Immerse yourself in three full days of meditation, practical methods, and group exercises designed to strengthen your inner peace, empathy, sense for truth, and ability to work co-creatively with others. While meditating takes focus, most participants find themselves rejuvenated by this workshop!
Whether you’re familiar with anthroposophy or exploring new spiritual practices, this course offers tools to help you free your mind from clutter, navigate relationships with clarity, and connect to your higher self.
The meditative methods taught are based on indications in Rudolf Steiner’s Knowledge of Higher Worlds and his other texts. Processes are broken down step by step, following spiritual laws, resulting in meditative methods that are powerful and effective. Spur your movement forward on your spiritual path through these amazing methods.
What to Expect:
If you’re ready to step into a more grounded, peaceful, and empowered version of yourself, this workshop will give you tools and practices to:
- Let go of mind-clutter and emotional drama.
- Navigate relationships with greater clarity and equanimity.
- Discover tools to help you connect with your higher spiritual purpose.
- Harmonize thinking, feeling, and willing.
What You’ll Discover in this Transformative Workshop:
Through a combination of individual meditations and group work, you’ll:
- Develop your capacity for empathy and perspective-switching.
- Strengthen your sense for truth and inner peace.
- Learn to process feelings and beliefs while transforming inner hindrances.
- Connect to spiritual beings and to your higher self.
- Navigate challenges with clarity and balance.
This workshop isn’t just about intellectual ideas—it’s about practicing and applying methods that support your inner growth.
You’ll engage in hands-on exercises, share your experiences with others in an intimate and immersive setting, and leave with tools you can apply immediately to your personal and spiritual growth.
Saturday, February 15
- Planetary Parliament
- Logic of the Heart
- Image Dialogue
- Laws of Feeling
- Sympathy & Antipathy
- Empathy & Inner Peace
Sunday, February 16
- Planetary Parliament
- Logic of the Heart
- Perspective Switch
- Finding One’s Task
- Logic of the Will
- Laws of Willing
Monday, February 17
- Planetary Parliament
- Logic of the Heart
- Finding the True Name
- Zodiac Meditation
- Review/Preview
Workshop Facilitators:
- Susan Overhauser, PhD: International lecturer with over 30 years of experience in meditation and anthroposophic psychology.
- Arianna Golden, MS: Biomedical engineer and meditation guide, using these methods daily to overcome sensory overwhelm and connect deeply with others.
Join us in El Sobrante, CA | February 15-17, 2025 | 9AM to 5:30PM Daily
$300 Fee Includes: 3-Day In Person Course, Lunch (vegetarian & gluten free options), snacks, handouts, and online resources. You can request sliding scale or more information via the contact form on the registration link.
Register Here by February 14th
Exact address available after registration.
January 25th – Candelmas – a Cross-Quarter Festival Heralding Spring with Willow Summer and Hazel Archer Ginsberg – 3 pm: Gathering, 5 pm: Potluck – – Storytelling – meditation – ritual. Please bring food and drink to share. Contact: Three Springs Community Farm, Bodega, CA – Contact Willow
January 26th TH, 7 pm – Farming and Finance: CSA’s, Land Trusts and Farms of Tomorrow, Growing Sustainable Children, with Willow Summers and Ronni Sands – at Sebastopol Gravenstein Grill – 8050 Bodega Ave. Contact: [email protected]
January 28th, 2pm – Velsum Voices Presents: New Nightingale, New Rose – with Lucien Dante Lazar and Ultra-Violet Archer, A Benefit for Nancy Poer in the Peace Garden at White Feather Ranch, Placerville, CA. Can’t make the concert? RSVP to receive directions to White Feather Ranch [email protected]
January 31st, at 5:30 PST – Webinar for Parents: Strengthen Immunity and Manage Childhood Infections Successfully at Home by Daciana Iancu, MD In this webinar, you will learn about how you can support your children at home through childhood infections such as viral illnesses, respiratory infections, and fevers. You will hear about natural ways and home remedies to strengthen children’s immunity and prevent unnecessary infections. Additionally, you will receive tools to manage viral infections at home and feel more comfortable with fevers. Find out more and register at https://anthrosonoma.com/workshops
Order now for Book Study Group: Goethe’s Science of Living Form – The Artistic Stages by Nigel Hoffmann – BDANC is planning an online creative and interactive study of living form through modalities of physical thinking, imagination, inspiration and intuition. Dates Early February – to be arranged. This book, recently reprinted by Adonis Press is available here . More information forthcoming soon.
BDANC Norcal Community Network
]]>Anthroposophybayarea.org is a WordPress website, and WordPress makes it fairly easy to log into the website dashboard to upload new posts. Then, a magical email plugin sends an email out once a week (Wednesday nights) when there are new posts. So simple! The WordPress site manages all of the email list add-ins and opt-outs and email formatting.
We need some volunteers who are willing to receive email with requests to post information to the email list/website, and then to transfer event information and pictures into the website as a new “post.” Organizations who regularly put on events are able to sign up as users to post their own events.
We could also use a volunteer who is willing to check out and update all the information on the website regarding California anthroposophical institutions, schools, groups, etc. This would mean checking links to see if they work and if addresses are current, and email some groups to follow up to make sure they are still meeting and that the information is current.
Ideally, someone would be willing to step forward who could slowly take over full administration of the site. This would mean getting to know WordPress a bit better, logging in periodically to activate the recommended updates, and setting up new users (such as organizations who could add their own posts) with a user account and permissions. There are a lot of ways to learn WordPress available online, and you can also receive help from the old webmaster.
One further volunteer possibility is for someone to check in periodically with the Anthroposophical Society of America regarding new members in California who may want to sign up for the email list. Cross-posting significant events onto the ASA calendar could also be quite helpful.
Please, if you would like to help out in any way, simply email [email protected]. So many people will be grateful, including those who appreciate knowing what’s going on anthroposophically in California!
The website costs several hundred dollars to host annually, which is currently being donated mostly by just one person. We could really use some donations annually to help with the costs. Please consider helping out by sending a check payable to Susan Overhauser to the address at the bottom of the email you received. Thank you so much for your support!
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25 January 2023 – Program – 3 pm PT – Potluck – 5 pm PT
Please Bring Food & Drink to Share
- Storytelling: The Alchemy of Celtic Triple Goddess Brigid
- The Year of the Water Rabbit –
- Tu B’Shvat –
- Rudolf Steiner’s Seed Meditation –
- ‘Charm the Plow’ – consecrate the gardening tools
Three Springs Community Farm
15300 Bodega Hwy, Bodega, CA 94922Contact Willow for more info.
Saturday, January 14 in Pasadena
Los Angeles Branch
110 Martin Alley, Pasadena
11:00 AM Part One
12:30 Lunch
2:30 PM Part Two
Monday, January 16 in Soquel
Paloma Hall
Camphill California
3920 Fairway Dr., Soquel
4:00 Part One
5:30 Dinner
7:00 Part Two
Wednesday, January 18 in Fair Oaks
Stegmann Hall, Meristem campus
9200 Fair Oaks Blvd.
Fair Oaks, CA
5:00 Part One
6:30 Dinner
8:00 Part Two
A full-scale–production tour
with a full cast of twelve actors and eurythmists
is in the works to premiere in September, 2023.
This will only be possible
with your donation.
Crafted from actual events and discourse, Fire in the Temple, dramatizes Rudolf Steiner’s final months and brings to the stage the people around him, including two extraordinary women, Marie Steiner von Sivers and Dr. Ita Wegman, both of whom stood by him until the very day of his death – and beyond. Their personal conflicts, hopes and sorrows are sensitively portrayed in this rigorously researched drama.
Switzerland, 1923. Spiritual teacher and clairvoyant Rudolf Steiner works to waken people to hidden realities. Religious and political enemies oppose him, and his pupils struggle to grasp their task. But ancient memories and faithful friendships persist.
Please help create this historic centennial achievement. Ticket sales can only cover about fifteen percent of the costs. Our professional cast and crew will be giving up their everyday employment to devote themselves one hundred percent to this worthy task for several weeks, and they deserve appropriate compensation. Your donation will also help fund their travel, housing and meals, as well as original music, sets, costumes, lighting and sound. (Your donations are tax deductible to the full extent permitted by law.)
Thank you for supporting our vision and being a part of this extraordinary undertaking. Any amount you give will help us achieve our goal.
Mail donation checks, payable to “Lemniscate Arts Inc,” to
Fire in the Temple,
C/O Lemniscate Arts
117 Durham Rd.
Freeport, ME 04032
Or use any debit or credit card, or your Paypal Account. Our “support Fire in the Temple” button is easy to use.
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Getting to Know Vidar
A talk by Susan Overhauser
Sunday, January 15, 3:15pm
San Francisco Waldorf High School
470 West Portal Ave., San Francisco
As Michael transitioned from Archangel to Archai, the being known as Vidar stepped into Michael’s position as ruling Archangel. Who is this being, and how does he relate to Michael and Christ?
This talk will provide some background information about the being known as Vidar and his importance for our current time. Vidar is known from Norse mythology as an Aesir (god) who survives Ragnarok and conquers the Fenris Wolf who is trying to devour the sun. Vidar can help us achieve the forces and discernment needed to conquer Ahrimanic and Luciferic influences.
Vidar has been active for a very long time, in close connection with Christ. Vidar is also connected to Buddhism, and to the purified forces of the “sister soul of Adam,” forces that did not go through the fall of man. Vidar’s task is very relevant to our times, and to the development of a true etheric clairvoyance. A verse for Vidar will be shared at the conclusion of the talk.
Karen L. Rivers
Join us for a study of Karen River’s book, and begin the work of transformation by learning about and identifying the Double in your own biography. Helping each other through conversations we will work to identify impulses and patterns, and strive to lift them into more ennobled ways of expression.
This online study group is forming at the moment, and we will most likely be meeting via zoom on a bi-weekly rhythm on Mondays at 7 pm.
Please contact [email protected], or [email protected], for more information and to sign up.
The book can be ordered here:
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Three Springs Community Farm
Greetings,
“This produce means the world to me …. to know that I’m eating pure vegetables from soil that is ALIVE, with varied, rotated crops, planted by loving hands. I’m so grateful every week … it’s a staple in my well being along with the water that I drink. I’m grateful that I can share this sacred staple with my son too.”
~ Renée, 3 Springs Farm CSA Member
We are very happy to invite you to become a Farm Member with Three Springs Community Farm Biodynamic Vegetable CSA for the 2023 season. Preliminary Signups are due ASAP so we can plan for the coming season. We have 13 spots left out of our total of 80 memberships available. Please sign up and help spread the word so we can fill our membership by the end of December!
Farm Membership Sign-Up Form:
https://forms.gle/zcLQSdT1jnAc94ht9
Additional details about Membership can be viewed in this folder:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PlHa4TpoLKVVQMpZXr7IlTUDlpx4sOWi?usp=share_link
Website with more info about the farm:
https://anthrosonoma.com/3-springs-farm
About our Membership Program (CSA):
Our offerings are distributed to Members-only, and include Biodynamically-grown, seasonal vegetables, flowers, herbs, goat dairy products & meat produced on our farm in Bodega, Sonoma County. Membership includes free access to farm events & camping. Our sliding scale system makes our CSA accessible for low income members.
Our season begins in March and continues through early December of 2023.
Our growing practices are Biodynamic and honor the seen and unseen beings of the land. The resulting produce is full of vital life energy and is nutrient dense!
Farm Members may pick up at the following locations: Three Springs Community Farm in Bodega, Downtown Sebastopol, Terra Linda, SF-Pac Heights, SF-Excelsior, East Bay-El Sobrante, East Bay-Berkeley.
Vote with your dollars: Your support of local regenerative agriculture results in carbon draw-down and climate action and keeps circulating in the community rather than funding corporate, industrial agriculture.
For more information text/call Farmer Willow Summer: 510-409-3214.
Feel free to forward this email to your friends!
THREE SPRINGS COMMUNITY FARM / FOUNDATION
LANDLINE: 707-876-1860; CELL: 510-409-3214; MAIL: PO Box 44, Bodega
]]>Dear Friends,
You are invited to attend two courses that will take place this fall in San Rafael, CA, a Preparatory Course for Spiritual Awakening from September 15-18 and Intensive Course 1: Awakening to the Supersensible and Elemental World, from October 7-10.
In 2020-2021 a range of spiritual-scientific methods were introduced as a series of one preparatory course followed by seven progressive courses. The courses share a common theme of finding Ways to Social Healing. Participants will be introduced to reliable and practical methods to find one’s tasks in different life situations and to bring more harmony and meaning to one’s life. The methods expand on those based on Rudolf Steiner’s How to Know Higher Worlds and are a well-developed process of concentration, observation, and imagination.
Please RSVP via the Contact page at https://social-healing.org/contact/. Checks can be made out to “Max Gunther.” If you cannot afford the course fees, please contact us.
Dietlind Kionke-Thoemmes & Max Gunther
Preparatory Course for Spiritual Awakening
Thursday, September 15-Sunday, September 18
Thursday: 3:30 pm-7 pm
Friday-Sunday: 10 am-7 pm
Location: 108 Greenwood Avenue, San Rafael, CA
Fee for First-Time Participants: $275-355 (Sliding Scale)
Fee for Repeat Participants: $175
RSVP at https://social-healing.org/contact/
First-time participants are required to attend all units
This is a 3½ day course in practicing meditative methods leading to a deeper understanding of other beings through empathy, finding one’s own higher I, perceiving and fulfilling one’s karmic tasks.
We will practice these seven steps:
- Separation: Learning to detach from one’s subjective perspective
- Logic of the Heart: Learning to order one’s feelings and uncovering one’s sense for truth
- Practicing Empathy
- Dialog with spiritual beings
- Meeting one’s higher self
- Manifesting free impulses (the Zodiac meditation)
- Bringing it all together
Intensive Course 1
In this 3½ day course we will learn and practice methods to awakening to the supersensible and elemental world. Prerequisites: Participation in the preparatory course or equivalent experience. Attendance required for all units.
Looking Forward to Winter 2023
Intensive Course 2:
The Purification of the Soul
February 2023, dates to be announced
Open to all participants of Intensive Course 1
You are invited to attend two courses that will take place this fall in San Rafael, CA, a Preparatory Course for Spiritual Awakening from September 15-18, 2022 and Intensive Course 1: Awakening to the Supersensible and Elemental World, from October 7-10, 2022.
In 2020-2021, Armen Tougu, a Christian Community priest based in Stuttgart, Germany, introduced a range of spiritual-scientific methods in a series of one preparatory course followed by seven progressive courses. The courses share a common theme of finding Ways to Social Healing. Participants will be introduced to reliable and practical methods to find one’s tasks in different life situations and to bring more harmony and meaning to one’s life. The methods expand on those based on Rudolf Steiner’s How to Know Higher Worlds and are a well-developed process of concentration, observation, and imagination.
Preparatory Course for Spiritual Awakening
Thursday, September 15-Sunday, September 18
Thursday: 3:30 pm-7 pm
Friday-Sunday: 10 am-7 pm
Location: 108 Greenwood Avenue, San Rafael, CA
Fee for First-Time Participants: $350-$450 (Sliding Scale)
Fee for Repeat Participants: $175
RSVP here: https://social-healing.org/contact/
First-time participants are required to attend all units
This is a 3½ day course in practicing meditative methods leading to a deeper understanding of other beings through empathy, finding one’s own higher I, perceiving and fulfilling one’s karmic tasks. We will practice these seven steps:
Separation: Learning to detach from one’s subjective perspective
Logic of the Heart: Learning to order one’s feelings and uncovering one’s sense for truth
Practicing Empathy
Dialog with spiritual beings
Meeting one’s higher self
Manifesting free impulses (the Zodiac meditation)
Bringing it all together
Intensive Course 1:
Awakening to the Supersensible and Elemental world
Friday, October 7-Monday, October 10
Friday: 3:30-7 pm
Saturday-Monday 10am-7pm
Location: 108 Greenwood Avenue, San Rafael, CA
Fee for First-Time Participants: $350-$450 (Sliding Scale)
Fee for Repeat Participants: $250
RSVP here: https://social-healing.org/contact/
In this 3½ day course we will learn and practice methods to awakening to the supersensible and elemental world. Prerequisites: Participation in the preparatory course or equivalent experience. Attendance required for all units.
Looking forward to a further course in winter 2023
Intensive Course 2:
The Purification of the Soul
February 2023, dates to be announced
Open to all participants of Intensive Course 1
Please RSVP via the Contact page. Checks can be made out to “Max Gunther.” If you cannot afford the course fees, please contact us.
Dietlind Kionke-Thoemmes & Max Gunther