misty mama

An Artistic Massage

Healing Touch through Sound

I too often take for granted,  the healing power of touch.  The work I do outside of my home and children, have to do with touch.  I have been teaching the Alexander Techqnique part time for 13 years now and in the beginning, as in all things, it was enough.  But in discovering the vast body of knowledge Rudolf Steiner brought into this world, it slowly dawned on me that new ways can be  discovered that will offer realistic  answers to the needs of  modern Human Beings.  Eurythmy has interestingly juxtaposed the two main interests i've had in my life, namely, Music and the Alexander Technique into a new and powerful form of healing touch called EURYTHMIC MASSAGE.   Tanja Baumgartner's pioneering work is crossing Interdisciplinary fields of Education, Music, Medicine, the Arts and Agriculture!  She currently has training modules in Germany, Switzerland, France, Austria, Roumania and of course, the Philippines.  We are in fact, the first English speaking training she has undertaken because of the Filipinos' special talents with massage, and the added feature of  English being the country's primary medium of instruction.   So, for all you mothers, fathers, teachers, therapists, Alternative, and Integrative doctors, who have a gift/or an interest in healing touch, this is the modern answer to back pain, asthma, tendenitis, circulation problems, even paralysis.  You can email me to reserve a spot today! 

 

"And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." -- Marianne Williamson

the quote above sums up one of my themes for 2011 so nicely.... self-loving.  My commitment to do a course on Eurythmy is foremost an act of Self-Love. It was a long time interest of mine and meeting Tanja,  gave me a feeling that "Yes! it's possible to do this in this lifetime."   I had a feeling, from our conversations, and reading her body language and the use of her hands, that she could distill the essence and translate the abstractness of Eurythmy to everyday English.  The irony of it is,  her English was not as good as most our mentors.  Go figure, huh? 

Tanja came to the  Acacia Waldorf School with a friend and old time mentor, Gabrielle Niemann late 2009.   Her actual work seemed at first glance, like the Eurythmy I've experienced througout the years.  We had a slew of Eurythmists come..... and go... but because the school has not been able to afford a full time eurythmist, our study and the childrens' study of Eurythmy has been, at best, well, superficial. Of course,  Time is always a constraint,  and a regular dose of it, at the very least,  would be needed to gain deeper understanding.  Tanja was willing to come 2x a year to work with us.  Her flexibility in creating a unique curriculum to suit our needs became the "it" factor so to speak, she would not--and could not--impose an old structure with it's ideas on us.  Ok, maybe I'm not exactly accurate, while Eurthmy is not really old, it has a "traditional" idea of how it must be taught.  And because of this, less and less people are interested or have the wherewithal to study it.  However,  Steiner has always emphasized the students own pace and understanding of any material and I thought,  perfect-- Tanja's consistent with Steiner's basic ideas.  It's important, because no matter what it looks like from the outside, it is not wrong when you adhere to a basic idea (a conscious one, of course) as your foundation.   Imagine, the horror of some when she brought a CD player and Latin music to move to, as preparation for the actual Eurythmy.  I, on the other hand, felt I never used to be so stiff about my body! or ANYTHING else, for that matter!  What happenned?   Recorded music, while not the best, can help us achieve more than having NO music at all.  Well, I'm guilty about taking many of these do's and don'ts to the utmost, even when my reality is looking at me in the face, and shouting "it's not possible today, Joy!  Think and plan for it better tomorrow".  

My truth is, I feel more alive and happy to be on this earth because of music, and being able to move my body with a clarity that nourishes not only myself,   but the children around me, and the audience watching (if eurythmy is performed),  is one of my ideas of pure JOY.

If you're interested in details, please click here for some photos of the group and beautiful Tanja.

 

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