ART & DREAM HOLY NIGHTS ONLINE CLASS

The Dream Song of Olaf Asteson is an ancient Norwegian folk song. The poem-song tells us about Olaf falling asleep on Christmas eve and “sleeps” through the holy nights and awakening on epiphany January 6th. Rudolf Steiner tells us that while “sleeping,” Olaf experiences secrets of the human being and the cosmos. The dream-song gives us the “spiritual” pictures in poetic form of his initiation journey. As Joseph Campbell reminds us, the Hero’s Journey is found in myths, legends, and poem-songs. The 12 holy nights have been called “time outside of time” or “sacred time.” It’s a wonderful way to end the year and begin the new.

How does it work? This is a self-study so you can log into the class any time during the day or night if you are traveling or snug cozy at home. The Dream Poem is long and divided into 12 sections/nights. Every day the poem, art, Zodiac Sign, and Virtue is posted, and we have original music to listen to, with art videos, prompts, and tips for recalling dreams and sacred sleep practices, and enchanting narratives to amplify your journey.

This is your invitation to have a dream-art-writing retreat over the Holy Nights; to rejuvenate, review the past year, and rekindle your deeper self for 2024. Each night, we can recall our dreams, create a small painting-drawing-mandala, and write from our hearts what this mythic dream poem brings to us.

• Learn Sacred Sleep practices
• Keep a Dream Journal for creative writing
• 12 days of meditative art
• Learn how to live into an archetypal story Poem
• Experience the Holy Nights as a an art & dream retreat
• Use the journey of Olaf as a way to imaginatively work with the Dead

What did you harvest this year, and what seeds are you going to plant these two weeks of sacred time?

Registration is open now at www.KristenaWestArt.com where a beautiful landing page is designed to explain and show past participants images and Kristena’s personal invitation vlog. Everyone is welcome; you don’t have to be an artist or recall your dreams; this is designed as a personal mindfulness retreat. And Olaf beckons: will you join?

Online Art & Dream-Poem Class opens on December 24.
REGISTRATION OPEN NOW FOR ENROLLING & CLOSING 12/24.

When you register for Olaf, you will receive a login password and link for private classroom page. Participants from Norway to Australia, so it’s an easy access. All you need is paper and art supplies you have around the house. Optional art supply list at www.KristenaWestArt.com.

VAN JAMES ANTHROPOSOPHICAL ART TRAININGTO START IN TAIWAN STARTS NOVEMBER

Coming up next month...the start of a visual arts training in painting based on Rudolf Steiner's original indications. In English and Chinese, in-person and online. For artists and beginners. Contact the address on the flyer attached for more information.

 

Michaelmas Deeds of Courage Podcast Kristena West M.A.

 

Kristena discusses how the ancient Earth Festival of Michaelmas is relevant for our contemporary time. Kristena reveals some of the deeper esoteric secrets of what happens to humans who overcome their negative behaviors and thereby tame our Dragon natures. Click Michael or PHOTO above to listen to podcast. 

We want to live creative, free and healthy lives, inner-work is the secret key to resilience and deep inner strength and courage to live to the fullest. www.KristenaWestArt.com 

That Good May Become Manitoba Conference 2023

THAT GOOD MAY BECOME

A Festival of Initiative in Manitoba’s Interlake Region, Canada.

August 10-16, 2023

It all began in the rain, yet Peter Selg reminded us in his opening lecture, that the day when Rudolf Steiner began the Christmas conference in 1923, it was very cold in the Schreinerei building and that many had to stand outside in the rain to listen as the hall was too small to offerspace for all! There was also a rainstorm during the laying of the Foundation Stone in 1913. 

Did this give us comfort? Were we in good company, was this a good omen? Our guests from the Goetheanum seemed very cheerful.

Spirit Remembering Human Soul you live in the limbs

The visuals you see as part of this written contribution are large cotton banners that were painted during the festival by eight participants. This was prepared for by some of us who set the stage, initially for the Novalis fairytale Hyacinth and Rosebud, a collaboration between the Literary and the Visual Art Sections. 

Because they showed an amazing versatility and through the lighting created different moods, they ended up accompanying all three evening

performances. Every time they seemed to create a new soul space for what was to come. In a way one could say, they reflected an archetypal journey, our human journey through time and space. 

These seven images also contributed to creating a living ‘Goetheanum in the West’ in a hall that had very little aesthetic qualities to offer.

In this way the collaboration between the Literary and Visual Art Sections became a gift for the entire Festival of Initiative where human beings came together in mutual sharing, weaving a tapestry of warm hearts and good will.

Spirit Sensing Human Soul you live in the Heart and Lung

An additional gift, quite by surprise was the offering of coloured light! This created magic and like in a eurythmy performance, the images began to dance and carried us into a soul-spiritexperience of an otherworldly existence.

Spirit Beholding 

Human Soul you live in the resting head

So, as we lived and worked and shared together in rain and wind and sun we turned to Nature

and Culture as our two fields of activity and responsibility. We laid a Foundation Stone in the Canadian mid-west, the place ‘between,’ the place of wide-open spaces, where the east and

west meet to create the middle. That ‘middle,’ as we heard in one of the lectures given, has thetask to balance and thereby bring healing to the danger of two opposites tearing apart the verycontinent! How can this become a creative, artistic path?  Practice, practice, practice!

“If I had to do it again I would do it all though the arts” Rudolf Steiner

BANNERS: Regine Kurek & Friends

1. THE QUEST-ION

Who Am I?

Search of the Self- SATURN

2. WHOLENESS IN THE BEGINNING

I and the World are One - SUN

3. MEETING THE TEACHER

The Stranger - Longing for Wisdom - MOON

4. THE LONG ROAD

The Journey 

Leaving Home - MARS

5. FIRST INKLINGS

Blessings - Who Speaks to Me? - MERCURY

6. IN THE PRESENCE OF SOPHIA

The Meeting I Am You - JUPITER

7. HOME Arriving - ILLUMINATION - Communion VENUS

“If I had to do it again I would do it all though the arts” Rudolf Steiner

Painting Motifs August with Van James: Rudolf Steiner's Seven FRIEDWART Sketches CLICK ON IMAGE TO VIEW!

 

RENEWAL OF THE ART OF PAINTING GERARD WAGNER

 

SELF DEVELOPMENT THROUGH ART With VAN JAMES

 

VAN JAMES FORM DRAWING FOR TEACHERS FEB-MARCH *CLICK ON IMAGE TO VIEW CLEARLY & PRINT

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THAT GOOD MAY BECOME A FESTIVAL OF INITIATIVE *CLICK ON IMAGE TO VIEW CLEARLY & PRINT

 

Working with Steiner's How to Know Higher Worlds through Art FIONA CAMPBELL FEB-MAY

 

SUN STUDIO ART RETREAT: AUGUST

 

Healing Through Art Online Taster Day: Jan 14, Feb11 and April 29. Time: 9am-115

 

A new approach to the history of art was developed by Rudolf Steiner in the early 1900s to enable an experience of the “inner history” of humanity. Along with many others in our time who have been involved in uncovering the vast panorama of human history, Steiner contributed a practice of looking at art as a way to enter into the inner world of our ancestors. For those working in Waldorf education and with Anthroposophical art, studies in the “evolution of human consciousness” provide a cornerstone for understanding ourselves and the struggles of contemporary society. Kenneth Smith has been the Director of BACWTT since 2014. He is a Waldorf educator, program leader and artist. Ken attended the Foundation Year and the Visual Arts and Sculpture Course at Emerson College, England and after teaching in Waldorf schools in England, he returned to Emerson College as Course Leader of the Visual Arts and Sculpture Program. He works internationally to support and develop Waldorf education for contemporary society, and has built an eco house where he lived off the grid with his spouse and children for 7 years in New Zealand.   Cost: $10 per class (Free for students who are currently enrolled in the 3-year Healing Through Art or BACWTT Waldorf Teacher Training programs.)   These classes will be presented via the Zoom platform and will be recorded. Registration is required. For more information, please contact: tiffany@bacwtt.org | (415) 479-4400 | www.bacwtt.org