch, the distinctive aspect of this pro- only divine con- a) As in neighbouring Finland, the nor- ject is the fact that here, for the first time sciousness.” This saying by the original thern zone is bejewelled with numerous after a long interval, the “12 moods” are inhabitants of South Africa, the San and lake. One feels the action of water here. founded on correspondences between Khoi-Khoi, reveals the wisdom that was This zone boasts most forest, and nature the vowels and the planets. This is what once present. The Cape Peninsula with is still wild and intact in places. This nor- Rudolf Steiner originally intended for its famous Table Mountain was the “Land thern region is characterised by a special this piece, and it is thanks to Tatiana Kis- of the Setting Sun”, and native people relationship with the winter season: it seleff that these correspondences have paid homage on every eve of the sum- reminds us of nature’s ‘day’ – its wake- been rediscovered. mer solstice (21.December) with a pilg- ful state, the sphere of human thinking. rimage to it. (Eurythmists live and work in Saint Pe- 2. Between 3 and 9 June 2012, Mareike tersburg and Syktyvkar.) Kaiser in Moscow gave the first semi- Geology: b) The South: warm seas (the Black nar in dental eurythmy, on the theme of Table Mountain is one of the oldest Sea etc.), the Caucasus and the endless ‘Exercises for anomalous bite’. Follow-up mountains on Earth, six times older than steppe – a treeless plain. This zone is seminars will take place this winter with the Himalayas in India and five times ol- closer in feel to the summer, nature’s Dr. Haupt, who will explain the medical der than the Rocky Mountains in Ame- ‘night’, and reminds one more of human aspects of this condition, and then in rica. It’s story begins 800 Million years

35 International Eurythmy Therapy Forum Newsletter No 10 December 2012 ago, when sandstone began to form un- SOUTH KOREA: ranean; the Canaries in the Atlantic. der water. Magma rose from the Earth’s Eun Sim Jang Because of the vast plateau that is the core and formed hard granite. Around (>[email protected]<) Meseta Central, Spain has an average 300 Million years ago the mountain was height of 2165 feet (660 metres). At still at sea level. Ice sheets flattened South Korea lies around 2130 feet (650 metres) above the layers of sandstone, which is today between Chi- sea level, Madrid is the highest capital the Table Top. When the continents split na and Japan, city in Europe. apart, pressures built up in the Earth’s on the corner crust. The layers of rock ascended, of Eastern Asia. Although eurythmy therapists are most- slowly becoming the one kilometer high The country is a ly in the cities of Madrid and Barcelona, mountain we know today. Between the peninsula, joined which have three or four each, others Atlantic Ocean and False Bay, where all at one end to the are spread out in different regions. the suburbs have been built, lies drift northern conti- The largest ‚daughter‘ movement of sand, filled up by the early settlers to in- nent, stretching anthroposophy in Spain is still Waldorf hibit Table Mountain to become an island out into the Paci- education, and nearly all eurythmy the- again. That is where we live and work. fic at the other. rapists work in schools as eurythmy te- The country has been separated North achers in addition to their therapeutic Some facts: and South Korea since the civil war of work. In the wider context of Cape Town there 1950. The demilitarised zone is the poli- are ten Waldorf Schools, one Christian tical but also now the historically actual An anthroposophic doctors‘ training Community, a house of the Anthropo- border between the two. Nevertheless, course concluded in Barcelona; while in sophical Society (Sophia House), more mountains in the north and East of Korea Madrid a new course begins this year. than 20 Nursery Schools in Townships, connect the whole country. Many rivers Because of the financial crisis in Spain, one Waldorf Teacher and one Eurythmy flow westward, where there are broad eurythmy therapists are not having an Training. stretches of coast with coves and inlets easy time; neverthelesswe continue to Outside Hermanus (120 km east of Cape and many small islands. work with enthusiasm, and always with Town) there are two Camphill Commu- good results. nities (a farm and a school) and 35 km Seoul, South Korea‘s capital, is in the up the Westcoast of Cape Town is ano- Western central part of Korea as a whole. ther one. On Whitsun Sunday there was A large river, the Han, flows through the a one hour workshop in Sophia House in middle of Seoul. SWEDEN: Cape Town on the “Halleluiah”, led by Co- Jane Schwab bie Roelvert, a Euryhmist in Cape Town, State education in the country is very (>[email protected]<) culminating in a common doing with the much geared to the intellect. Hence Wal- world community at 1 o‘clock! dorf education began in 1995 with ener- Just beneath the gy and enthusiasm; there are now more surface, most Eurythmy Therapy. than a hundred Waldorf kindergartens of Sweden‘s In the last year the Eurythmy Therapists and six Waldorf schools. ground consists in the Western Cape have established There are three teacher trainings. Tutors of primeval solid - to meet regularly once a term. In Feb come to us from different countries and rock i.e. ‘bed- ruary we welcomed Angelika Jaschke we organise the trainings together. rock’. The do- in our midst – at a time when Elizabeth minant rock ty- Kotzuba‘s cancer had progressed alrea- More than twenty teachers have now pes are granite dy thus far that she could no longer take been trained — in Germany, Britain, and gneiss. The - part. (She died in Cape Town shortly be America, New Zealand and Canada. ground contains also elements of rock fore our delegates meeting.) Angelika They work in kindergartens and schools such as sandstone and shale that have experienced everyone of us in his/her in different regions. been formed by sediment deposits at the work, and we practised together around Five eurythmists and three euryth- bottom of a primeval sea. the 7 Eurythmy Meditations. It was a my therapists work in Waldorf schools. The bedrock was eroded to a nearly flat very harmonious encounter. The anthroposophic art therapists have disc or shield 600 million years ago. In There are quite a number (about 10) of to struggle, but are busy in their fields northern and central Sweden, the pri- Eurythmists interested in the Eurythmy of activity with much zip and verve. meval bedrock shield borders against - Therapy Training, and Angelika encoura Perhaps we might be able to cooperate a mountain chain, which consists of ged us to prepare and to start a training one day. both bedrock and younger sedimentary course. A group of three colleagues has rocks. formed and is planning to give six block courses over three years, starting around Movements in the earth‘s crust giving Easter 2013.- In January there will be a SPAIN: cracks in the bedrock, so called ‘faults’, week’s course for anthroposophical me- Leonor Montes have created everywhere hills and val- (>[email protected]<) dicine for doctors and health practitio- leys. Lake Vättern with its surrounding ners who are interested, because we will hills resulted from such faults. need this cooperation as Eurythmy The- Spain has an rapists. Michaela Gloeckler has offered area of roughly The most recent ice age, more than any her support and is coming out! 195,000 square other force, shaped our landscape. Du- miles (504,645 We will be dependent on anthroposophi- ring many thousand years, an ice cover square kilo- cal doctors from around the world for our up to 2 km thick, moved with colossal metres), and Eurythmy Therapy Training and ask also weight and power over the surface. 37,190,000 in- here for financial help! For every support Mountain peaks were ground down and habitants. Spain we will be grateful. rounded. Cracks in the bedrock were dug is bordered on out by the ice causing large U-shaped three sides by Stephen Lloyd, Julia O’Leary, valleys. Throughout the country one the sea: the At- Christiane Wigand can find: firstly, hillsides polished into ([email protected]) or lantic Ocean, the Bay of Biscay and the rounded forms; secondly, long ridges of Mediterranean. ([email protected]) rounded stones i.e. ‘eskers’ left by the The Balearic Islands are in the Mediter-

36 International Eurythmy Therapy Forum Newsletter No 10 December 2012 retreating ice; thirdly, unsorted material SWITZERLAND: wan, Georgia, Romania, Poland, France, from block to sand grains i.e. ‘moraine’, Gabriele Lang Germany and Switzerland. This is the which is the most common soil type. (>[email protected]<) second course being offered on the new part-time basis. We are very fortunate The melting ice placed a large part of Geographical and here to have a great variety of further what is now Sweden under water. Gra- Geological As- education courses every year. Most of dually the water level stabilized and the pects these are conducted in German, but the- country rose slowly out of the sea and re are also regional working groups in still continues to do so in many places. With 41,285 the French-speaking part of the coun- Thus a large part of the landscape has square kilometers try. The Tessin, where Italian is spoken, been sea bed and later seashore, on a small country, still seems somewhat cut off from this which the moraine was washed out by Switzerland sha- stream of activity, perhaps through ist the waves. res borders with geographical situation, located as it is on the other europe- the southern side of the Alps. • Eurythmy research: Annica Al- an alpine countries France to the West, venäng MA, Elisabeth Broager Grön Austria to the East, and Italy to the The results of the questionnaire from the MA expand their research in Vidar- South. The alpine range, 1200 Kilome- Eurythmy Therapy Forum show two pro- kliniken on eurythmy therapy in the ters long, divides middle Europe between blem areas for Switzerland. First, the treatment of cancer, respectively North and South. The Alps developed cooperation between anthroposophical exhaustion. Jane Schwab is in the in a process stretching over 135 milli- docors and therapists is unsatisfactory, last phase of the MA degree with on years, beginning from the Jurastic to as too few patients receive eurythmy Plymouth University on the theme Cretaceous periods, the study of which therapy prescribed from their physi- of documentation can give deep insights into the very be- cians. Closely connected to this is the ginnings of the hardening process of the question of how eurythmy therapy can • Eurythmy therapy training: 9 stu- once very maleable surface of the earth. establish its proper position within the dents from Scandinavian countries The first upward enfolding of the alpine very broad field of other complementary have finished the second block of range began more than 30 million years therapies and art therapies being active- classes in August. The next step will ago, creating the northern limestone and ly introduced throughout the country. In be doing their first auscultation. the southern dolomite structures. In a general, very few colleagues are able to • The Swedish Eurythmy Therapy As- very early epoch the whole apine area earn their living exclusively with euryth- sociation (LEF) elected a new pre- was covered by an ocean, which exp- my therapy here; most must be very fle- sident, Tiina Niskanen. Annica Al- lains the large percentage of limestone xible and ready to travel to varying work venäng and Margareta Dahlström deposits. On hiking trips one can often locations. will continue this year supporting find manifold varieties of fossils. In the meantime, several anthroposo- the council. Sidsel Enderud has be- Mont Blanc, just across the border to phical professions have already achie- come a new council member. Alto- France (and Italy), is with its 4810 Me- ved an official status in their fields (i.e. gether, we are 8 council members. ters, the highest peak in Europe (exclu- art therapy, special education, pedago- • The council has concerns about the ding the Caucasus). The Dufour peak gy) and are now reglemented national- conditions for eurythmy therapists (4634 Meters) in the canton of Wallis ly. On the other hand, health insurance working in schools, since there is is the highest in Switzerland itself, alt- companies are now becoming more and less and less possibility to work. hough the Matterhorn (4478 Meters) more restrictive in their payment for all our anthroposophical therapies. To meet • AnthroMed® guidelines were ad- with its characteristic form is the most this challenge, the HEBV is preparing opted by LEF General Assembly in distinctive and well-known swiss alpine a dossier to present eurythmy therapy June without changing the statutes. landmark and the most beautiful and properly as a method, which will soon be The next step is to further clarify re- most oftened photographed mountain in sent to all insurance companies. quirements necessary to apply for the world. In the face of all these challenges, we the label. The ice-ages and the subsequent mel- are very pleased that as of September • Further education courses: Pirkko ting of the glaciers approximately 10,000 2012 every HEBV member can now re- Ollilainen gave last May a well-at- years ago carved the landscape of the ceive the quality label AnthroMed® Eu- tended course on anxiety, stress, alpine countries with their deeply cut rythmy Therapy, through which she or fear, and fatigue. Now in October valleys, rivers and lakes. Large forests, he can show their work as belonging to she continues. meadows and pastures and the fields of and being an essential part of the an- • Vidarkliniken was accredited in June the midlands predominate the landscape throposophical medical movement as a with the AnthroMed® label. of present-day Switzerland. whole. • The right to use Anthroposophic medicine in Sweden is still not clari- New Developments for eurythmy thera- fied with the government; however py: In this alpine land with 4 (!) official languages, 216 eurythmy therapists of THAILAND: an experienced lawyer is working on Hermann Wessels it together with a team of experts. various nationalities support the developmental work of eurythmy therapy (>[email protected]<) through their membership in the Swiss professional association (HEBV). In This year no big addition there are a number of active flood and no- ri colleagues working here who are not af- ots. But actual- filiated with the HEBV. ly nothing has At the annual meeting in April two more changed. It‘s only colleagues joined the board of HEBV, a a question of time very fortunate development, as the work when in one or load can now be carried on four pairs of the other way the shoulders instead of just two. difficulties come The restructured eurythmy therapy trai- back...... ning in Switzerland began a new course Therapeutic eurythmy work is going on; this summer with 13 students from Tai- I even got in touch with an interested doctor.

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UKRAINE: USA: rythmy Training for Dental Anomalies Tatjana Gontscharenko Maria Ebersole was attended by 20 eurythmists. It was (> rb1968 (at) mail.ru<) (>[email protected]<) an inspiring week full of rich collegial working together. The addition of dentist From Ukraine: to Claus Haupt as presenter this year broa- Over the past year dened the scope of content. His detailed our great joy, the there has been a first part of the lectures on the development of the teeth great deal of acti- and the relationship to the formative planned three- vity to strengthen year eurythmy forces deepened the work with specific our profession eurythmy exercises brought by Mareike therapy training in North Ameri- took place in Kiev Kaiser. This year included a few actual ca. ATHENA has case studies of children in the communi- on the 10th of been stable and September. All ty so we could work with a living picture consistently active of an anomaly. We observed and stu- sixteen students for several years. had completed their basic eurythmy died tooth impression molds to learn the Our membership characteristics of various bite situations. training in Kiev over the last ten years. is currently 56 full members, we have There was a lot of preparation and the One participant presented her case stu- many associate members and school dies from the previous school year as result was very beautiful. members as well. We are fortunate to The following eurythmy therapists are one step toward receiving official certifi- have support, not only from the Rudolf cation in dental eurythmy from Dornach. currently working in Ukraine: Steiner Charitable Trust, but also from • Zoya Mazur in Kiev — eurythmy Other participants will be preparing pre- the WEF/Glenmede Trust and the Cam- sentations during the coming year. therapist in a therapy centre and phill Foundation. An appeal has gone out the Waldorf school; to specific donors to support a ‘Children/ • Tatyana Goncharenko in Dniprope- In collaboration with the Anthroposo- families in need Fund’ for therapeutic phic physicians and therapists, ATHENA trovsk — doctor and eurythmy the- eurythmy. rapist at the Waldorf school, with her also organized a lecture/demonstration main focus on children with challen- in Spring Valley on Dental Therapeutic In August the step was taken to apply Eurythmy, which was attended by over ging behaviours, attention deficit ® for the AnthroMed trademark for our 50 people. hyperactivity disorder and all kinds members, an expression of the growing of partial achievement deficits; consciousness of the global dimensions We continue to strengthen our connec- • Julia Jiltzova in Odessa: in private of anthroposophic medicine, and our practice and at a therapy centre. tion to and support of the Therapeutic role as representatives within it. The as- Eurythmy Training in North America TE- pect of agreeing on goals for ourselves Geographically, Ukraine is a European TNA. Placement places for the current regarding professional development has students are being worked on. country between Poland, Hungary, Ru- been inspiring: Mutual support thrives mania and Russia. In the West of the as colleagues meet in a growing number country are the Carpathian Mountains The situation remains that it is very of local study groups in the different ge- challenging to make a living solely as a with their limestone formations, running ographic regions, larger workshops and from the North-West to the South-East. therapeutic eurythmy practitioner. There offerings through ATHENA or related or- are currently only a few members who In the centre we stand on granite and ganizations are offered consistently and iron, and there is coal mining. In the manage this. They live in areas where business or tax seminars can also be there are multiple anthroposophic insti- South, the Crimean peninsula pushes pursued. Our wish is that this step will out into the Black Sea. tutions and established physicians who strengthen the quality of each practitio- can refer patients. Others must rely on All three cities where eurythmy thera- ner and the therapeutic eurythmy over- py has found a home lie on the Dnieper, a combination of jobs in different fields. all, thereby ensuring its place among the The question of health insurance is a Ukraine‘s greatest river: Kiev in the Nor- healing arts and the anthroposophical th; Dnipropetrovsk in the centre; and challenge for those that have several medical work worldwide. part-time positions. Odessa in the South — the city on the This August, the second year of the Eu- sea. This year two new ATHENA Board members have joined, who live and work on the west coast. We see this as an opportunity to span this large continent with consciousness and mutual support.

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FIELDS OF PRACTICE

Preamble for better collaboration with anthroposophic doctors, or for higher payments from the health insurance companies. (90 In each of the six or seven fields of colleagues — out of the 310 responders — are able to live from practice, subject-specific collaboration their work with eurythmy therapy.) Many ask about public re- will become increasingly important in cognition. This brings up the question once more: is it down the coming years. New illnesses are to us, because of our lack of courage perhaps, that we do not developing at all ages and stages of have the confidence to come forward in public life; or do we life. For questions of eurythmy thera- not know how to (because of lack of know-how); or do we not py to go deeper requires sharing feel prepared through our training? between professional colleagues. The research projects which are beginning The next steps will be: to share the email addresses of the will succeed only if practising euryth- representatives of the fields of practice with each other; sha- my therapists bring their experience ring the names of colleagues with the representatives of the into them. fields of practice in their own country; further evaluation of the questionnaires; passing on the resulting suggestions and I officially began working as joint co-ordinator for the euryth- working on them. my therapy fields of practice in May 2012. Looking back, I can see the embryonic beginnings of this work in the Dele- gates Conference at the World Eurythmy Therapy Conference in 2008, when the representatives for the fields of practice Mareike Kaiser from Germany, in full sight of everyone, took their place on the Coordination fields of practice great stage among those from different countries. Everyone in the Eurythmy Therapy Forum of the Medical Section present could see in which countries and fields of eurythmy at the Goetheanum, Dornach, therapy we are actually working with patients — whether eu- Switzerland rythmy therapy is brought to a child of kindergarten age or [email protected] a school pupil; whether patients are treated with eurythmy therapy in a clinic or in private practice; or whether one is working in social therapy or with elderly people. Work in the individual fields of practice is so varied and differentiated that working together as colleagues has proved very fruitful. This has been the experience over several years, for instance at the Early Years big conferences in Munich for eurythmy in schools.

This way of working together should also be increasingly possible between colleagues from different countries. At the seminars for eurythmy therapy for the teeth in countries outside Germany, it seemed obvious that there should always be time for questions on the work of the Eurythmy Therapy Forum. From these it became apparent that in the meantime, and very gratifyingly, forty-five colleagues from ten countries had put themselves forward as representative of fields of practice.

In order to realise this international work in the fields of practice, the representative of the fields of practice must know the names of their colleagues working in other countries in the different fields of practice. How else other than by means of a questionnaire could such a survey be carried out? Thus the first questionnaire was developed at the end of May 2012, and sent to 1300 colleagues. This first part of the questionnaire cannot be anonymous, of course.

My concern was that, if such a questionnaire had to be filled 2012 was characterised by international meetings. At Easter out, then the whole exercise should be worthwhile. In this the World Kindergarten and Teachers‘ Conference took place. way the further questions came about which would be relevant The theme was „The Path of the I into Life — End of the Line or for the sharing work in the fields of practice. As this part po- Development toward Freedom?“ and participants worked hard sed mainly personal questions, it would understandably have to get to grips with it in a variety of approaches. been better to have had it without people‘s names being asked for. As a novice in this field, I apologise for my beginner‘s Those in the conversation working group on eurythmy therapy mistake. in the first seven years worked on the question as to how one could come to a deeper understanding of human developmen- So far 310 questionnaires have been returned from sixteen tal forces though work on the sounds, in order to grasp the countries, for which I would like to thank you warmly. (More variegated riddle of developmental disorder in its real depths. than 20%, but not yet a quarter!) I hope many more will still There was also a study on developmental disorders of speech come in. I have them at home, either as hard copies or in in the Netherlands. It was particularly delightful to work with digital format; they are kept confidential. I would like to say the colleagues from there. something about the last two questions, as many people are concerned, or have wishes, concerning the attainment or We were fortunate to have been joined by Michaela Gloeckler maintenance of high quality in eurythmy therapy. Many ask in Frankfurt for our annual professional development course

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for eurythmy therapists and doctors. She spoke about the We meet three times a year in regional meetings, where we challenges in the 21st century for a medicine that has its sour- speak about the current situation and look for approaches to ce in the mysteries and on its related impulse of eurythmy finding solutions. These meetings also involve continuing pro- therapy. The theme was „ inner and outer imitation. How can fessional development, and for sharing professional matters. the universal, cosmic content of the sound be so enlivened that it can become effective in building up the body?“ We wor- A further conference on eurythmy therapy in schools took ked on it from the aspect of human studies, and also deepened place in Munich in March 2012. There were around a hundred the theme in practical work groups. participants (eurythmy therapists and some school doctors). We are attracting increasing numbers from other countries. In the context of professional development, we looked at the methodology and content of the corrective therapy of the Ins- The dialogue among eurythmy therapists working in schools is titute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology. This is based on the generally collaborative and intense. materialistic basis of nineteenth century neurophysiology. It is spreading increasingly in the pre-school and lower school settings of our Waldorf educational movement. How can we Kristine Rohde make the transformation of consciousness that would take us from corrective to developmental therapy?

We were glad to be able to begin a working relationship with the training for kindergarten and school doctors. Curative Education and Social Therapy

There is real concern about the increasing trend toward bringing education under state control. This has meant a steadily In special schools, rising need for therapy in the younger age groups. There is “inclusion“ is cur- real concern that the fundamental forces of human develop- rently an important ment may no longer be able to lead over into age-appropriate issue requiring work forming of abilities. and attention. The

ideal of inclusion is to create conditions Elke Neukirch enabling every child to develop individually according to his capacities. The goal is a “school for all” Eurythmy Therapy in Schools – as already embo- died in the Waldorf School.

Waldorf special schools are currently required to revise their own model and engage with methods involving individually tailored remedial support for children of the most varied kinds. Increased emphasis on therapy is also required, so that we can do our best for a growing number of traumatized children and adolescents.

In the field of social therapy, too, there is currently anem- phasis on helping residents to manage their own lives. Increa- sing significance is now given to creating individually adapted forms of independent living in “sheltered housing”, along with supervision and support for couples.

Ultimately, realization of inclusion is a task for the whole of society, and an issue that affects not only people with “learning difficulties” but also old people, those from a “migrant background” and others. How can all such people be included in the social fabric?

Last year we were engaged with seeking to embed eurythmy At the same time, care of children and adults with psychiatric therapy more deeply in Waldorf schools. It is still not a matter conditions is increasingly becoming a challenge for institutions of course that schools engage a eurythmy therapist. It is the and schools – and therefore increasingly figures in further trai- same with learning support teachers. One can see that the ning courses. area of learning support, of which the supportive measures of eurythmy therapy are also a part, is offered less and less by This year, the 6th professional conference for eurythmy thera- schools, as funding for the whole area of learning support can pists and physicians took place at the Sonnenhof in Arlesheim no longer be guaranteed. Alternatives may be offered, some on the theme of “Psychiatric illnesses in curative education of which undercut eurythmy therapy and the anthroposophical and social therapy”. The two preceding conferences had consi- approach to learning support, as free competition is increa- dered psychosis, neurosis and depressive illnesses. This year singly the aim. Action is needed here! However there are also we tried to deepen our insight into those suffering from trau- schools in which eurythmy therapy could gain more standing ma and borderline personality disorder. Herr Walter Dahlhaus and recognition. introduced participants to the theme in two lectures, the tenor

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of which allowed us to gain an initial understanding of patients’ It is an arduous beginning for a eurythmy therapist in private mental distress. practice — and yet we all manage it again and again. Courage and enthusiasm for the profession, certainty of the world‘s In a very fine and subtle way, founded on her great- expe need for eurythmy therapy, particularly in our time now, en- rience, Frau Ursula Langerhorst practised with us the basic courages us to take a chance and surely calls helping forces eurythmy therapy exercises in a form suitable for these pati- to our side. ents. We gained a direct sense of the blessing that eurythmy therapy can give here. Wherever any of us may find ourselves in our work in private practice, with grateful patients and helpful doctors, we are In tone eurythmy, Frau Roswitha Schumm enlivened and re- united by the knowledge that this therapy belongs in the world freshed us. We worked on diverse qualities of rhythm in form today more than ever. Yes of course, there are many good and gesture. therapies in the world today, but eurythmy therapy is and will remain something special; we need really to be aware of this. On the final evening, Herr Dr. Ingo gave us a very lively first I wish you all, dear eurythmy therapy colleagues in private insight into the cosmological aspects of organ diseases and practice much joy, the grace of spiritual presence of mind du- into the future importance of these aspects for understanding ring the therapy and — why not — much success! human health and illness.

The days we spent together as participants this year were im- Marlene Purucker bued with a very harmonious, calm and insightful mood. This was a very accurate reflection of what is needed for people who bear deep wounds in their soul and who in future will increasingly need our help. Eurythmy Therapy in Clinics

Carola Adam-Roettig In 2012, in Havel- höhe on the outs- kirts of Berlin, a meeting of euryth- Private Practice my therapists working in clinics took place — the first for ten years.

The day filled with encounters, sharing experiences and insights, and encou- raging each other to be mindful of the essence of eurythmy therapy — not to water it down in the daily round of life in a clinic.

We also looked at the question of working with eurythmy therapy in groups, requested more and more frequently by our managers. For What are the implications today of placing eurythmy therapy which clinical pictures does it make sense; for which does it in the world through private practice? not? In any case, this should be clearly distinguished from eurythmy therapy. Whoever has completed the long journey from their basic training in eurythmy through to qualification as a eurythmy the- We shall meet again on 16th February 2013 at Herdecke. rapist will be confronted sooner or later by the question: how Please let me know if you wish to come. do I want to practise what I have learnt, what has become my profession? While the familiar possibilities of working with This time the only other country represented was Switzer- eurythmy therapy in Waldorf schools, curative schools and land — we would like to link up with colleagues from further anthroposophic clinics, all of which offer a connection to the afield!!! community of an organisation, the eurythmy therapist who chooses work in private practice takes courageous steps to- With warm wishes from rod to rod, wards an unknown and unpredictable future.

Generally they are quite alone. Once they have found a space Eva Maas-Küstermann to work in, they seek o make contact with the surrounding doctors and medical practices, which often turns out to be quite a struggle. Then there is the actual point of the whole matter: the patients. Where are they to come from; who re- fers them; how are they to know that there is a eurythmy therapist there?

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Eurythmy Therapy with Elderly People Eurythmy Therapy in Catastrophe and Conflict Situations

During the last year eurythmy therapy came to Libya. Even before schools had reopened after the civil war, we were able to approach teachers and mixed age-group project groups there with various artistic proposals. Our arts therapist had to take into account the ban on images in Islam, which is construed in various ways in the different schools and taken either more or less seriously. Eurythmy and/or eurythmy therapy were offered in professional development courses for teachers and in the classroom. People suffering from sleep disorders mentioned the beneficial effect again and again.

Even now, after the end of Libya‘s months-long civil war, there is still shooting at night, and this frequently reawakens the horrors that were experienced then. There is great joy, almost euphoria, at the successful liberation after 42 years of dictatorship. Nevertheless the children and their families have gone through hard times and anxiety is written in the faces of many of them. One can be amazed at the importance ascribed to this phase of life, when one looks at it from the point of view of spiritual stART international has been sending a team of therapists and science. teachers to Libya every month since October 2011, with the task of stabilising traumatised children and young people the- In a public talk in Berlin, given on 28th February 1907, Rudolf re. The Libyan Education Ministry‘s great interest and good- Steiner said: „When a human being attains an advanced age, will have led to broadly conceived professional development what they develop in their inner life becomes able in the future courses for teachers, which have been received with open ears to create the body and its organs; later on, it will also become and hearts. Hundreds of teachers have implemented 5–10 mi- co-active in the cosmos. nutes of movement exercises at the beginning of each lesson as they realise it makes the children more receptive. To be For the past ten years I have been offering „sitting eurythmy“ there when a nation transforms its education system is such in a centre for elderly people in Dortmund, in Germany. The a joy! participants are aged between 75 and 95. stART international was active again in Haiti this year where, The main aim is to move and permeate eurythmically what nearly three years after the catastrophic earthquake, much can still move — beautifully and with joy. Again and again help is still being asked for. that leads to remarks such as „that‘s beautiful“, „that does me good“, „that‘s refreshing“, „that warms me up“, „that‘s loo- sens me up“, „the sharp pains I was having became milder“, „my headache has gone“, „I‘m not feeling dizzy any more“, and so on…

We gear the movement to the season of the year and always begin with the week‘s Soul Calendar verse. We take individual sounds from the verse, which help us connect with the content.

In the rest of the session we work on hygienic exercises and basic elements of eurythmy. At the same time we work on engaging the soul through imagining and feeling in doing; we also seek to activate the breathing, the organs, the back and the limbs. It is particularly important to give the feet and hands a good working-through. Taking up and developing suggestions from the group brings joy into our doing.

With our hands and arms we paint circles, ‚I‘–lines, triangles, spirals, lemniscates and five-pointed stars into the light-air; then carefully inscribe them into the aura of the earth with our You are welcome to find out more on our website: feet. In this work with elderly people, we apply in a concentra- http://start-international.org/index.php?id=3&lang=en ted form the whole spectrum of hygienic eurythmy‘s potential As our work is much in demand, our organisation is constantly for healing. growing and we are looking for qualified co-workers. If you could imagine working with us and are a teacher or therapist Part of the meaning of growing old is that the spiritual is able with an anthroposophic background; if you have professional to arise from the body, which is breaking down and decaying, and life experience, and feel motivated by interdisciplinary and become a „co-worker in the cosmos“. and inter-cultural work — then I look forward to hearing from you. [email protected] We have been able to find new colleagues from the different Helga Loth countries of the earth through the International Teachers‘ and KIndergarten Conference in Dornach; this has made our teams more international, which we are very happy about.

Myrtha Faltin

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.... that‘s life

 I did Hallelujah alone at the school in Seoul, South Korea, Worldwide Hallelujah for 100 Years of Eu- while preparing for teaching. (Eun Sim Chan) rythmy — Whitsun, 27th May 2012  Cobie Roelvert, a eurythmist, facilitated an hour-long workshop on Hallelujah in the Anthroposophical Society‘s Sophia House in Cape Town, South Africa, which culmina- ted in our doing Hallelujah at 1.00pm in a communal deed  I did Hallelujah alone at the station, at the end of one of with the world community! (Christiane Wigand) the platforms. This was a special experience for me, as I had to wait for my departure time and had the oppor-  At midday in Rudolf Steiner House, London, on the stage tunity to call up before my inner eye everyone who had recommended by Rudolf Steiner for eurythmy, nineteen supported me in any way in my intention of becoming a eurythmists (including seven eurythmy therapists), four eurythmy therapist. After I had done Hallelujah, a flood of speakers, a musician and a lighting designer, there to re- children‘s faces came to my inner eye, quite unexpected hearse Cosmic Verse for Eurythmy (later shown at the and unsummoned. They were all children with whom I Centenary Summer Eurythmy Festival at the Goethea- had done eurythmy or eurythmy therapy. Afterward, deep num), shared in a festive Whitsun celebration of Hallelu- joy and gratitude filled me. It was a moment in which I jah. (David Macgregor) felt a moving communality. (Miejef Callens)  Two colleagues in the clinic took up this initiative. In the week before Whitsun they offered a group practice session for Hallelujah, at 7.20am for co-workers and at 6.00pm Conference in Tbilisi, Georgia, for patients. The number of people taking part varied and, on the 100th Anniversary of Eurythmy as the moment approached and our excitement grew, we „Eurythmy — an Art of the Future“ wondered how many would be there on Whit Sunday at 1.00pm… There were actually more than sixty people who This year, at the annual Spring conference of the Anthroposo- came to move together in a moving Whitsun mood. It was phical Society in Georgia, we celebrated the 100th anniversary a great joy for everyone! (Raute Hilgard) of eurythmy. This year‘s conference took place at the Waldorf  Aban Bana and I were at our Waldorf teachers‘ seminar school in Tbilisi. Many participants came from the Anthroposo- at Khandala in India, and we did Hallelujah with around phical Society and from the school — parents, pupils, teachers eighty students and teachers! (Dilnawaz Bana) — and from other anthroposophic organisations. It became a big community festival.  In the Andreas Hall at Vidaråsen, a social therapy community in Norway, with twelve people. (Simone Wantz) In her opening talk on the birth and development of eurythmy, Nino Waschakidse of Tbilisi spoke of all the dead friends whose  At the clinic, with an elderly Waldorf school craft teacher, love for eurythmy has made possible the first beginnings of who died in the summer. (Heiđa Olafsdottir) this art in Georgia. There followed a demonstration by seven  Last May 27, Walter and I did the Halleluiah just outside eurythmists of the first indications for eurythmy. It was pos- the St. Anna Kapelle near Verscio. We did it so: Walter sible to experience the lofty spiritual background of eurythmy, and I were 90 degrees apart „on a square“ and we moved and this created a foundation for the whole conference. 4 times to the next point so that we could do the Hallelui- The following day was devoted to eurythmy in schools. In the ah facing North, South, East, West. (Grace Zozobrado) morning, pupils from the Waldorf school gave a performance and Nunu Gobedshischwili gave a lecture on the educational  We did Hallelujah at Whitsun in the Anthroposophical So- aspect of eurythmy. In the afternoon, participants were of- ciety with members and eurythmists. Other members did fered various working and doing sessions on educational, so- Hallelujah at home at the same time. (Nino Waschakid- cial, hygienic and therapeutic aspects of eurythmy. se)  In Hungary, fourteen eurythmists and five musicians did Then teacher training students showed some of their work Hallelujah on the stage together during a dress rehearsal with eurythmy. In conclusion there followed a plenum conver- for a eurythmy performance. (Maria Scheily) sation on the tasks and aims of eurythmy in schools; participants — not only members of the Anthroposophical Society  Eighty eurythmy therapists and doctors did Hallelujah to- and parents but teachers also — experienced the conversation gether on Whit Sunday at the Whitsun Conference of the as important and something that would give impulses for the German Professional Association in Leipzig — movingly future. aware of the same deed happening around the world. The day was rounded off with an artistic performance by (Angelika Jaschke) eurythmists working in Tbilisi: Medea Burnadse, Nunu Go- bedshischwili, Miriam Dutschidse, Nino Waschakidse, Barbara  Alone at home, in the knowledge that there are many of Weber, Maia Karanadse, Lela Prangulaschwili as well as Boude- us doing it at the same time. (Mareike Kaiser) wjin Fehres, a guest from the Netherlands.  A small group did Hallelujah in the centre of Helsinki. In the breaks, refreshments in the form of a delicious buffet Another group did Hallelujah in a park with a view over were provided in the playground by Class 11 students, and the sea. Many others did it at home, or wherever they the participants were able to engage in lively conversations on happened to be, in the forest for instance. (Anne-Marie their impressions of the conference. Somero) On the Sunday, Boudewjin Fehres from The Hague gave a con-  Around Sweden there were groups and people who in fa- cluding talk on the future tasks of eurythmy. The conference milies or with friends or alone took part in the event. 25 closed with eurythmy. A peaceful and festive mood informed eurythmists and friends of eurythmy gathered together the participants, which made it possible for us to experience 27. May at Ytterjärna Culture Center (former Rudolf Stei- the being of eurythmy in and among us. ner Seminar) for doing Hallelujah, in sunshine outside in Nino Waschakidse the garden. (Tiina Niskanen) Council member of the Anthroposophical Society in Georgia Eurythmy therapist at the „Therapy House“

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An approach to the Eurythmy Meditation “Steadfast I stand...”

(prepared for the delegates‘ meeting September 2012)

• Moving a circle with 12 steps, right way around, left • Add colours into every limb: way around; adding the circle with the arms in the left foot – violet blue, frontal sphere. right foot – larkspur blue, left arm – dandelion yellow, • Moving a pentagon, right way around, left way right arm – seed green, around, 2 steps from place to place; arms find the head – peachblossom pink points of the pentagon. (The colours add transparency from one‘s own soul activity) • Moving a pentagram, using only the right arm when starting to the right, only the left arm when starting • From the head place of the pentagram move on the to the left, 3 steps from place to place. (Suddenly circle starting to the right until the place of the “left one moves out of the eternal realm from before and foot” - “Steadfastness” - back to the “head” with 3 starts breathing with every movement...) steps. From the head place of the pentagram move on the • Move 3 steps to the “left foot”: “Steadfast I‘ll stand circle to the left until the place of the “right foot” in the world” - “Certainty” - back to the head with 3 steps. 2 steps to the “right foot”: “With certainty I‘ll tread From the head place of the pentagram move on the the path of life” circle to the right until the place of the “left arm”- 3 steps to the “left arm” : “Love I‘ll cherish in the “Love” - back to the head with 2 steps. depth of my being” From the head place of the pentagram move on the 3 steps to the “right arm”: “Hope shall be in all my circle to the left until the place of the “right arm” deeds” - “Hope” - back to the head with 2 steps 2 steps to “the head”: “Confidence I‘ll impress into Standing, concentrating on the space behind. “Con- my thinking” fidence” “These five lead me to my goal” - jump into the Move straight forward, arms in the frontal sphere five-pointed star Move straight backwards, arms in “reverence”. “These five gave me my being” - jump into closed uprightness with “reverence”. (One combines the astral sheath -pentagon- with (This is a replica of the silent form before the Foun- the etheric -pentagram) dation Stone Meditation !) • Standing: Step into your left foot, into your right foot, open the left arm and look into the open palm, the right arm and look into the open palm, both hands onto the forehead, jump into the five-pointed star, jump into “U” (legs) with “reverence”(arms). With the verse. (One arrives at the physical body – out of the higher sheaths)

Indication and working:

“The pentagram restores the form of the etheric body.” R.St. In this exercise the pentagram is combined with the pentagon, harmonizing the astral with the etheric body. One does not move with the sentence, but has arrived and rests during the sentence, connecting oneself to eternal virtues. That has an uplifting effect. The indication for this exercise is to do it with children turning 10 years old, a time, when the “Rubi- con” needs to be crossed, a time of greater inner loneliness and separation from the world around. Rudolf Steiner gave this exercise in his “Guidance for esoteric schooling”, as no. 12. At first he gave only the nouns “Steadfastness, Certainty...” to be contemplated with each limb, later the whole sentence was to be practised with the movements.

In my sequence here there is the path from the circumference to the centre and from the centre back into the circumference. One can use it thus depending on the patient and the specific need.

Christiane Wigand Hermanus, South Africa [email protected]

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South African Journey……… I had to cover long stretches between places, and our colleagues took it in turns to look after me, which they always It is good that my family is spread over almost all the con- did very kindly; they made sure that I managed to form an tinents in the world. My sister-in-law, for instance, lives in a impression of their land of many extremes. suburb in the hilly vineyards round Cape Town; she provided a place for me to stay on my arrival to begin working with my I saw (in passing) vast townships of many kinds. A sea of colleagues in South Africa. low, corrugated iron huts, crowded together, with dusty paths between them. My first impressions were bicycles, goats, We began our work together, in the home of the Anthropo- chickens — and endless numbers of black small children. It is sophical Society in Cape Town, with a weekend workshop in amazing suddenly to see, right next to a barbed-wire fence, which six of the a beautifully designed Waldorf school exclusively for the black seven euryth- children of the township. Eurythmy is a real gift to these my therapists children who take such an uninhibited delight in movement. worked on the They love eurythmy lessons and the element of eurythmy that eurythmy me- educates the body is directly and immediately apparent. ditations. The work together Waldorf kindergartens are also increasingly being founded in was intensive the townships with black trained kindergarten teachers. and we were I had the impression that Waldorf education is made for South able to get Africa. It meets a real need there — and manages to meet that to know each need in harmony with local culture. other through our concern The original request for me to visit was in connection with for eurythmy the impulse to establish a eurythmy therapy training in South therapy, and Africa — to answer the demand from the mainly young gradu- share and ex- ates of the eurythmy school. We therefore had many meetings change. with Julia O‘Leary, Stephen Lloyd and Christiane Wigand. Titia Jonkmans had already spent some years preparing the ground We considered the worldwide tasks of anthroposophic medici- for this. It was now a matter of elaborating it in practice and ne, and eurythmy therapy in particular, from the perspective forming the content of the curriculum. It soon became clear of South Africa. that there are not that many anthroposophic doctors in South Africa. A request for the International Postgraduate Medical In this way I got a good impression of the concerns and needs Training to hold a course in South Africa was therefore made of this continent so far from Europe, as well as some of its to Michaela Glöckler, and it will take place in January 2013. different national, cultural and climatic features. This will enable an anthroposophic medical impulse to take its Elizabeth Kotzuba — the seventh in the group — was already place among naturopaths, complementary doctors, homeopa- seriously ill at that time. I was able to visit her however. She ths and therapists — which will stand the budding eurythmy was a mainstay of the eurythmy therapy work in Cape Town. therapy training in good stead. She died on 9th September 2012 and, from the other side of the threshold, will surely lend her support to new eurythmy On the last therapy impulses. weekend, I was taken to the For the following two weeks we had arranged that I would visit Little Karoo (an our colleagues in their different places of work in a gesture inland semi-de- of intervision, where we would work at questions and share sert/steppe), thoughts in relation to actual patients. where I could get up close and I visited many wonderful Waldorf schools with coloured, black personal with and white children; kindergartens; a Camphill village offering giraffes, rhinos, social therapy (Hermanus); the large Christian Community; apes, zebras the teacher training seminar; and the Kairos eurythmy school, and gazelles, carried by Silke Sponheuer. and experience the unbelievab- le heat, the hot midday storms and breath-taking starry skies below the Southern Cross — all this was my gift to take home with me.

Dear Colleagues in South Africa — I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your openness; for the good conversations; for helping me in my endeavour to understand this far-off land; for bearing with my often tenacious questioning; and for how we together created, in what was often hard work, a forming impulse for our common eurythmy therapy task in the unique situation of your country.

In solidarity — your Angelika

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International Further Training 2013 More information on www.forumHE-medsektion.net

Topic Date Place Contact 11th further training in the field of practice Nov. 16 - 17 Frankfurt/ Elke Neukirch eurythmy therapy in the early years“ Main, DE [email protected] „The traumatized child - wounds of the soul and the sources of healing processes“ 11th further training in the field of practice March 1 - 3 Munich, DE Kristine Rohde eurythmy therapy in schools [email protected] „The polarity of blood and nerves in children‘s development“ 7th further training in the field of practice October 2 - 5 Arlesheim, CH Carola Adam-Roettig curative education and social therapy [email protected] Further training in the field of practice February 23 Berlin, DE Thilo Riebold elderly people: Exchange among colleagues [email protected]

Further training: Eurythmy therapy for the eyes February 8 - 9 Eurythmeum Michaela Trefzer „Work on the 3rd part of the Eurythmy Therapy Course Aesch, CH [email protected] taking ophthalmology into particular consideration“ Further training: Eurythmy therapy for the teeth Course 7 January 11 - 13 Aesch, CH Mareike Kaiser Course 1 February 1 - 3 Aesch, CH mareike.kaiser @gmx.at Course 6 March 1 - 3 Linz, AT Course 2 April 19 - 21 Aesch, CH Course 5 / Course 6 June 2 - 8 Moscow, RU Course 7 June 14 - 16 Milan, IT Course 2 / Course 3 / Course 4 July 22 - 28 Flensburg, DE Course 2 / Course 3 / Course 4 Oct. 28 - Nov. 2 Hamborn, DE

Further training: tone eurythmy therapy Jun. 30 - July 3 Aesch, CH Annemarie Bäschlin Jul. 29 - August 2 Tel. 0041 33 681 16 18

Annual conference of the German Professional May 17 – 20 Stuttgart, DE [email protected] Association (BVHE®) Austrian Professional Association „Documentati- January 25 - 26 Vienna, AT Maya Küsgen on in the field of eurythmy therapy“ (Anja Meier- maya.kuesgen@therapeutikum- hans) linz.at Swiss Professional Association (HEBV): Lung April 20 - 21 Arlesheim, CH Gabriele Lang diseases with Dr. med. Olaf Koob and Pirkko [email protected] Ollilainen, eurythmy therapist

Swedish Professional Association: Further October Järna, SE Tiina Niskanen training with Pirkko Ollilainen on „Anxiety, stress, [email protected] exhaustion“

Further training in summer: with Margrit Hitsch July 4- 6 Dornach, CH Roland Tüscher „The O and its ambit“ roland.tuescher@medsektion- goetheanum.ch

Further training at the Alanus University: Eurythmy in schools (Sebastian Junghans) January 7 - 11 Alfter, DE Ephraim Krause, Tone eurythmy Symposium II March 8 - 9 Tel. 0049-(0)2222- 9321-1274 Tone eurythmy therapy (Shaina Stoehr) March 11 - 15 [email protected]

Whitsun Conference 2013 in Dornach: „The enlightening of the heart“ Meeting within the International Conference for Young Doctors for all antroposophic therapy methods: Future impulses for eurythmy therapy. Conference for young people in education and at the beginning of their working carreer May 18 - 25, 2013, Goetheanum, Dornach/Switzerland Contact: Swantje Harlan [email protected] Registration: [email protected] www.enlightening-the-heart.org

46 International Eurythmy Therapy Forum Newsletter No 10 December 2012

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• General reports on eurythmy therapy/Eurythmy Note: Therapy Forum send to Angelika Jaschke: This years‘s photos were taken by Charlotte Fischer, Irmga- [email protected] rd Sodenkamp. Some were sent to us by other people and • Reports of the country representatives send to publishing licences were purchased from databases for the Monika Margesin: rest of them. [email protected] • Reports from the fields of practice send to Mareike Kaiser: CONTACT: Goetheanum [email protected] School of Spiritual Science • Reports from the professional associations send to Medical Section Monika Eichele: Post Box [email protected] CH-4143 Dornach / Switzerland • Reports from training send to Ursula Browning: [email protected] Website: • Reports from research and documentation send to www.forumHE-medsektion.net Anja Meierhans: dokumentation@forumHE-medsektion.net E-mail: • Reports from the field ofpublicity work send to [email protected] Regina Delattre: [email protected] [email protected]

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