Summer Classes begin the week of July 8th!

Holistic Waldorf Parenting Summer Study Class

• Zoom Meeting 3 pm Pacific Time Wednesdays (July 10, 17, 24 and August 7, 14, 21) 
• 6 weeks total

This Summer Class runs from July 8th-26th and August 5th-23rd

Have you wanted to learn more about Waldorf Education, holistic Waldorf parenting, and child development? Do you want to have a more harmonious home with rhythm, compassion, and discipline? Do you want to understand Steiner and his vision of education that considers the spirit, soul, and physiology of children as they grow?

Come join the Holistic Parenting Summer Study Class where we will create a community of parents to share experiences as well as learn from each other and be guided by a Waldorf Grades Teacher. We will read two books, journal, and meet together weekly. This class is for adults with children in both grades and early childhood. Come join us for an awesome summer of self-development and inner work!

We will be reading and sharing from the following two books:
1) Rhythms of Learning: What Waldorf Education Offers Children, Parents & Teachers by Robert Trosti
2) Being at Your Best When Your Kids Are at Their Worst: Practical Compassion in Parenting by Kim John Payne

Sun Garden

• Six weeks of fun summer-time activities for Kindergarten, Class 1, or Class 2
• No live zoom sessions

This Summer Class runs from July 8th-26th and August 5th-23rd

Welcome to the Sun Garden, a class full of beauty, rhythm, and fun activities for the summertime. This class is for the rising Kinder, Grade One, or Grade Two students who are looking for fun things to do to bridge their time from one school year to the next while keeping a weekly rhythm. This class will provide parents and caregivers with six full weeks of summer-time activity curriculum, 3 weeks for July and 3 weeks for August (July 8th-26th and August 5th-23rd).

This curriculum will not be focused on academics as those are at rest during the summer, however, it will focus on storytelling and puppet plays, handwork, painting, modeling with different materials, drawing, a knitting project, and sewing. We will also focus on movement and I will share different outside activity suggestions, hiking prompts, and fun verses for jump roping. For larger projects, we will tie-dye, wet felt, and create a summer-long alphabet project to use in future classes.

This class will allow the children to continue working with proprioception, vestibular senses, and fine and gross motor skills. All skills that should be utilized weekly until school begins again in the fall. We will also be participating in summertime festival life and will share some handwork projects adults can work on over the summer months.

I hope you will join me in Sun Garden as we bring love and light to your child as well as a solid rhythm over the summer months. I look forward to bringing fun and engaging activities to your child as well as helping you along your journey of Holistic Waldorf parenting as you bridge between kinder or into the Grade years and set up for a successful start to the fall semester.

Eurythmy Consonant Gestures Parent Class

• Live Video Classes via Zoom: Mondays at 8AM Pacific Time

•  8 weeks total

This Summer Class runs from July 8th to August 26th. 

This class is a parent education class to help the adults in the lives of all children taking eurythmy. In this class we will explore each of the eurythmy consonant gestures. Not only will we learn how to form the gestalt of the gestures, we will discuss what it is that makes each gesture unique. We will dive into the meaning of each, what gives them its own formative and creative forces, and then learn to use them in a therapeutic way. Along with this, we will learn the colors behind each and how it helps us to feel into each gesture. By the end of this class, not only will you understand the importance of eurythmy and the gestures, but also have a deeper understanding of  the connection between human beings and the earth, and mankind and community.