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The Healing Power of Art with Pamela Whitman and Ken Smith

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Online Distance Program

Discover the healing potential of art through painting, light and darkness drawing, sculpture, and form drawing. Develop your artistic abilities, build observation skills, and increase your sensitivity as a foundation for therapeutic artistic practice. The Healing Power of Art program is also a preparation for our 3-year Healing Through Art program.

October 2024-June 2025 | Cost: $1,080 ($120 per month)

Instruction via monthly online classes with follow-up assignments

In our time, there is a widespread need for the inner benefits that artistic work can provide. Artistic work is able to stimulate remarkable forces of healing. It is calming, centering, engaging, and enlivening and can direct our own life forces of health into positive pathways for our body, soul, and spirit.

The Healing Power of Art program will build a foundation in the health promoting aspects of art and provide the groundwork for further studies. This program is for people of all ages and levels of experience who want to discover the therapeutic aspects of art, with the online format allowing participation from around the world. Students will receive the most benefit by having their own workspace and by developing a routine of regular art practice. 

Click this link to learn more or to register.

The Genius of Language: The Literary Arts & Humanities Section.

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The Literary Arts & Humanities Section Conference – 2024
2024 Section Conference
Dear Friends and Members of the Section,
The Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities will host a North American Conference in two locations, San Francisco and Toronto, for friends and members of the Section in 2024. Christiane Haid, who is the Goetheanum leader of the Literary Arts & Humanities Section (Beautiful Sciences) and the Visual Arts Section of the School for Spiritual Sciencewill attend and present at both locations.
Click Here for Conference Details & Programs
Information on on the Conference details, including presenters, location, meals, lodging etc. and the Conference Program (lectures, events, performances) may be reviewed on the Section website by clicking here. Should you have further questions, please feel free to email us at NASectionConference2024@gmail.com.
We look forward to seeing you at one or both of the 2024 conference locations!
All best wishes,
Bruce Donehower (Section Representative to the Goetheanum) on behalf of the North American Section Leadership Group: Fred Dennehy (USA), Gayle Davis (USA), Arie van Ameringen (Canada), Robert McKay (Canada), Herbert Hagens (USA), Susan Koppersmith (Canada), Clifford Venho (USA), Robert McDermott (USA), Philip Thatcher (Canada)
Register Now for either one or both locations
“The Genius of Language”

Feminine Rhythm and Gesture

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Welcome to the Workshop Feminine Rhythm & Gesture, Arts and Music Therapies! Join us for a day filled with creativity and self-expression at 902 Santa Fe Ave. This workshop is designed to help you tap into your feminine energy through the power of rhythm, gesture, and therapeutic arts and music. Discover new ways to connect with your inner self and express your emotions through various art forms. Whether you’re a seasoned artist or just looking to explore your creative side, this workshop is perfect for anyone interested in delving into the world of arts and music therapies. Come join us for a day of inspiration and self-discovery!

Come join us for a fun and interactive workshop exploring the power of feminine rhythm and gesture through arts and music therapies!

Date and time
Sunday, May 19 · 10am – 12pm 

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-feminine-rhythm-gesture-arts-and-music-therapies-tickets-890676556557

Psychedelics and Spirituality

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Karl Maret, MD
David Eyes

Today’s Psychedelic Renaissance

An Anthroposophical Perspective

Tuesday April 23, 2024 at 7:30PM 

Resource Center for Nonviolence

612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz, CA

Today we are unquestionably in what many term a “psychedelic renaissance,” with increased social rehabilitation of these powerful agents taking place, perhaps foremost in the domain of therapy for behavioral health issues.

Many individuals who are exploring psychedelic drugs will experience, with varying degrees of intention and readiness, what can be recognized as encounters with the spiritual world.  With its strong materialistic leanings, our culture is lacking the concepts needed to begin to think or talk about these experiences from a robustly conceived viewpoint, such as is provided by Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy.

Join us in a dialog with our panelists, where we explore questions of how anthroposophy may relate itself to the surging interest in these powerful tools.

Douglas Wylie will moderate the conversation.

Dr. Karl Maret is clinic director at the Tree of Health in Aptos, CA providing Integrative Medicine services including Clinical Nutrition, Functional Medicine and Energy Medicine modalities.  He has given many presentations promoting health and wellness.  He holds an M.D. degree, a Masters in Biomedical Engineering and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He has been a student of Anthroposophia for many decades.
David Eyes is a lifetime student of anthroposophy, and current member of the Core Group of the local branch.  He is the author of the recently published Growing Up Psychedelic: Becoming Human in a World of Spirit.  It details his youthful experimentation with LSD and its transformational impact.  His experiences serve as material for a look at the psychedelic experience through the lens of Steiner’s teachings.

Celebrating Easter: The Meaning of the Earth

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Saturday, April 13 at Paloma Hall

Hosted by the Christian Community, Movement for Religious Renewal

in collaboration with the Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay Branch of the ASA

PROGRAM

9:30: Family Program (Story and Service for the Whole Community)

10:30: The Consecration of the Human Being – childcare available

11:40: Children’s Easter Gold Hunt

12:00: Potluck Lunch

1:00: The Grave of the Soul Becomes an Altar

Community Artistic Activities 

Singing • Painting • Drawing • Eurythmy 

3:30  Closing

Feel free to join us for all or part of the Festival program

Location:  Camphill California, 4096 Fairway Drive, Soquel

For more information contact Cindy at 831-325-3111

An Inner Journey Through the Year

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The North American Tour

Presented by the Karl König Institute

May 3-5, 2024

Fair Oaks CA

Your chance to experience Karl Konig’s 52 Drawings for each Calendar of the Soul Verse and also hear Richard Steel’s insights from his 50 plus years of working with these verses.

“The course of the year has its own life. With this life the human soul can unfold a feeling-unison. If the soul opens to the influences that speak so variously to it week by week, it will be led to a right feeling of itself’ Rudolf Steiner, preface to the second edition of the Calendar of the Soul in 1918.

Complete Program Below.

Advance Registration $75 for the entire weekend

(Registrants may schedule a guided tour- Space limited)

$80 at the door

$25 Friday Evening Only

Co-sponsored by The Faust Branch and The Christian Community of Sacramento

Singers Wanted

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Singers Wanted!

There will be an Easter Festival Event organized by the Christian Community on Saturday April 13 at Paloma Hall.  (More information to come!)

A small group of singers will be singing a beautiful Easter hymn in the morning during The Consecration of the Human Being service on the 13th of April, and also helping the community to sing the same song in the afternoon program.  

Singers are needed to prepare the song!  


Esther Centers will be leading our practices on Sunday March 17 and Sunday April 7, at 10:30, at Susan Cook’s home on the westside.  Please consider joining us!  The song is S-A-T-B.  A youtube recording of the hymn is attached.  Esther can provide you with a recording of the part you would like to sing in advance, if you would like.  Contact here if you want to join us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmyxqST_ypE

Easter Sunrise Singing

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Easter Sunrise Singing!

You are warmly invited to join in Easter Sunrise singingEaster Sunday, March 31st
Meet in Capitola* at 6:30 AM; sun rises at 6:54 AM.
Armand Ruby will provide music for all and lead the singing. 
*Same location as in recent years, on the Capitola/Jewel Box bluff. That spot has a nice southeasterly view, so weather permitting we will be able to see the sunrise, and there is plenty of free parking.

Location: aim your GPS for 1375 Prospect Ave., Capitola, CA 95010
As with every site, although unlikely, there is always the possibility that we will encounter another group of Easter celebrants, so if that happens we will adjust accordingly.
Parking: there should be plenty of free, open parking on Prospect Ave. and adjoining streets; you will see signs prohibiting non-permit parking, but that only applies during May-September. There is also paid (metered) parking down below on Cliff Drive, but we shouldn’t need to use that.
Please join us in singing-in the Easter sunrise!
There will also be an Easter Festival Event organized by the Christian Community in connection with the Branch on 
Saturday April 13 at Paloma Hall.  More information to come!

Why Evil?

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Looking at the human being as the battlefield

for the future of humanity

Tuesday March 26, 2024 at 7:00 PM
 Resource Center for Nonviolence
612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz, CA



Please join us in a salon-style conversation led by Penelope Baring, Co-founder and Vice President of Camphill Academy
Penelope Baring was born in Nova Scotia and has spent most of her life involved with Camphill in Ireland, India, and the United States. She has served the Anthroposophical Society on both the Eastern Regional and National Councils, the Asia-Pacific Initiative Group, as well as the Collegium of the School for Spiritual Science in North America. Currently concentrating locally on teaching Anthroposophy at Camphill Academy, she has lectured and led workshops for the past forty years.
We request our usual donation of $20
or $10 for current paid branch members.