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A Mystery Drama Workshop

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REMINDER – THIS WEEKEND
NOTE SATURDAY TIME CHANGES!

The Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay Branch
of the Anthroposophical Society
is pleased to present:

Laurie Portocarrero

A Mystery Drama Workshop

Exploring “The Portal of Initiation” as Theater

Friday, March 6, 7:00 PM 

Paloma Hall
4096 Fairway Drive, Soquel

We are pleased to welcome Laurie back after last year’s exciting workshop! This weekend acting workshop explores the complete text of Steiner’s first mystery drama, The Portal of Initiation, through a variety of engagements and exercises that explore the art of the actor. Laurie will be using a variety of techniques, exercises, and formats that she has developed throughout her career as an actor.

Workshop will begin Friday night at 7PM and continue on Saturday, from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (note changed time) and from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM Sunday. If you are unable to attend the entire weekend, don’t worry – you will be welcome to come for whatever segments (Friday, Saturday Morning, Saturday Afternoon, or Sunday Morning) that you can arrange. Don’t miss this! While it does work with the entire play, the activities are sufficiently “non-linear” that you will experience benefit if you just “drop in” for part of it.

There will be a break for one hour and fifteen minutes for lunch.

It is suggested that you bring a bag lunch although it will be possible to leave for lunch.

Laurie Portocarrero is an actor, storyteller, teacher, and director living in upstate New York. Trained in the Chekhov method, Spatial Dynamics, and speech formation, she has performed internationally, notably playing Maria in Rudolf Steiner’s mystery dramas and Marie Steiner in Fire in the Temple. Laurie tours internationally with colleague Glen Williamson in original two-person pieces including Fire in the Temple. She also tours with Crossing the Veil, exploring five real near-death experiences. She teaches drama and storytelling to Waldorf teachers and special needs communities. Laurie leads a Mystery Drama exploration group and gives workshops nationally on the mystery dramas and community-building through the dramatic arts.

A donation of $125 is requested to cover workshop expenses, payment on site.No one is excluded due to financial considerations.

If you think you will coming, please send an email and let us know!

Emergency Pedagogy – upcoming modules

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Upcoming Trainings with Bernd Ruf 

Module 5 and 11, July 5-10, 2026 in Wilton, NH

Module 6 online, May 22-23, 2026

Module 7 online, September 18-19, 2026

for more information and to register go here      

Upcoming Training with Reinaldo Naciemento

Module 5,   May 1-4, 2026 in Pasadena, CA

for more information and to register go here

Anthroposophic Meditation Workshop

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Agnes Hardorp and Thomas Mayer, Connecting to the Angelic World

“When one begins to meditate, one accomplishes the only really free deed in this human life…. we are completely free in this. Meditation is the archetypal free deed.” Rudolf Steiner (GA 214, 08.20.1922)

Meditation Workshop, March 6 – 8, 2026, at the

Golden Bridges School, 503 Cambridge St., San Francisco, CA 94134

Friday, March 6, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Saturday, March 7, 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Sunday, March 8, 9:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Course fee: $220, reduction possible

To Register fogeggs@gmail.com

for more information click here or visit www.anthroposophical-meditation.info

✦ Give Up Old Dead Thinking for Lent ✦

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An Introduction to Rudolf Steiner’s Control of Thought Exercise with Organic (Living) Thinking

Saturdays: 9:30am to 11am Pacific time • February 21, March 7 • March 21

WHAT? This Lenten practice invites participants to give up habitual, dead thinking and replace it with organic (living) thought with Rudolf Steiner’s Control of Thought exercise. The first of the Six Basic (Protective) Exercises.

HOW? Zoom- meetings will be recorded.

Participants will learn the laws of organic thinking and how to apply them directly to the Control of Thought exercise, creating their own organic (metamorphic)

thinking exercise to be practiced for 5 minutes a day during lent.
Bring a notebook and a blue, green, red and yellow writing implement.

WHY? To actively strengthen the soul force of thinking. “As long as you lack the power to reel in your thoughts, as if on a string, you cannot expect that the inner world will open itself to you.” – Rudolf Steiner, Berlin, February 15, 1904

WHO? For anyone who wants to put forth the effort to actively evolve their thinking capacity with good will.FACILITATORS: MaryAnne Young and Sally Greenberg
REFERENCE TEXTS
Enlivening the Chakra of the Heart – Florin Lowndes

How to Know Higher Worlds and Occult Science – Rudolf Steiner
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How to Live as a Meditant in the Current World

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A Zoom presentation
February 25 7 PM PT

Hosted by the Faust Branch

Robert McKay, a longtime student of Rudolf Steiner’s work, met anthroposophy at the age of 17. He is a member of the Toronto Branch of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada, and is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Rudolf Steiner College Canada. He provides lectures and workshops on anthroposophical meditation and other topics. He is a member of the School of Spiritual Science Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities. Robert works in healthcare management.

Thank you for your support.
Your admission fees pay for honoraria for our speakers.
Admission for Faust Branch Members $5
For Non-members $10
Supporting Members and Donors, no fee
You may pay using the donate button on our website faustbranch.org
Or By Check to Sacramento Faust Branch
(mail to Treasurer, Carol Nordaas, 7620 Woodglen Dr, Fair Oaks, CA 95628)

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Eurythmy Performances by Metamorflosis February 8th and March 1st, 2026

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Will the Future is a Eurythmy performance that takes you on a journey to uncover the origin of evil and the power in the human being that can transform it. The program features pieces by Franz Liszt, Sergei Rachmaninoff, J.S. Bach, Victor Hugo, Annie Lighthart, Diane Robitelle, Rudolf Steiner, and more.

Performances of Will the Future are Sunday February 8th at 3 and 6pm and March 1st at 6pm.

Sunday, March 1st at 3pm we perform: Los Tres Cerditos (The 3 Little Pigs in Spanish) a story for children and adults alike.

Reviews from audience members from our recent performance:
~Wow, I am speechless…I have seen a lot of Eurythmy in my life but never of such high quality.
~Thank you all so much for this meaningful performance! So heartwarming, funny and thoughtful!
~The creativity, the heart forces, the quality of your movements, the voice, the piano, the choice of words, it was a banquet and the souls of the human beings were changed.
~I just wanted to reiterate how wonderful the performance was the other night. Totally incredible!!

Sol Metamorfloses is a group of Eurythmists, Musicians, and Speakers who are dedicated to art as a transformative medium for their audiences and themselves.
Current members include:
Lilith Dupuis (Eurythmy)
Sebastien Dupuis (Eurythmy)
Joleen Spratt (Eurythmy)
Isaiah Spratt (Piano, Speech)
Jeremiah Turner (Speech)

Staying Connected Death Cafe

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Keeping Our Conversations Alive with Those we Love on the “Other Side”

For those who feel called to deepen their inner work and spiritual understanding
of living with and loving the “so-called-dead”  

Hosted on Anthroposophy.Social

Next Meeting: Saturday, Feb. 7th, 2026

9:30 am Pacific, 12:30 Eastern, 16:30 UK (with time change), 1:30 CET (with time change)

Conversation  –  Preparation  –  Meditation  –  Practice   

Facilitated by Sally Greenberg, Vivianne Sinclaire and Guests
Free offering for all subscribers to Anthroposophy.Social (between $3.46 and $7/month) – cancel anytime – includes access to all free platform events and recordings, including past death cafe recordings with practices to connect with our loved ones across the Threshold.

The “Staying Connected” Death Cafe is facilitated by Sally Greenberg and Vivianne Sinclaire with Guests

The Emphasis of this month’s Cafe will be to take time to practice the meditations we have learned in previous sessions to cultivate the conditions for connecting with our beloveds. Come prepared to “hold” and share about one individual you know and love who has died to our earthly live.

We’ll  begin our meeting with a “Logic of the Heart” Practice to come to heart coherence and inner peace before we practice connecting with those we love who have died with our “memory bridge” meditation. 

All are welcome to join this meeting as part of a Series of Death Cafes as we enter the time of year when the spiritual world draws nearest to us, including those we know who have loved and crossed.

Together, we’ll Research, Practice and Share:

  • How our Love and Living Heart-felt Memories Provide a Threshold Bridge
  • The Nature of Our Connection with Those who have Died  
  • Clarity of Connection from a Purified Heart Space
  • What’s Needed to Be in Service to the World in Partnership with those on the Other Side.
  • Threshold Awareness and Practical Meditations to Be in Connection
  • Ongoing Support and Mutual Threshold Practices through the Holy Nights 

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Questions? Email Vivianne at viviannerael@gmail.com or Sally at supersallyg@gmail.com