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LIVE FREE LECTURE: The Re-Enlivening of Yoga Between 1925 and 2025

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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/

The Literary Arts & Humanities 2025 Section Conference

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“Who is Rudolf Steiner for Our 21st Century?”

The 2025 Section Conference in San Francisco will devote one entire day of our three-day conference to an exploration of this question. 

Students from the San Francisco Waldorf High School will lead off on Sunday morning. May 11. They will share thoughts and experiences and lead small group discussions. Joan Caldarera will moderate. 

This Sunday morning session will flow into an afternoon plenum discussion. Christiane Haid, our Section leader at the School for Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum, will give a keynote talk. Audience members will have opportunity to participate throughout the day.

Panel members on Sunday afternoon include: Christiane Haid, Joan Caldarera, John Bloom, Robert McDermott, Jeffrey Hipolito, Emmanuel Vukovich, Gayle Davis, Bruce Donehower. John Bloom, the former General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in America, is the moderator on Sunday afternoon.

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Review of 100th anniversary celebration, March 30, 2025

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A big thank-you to the organizers of the Anthroposophy in the Bay Area & Beyond celebration of the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s death.  I am grateful that I could attend this important commemoration in person with other anthroposophists since my work with threefolding has anticipated this 100-year window for the last several years.

The speech and eurythmy (Jeremiah Turner and Karen Gallagher) beautifully expressed the flame within the human being and its larger context (thank you both for performing this twice to frame the celebration).  Daniel Polikoff gave the main commemoration presentation.  Although I had some difficulty hearing Daniel since I sat far away, I heard most of it, enough to appreciate that it was a sweeping, deep, and perceptive overview of Steiner’s life that was based on Daniel’s deep knowledge of his subject.

The grand finale of the program was a display of more pictures of Steiner than I had ever before seen (as well as a few other pictures such as the Representative of Humanity).  Most were accompanied by succinct and profound quotes that in themselves were worth study.  These pictures were in large format of several square feet each, most on canvas, created over many years by Steve Gersich.  This was a one-time exhibition that deserves permanent display in a museum, so we felt very privileged indeed to see them.

Thank you again to the organizers for such a meaningful event!

— Linda Lingane

Lecture – Mary Adams – Whitsun in the Year’s Festival Cycle on Zoom 5:30 pm May 7th

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Whitsun in the Year’s Festival Cycle 

Though the spiritual new year is said to begin at Easter, Karl König describes a mood of fulfillment at Whitsun, just 50 days later, followed by a seasonal pause before the cycle begins again at St. John’s. 

With this framing as our context, Mary Stewart Adams will lead us in a consideration of the year’s festival cycle, and how festival life works with real consequence in the destiny of a community, especially in challenging times, for it is here we may create the substance for the spiritual world to use where it is most needed in the world. More and more this requires our conscious and active participation, but what does this conscious, active participation look like?

Further, as the culminating moment of the sacred Easter Festival in this 100th anniversary year of Rudolf Steiner’s death, this year’s Whitsun is unique and potentially consequent for the next iteration of anthroposophy in the world. In order that the centenary celebrations and observances be more than a remembrance of things past, we are invited to consider Rudolf Steiner’s Leading Thoughts 168-170 (attached), and to prepare inwardly by reviewing our “festival life” from St. John’s 2024 to Easter 2025. This preparation is suggested so that it may serve as a foundation from which we can share ideas about what is needed for our going forward together

We appreciate your support of the ongoing work of The Faust Branch in making these offerings available.
Admission for lectures (no one excluded for lack of funds) :
Faust Branch members: $5, Non-members: $10, Supporting Members and Donors – No Fee.
Admission fees may be paid On-line at https://www.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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Since 2023, Mary Stewart Adams has been general secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in America. She serves as a spokesperson for the society and country representative in the international movement. She is also a Star Lore Historian and independent contractor working out of the initiative to safeguard the human imagination by protecting our access to the night sky and its stories.

Reminder: This Sunday is the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s passing into the spiritual world.

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We are celebrating him and his work with a talk by Daniel Polikoff on the past and future of anthroposophy as well as a eurythmy and speech presentation. Refreshments are offered.

Attention: Please note that the HS drama club is offering one of their four shows at 2pm in Bushnell Center and the parking lot will already be full. Please allow enough time to find parking in the neighborhood or use ride share/public transport. A timely start is appreciated and donations most welcome.

I would enkindle every human being out of the spirit of the cosmos….

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Commemorating Rudolf Steiner on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death.

Daniel Polikoff will sketch some of the contours of Steiner’s revolutionary vision of “the wisdom of the human being,” accenting Steiner’s own ideas pertaining to the evolution of consciousness. Drawing upon a verse Steiner wrote near the end of his life (which will be performed in eurythmy), he will attempt, too, to view aspects of contemporary social thought through an anthroposophical lens, spotlighting the question of the nature and durability of Steiner’s legacy.

The presentation will begin promptly at 3 pm. Please plan enough time to meet and greet and be seated. Thank you.

Lecture – Robert Karp – Social Justice in the Light of Anthroposophy– Zoom

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Rudolf Steiner’s social insights, often referred to as social threefolding, provide a deeply holistic and transformative approach to today’s pressing social justice issues. In this talk, we will explore the underlying forces driving polarization in contemporary discourse and examine how a true middle path—rooted in spiritual science—can move us beyond the culture wars toward meaningful and lasting social renewal.

7 pm Pacific

We appreciate your support of the ongoing work of The Faust Branch in making these offerings available.
Admission for lectures (no one excluded for lack of funds) :
Faust Branch members: $5, Non- members: $10, Supporting Members and Donors – No Fee
Admission fees may be paid On-line at https://www.faustbranch.org/ or  By Check to Sacramento Faust Branch (mail to Treasurer, Carol Nordaas, 7620 Woodglen Dr, Fair Oaks, CA 95628)

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 829 9784 6167
Passcode: 651579

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Robert Karbelnikoff (aka Robert Karp) has been a student of anthroposophy, esoteric Christianity and social threefolding for over 40 years. Robert is the former executive director of the Biodynamic Association in the US and has been a long-time leader in the organic and local food movements, where he pioneered impact investing in organic farmland, and has helped start numerous local and regional food system projects. Robert has a masters degree in educational leadership, a certificate in anthroposophical psychology, and is the co-founder of the Anthroposophy and Social Justice Project. You can learn more about Robert and find many of his writings on his website at www.robertkarp.net 

Healing Through Art Taster Day and Enrollment Q&A

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Saturday, March 22, 2025 | 9am-12:30pm PT
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 | 5:30-8pm PT
with Pamela Whitman and Ken Smith

Please join us for one or more Taster Days if you are interested in enrolling in the new cohort of our Healing Through Art program this July 2025. These online classes will allow you to meet us and experience our way of working.
Experience guided color and a sculptural activities. Reflect upon the sense impressions of the colors and forms, as well as the experience of the activity, and explore how this can be led into a healing process. We will have time for questions about the three-year Healing Through Art program.

Cost: $25

This lecture will be presented via the Zoom platform. Registration is required.

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Healing Through Art Program

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2nd Cohort Beginning July 2025


A 3-year postgraduate therapeutic visual arts program working out of the Anthroposophical understanding of the human being.
The Healing Through Art program guides students through a deepening process over three years from the hygienic and enlivening aspect of artistic activities into the deeper understanding of human nature, individual life journeys, and the ability to facilitate artistic therapies.

Dates: 2025-2026
Summer session: Two weeks in person: July 14-26, 2025, Spring session: One week in person: March 27-Apri 3, 2026 Online Saturday classes, 9am—3:30pm PT: Aug. 23, Sept. 20, Oct. 18, Nov. 22, Dec. 20, 2025; Jan. 17, Feb. 14, Mar. 14, 2026


Program Leaders: Pamela Whitman and Kenneth Smith

Cost: $5520 per year
For more Information or to apply, please contact:
tiffany@bacwtt.org | (415) 479-4400 | www.bacwtt.org

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