Autumn 2016 The Second World Eurythmy Therapy Conference Athena The ATHENA Board members Table of Contents 2016-2017 Announcements, Articles, Page Dale Robinson, President and Interim Treasurer Reviews, and Reports Liaison to AAMTA/oversees AnthroMed Oakland, CA Letter from the President, Dale Robinson 4 510 339 2769 Letter from the Secretary, Mary Brian 4 [email protected] Letter from the Editor, Maria Ver Eecke 5 Jason Yates, Vice-President, Recording Secretary, Web Designer “Meeting the Challenge of Development Issues 6 West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada with Therapeutic Eurythmy” Dale Robinson 778 508 3554 [email protected] “The Physiology of Inspiration” by Dr. Husemann, 8 Mary Ruud Mary Brian, Corresponding Secretary Cowichan Bay, BC, Canada “The Formative Forces” Workshop with Dr. Hans 9 [email protected] Broder von Laue and Ellen Schneider, Mary Ruud Eurythmy with Ellen Schneider in “The Formative 10 Andrea Marquardt-Preiss, IKAM Liaison Forces” Workshop, Mary Brian Seattle, WA [email protected] Report of Dr. Michaela Glockler’s Workshop on 12 the Seven Life Processes in Relation to Eurythmy Susann Herb-Eddy, AWSNA Representative Therapy, Maria Helland-Hansen Southfield, MI Report about Workshop with Elke Neukirch, TE, 14 248 376 1154 and Tatjana Garcia-Cuerva, MD, Andrea Preiss [email protected] Morning Eurythmy Groups, Gillian Schoemaker 18 Stella Elliston, Children-in-Need Fund Four Stages of Knowledge using the Example of the 18 Alford, MA Sequence LAOUM and “I think speech” 413 528 9226 Alla Bikchurina [email protected] Reports: Carol Ann Williamson; Mary Brian; Susan 20 Miyoung Schoen, Membership Walsh; Cynthia Gelder; Truus Geraets; Linda Fair Oaks, CA Larson; Andrea Preiss 916 844 7389 [email protected] Front Cover: Dr. Hans Broder von Laue; photo by Gillian Schoemaker Back Cover: Embryo on the Zodiac, Johannes Starke Representatives in the particular Fields of Therapeutic Eurythmy ATHENA Newsletter Please send contributions to: Early Childhood/Kindergarten – Mary Ruud Maria Ver Eecke, Grade school – Andrea Marquardt-Preiss 34 Margetts Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977 Clinical Settings – Mary Brian [email protected] Private Practice – Dale Robinson Deadlines: April 1 and Nov. 1 Curative Education/Social – Gillian Schoemaker Although welcomed, Elder Care – Jeanne Simon-MacDonald the viewpoints expressed in the Crisis and War Zones – Truus Gereats ATHENA Newsleter are not necessarily Dental Eurythmy – Polly Saltet those of the publisher. Eye Eurythmy – Barbara Bresette-Mills www.therapeuticeurythmy.org www.forumhe-medsektion.net 4 Athena Letter from the President took a deeper look at these processes as they take place in the limb-metabolic, rhythmic and nerve-sense systems of the “When the human being enters the spiritual world through human being. An hour of was given to one of these systems imaginative, inspirative and intuitive cognition, he meets the each morning for all the conference participants to experience master craftsperson, the being who creates and builds, who how therapeutic eurythmy nourishes and addresses ‘digestive’ works on us even before our consciousness dawns, who builds difficulties in these three realms. up the human body where we are as yet incapable of working For 2016 the ATHENA Annual General Meeting on ourselves consciously, because this work proceeds in our (AGM) was held at the AAMTA meeting in Petaluma. We subtle organization and in the subtle elaboration of our body. ended up not having the time we wanted to enter into any This is where the I that comes out of the spiritual world is at substantial discussion, but we got the usual reports and work, on the subtle formation not only of the brain but of the necessary ‘business’ taken care of. In 2017 it looks like there whole body.” will be some great opportunities for TE conferences coming The above quote by Rudolf Steiner, from up in different parts of the country. There are Tone Eurythmy Menchengeschichte im Lichte der Geistesforschung, GA 61: Therapy Courses offered here in the States by Jan Ranck. 28.3.1912 (not published in English), appears in the middle of Also, Michael Leber is holding a course in Seattle on the the little booklet compiled by Elke Neukirch called Paths to a Zodiac toward the beginning of August. In light of these other Science of the Living with the subtitle: Texts and Meditations professional development opportunities the ATHENA Board for Deepening the Work in Eurythmy Therapy. This booklet, has decided not to hold its own annual summer conference. An newly translated into English with the help of donations from additional conference on top of what is being offered would English-speaking countries from around the world, including likely be too much for most of us. So for 2017 we will also be several generous donations from ATHENA members, became trying for the first time an on-line AGM where you can join in available just in time for the Second World Eurythmy Therapy from where ever you are. Please send us topics you are (WET) Conference in Dornach. If interested, you can write to interested in discussing and look for the up-coming AGM Doris Witter at the Medical Section at http://sekretariat@ announcement. medsektion-goetheanum.ch. I first met Jan Ranck shortly after she finished her Seventeen ATHENA members traveled to Dornach in eurythmy training, when she dropped by my house on a visit May to the WET Conference to meet colleagues, to be to a relative who lived down the block! Jan has specialized in inspired, enthused and nourished and to bring back their therapeutic Tone Eurythmy as developed by Lea van der Pals experiences to the rest of us in the many reports offered in the and Dr. Margarete Kirchner-Bockholt and as taught for many present issue of the Newsletter. This experience, along with years by Annemarie Baeschlin. Jan is now offering Tone the meditative gems that are contained in the little booklet of Eurythmy Therapy courses around the world. By the time of Elke mentioned above, will continue to inspire and nourish your reading this newsletter her first ten day course in our work for many years to come. We are very grateful to the America will have been completed in Chicago. For those of us generous grants received from the Rudolf Steiner Foundation, who were not able to attend she is offering another course this the Waldorf Education Foundation and the Rudolf Steiner summer from July 20 through July 29, 2017, in Beaver Run, Charitable Trust that made it possible to offer travel support to Pennsylvania and perhaps another on the West Coast (to be 15 of our members who attended the conference. announced). The ATHENA board would like to encourage all Shortly before the WET conference we held our members who are interested to attend, to meet and catch up as second Pre-IPMT Workshop in California at Rudolf Steiner colleagues and to get ‘toned up’. We have again received College. The theme was Allergies and Asthma and we had a Professional Development funds from the Waldorf Education very stimulating collaboration with Dr. David Gershan as our Foundation this year for which we are very grateful. Limited keynote speaker. On April 22, 2017 we will hold our third Pre- funds for travel and/or tuition are available for those in need IPMT workshop, again at RSC. We will be exploring with Dr. of financial assistance to the Tone Eurythmy Therapy Courses Siegward Elsas, head of the Neurology Department at the as well as the Pre-IPMT Workshop mentioned above. Arlesheim Klinik, how therapeutic eurythmy can work with Music of the Spheres as it appears in tone or vowel, in neurological conditions. Dr. Siegward Elsas works with rhythm and form, along with the formative sculpting forces of patients having conditions such as Parkinson, MS, epilepsy, the consonants issuing out of the fixed star constellations – dementia and autism, and has a long standing relation to these are the tools given us as the foundation of our training as therapeutic eurythmy and to America. Look for details in our therapeutic eurythmists. And every time we come together at Association email notices. conferences or stand alone in front of a patient we have an At the beginning of August we were given a great opportunity to work with these tools and fine tune these opportunity to bring therapeutic eurythmy to the physicians forces. What a deep and holy task! In the above quote by and other attendees of the AAMTA conference in Petaluma, Rudolf Steiner we see how every human being has been California. The theme was Nutrition and Digestion and we involved with these same forces and processes –as master Athena 5 craftsperson, unconsciously, with the help of the hierarchies, Coordination Team in the Department of in the process of incarnating. However difficult it may be for Eurythmy Therapy of the Medical Section us in our time to make a living as professional therapists we September 2016 should not forget that we nevertheless receive the gifts of the Dear Eurythmy Therapists throughout the world! spiritual world in our work. This is the deeper support that We would like to inform you, that Ellen Schneider, my helps us carry on. And with this we will go strongly into the successor as IKAM-Coordinator, will not take her new post, future, in order to bring healing to those who healing need. due to personal reasons. Before the Annual Conference, the Warmly, existing team and I have developed an interim solution, which Dale Robinson will be tried in the upcoming year. There will be a Coordination Team responsible for the Letter from The Secretary work in the Department of Eurythmy Therapy in the Medical Dear ATHENA Members, Section. This team will work in close communication together.