Movement and Meditation

with Sara Hunt

These classes are designed to embrace the wholeness of being human. We will start each session with a gentle physical warm-up, involving some stretching and loosening to enliven our bodies.  We will then awaken to our creative selves through eurythmy, an art of harmonious movement, including poetry and music. We will conclude with a meditation.

These drop-in classes are for everyone and anyone, with no prior experience needed.    

Please wear loose fitting comfortable clothing and soft soled shoes.

Sara Hunt - After many years as a teacher in Canterbury Steiner school, Sara graduated from West Midlands Eurythmy and subsequently completed a Masters in Eurythmy Education with Alanus University. She is presently a freelance personal coach.

Price per class: £10 Full/ £8 Concession

No prior booking, payment in the bookshop upon arrival. Please show your receipt to the facilitator at the session. 

with Patrick Dicon

Healing Power of Architecture

A place to talk, a place to listen, a place to meet interesting and interested people.

Looking at new ways of thinking and thinking about new ways of looking.

Tickets: £10, including coffee and cake

A Symposium Celebrating Owen Barfield

Meaning and imagination are two intertwined themes throughout the writing career of philosopher and poet Owen Barfield, whose ideas inspired the likes of C. S Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and T. S. Eliot. This symposium will explore these two central themes of Barfield's work, his debt to philosophical and spiritual movements from Neoplatonism to Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy, and his relevance to contemporary issues such as the meaning crisis and the secular age. 

Join authors Mark Vernon and Jeffrey Hipolito together with poets Sir Ben Okri and Hilary Davies for a lively mix of talks, poetry readings and conversations exploring Barfield’s lasting influence, the nature of the imagination and man's eternal quest for meaning.

CONTRIBUTORS:

MARK VERNON is a psychotherapist, podcaster and author. His books include A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, the Last Inkling and the Evolution of Consciousness and most recently Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination. He used to be a priest in the Church of England.

JEFFREY HIPOLITO is the chairperson of the Owen Barfield Society.  He is the author of Owen Barfield’s Poetic Philosophy: Meaning and Imagination (Bloomsbury 2024) and forthcoming Owen Barfield’s Poetry, Drama and Owen Barfield: Philosopher, Poet, Anthroposophist. He lives in America.

SIR BEN OKRI is a poet and novelist. His poetry books include: A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn, Mental Fight: An Epic Poem and Wild. His latest novel is Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted (2025).

HILARY DAVIES is a poet, essayist and translator. Her fifth collection, Compass Light, will be published in September 2025. She is a former Chairman of the Poetry Society and is a Fellow of the English Association and the Temenos Academy.

ADMISSION:

£25 - General admission

£15 – Anthroposophical Society and Temenos Academy members

          + Full-time students with student ID card

ONLINE BOOKING: https://buytickets.at/thetemenosacademy/1810249 

ENQUIRIES: Daniel Samuel, E: temenosacademy@myfastmail.com T: 07513 883 335 or Ilona Pimbert, E ilona.pimbert.rsh@anth.org.uk T 020 7723 4400https://rsh.anth.org.uk/event/poetic-imagination-and-the-rediscovery-of-meaning/

with Shawn Ballantine

Men, you are invited and called to join a weekly men’s circle.

A safe and calming space to come, unpack and trust in the bond of the circle and being with other men.

We meet with one another to both listen and be heard from our hearts.

Come as often as suits.

Suggested and optional donation of £5 - £15

Donations support men to engage further mens work typically from 'The Male Journey' ( www.malejourney.org.uk/ )

Paul Webber originated the Welcome Mens Group. It is currently anchored by Shawn Ballantine.

If coming for the first time or you have questions please email Shawn:

shawnballantine@yahoo.co.uk

We look forward to having you there!

Movement and Meditation

with Sara Hunt

These classes are designed to embrace the wholeness of being human. We will start each session with a gentle physical warm-up, involving some stretching and loosening to enliven our bodies.  We will then awaken to our creative selves through eurythmy, an art of harmonious movement, including poetry and music. We will conclude with a meditation.

These drop-in classes are for everyone and anyone, with no prior experience needed.    

Please wear loose fitting comfortable clothing and soft soled shoes.

Sara Hunt - After many years as a teacher in Canterbury Steiner school, Sara graduated from West Midlands Eurythmy and subsequently completed a Masters in Eurythmy Education with Alanus University. She is presently a freelance personal coach.

Price per class: £10 Full/£8 Concession

No prior booking, payment in the bookshop upon arrival. Please show your receipt to the facilitator at the session. 

with Aya Husni-Bey

Saturday drop in sessions, happening two times a month, 10am - 1pm

Come and enjoy playing with watercolour paints or pastels, be guided by the seasons and verses from the Calendar of the Soul. Or you may prefer to bring your own poem along to inspire you. A range of art materials will be provided to enliven your sense of curiosity and welcome you to a heart-warming start to your weekend.

No prior art experience necessary. All materials provided.

Meet the facilitator:

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 & Sand play Therapy at Tobias School of Art & Therapy.

Price £15 - Payment to be made in the bookshop upon arrival, with receipt exchangeable with the facilitator upstairs at the art session 

For further information: 020 7723 4400

‘Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.’ Goethe

with Shawn Ballentine

Men, you are invited and called to join a weekly men’s circle.

A safe and calming space to come, unpack and trust in the bond of the circle and being with other men.

We meet with one another to both listen and be heard from our hearts.

Come as often as suits.

Suggested and optional donation of £5 - £15

Donations support men to engage further mens work typically from 'The Male Journey' ( www.malejourney.org.uk/ )

Paul Webber originated the Welcome Mens Group. It is currently anchored by Shawn Ballantine.

If coming for the first time or you have questions please email Shawn:

shawnballantine@yahoo.co.uk

We look forward to having you there!

Movement and Meditation

with Sara Hunt

These classes are designed to embrace the wholeness of being human. We will start each session with a gentle physical warm-up, involving some stretching and loosening to enliven our bodies.  We will then awaken to our creative selves through eurythmy, an art of harmonious movement, including poetry and music. We will conclude with a meditation.

These drop-in classes are for everyone and anyone, with no prior experience needed.    

Please wear loose fitting comfortable clothing and soft soled shoes.

Sara Hunt - After many years as a teacher in Canterbury Steiner school, Sara graduated from West Midlands Eurythmy and subsequently completed a Masters in Eurythmy Education with Alanus University. She is presently a freelance personal coach.

Price per class: £10 Full/£8 Concession

No prior booking, payment in the bookshop upon arrival. Please show your receipt to the facilitator at the session. 

with Barnaby Tobias and Iaia Chiesa

Join us in Rudolf Steiner Bookshop for a sharing of poems, monologues, stories, parts of plays, and all things creative. A casual event where we celebrate the spirit of creativity. All are welcome and encouraged to share something of their own work or another’s they admire. We will have some discussion around the inspiration for certain pieces, with a main emphasis on the practical sharing of work.

Cash donations are welcome. rsh-bookshop@anth.org.uk

with Patrick Dixon

12 Philosophical Systems

A place to talk, a place to listen, a place to meet interesting and interested people.

Looking at new ways of thinking and thinking about new ways of looking.

Tickets: £10, including coffee and cake

Restoring connection and presence - for children, families, and the communities around them

Monthly Saturdays, 2:30 - 4:30 pm at Rudolf Steiner House, London, NW1 6XT

A 6-Month Journey to Transform Your Parenting from the Inside Out

Facilitator: Julie Lam - Author of From the Heart of Childhood, School Founder, Course Leader, and Transformative Guide

Dates
Saturdays 2:30 - 4:30 pm
22 November
24 January
21 February
21 March
18 April
16 May

Cost

November (taster): 1 in-person + 1 online - £50
January - May: 5 in-person + 5 online - £300

Proceeds from the course go directly to Highgate House School, a Steiner Waldorf Nursery and Kindergarten in Hong Kong.

H O W  T O  B O O K

1. Book a Discovery Call with Julie: julie.a.lam@gmail.com
2. Attend a free Online Session and Q&A on Friday 17 October 1:00- 2:00pm REGISTER HERE
3. Reserve your place on the November taster with Julie.
4. Sign up for the full course + Online Support www.julie-lam.com

Monthly in-person gatherings to explore each developmental stage, supported by conversations to activate new ways of relating and deep personal healing.

Bi-weekly online support sessions to integrate what you’re learning into daily life.

Ongoing connection through a private community, listening partnerships, and guided resources.

https://rsh.anth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Steiner-House-Enewsletter-A5.docx

with Shawn Ballentine

Men, you are invited and called to join a weekly men’s circle.

A safe and calming space to come, unpack and trust in the bond of the circle and being with other men.

We meet with one another to both listen and be heard from our hearts.

Come as often as suits.

Suggested and optional donation of £5 - £15

Donations support men to engage further mens work typically from 'The Male Journey' ( www.malejourney.org.uk/ )

Paul Webber originated the Welcome Mens Group. It is currently anchored by Shawn Ballantine.

If coming for the first time or you have questions please email Shawn:

shawnballantine@yahoo.co.uk

We look forward to having you there!

Movement and Meditation

with Sara Hunt

These classes are designed to embrace the wholeness of being human. We will start each session with a gentle physical warm-up, involving some stretching and loosening to enliven our bodies.  We will then awaken to our creative selves through eurythmy, an art of harmonious movement, including poetry and music. We will conclude with a meditation.

These drop-in classes are for everyone and anyone, with no prior experience needed.    

Please wear loose fitting comfortable clothing and soft soled shoes.

Sara Hunt - After many years as a teacher in Canterbury Steiner school, Sara graduated from West Midlands Eurythmy and subsequently completed a Masters in Eurythmy Education with Alanus University. She is presently a freelance personal coach.

Price per class: £10 Full/£8 Concession

No prior booking, payment in the bookshop upon arrival. Please show your receipt to the facilitator at the session. 

Shakespeare’s play, a meditation for healing relationship

An embodied exploration with Adam Fotheringham

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s last and most moving plays. It shares with the other late plays a preoccupation with loss and redemption. In the story King Leontes, acting out of blind jealousy, tyrannically destroys his family and happiness, but his shattered world is redeemed by time, destiny and a process of inner atonement. In this divisive age of polarising perspectives and conflicting narratives, how can we work to heal the relational rifts that threaten our human fellowship? This deeply spiritual play points both to causes of conflict in human interaction, and to the path of repair and reconciliation available if we choose to take it. Participants will be introduced to the story, which will become a lens for examining their own conduct in relationship. Through dialogue, group reflection and embodied exercises, participants will have opportunities to work with their own relationship history in a context that is strongly held, confidential and holds a possibility for healing.

Adam Fotheringham has a background in theatre as an actor, director and teacher, but now works predominantly in personal and leadership development. He is a Programme Lead and Archetypal Coach with Olivier Mythodrama, using story as a tool for developing individuals in leadership and life.

Cost £65 (£50 concessions)

Book via: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/t-krnzkpl

*Originally advertised as 18th May

with Shawn Ballantine

Men, you are invited and called to join a weekly men’s circle.

A safe and calming space to come, unpack and trust in the bond of the circle and being with other men.

We meet with one another to both listen and be heard from our hearts.

Come as often as suits.

Suggested and optional donation of £5 - £15

Donations support men to engage further mens work typically from 'The Male Journey' ( www.malejourney.org.uk/ )

Paul Webber originated the Welcome Mens Group. It is currently anchored by Shawn Ballantine.

If coming for the first time or you have questions please email Shawn:

shawnballantine@yahoo.co.uk

We look forward to having you there!

Movement and Meditation

with Sara Hunt

These classes are designed to embrace the wholeness of being human. We will start each session with a gentle physical warm-up, involving some stretching and loosening to enliven our bodies.  We will then awaken to our creative selves through eurythmy, an art of harmonious movement, including poetry and music. We will conclude with a meditation.

These drop-in classes are for everyone and anyone, with no prior experience needed.    

Please wear loose fitting comfortable clothing and soft soled shoes.

Sara Hunt - After many years as a teacher in Canterbury Steiner school, Sara graduated from West Midlands Eurythmy and subsequently completed a Masters in Eurythmy Education with Alanus University. She is presently a freelance personal coach.

Price per class: £10 Full/£8 Concession

No prior booking, payment in the bookshop upon arrival. Please show your receipt to the facilitator at the session. 

with Patrick Dixon

Mine Eternal Jewel (the Soul)

A place to talk, a place to listen, a place to meet interesting and interested people.

Looking at new ways of thinking and thinking about new ways of looking.

Tickets: £10, including coffee and cake

Join us for a festive afternoon!

Get in the festive mood with carols, steaming mugs of mulled wine, spiced hot apple juice & minced pies.

Afternoon Session 3pm - 5pm

Evening Session 6pm - 8pm

£40 per session. Price includes: refreshments and a wreath to take home ( plus anything else you make).

Book via: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/e-xooeqx

with Shawn Ballantine

Men, you are invited and called to join a weekly men’s circle.

A safe and calming space to come, unpack and trust in the bond of the circle and being with other men.

We meet with one another to both listen and be heard from our hearts.

Come as often as suits.

Suggested and optional donation of £5 - £15

Donations support men to engage further mens work typically from 'The Male Journey' ( www.malejourney.org.uk/ )

Paul Webber originated the Welcome Mens Group. It is currently anchored by Shawn Ballantine.

If coming for the first time or you have questions please email Shawn:

shawnballantine@yahoo.co.uk

We look forward to having you there!

Movement and Meditation

with Sara Hunt

These classes are designed to embrace the wholeness of being human. We will start each session with a gentle physical warm-up, involving some stretching and loosening to enliven our bodies.  We will then awaken to our creative selves through eurythmy, an art of harmonious movement, including poetry and music. We will conclude with a meditation.

These drop-in classes are for everyone and anyone, with no prior experience needed.    

Please wear loose fitting comfortable clothing and soft soled shoes.

Sara Hunt - After many years as a teacher in Canterbury Steiner school, Sara graduated from West Midlands Eurythmy and subsequently completed a Masters in Eurythmy Education with Alanus University. She is presently a freelance personal coach.

Price per class: £10 Full/£8 Concession

No prior booking, payment in the bookshop upon arrival. Please show your receipt to the facilitator at the session. 

with Sue Davies

Saturday drop in sessions, happening two times a month, 10am - 1pm

Come and enjoy playing with watercolour paints or pastels, be guided by the seasons and verses from the Calendar of the Soul. Or you may prefer to bring your own poem along to inspire you. A range of art materials will be provided to enliven your sense of curiosity and welcome you to a heart-warming start to your weekend.

No prior art experience necessary. All materials provided.

Meet the facilitator:

Sue is an MBACP accredited Therapeutic Transpersonal 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.

Price £15 - Payment to be made in the bookshop upon arrival, with receipt exchangeable with the facilitator upstairs at the art session 

For further information: 020 7723 4400

‘Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.’ Goethe

with Shawn Ballantine

Men, you are invited and called to join a weekly men’s circle.

A safe and calming space to come, unpack and trust in the bond of the circle and being with other men.

We meet with one another to both listen and be heard from our hearts.

Come as often as suits.

Suggested and optional donation of £5 - £15

Donations support men to engage further mens work typically from 'The Male Journey' ( www.malejourney.org.uk/ )

Paul Webber originated the Welcome Mens Group. It is currently anchored by Shawn Ballantine.

If coming for the first time or you have questions please email Shawn:

shawnballantine@yahoo.co.uk

We look forward to having you there!

with Barnaby Tobias and Iaia Chiesa

Join us in Rudolf Steiner Bookshop for a sharing of poems, monologues, stories, parts of plays, and all things creative. A casual event where we celebrate the spirit of creativity. All are welcome and encouraged to share something of their own work or another’s they admire. We will have some discussion around the inspiration for certain pieces, with a main emphasis on the practical sharing of work.

Cash donations are welcome. rsh-bookshop@anth.org.uk

Music Poetry Storytelling

with Louise Coigley

Honouring the centenary of Frida Kahlo’s accident 17 September 1925

Storyteller, speech & language therapist and spinal injury survivor Louise weaves her own fractured journey into a powerful and poetic narrative of perseverance and healing. Born with clubfeet, as a child Louise develops scoliosis.

After years of treatment for her legs & feet and back, being stretched, moulded, winched and strapped, then undergoing spinal surgery, Louise emerges out of the cocoon of a spinning bed. Years later, in extreme pain, she encounters Frida Kahlo’s paintings, learns about her life, her loves. Louise finds recognition and a new way to navigate pain: through creativity. With humour and humanity, tales from these two women’s lives interweave.

Accompanied by Olivier nominated actress Melody Grove and Aly Macrae, actor & musician of stage and screen, “Back to Back” unfolds with poignant, uplifting singing & music. Melody also speaks “From the Frocks”- a powerful new prose poem by Louise.

www.lisntell.co.uk
Book Tickets: £20
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/back-to-back/e-ajyrgp

Meeting Pain through Art, Celebrating Creativity

A day of artistic workshops and sharing in the centenary month of the horrific accident and sustained injuries of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo

‘To be an artist is to believe in life.’ Frida Kahlo

A choice of workshops:

Creative Writing with poet & co-leader of The School of Storytelling Henrietta Bowen

Drama with Olivier Nominated actress Melody Grove

Painting with artist Ilona Pimbert

The Art of Being Present with mindfulness teacher Tamzin Muir

Followed by a sharing from the workshops and conversation

Fee: £40.00 - some bursaries available

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/back-to-back/e-ajyrgp

Contact Louise at: lisntell@gmail.com

Banner image: Roots by Frida Kahlo 1943