What’s On

with Marko Pogačnik and Ying Li

A 9-month programme with 5 weekends: 28 February-2 March, 11-13 April, 13-15 June, 12-14 September and 7-9 November 2025

Geomancy as a creative dialogue with Gaia has made profound developments after entering the third millennium when the intense process of Earth changes started. More than ever, we need a new approach to geomancy with practical experiences and theoretical insights related to the upcoming multidimensional Earth cosmos and the different kinds of beings sustaining its permanent transformations. In this course we will practice methods of Earth healing and subtle perception exercises with special emphasis on the creative language of the body and its artistic expression. Beginners and experienced geomancy practitioners are both welcome.

The training will be led by Marko Pogačnik assisted by Ying Li with fieldwork in the vicinity of London and one residential weekend at Emerson College, Sussex.

28 February- 2 March: In London taught by Marko Pogačnik

11-13 April: In London taught by Ying Li

13-15 June: At Emerson College, Sussex taught by Marko Pogačnik

12-14 September: In London taught by Ying Li

7-9 November: In London taught by Marko Pogačnik

A certificate of completion in Geomancy Updated is given at the end of the training course.

Marko Pogačnik (1944) UNESCO Artist for Peace from Slovenia has developed a method of Earth healing based upon geomantic knowledge, using cosmograms carved in stone. He has led education in geomancy in Germany, England, Hungary, Italy, USA, Switzerland, Austria, Croatia and Slovenia. His latest books: Dancing with the Earth Changes and Creating Gaia Culture. www.markopogacnik.com

Ying Li, originally from Hong Kong and based in London, is a geomancer, bodyworker, inner dimensions guide and facilitator of co-creative meditation and dance alchemy. Ying is part of the organising team of LifeNet, the international network for life, geomancy and transformation. https://embodying.earth

Cost: full price £1375, concessions £1225. Booking deposit: £250

Early booking is advisable due to group size limitations. The course price includes entrance fees to sites. Accommodation, meals and transport are booked separately.

For booking and additional information: https://embodying.earth/events/geomancy-updated

with Mary Beattie

Become an infant massage instructor with the International Association of Infant Massage. The most fulfilling work, contributing to a better world.

Training is at Rudolf Steiner House in London with Mary Beattie (IAIM international trainer and Massage in Schools instructor).

Book now by contacting Mary: mary@babyandchildmassage.co.uk or 07528589859

www.babyandchildmassage.co.uk

Join us for an evening with Sir Ben Okri, poet, novelist and artist.

An informal evening of conversation with one of the leading writers of our time and Booker Prize winner, exploring his views on life, society, reality, our times and his work.

Sir Ben will also share his two latest publications; ‘Everyman African Stories’, and ‘Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted’.

‘Part vision, part mystery, it’s the story of a midsummer night’s madness. Think Bergman meets Shakespeare, with a dash of Mozart.’

Limited availability. Tickets can be purchased in the bookshop or online.

Admission: £5

Book early to avoid disappointment.

The bar will be open from 6.30 pm.

To book online, go to: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/t-xmnvaod or book at Rudolf Steiner Bookshop Tel: 020 7724 7699

Inspire your child’s imagination and creativity at an art and storytelling workshop run by artist and writer, Rosemary Clunie

Only £5 per child. Ages 3 to 7, accompanied by a parent.
To book a place, enquire in Rudolf Steiner Bookshop, or ring 07791 663875.

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

Seeking truth in a polarized world and building future communities

with Ad Dekkers, Henriette Dekkers and John Lees

There will be an opportunity to deepen the theme in an optional workshop on Sunday 29 June, 10.30am - 1pm

We often hear such words as misinformation, fake news and propaganda. There is an uncertainty about truth. Our present world is beset by intensified polarizations regarding a whole range of issues – Gaza, Covid vaccination, politics (such as Democrats and Republicans in the United States), global alliances (BRICS and the G7).
How should we position ourselves in this polarized, split, dangerous, confusing and uncertain world? What is our place in these broader events? Do we mean anything or are we just cogs in a machine? What can we do?

Ad Dekkers, Henriette Dekkers and John Lees are anthroposophic psychotherapists, practising a holistic body, soul and spirit approach to psychotherapy. They will share a way of addressing these questions from the point of view of anthroposophic psychotherapy. Their aim is to show that today’s challenges present us with an opportunity to develop a future spiritual consciousness and new future communities. The conference will include talks, group discussions and practical exercises.

Cost:
Saturday: £50, £35 conc.
Saturday & Sunday morning: £65, £50 conc.

Book online: rsh.anth.org.uk/event/do-i-mean-anything/
Or by phone: 020 7723 4400

with composers Nigel Osborne, Howard Skempton and Jinny Shaw

together with Maren Stott and Eurythmy West Midlands

This special Festival in the centenary year of Rudolf Steiner’s death explores and celebrates the dynamic relationship between Music and Eurythmy*.

The evening performance includes works inspired by the Grail by composers Nigel Osborne, Howard Skempton and Jinny Shaw, as well as pieces by Shostakovich, Scriabin and Bach. Eurythmy is by Maren Stott and Eurythmy West Midlands.

In the afternoon there are presentations and workshops on Eurythmy,
talks by the composers and a music eurythmy demonstration.

For more information, call 020 7723 4400.

*The art of Eurythmy, an expressive movement art, was originated by Rudolf Steiner in the early 20th century. The word eurythmy stems from Greek roots meaning beautiful or harmonious rhythm. A eurythmist moves the music itself, the inner dynamic, the emotional expressiveness. In an ensemble, the interplay of the instruments, the piece itself, is present before your eyes.

with Mary Beattie

Become an infant massage instructor with the International Association of Infant Massage. The most fulfilling work, contributing to a better world.

Training is at Rudolf Steiner House in London with Mary Beattie (IAIM international trainer and Massage in Schools instructor).

Book now by contacting Mary: mary@babyandchildmassage.co.uk or 07528589859

www.babyandchildmassage.co.uk

Shakespeare Week at Rudolf Steiner House London

A pair of twins emerge from the ocean.  Parted by a storm and shipwreck, each is sure the other is drowned as they come separately ashore on the coast of Illyria.  Beneath their outwardly confusing similarity, their different destinies lead them into the same social psychic disorder which at first they unwittingly compound.  The tenuous symmetry of the plot embraces illusion and misrule, and justly leaves some unfinished business at the end that reflects the disparate beginning.

Twelfth Night leads us from the innocence of the Early Comedies into the well-known experiences of the Tragedies.  The less well-understood ambiguous, confused, social, personal, and gender realities of that transition expose an entertaining but tragic chaos. This play picks up a teasing loose end from As You Like It, and leaves a bitter remainder for Hamlet.  The counter-intuitive polarities remind us of the excesses of the Saturnalia and reveal what is often hidden by the norms of convention.  The questions the play poses about identity, delusion, recognition, and destiny all relate timelessly to our individual and social experience today.

Sarah Kane and Andrew Wolpert will be offering speech, drama workshops, close study of the text, lectures, discussions, and a visit to see a production of the play at The Globe Theatre.

The course fee of £465 includes a Groundling theatre ticket, morning coffee and afternoon tea.

For the timetable, more information, and to register please contact Andrew Wolpert   andrewjwolpert@gmail.com

Rudolf Steiner House        35 Park Road      London NW1 6XT

Lecture by Thomas Mayer

At every moment we are surrounded and permeated by angels of the nine hierarchies.

How can we differentiate the nine angelic hierarchies?

How do the angels work in our lives and in our aura?

How does our angel accompany us in our sleep and after death?

What is a landscape angel?

How do angels express themselves in families or social communities?

How do angels experience us humans?

Thomas Mayer is a Meditation teacher, civil rights activist, and author of “Answering the Call of the Elementals” published by Findhorn Press, “Overcoming Fear - Exercises for Spiritual Self-Defense” and “Covid Vaccines from a Spiritual Perspective”.

https://www.anthroposophische-meditation.de/english

£15 cash on the door.

For further information please call Alex Wright on 01342 827967

Thomas will be leading a workshop on Anthroposophical Meditation focussed on connecting to the Angelic World, at Emerson College from 7pm Friday 26th September to 12.30pm Sunday 28th September.

Please see https://calendar.emerson.org.uk/events/connecting-with-the-angelic-world/ for full details.