Anthroposophical Society in America

02/13/2025

The Easter Festival 2025: Anthroposophy Ever Anew
Online weekly from March 6 to April 10 with Peter Selg, Aaron Mirkin and more
In person April 17 to 20 in Spring Valley, New York

Easter 2025 is exceptional in the history of anthroposophy, so we are crafting an experience that allows for the deep preparation and festive togetherness that we feel is necessary to meet this moment. It is the 100th anniversary year of Rudolf Steiner's death, and in order to answer with esoteric maturity the dynamic rhythms culminating in this year, we have designed a robust, six-week virtual program, and an inspiring in-person festival celebration at Threefold in Spring Valley, New York, April 17 to 20, 2025.

We would love to see all of you at the festival, and for those of you who cannot attend in person, you are invited to take part in the virtual preparations ahead of time ~ to bring this content and the specifically-designed materials into your local celebrations, for deepening our shared experience of anthroposophy, the mystery of Easter, and the life and work of Rudolf Steiner.

Learn more and register~ anthroposophy.org/easterprep
Painting by Ninetta Sombart

12/11/2024

“Earth shines like a star into the universe, and the universe beholds the body of Earth thus enlivened, shining like a rainbow. Never are Earth and the Universe nearer to each other in freedom and full consciousness than at Christmas time.”
~Elizabeth Vreede

We warmly invite you to join us for “Our Paths Among the Stars!”
Throughout the Holy Nights, we will gather daily on Zoom for 15-minute gatherings. We will send you contemplative resources as a celebration of our seasonal connection with the stars. Participants are also invited to join Mary Stewart Adams at Winter Solstice on December 21st and Epiphany on January 6th for an opening address (Winter Solstice) and a theme of the year presentation (Epiphany).
We hope to see you there!
Learn more and register at anthroposophy.org/christmasstars

11/19/2024

Save the date!
Exciting collaboration with the Pedagogical and Medical Sections coming this summer in Spring Valley, NY!

11/15/2024

Next weekend, our friends at the Biodynamic Demeter Alliance will gather online for their annual conference!
Join farmers, gardeners, educators, students, business people, and others from across the US to reimagine agriculture during the Online Biodynamic Conference, November 22-24. Three inspiring keynotes and two three-day workshop tracks offer a variety of pathways for exploring how biodynamics can weave together the social, spiritual, and scientific to nurture new possibilities. Recordings will be available to all participants after the conference — for a total of 37 hours!

Scholarship help is available: apply to receive a code for 50% or 75% of the registration rate.

Learn more and register at https://www.biodynamics.com/conference/2024/overview

11/14/2024

Join us for “Karl König's Drawings for the Calendar of the Soul” with Richard Steel of the Karl König Institute on Tuesday, November 19
1:30pm ET/10:30am PT as we hear how Karl König’s illustrations can awaken our heart experience into what Rudolf Steiner brought with the Calendar of the Soul!
Register and learn more at anthroposophy.org/innerjourney
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In 1912, Rudolf Steiner composed 52 verses which he intended to become a path of ‘feeling self-development’ through awakening the soul’s experience within the cycles of the year. These verses were so important to Steiner that he prepared the last edition as a final deed from his death bed.
Karl König (1902- 1966), founder of the Camphill Movement, created 52 meditative illustrations for the Calendar of the Soul, with the aim of bringing healing light into dark times.

10/28/2024

STARTING TOMORROW!
We are pleased to invite you to join our upcoming themed working groups!

We are offering three groups, each meeting for one hour weekly! These groups are intended to develop self-knowledge and group connection in service to the greater healing needed in our society and world today.

Visit anthroposophy.org/ASAprograms to learn more and register!

🗓 Tuesdays, October 29, November 5, 12, & 19, 12pm ET / 9am PT
In the Middle of the Knight with The Hummingbird Principle

🗓 Thursdays, Oct 31. Nov. 7, 14, & 21, 10:30pm ET/ 7:30am PT
The Role of Sanctuary in the Renewal of Humanity and the Earth
with Spikenard Honeybee Sanctuary

🗓Thursdays, Oct 31. Nov. 7, 14, & 21, 12:30pm ET/ 9:30am PT
Living Geometry
with Timothy Kennedy

10/18/2024

This past weekend, 250 people gathered in Portland, Oregon, for our annual conference, Step into a Modern Esoteric Stream.

The lively gathering involved keynote talks from Marc Desaules and Mary Stewart Adams, workshops from the various sections of the School for Spiritual Science, artistic and healing sessions focusing on colored light therapy, eurythmy and speech formation. We also enjoyed eurythmy performances from the Bay Area and Portland Eurythmy ensembles as well as a dramatic reading of the sacred drama of Eleusis, and an outing to Portland’s Grotto.

We are grateful to all who were able to join us in person and to those who joined us online. We hope to see you again soon!

10/06/2024

Introducing the twelfth and newest section of the School for Spiritual Science, The Section for Inclusive Social Development!

This weekend, almost 1000 people from all over the world gathered at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, to celebrate 100 years since Rudolf Steiner gave his “Curative Education Course,” and to inaugurate The Section for Inclusive Social Development, the first section to be inaugurated in many years.

Congratulations to all those undertaking this new work, we wish you all the best!

10/04/2024

Vibrant morning light stirring a Michaelmas mood at Rudolf Steiner House in Ann Arbor, MI.

09/28/2024

100 years ago today, Rudolf Steiner gave his last public address in preparation for Michaelmas, 1924.

We wish you a blessed Michaelmas in this time of transition ✨

Listen to ASA staff Tess Parker, Angela Foster, and Katrina Hoven read this lecture:
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/IWAOOv5ObBmHnahpuctapDXqbsUSV3Gl9jmp1XxQgn1oPe-Xf_RkfcRSozIPQ0rxB_CKxlYQsv4NVbg4.QpdKVEX5c3smyryJ

09/24/2024

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09/19/2024

Support the APO this weekend!

Anthroposophical Prison Outreach Walkathon
September 20-22, 2024

Anthroposophical Prison Outreach inspires inner change in men and women who are in prison. Our lending library, meditation instruction, correspondence course and twice yearly newsletters support students in their self-development. And, as you know, when one person changes, it radiates to those around them. Your donation makes a big difference in the world.
Where will this walk-a-thon be held? It's everywhere! This is a nationwide event with no set course or distance. Walkers and cyclists can participate wherever they happen to be throughout the weekend. Each volunteer gathers in sponsors and in this way a broad group of individuals sustains APO.
Learn more & join at https://secure.anthroposophy.org/np/clients/anthroposophy/publicFundraiserList.jsp?forwardedFromSecureDomain=1&campaignId=241