January 17th – 31st ( 3 sessions) TU 8:15 – 9:30 am – Eurythmy for Healthy Eyes -with guest Eurythmist Barbara Bressette-Mills at www.eurythmyonline.com

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. 

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BDANC Norcal Community Network

This email and its corresponding website anthroposophybayarea.org has been providing information about anthroposophical institutions and activities in California for several decades, mostly due to the work of one person who now needs to move on to other tasks. We need some volunteers to keep this service going. It doesn’t take a lot of time or expertise, and you can help out from the comfort of your own home.

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!

Candlemas – a Cross-Quarter Festival Heralding Spring –
with Willow Summer & Hazel Archer-Ginsberg

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.

^SUPPORT FIRE IN THE TEMPLE

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.

^SUPPORT FIRE IN THE TEMPLE

(Price Update)

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:

1. Separation: Learning to detach from one’s subjective perspective
2. Logic of the Heart: Learning to order one’s feelings and uncovering one’s sense for truth
3. Practicing Empathy
4. Dialog with spiritual beings
5. Meeting one’s higher self
6. Manifesting free impulses (the Zodiac meditation)
7. 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

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, 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

Greetings,

We are very happy to invite you to become a Farm Member with Three Springs Community Farm CSA for the 2022 season. We have a number of spots left to reach our goal of 80 Families. We are greatly in need of partnership with Anthroposophical friends in the Bay Area to create a thriving Farm Organism that can continue into the future!

If you are interested in CSA Membership, please click on this link to view more information and signup: 

https://forms.gle/rXCzVB4R9GXQd8QAA

Feel free to send an email to [email protected] or call 707-876-1860 or 510-409-3214 with questions.

About our Membership Program (CSA):

Our season begins in March and continues through early December of each year.

Our offerings are distributed on Wednesdays, through free choice members-only farmstand at Berkeley Rose Waldorf School and Golden Bridges School in the Excelsior (SF). We also deliver pre-packed share boxes to sites in Terra Linda, Pacific Heights and El Sobrante.

Products include:

• Seasonal vegetables & herbs
• Goat cheese (chevre cheese) & Goat milk Yogurt (Dairy herdshare)
• Pork & goat meat a few times a year (8-10 packages of sausage, bacon, cuts & lard) (Meat herdshare)
• Flower bouquets
• Herb tea blends
• Farm visits, events & camping for you and your guests at our beautiful 80 acre farm & ranch.

 We grow over 40 different vegetables each year.

Each week’s share includes the following categories:

• Salad greens
• Cooking greens
• Root vegetables
• Brassicas (Broccoli/cauli/cabbage)
• Culinary herbs
• Goat dairy products
• Flower Bouquets (every other week)
• Other vegetables, for example, snap peas, onions & garlic, tomatoes, corn, squash, cucumbers, potatoes, brussels sprouts, tea, meat, etc. come in their season.

Annual Membership Fees are sliding-scale, based on Steiner’s principles of Associative Economics. Prospective members receive the Farm budget and make a pledge that works for their family budget, taking the needs of the farm into consideration. If the budget is not met by all the pledges, we conduct additional pledge rounds until it is met. Payments may be made monthly, quarterly, or as one annual payment.

About Our Farm:

We are a (relatively) new Biodynamic farm and educational program in Bodega, Sonoma County. Since 2017 we have been welcoming urban Waldorf students to our farm for school group visits, as well as developing the infrastructure for our Membership CSA Program, and starting our Farm Apprenticeship Program to train the next generation of sustainable farmers. 2020 was our first full year of vegetable production. Your farmers are Willow (yours truly) & Lew Summer.

Our growing methods are Biodynamic and “beyond Organic”: we work with the material aspects of farming using organic practices, and also include the spiritual aspects of Biodynamic farming by applying the field sprays (horn manure, horn silica and equisetum); applying the compost preparations (nettles, yarrow, chamomile, dandelion, oak bark and valerian); and working with the Elemental Beings of earth, air, water & warmth; the Being of the Farm; the Being of the Earth; and the Spiritual Hierarchies as we move through the land.

Our regenerative practices help to draw carbon down into the soil from the air, where it is causing damage and changing our climate. Our farm is contributing to reducing climate change, and our Members are integral to this important climate action, creating a more livable planet for our children and future generations.

Please feel free to call us. And by all means arrange to pay a visit to the farm to assess whether Membership would be right for you at this time.

Warmly,

Farmer Willow