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• Rhythmical Massage Therapy Training

  • Start
    Wednesday, April 03, 2024
  • End
    Friday, October 16, 2026
  • Schedule
    10 sessions
  • Location
    Emerson College RH185JX

  
  

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  Training as a Rhythmical Massage Therapist involves not only mastering the techniques of the massage itself, but also developing an understanding of the human being in health and illness, both from a conventional and anthroposophical perspective. You will learn a subtle rhythmical quality of touch which works with levity rather than gravity to strengthen and enliven the life-supporting processes in the human body.

  Teaching and learning take place through a combination of lectures and hands-on practice, mixed artistic media exercises, discussion groups, tutorials, regular between-module medical assignments, year-long independent projects, case studies and special seminars. Through these methods, students can develop a thorough, in-depth, and holistic approach to the theory and practice of Rhythmical Massage Therapy.

  The first year’s theme is the healthy human being both from a conventional and an anthroposophical point of view. After that, the focus will be on the dynamics of health and illness in its varying manifestations. During the two years, you will learn the basic forms of Rhythmical Massage Therapy and then deepen these massage movement skills qualitatively by learning how to transform the archetypal forms to suit specific illnesses.

  FREE ZOOM TASTER SESSIONS

  If you are interested in the Rhythmical Massage Therapy Training UK and would like the opportunity to meet our Course Leaders, find out more about the course, ask questions and meet other potential participants, we will be holding the following FREE ZOOM TASTER sessions:

  January 29th Monday at 16.30

  February 15th Thursday at 15.00

  Please email registrar@emerson.org.uk if you wish to attend one of these sessions.

  SUPPORT WITH FUNDING

  Bursaries and interest free loans with small monthly repayments are available. For further information, please contact registrar@emerson.org.uk

  1st MODULE: APRIL 2024 which will be rerun in 2024 August, see info.

  Venue: Emerson College

  Please see proposed dated as TBC

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• Mental Health Seminars 2025

  • Start
    Wednesday, March 26, 2025
  • End
    Sunday, November 09, 2025
  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Emerson College RH18 5JX

  An in-depth Anthroposophic Training incorporating Personal and Professional Development with twelve modules spanning three years

  Crises in mental health are of increasing contemporary relevance for society in general, manifesting in all areas of life and work.

  This well established training is designed to address this complex theme in the context of the demands of modern life and changes in human consciousness. In addition to providing a broadly based content, it offers participants opportunities to deepen an experience-based and empathic understanding for individuals struggling with their mental health including addressing challenges of those closely involved in their support.

  Confidential interpersonal sharing confers on the Seminar some characteristics of a retreat.

  

  The programme offers participants opportunities to explore these challenging themes in ways that are based on lived experience rather than only on abstract diagnosis. It also aims to enhance capacities to respond meaningfully to psychological challenges:

  Understand Mental Health and illness.

  Learn to pursue self-reflective practice

  Develop appropriate personal and social competencies in the field of Mental Health

  
  

  Skills in inter-disciplinary group work, self-refl ective practice and intervision are developed for peer and professional co-working. All presenters aim to model and encourage creative dialogue between anthroposophic and current psychotherapeutic paradigms and practice.

  
  

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  SUPPORT WITH FUNDING

  Bursaries are available. For further information, please contact Chiara Carones at registrar@emerson.org.uk

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• English Training in Anthroposophic Medicine 2025

  • Start
    Saturday, October 04, 2025
  • End
    Friday, October 08, 2027
  • Schedule
    9 sessions
  • Location
    Emerson College RH18 5JX

  

  
  

  9 one-week modules over three years

  Based in the UK, Open to Doctors Worldwide

  A part-time post-graduate training for physicians

  International Anthroposophic Physician Certification

  
  

  A new cohort of the English Training in Anthroposophic Medicine will start in Autumn 2025. The first module is 4 to 12 October 2025.

  Please note that the following is content is being updated to reflect the 2025 course and may be subject to change.

  Is there a place for the whole person in contemporary Medicine?

  Can we move beyond reductionist science to embrace the soul and spirit as well as the physical body?

  Many patients as well as physicians are in search of an integrative approach to medicine that embraces the whole person, in their mental and spiritual being as well as in bodily aspects. To this end, anthroposophic medicine was founded in 1920 by Dr. Rudolf Steiner and Dr. med. Ita Wegman.

  Today this School of Medicine is alive in practices, therapeutic centres and anthroposophic hospitals throughout the world. It is taught in international training courses and is researched* in university departments with associated professorial chairs.

  Module Details & Topics Covered

  It explores new ways of understanding a patient’s condition that go beyond current purely physically based medicine, emphasising the patient’s spiritual, psychological and bodily capacities for resilience.

  The training offers a deeper understanding of common medical conditions, offering participants experience-based learning processes that lead to an extended understanding of the human being, both in health and illness, and in their relationship to nature.

  The treatments introduced include anthroposophic medicines and their pharmaceutical production. The course also provides a foundation for prescribing natural medicines and a range of non-medicinal therapies that have been shown in general practice to radically reduce the prescribing of antibiotics and other groups of conventional medicines, while improving patient satisfaction.

  In addition, participants are also introduced to art therapy, eurythmy therapy, body therapies and nursing procedures through direct experience. These non medicial treatments can intensify therapeutic responses to illness. Biographical aspects and insights from psychotherapy and counselling are also considered in developing an understanding of disease processes.

  Equally important is the ethical and spiritual development of the physician. Fundamental spiritual exercises and meditative practices that can aid such development, are introduced throughout the training.

  Module Details & Topics Covered

  Module 1 OCT 4th - 12th 2025 at Emerson College | The Four Elements, Four Kingdoms of Nature, Four Organs, Qualitative Anatomy; Fundamental Aims of Anthroposophic Medicine & Research; Patient History Taking and examination with the aid of the Four Elements; Spiritual Biography & Conditions for Spiritual Development.

  Module 2 FEB 7th -14th 2026 at Emerson College | Living Morphology and Projective Geometry; Tria Principia, Phenomenologic Study of Polarity in Human Skeleton; Child Development – Karin Michael and other presenters; Keys to Resilience or Vulnerability; Biographical Studies – Marah Evans; Inner Path Work on the Trials & Six Soul Exercises.

  Module 3 MAY 1st - 8th 2026 at Emerson College | 8 Metals Phenomenology (delete Plants); Medical Meditation from “Course to Young Doctors’; Medicinal Plant Study.

  Module 4 JUL 3rd - 10th 2026 at Emerson College | Common Psychiatric Conditions Anxiety, Depression OCD Bipolar Schizophrenia; Clay Modelling Therapy, Anthroposophic remedies and their indications; Art Therapy, Eurythmy Therapy, Anthroposophic Text Study; Inner Path Work Subsidiary Exercises & Three Stage Karma Exercise.

  Module 5 OCT 2nd - 9th 2026 at Emerson College | Mistletoe Plant Study Fever; Cancer & Viscum treatment; Inner Path Work - Destiny Learning.

  Module 6 FEB 5th - 12th 2027 at Emerson College | Plant Study; Anthroposophic Paediatrics -with Dr Karen Michael; Obstetrics and Gynaecology Anthroposophic perspectives; Anthroposophic Nursing; Inner Path Work – Eightfold Path.

  Module 7 MAY 8th - 15th 2027 at Havelhöhe Hospital – Berlin | Cardiology: Heart failure, Coronary heart disease, Hypertension, Nephrology, Rheumatology (Dr. Matthias Girke); Respiratory Medicine (Christian Grah); Hepatology & Covid (Harald Mattes); Obstetrics & Midwifery (Angela Maaser & Midwife).

  Module 8 JUL 9th - 16th 2027 at Trigonos, Snowdonia UK | Medicinal Plant Study; Endocrinology with Prof David Martin; Celtic Spirituality and Future Spirituality and Medicine; Ita Wegman & Rudolf Steiner in the British Isles; Visit Penmaenmawr Druid Circle; Introduction to Biodynamis Agriculture; Practical Anthroposophic Pharmacy.

  Module 9 OCT 1st - 8th 2027 (TBC) at Clinic Arlesheim and Goetheanum Dornach, Switzerland | The School for Spiritual Science and the Medical Section, – Michael and Raphael Schools – Marion Debus & Karin Michael; Visit to the Group Statue, Visit Ita Wegman Institute; Neurology (Freidwart Elsas); Meeting Patients from Arlesheim Clinic with (Philipp Busche).

  
  

  Apply for the Dr Geoffrey Douch Scholarship Fund

  The fund is open to any doctor from all over the world in financial need who has been offered a place to study in the English Training in Anthroposophic Medicine at Emerson College.

  The Dr Geoffrey Douch Scholarship Fund grants one award to the successful applicant towards tuition fees and accommodation (if needed) for the duration of their programme of study.

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• The Making of Ita Wegman - The Early Years

  • When
    Friday, November 07, 2025
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    19:00 - 20:30
  • Location
    Online

  

  In this talk, we will follow Ita Wegman’s, journey from her birth in Java (1876), through the relevance of the seven-year life cycles to becoming a leading figure in Anthroposophical Medicine and founder of the first Anthroposophical hospital in Arlesheim, Switzerland.  

  

  Katerina Roberts is a Homeopath and Complementary Health Practitioner who incorporates the principles of Anthroposophical Medicine into her practice.

  All welcome, no need to book, no charge. Events are not recorded and zoom meetings are limited to 100 participants. Voluntary donations towards costs are gratefully received and can be made by cash donation on the day, transfer to a Nationwide account held for this purpose or via Paypal. See info.

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• The Grace & the Conflict, the Peace & the Turmoil of Aging

  • When
    Saturday, November 08, 2025
  • Location
    Elysia Therapy Centre DY8 3RZ

  
  

  In answer to repeated requests to hold another workshop on the them of Aging.

  

  A two course lunch is provided plus all refreshments

  Cost: £50 (PAFAM members £35)

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• Eurythmy

  • When
    Saturday, November 08, 2025
  • Location
    Twickenham TW1 2PD

  Open to all.

  
  

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• Archetypal Intervals of Music part of Holistic Science Courses

  • Start
    Saturday, November 15, 2025
  • End
    Sunday, November 16, 2025
  • Location
    Emerson College RH18 5JX

  

  Beneath the apparent diversity of today’s musical traditions lies a common source in the harmonic series. This musical phenomenon, made visible by the monochord, underlies the tuning systems of diverse musical traditions, such as Slendro, Persian, and Pythagorean music, as well as Western music. Through a hands-on exploration of the monochord, bronze gongs, and other instruments, we will experience the natural intervals of the harmonic series, and compare these intervals to the intervals in different musical traditions, including the equal tempered intervals of Western music today. This course offers a musical approach that can bring us closer to the essence of music and cultivate a holistic musical consciousness. It is for everyone interested exploring in the deep structures of music and new musical responses to our contemporary culture.

  Course 1 Information

  Facilitator: Michael Deason-Barrow and James Watts

  

  Bookings & Practical Information

  You are welcome to book one, several, or all six Holistic Science courses using our single booking form. Each course costs £250 and runs from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Book your place on any of the six Holistic Science courses here.

  Holistic Science Courses

  1. Archetypal Intervals of Music – 15–16 November 2025
  2. Archetypal Geometry – 07–08 February 2026
  3. The Plant Between Sun and Earth – 21–22 March 2026
  4. Plant Alchemy as Self-Transformation – 25–26 April 2026
  5. Colour as the Deeds and Sufferings of Light – 23–24 May 2026
  6. The Evolution of Animals and the Evolution of Consciousness – 27–28 June 2026

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• New Remedies for Our Times – a panel discussion

  • When
    Friday, December 05, 2025
  • Location
    Online

  
  

  Join us for a discussion where our Anthroposophic physicians will share new remedies and formulations including treatments for Lyme Disease, autoimmune disorders, ADHD, autism spectrum, weight loss, cancer, feminine care, pneumonia, and pedagogical care.

  Watch this space for more details!

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  NOTE This event is organised in USA, please use the time converter to find out your local time. If registered, you might be sent with Zoom recording, please do contact the organiser for confirmation.

  December 4 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm EST

  

  
  

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• Art for Wellbeing

  • When
    Saturday, December 13, 2025
  • Location
    Rudolf Steiner House NW1 6XT

  
  

  Saturdays - drop in anytime between 9am - 2pm

  Come and join us fortnightly on Saturday mornings to explore your creativity in colour for your wellbeing. We will use watercolours, pastels, and a range of art materials to enliven our sense of curiosity. We welcome you to a heart-warming start to your weekend.

  No prior art experience necessary. All materials provided.

  Meet the facilitators:

  Sue is a BACP accredited Therapeutic Arts Counsellor and Group Facilitator. She has a private practice, designs and runs tailor-made workshops, and is a visiting tutor and supervisor for trainee art counsellors at Tobias School of Art & Therapy.

  Aya is a Transpersonal Art Counsellor MCGI MBACP and Certified HeartMath Coach, with over 20 years experience supporting all abilities and ages with their social, emotional, mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing at heart. Aya teaches Play Therapy & Sandplay Therapy at Tobias School of Art & Therapy.

  drop in anytime between 10am-1pm

  If info web page changes, please search here.

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• 26 International Study Days for Anthroposophic Arts Therapies

  • Start
    Thursday, January 08, 2026
  • End
    Sunday, January 11, 2026
  • Location
    the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland

  
  

  "Harmonies of the heart" -

  Courage for the ego-self

  Dear colleagues,

  We cordially invite you to the 26th International Conference for Anthroposophic Arts Therapies. We want to focus on the importance of the harmonies of the heart in the phase of life between the ages of 42 and 63 and place the medical emphasis on cardiology, oncology and the diagnosis of burnout.

  In lectures, working groups and discussions, we will develop more understanding together, acquire expert knowledge and, above all, come to a growing awareness of what moves people in this phase of life and how we can accompany them through the changing landscape of their earthly journey in our art therapies.

  Read more on our website – We look forward to seeing you again!

  With best regards

  Laura Piffaretti, Esther Böttcher, Katja Schultz, Katrin Sauerland, Linda Teipen, Marieke Schagen-van Houts

  and the leadership of the Medical Section: Dr Marion Debus, Dr Karin Michael, Dr Adam Blanning

  We're currently finalizing the detailed program and registration process. You can pre-register here, and we'll let you know as soon as registration is available:

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• The Courage to Heal

  • Start
    Friday, February 20, 2026
  • End
    Sunday, February 22, 2026
  • Location
    The Goetheanum

  
  

  

  Call for action on the occasion of the 150th birthday of Ita Wegman in 2026

  Dear colleagues worldwide,

  February 22, 2026 will be a special day! It marks the 150th birthday of Ita Wegman, a person of great courage, strength and intuition who, alongside Rudolf Steiner, brought so many central aspects of our anthroposophic medical impulse into the world.

  To mark the anniversary of her birthday, two special events are planned.

  One, a conference entitled “The Courage to Heal” will be held at the Goetheanum from February 20 to 22, 2026 (invitation will follow). This is being organized by the Medical Section together with the General Anthroposophical Section and the Section for Curative Education and Inclusive Social Development.

  We want to pay tribute to Ita Wegman, say “thank you” for the inspiring impulses she gave 100 years ago, and help them become even better known today.

  For the second activity we need your direct help. For, in addition to the conference at the Goetheanum we need helpful hands in all parts of the world. We invite you to offer a therapeutic event in your community in honor of Ita Wegman. We hope that you – perhaps with colleagues in your area – will provide a healing experience for others, especially those who might not otherwise have access to these kinds of treatments. And we encourage you to offer it as a free gift to others (without charge).

  This could be a workshop on biography, hands-on treatments, whatever you can offer. This is a free choice, depending on your work, your inspiration, and your possibilities!

  Please let us know what you are planning. We will be gathering information about the activities that can take place on or around 22 February 2026, at this survey.

  We will then share information about the collected activities, hopefully also illustrated with reports, photos, or videos (we will reach out to you again after the event to learn more about what happened) and include it as a special presentation at the 2026 International Annual Conference as well as on our website.

  We look forward to hearing about your ideas!

  With warm regards, Adam Blanning

  INVITATION

  
  

  

  
  

  Dear Colleagues of the Anthroposophic Medical Movement
  

  If you are planning to run a workshop, please do let us know so we can list the events and share with the public, thank you. Please contact hello@anthroposophicmedicine.org.uk or using the contact us form, thank you.

  Kind regards,

  Anthroposophic Medicine UK

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• The Plant Between Sun and Earth

  • Start
    Saturday, March 21, 2026
  • End
    Sunday, March 22, 2026
  • Location
    Emerson College RH18 5JX

  

  Through intensive study of plants, Goethe learnt to see the leafing, flowering and fruiting processes as expressing stages of expansion and contraction. Drawing on projective geometry, George Adams and Olive Whicher learnt to see these processes as movements between the point and the periphery. On this course we will follow in Goethe’s, Adams’s and Whicher’s footsteps and, through an experiential and hands-on study of plants and projective geometry, learn to see plants as they did. This course will be of interest to anyone wanting in exploring the beauty of plants.

  Course 3 Information

  Facilitator: Judyth Sassoon and Gordon Woolard

  

  Bookings & Practical Information

  You are welcome to book one, several, or all six Holistic Science courses using our single booking form. Each course costs £250 and runs from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Book your place on any of the six Holistic Science courses here.

  Holistic Science Courses

  1. Archetypal Intervals of Music – 15–16 November 2025
  2. Archetypal Geometry – 07–08 February 2026
  3. The Plant Between Sun and Earth – 21–22 March 2026
  4. Plant Alchemy as Self-Transformation – 25–26 April 2026
  5. Colour as the Deeds and Sufferings of Light – 23–24 May 2026
  6. The Evolution of Animals and the Evolution of Consciousness – 27–28 June 2026

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• Plant Alchemy as Self-Transformation

  • Start
    Saturday, April 25, 2026
  • End
    Sunday, April 26, 2026
  • Location
    Emerson College RH18 5JX

  
  

  This course delves into the transformative potential of both the theory and the practice of the Western alchemical tradition. At times deemed to be a precursor to modern chemistry, at others as an imagistic language of the collective unconscious, we will explore the contemporary relevance of alchemical ways of knowing and working. Drawing on alchemical insights from Paracelsus, Robert Allen Bartlett and Dennis Klocek, we will explore how processes undertaken in the transformation of materials contributes to self-transformation. Through making alchemical essence from plants, we will engage with the many different uses of fire/warmth, touching on how the alchemical worldview has contributed to contemporary developments in traditional herbal medicine, agriculture and education.

  Course 4 Information

  Facilitator: Jonathan Code

  

  Bookings & Practical Information

  You are welcome to book one, several, or all six Holistic Science courses using our single booking form. Each course costs £250 and runs from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Book your place on any of the six Holistic Science courses here.

  Holistic Science Courses

  1. Archetypal Intervals of Music – 15–16 November 2025
  2. Archetypal Geometry – 07–08 February 2026
  3. The Plant Between Sun and Earth – 21–22 March 2026
  4. Plant Alchemy as Self-Transformation – 25–26 April 2026
  5. Colour as the Deeds and Sufferings of Light – 23–24 May 2026
  6. The Evolution of Animals and the Evolution of Consciousness – 27–28 June 2026

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• Colour as the Deeds and Sufferings of Light

  • Start
    Saturday, May 23, 2026
  • End
    Sunday, May 24, 2026
  • Location
    Emerson College RH18 5JX

  

  This course offers an experiential introduction to Goethe’s colour science. We will explore colour phenomena from Goethe’s Theory of Colour using custom-build projectors and state-of-the-art optical equipment. Drawing on research from the Goethean scientific tradition inaugurated by Michael Wilson and André Bjerke, this exploration will be extended to include phenomena and experiments from the subsequent development Goethe’s conception of colour and the optical conception within which it is embedded. This course will be of interest to artists, science educators and anyone interested in exploring a scientific paradigm that overcomes the separation of object and subject typical of contemporary scientific thought.

  Course 5 Information

  Facilitator: Alasdair Gordon and Troy Vine

  

  Bookings & Practical Information

  You are welcome to book one, several, or all six Holistic Science courses using our single booking form. Each course costs £250 and runs from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Book your place on any of the six Holistic Science courses here.

  Holistic Science Courses

  1. Archetypal Intervals of Music – 15–16 November 2025
  2. Archetypal Geometry – 07–08 February 2026
  3. The Plant Between Sun and Earth – 21–22 March 2026
  4. Plant Alchemy as Self-Transformation – 25–26 April 2026
  5. Colour as the Deeds and Sufferings of Light – 23–24 May 2026
  6. The Evolution of Animals and the Evolution of Consciousness – 27–28 June 2026

  
  

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• Transpersonal Arts for Health & Wellbeing

  • When
    Monday, February 01, 2027
  • Location
    Tobias Art RH19 4LZ

  
  

  Level 7: Transpersonal Arts for Health & Wellbeing

  Starting 2027 Spring  and finishing 2030. Please contact Tobias for the dates.

  Offering a holistic approach to arts counselling, our students discover the transformative power of transpersonal arts therapy in promoting mental and emotional well-being. Our approach integrates creativity, psychology, and spiritual dimensions.

  Interested in learning more?

  Have you been considering a career working as a Transpersonal Arts Counsellor, transforming lives through Art and the Human Encounter? Find out more about our Admissions process here.

  If you’re interested in finding out for yourself what makes Tobias School of Art and Therapy distinctive and right for you, please let us know by calling 01342 313655 or emailing info@tobiasart.org.

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