Feeling overwhelmed by emotional patterns, relationship drama, or inner confusion?
This course won’t give you platitudes — it gives you precision tools to heal, clarify, and transform your life from the inside out.
In four Saturdays (or twelve Monday sessions), you’ll learn concrete spiritual methods that:
- Process emotions without bypassing or over-analyzing
- Shift your relationships by changing how you perceive & interact with others
- Help you speak & act in alignment with your higher self
- Learn to work co-creatively with spiritual beings to heal your karmic patterns for yourself, for your community, & for humanity — through your free will
In times of inner or outer turmoil, anthroposophy calls us not to flee from the challenge—but to meet it with strength, clarity, and courage. This course offers a grounded, step-by-step path for spiritual development rooted in meditative methods inspired by Knowledge of Higher Worlds and refined through decades of social-spiritual practice.
Whether you’re confronting personal dragons or sensing global unrest, these tools will help you meet life with harmony and heart. Get ahead of the Michaelmas impulse this August, or join us for the Autumn cohort beginning on Michaelmas Day itself for a slower-paced experience.
Two Ways to Join:
AUGUST COHORT
? Four Full Saturdays – August 2, 9, 16, 23
? 8:30am–5pm PT / 11:30am–8pm ET
(One-day retreat style)
AUTUMN COHORT
? 12 Monday Sessions – Sept 29 to Dec 15
? 3–5pm PT / 6–8pm ET
(Paced weekly for integration)
Live on Zoom | Interactive Format
Why Now?
Michaelmas is a season of courage, of facing darkness with light. This course gives you the inner tools to rise to that task—not abstractly, but practically.
If you’ve been searching for a way to bring more peace, clarity, and moral strength into your life and our world, this is it.
? Accessible pricing available for those on fixed incomes or in need—just ask.
? Register at AnthroposophicSoul.com
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1. ? Individual Meditative Methods
“Clear your mind. Strengthen your inner peace. Connect with your higher self.”
Each of these methods can be used in daily life to deepen insight, regulate emotion, and align with spiritual truth.
2. ? Group Practices & Shared Processes
“Experience empathy. Practice perspective. Transform how you relate to others.”
These group methods teach co-creative listening and spiritual dialogue, supporting social healing and collective insight.
3. ? Integration & Application
“Bring your meditative insights into real-world action.”
Some methods or frameworks span both categories, helping participants apply what they’ve learned to everyday life, planning, or larger spiritual questions.
Course Instructors:
Susan Overhauser, PhD, is a psychotherapist, teacher, and long-time student of anthroposophy. She brings over 40 years of experience in spiritual research, inner development, and trauma-informed healing. Susan is known for her gentle clarity, deep listening, and ability to guide others into direct, soul-level experiences of truth and transformation.
Arianna Golden, MS, is a biomedical engineer, meditation guide, and spiritual researcher whose work bridges inner development with practical transformation. As an autistic adult with ADHD, Arianna brings unique insight into how neurodivergent perception reveals spiritual truths — and how to translate those insights into daily life. Her teaching blends anthroposophic meditation, yogic tradition, and lived experience to help others find clarity, freedom, and healing from within.
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Paloma Hall
4096 Fairway Drive, Soquel
| August 2: THE LOGIC OF THE WILL This class introduces a method to instill harmony and healing in social connections and contexts. It builds on the Logic of the Heart practice, introduced in July. The Logic of the Heart is a method for purifying perception, lifting our consciousness out of the astral body so that our awareness becomes objective and we can perceive what is true when looking at our soul life. To be able to purify our perception through the Logic of the Heart is the necessary first step for the Logic of the Will exercise. Through the Logic of the Will human relationships and conflicts can be healed, bringing harmony and well-being into community life. This fosters healing in the present and helps prepare for the future. October 4: WORKING WITH CHAINS OF REPEATED OCCURRENCES Working with both the Logic of the Heart and the Logic of the Will, this class introduces a method to foster healing for our life experiences, connecting us to the Grail stream. Participation in one of Dietlind’s previous classes is a prerequisite for this class. Dietlind Kionke-Thoemmes was born in Germany where she trained and practiced as a physician before moving permanently to Marin County in the U.S. in 1995. Her deeper impulse, rooted in Anthroposophy, was always to bring healing not only to the physical body but also to all the layers of the human being. In 2003, she became deeply inspired by the work of Armen Tougu, a Christian Community priest who was visiting San Francisco at that time. As she heard his descriptions of his work with a group of his congregants, she could see how Anthroposophical wisdom was able to illumine pressing social and destiny questions, leading to positive solutions and significant healing. Armen based his approach to inner and social healing on the exercises described by Rudolf Steiner and has, supported by an international group, developed a body of basic methods of concentration and meditation for inner and social healing in our time. Dietlind began her study and practice with Armen in 2003, pursuing this path intensively. In recent years she has been providing counseling and instruction in the basic methods and has also been teaching more comprehensive courses built on these methods. She recognizes that inner and social healing are what is needed if humanity is to evolve towards the tasks of the future. |
| The fee for first-time participants is $100 per day. The fee for participants who have taken the class previously is $60 per day. Commitment to the series is not required. Participation in the July 12 or August 2 classes is a prerequisite for the October 4 class. |
In our last MysTech webinar, we explored the twelve senses. At our 2023 conference, we turned our attention to resonance. Now, we invite you to join us for a new conversation—one that listens deeply to the living qualities of music and the instruments that carry it.
What makes a musical instrument more than wood and strings? Why do certain instruments move us so deeply, while others remain silent to our inner life? How can the craft of instrument making become a path of consciousness and care?
These are questions that have accompanied master violin maker Arthur Bay for nearly fifty years. In this special webinar, Arthur will share his journey, his research into the original instruments of Franz Thomastik (1883–1951), and the living tradition of anthroposophical violin making that began in Vienna and continues in his Hamburg workshop today.
You’ll also meet our host, Aleodor Lazarescu, an engineer and Waldorf educator dedicated to deepening the practical and spiritual understanding of technology and education.
Whether you are a musician, a maker, or simply someone who listens with wonder, you are warmly invited to join us for this exploration. There will be time for questions and conversation.
Can’t attend live?
Register now and you’ll receive a link to the recording.
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Saturday, July 12, 9:30 AM
Paloma Hall
4096 Fairway Drive, Soquel
This is a three-part series, based in the work of Rudolf Steiner, to take place on three separate Saturdays: July 12, August 2, and a September date to be determined. The first class introduces the practice of “The Logic of the Heart”. This is a method for finding inner peace and connection to the Higher Self. The second class introduces “The Logic of the Will”, a method to instill harmony and healing in social connections and contexts. The third class introduces “Working with Chains of Repeated Occurrences”and builds on the first two practices to introduce a method for healing our life experiences, connecting us to the Grail stream. Commitment to the series is not required. Participation in one of the first two classes is a prerequisite for the third class. Classes meet 9:30 – 6:30, with snack and lunch breaks.
Dietlind Kionke-Thoemmes was born in Germany where she trained and practiced as a physician before moving permanently to Marin County in the U.S. in 1995. Her deeper impulse, rooted in Anthroposophy, was always to bring healing not only to the physical body but also to all the layers of the human being. In 2003, she became deeply inspired by the work of Armen Tougu, a Christian Community priest who was visiting San Francisco at that time. As she heard his descriptions of his work with a group of his congregants, she could see how Anthroposophical wisdom was able to illumine pressing social and destiny questions, leading to positive solutions and significant healing. Armen based his approach to inner and social healing on the exercises described by Rudolf Steiner and has, supported by an international group, developed a body of basic methods of concentration and meditation for inner and social healing in our time.
Dietlind began her study and practice with Armen in 2003, pursuing this path intensively. In recent years she has been providing counseling and instruction in the basic methods and has also been teaching more comprehensive courses built on these methods. She recognizes that inner and social healing are what is needed if humanity is to evolve towards the tasks of the future.
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]]>As San Francisco Waldorf School students, we’ve had the immense privilege of being taught eurythmy by many incredible teachers, most recently during the inaugural Youth Eurythmy Conference hosted at our high school campus. After workshops taught by Virgnia Hermann and Sea-Anna Vasilas, we discussed the possibility of re-establishing a summer youth eurythmy intensive hosted by Eurythmy Spring Valley. Through this one-week intensive we hope to create a space for young eurythmists to engage deeply with the pedagogical and spiritual foundations of eurythmy.
There are 6 of us: three graduating seniors whose last chance this may be to do eurythmy, and three rising seniors. We are hoping to raise a total of $7,500 to cover the costs of flights ($2250) and tuition ($5250)
In supporting this initiative, you contribute not only to the cultivation of artistic excellence but to the continuity of a tradition that seeks to harmonize inner and outer life through conscious movement that will continue to live on through us and future generations of the SFWHS Youth Eurythmy Troupe.
A History of Modern Yoga Through an Anthroposophic Lens
Yoga as it was understood in the early 20th century, and as Rudolf Steiner spoke about it, is in fact completely different to how yoga is practiced in modern culture.
In this lecture, Arianna Golden will share the story of how and why the meaning of the word “yoga” has changed over the past 100 years. This story may invite you to ask: is modern yoga aligned with modern anthroposophical values and practices? Can a modern anthroposophist practice yoga and still be an anthroposophist?
Event Details:
When: Sunday 1st of June 2025, 8am PST (Calendar link emailed upon registration.)
Where: Online, zoom link emailed upon registration.
Register Here: https://anthroposophicsoul.com/the-re-enlivening-of-yoga-between-1925-and-2025/
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