Creative Therapy for Children with Autism, ADD, and Asperger's
Using Artistic Creativity to Reach, Teach, and Touch Our Children

Janet Tubbs

Softbound

$18.95

Anyone who is concerned with the seemingly exponential increase in children manifesting a wide variety of developmental syndromes will rejoice at the appearance of Janet Tubb's truly great book. Janet has worked for over thirty years with children with difficulties ranging from low self-esteem to autism, ADD and more. She has developed her own approach using art, music, and movement - and, when research supports it, nutritional supplements or modifications. Her awareness of children's developmental needs and the effects various artistic therapies can have has its roots in both Waldorf education and conventional therapeutic research and modalities.

Her book is a powerful gift, filled with clear pictures of children with various difficulties, incredibly helpful advice that is amazingly multi-dimensional, and clear instructions for delivering a cornucopia of therapeutic activities and exercises.

Thank you, Janet!

Movement Journeys and Circle Adventures
Movement Enrichment with a Therapeutic Approach for Early Childhood

Nancy Blanning and Laurie Clark

Spiral Bound

$23.50

What a joy! Here is an entire book filled not just with charming circle games and songs for the kindergarten, but with charming games and songs that have been created to help our young children find their way into their bodies and souls. In more prosaic language, these games and movement songs address the spatial integration and sensory processing development issues that it seems more and more children are struggling with.

However you think about it, this is a book of genius and a gift to young children. The games are delightful - teachers and parents will have as much fun and the children. And, they are brilliantly thought out to include movement forms that will bring the children into the world in with strength and balance.

This is a truly essential resource of the caliber of AHE's Resource Teacher's Developmental Exercise Manual. Use it. Love it.

Therapeutic Eurythmy for Children
From Early Childhood to Adolescence

Includes practical exercises

Anne-Maidlin Vogel

Hardbound, large format

$45.00

Therapeutic Eurythmy for Children is a collection of exercises gathered by Anne-Maidlin Vogel from 1968 until 1998. Many arose from lectures the author attended, given by experienced therapeutic eurythmists—especially Trude Thetter and Ilse Rolofs, as well as medical doctors and colleagues. Much of the material she used in her own therapy lessons with patients, with some of the exercises created from her own work with children for over thirty years.

As a form of movement therapy, eurythmy has been very effective in treating physical and mental developmental disorders. This book is a rich source of information for professional eurythmy therapists, physicians, and teachers of children up to fifteen years of age. Therapeutic Eurythmy for Children provides not only examples for exercises, but also offers useful references for personal development and additional training for therapists.

Included here are eurythmy therapy exercises to be performed with premature infants, babies, and young children up to the age of fourteen. Although based firmly on Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science and his general recommendations for eurythmy, anyone can follow the descriptions and sketches for individual exercises, which are based on healthy movement of the developing human organism.

Speech eurythmy exercises (specific spoken sounds and sequences) are included for postural problems, enuresis, lack of concentration, and more. These encourage readers to study the principles behind the practice of eurythmy performance and eurythmy therapy.

Therapeutic Eurythmy for Children will inspire and enrich the work of therapists, provide a means to more holistic pediatrics, give teachers a better understanding of how to approach their students through movement, and encourage parents toward a more effective, holistic aid to their children’s overall health and development.

Eurythmy - DVD
Balance of Body and Soul

Mark Neil, Beatrice Gwinner, Friederike Heinsdorff

12 Exercises for Harmony of Body, Soul and Spirit - Gentle and appropriate for all ages

$39.95

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One of the most frequent questions we have heard over the past 10 or so years has been, "Is there any book or video that teaches eurythmy?" Now we can answer, "yes." Australian eurythmist Mark Neil has taken up the challenge and answer the need beautifully. In fact, what you'll find on this DVD goes far beyond anything we dared even wish for - even someone as naturally ungraceful as I am can follow the simpler exercises successfully, notice improvement over time, and emerge from each session feeling invigorated and happy (that's a testimonial - I have actually been doing them).

Every exercise is presented more than once, with clear movements for you to follow. My favorite, recommended for the evening, but I do it whenever I feel the need, is Hallelujah! Try it when you're feeling a bit frazzled - it's like seeing the sun come out on a rainy day.

The exercises are gentle and appropriate for all ages, though some of the more complex exercises may be best for teens and adults. As with all eurythmy instruction, there is no spoken instruction so as to be able to go from the act directly into body and soul without detouring through the intellect. As someone who loves to detour through the intellect, I must (reluctantly) confess that the approach works beautifully, once you just do it. It's not the way we are accustomed to being taught, but the results are something we can all love.

And, what will you gain from this? The list is enticing and in my experience, accurate: strength, flexibility, balance; you'll find you're more relaxed after a while and that you feel more alive; you'll sleep better and your ability to focus and percieve will be heightened; best of all, you'll rediscover your playfulness, you'll smile more often.

Contents:

Exercises for the Morning

• I take the warmth of the sun
• Rod exercise

Exercises for the Day

• I think speech
• I A O
• Looking for love
• Five pointed star (A E I O U)
• I'm happy, I'm sad

Exercises for the Night

• Hallelujah

Further Exercises

• I A O with jump
• Second rod exercise
• Evolutionary sequence
• Contraction and expansion

Foundations of Curative Eurythmy

Margarete Kirchner-Bockholt

Softbound

$50.00

In 1921, Rudolf Steiner delivered a series of lectures on curative eurythmy. Over next years, when his advice was sought in cases of illness, he added to the initial therapeutic exercises and indications. For those who were unable to attend the original courses, Dr Kirchner-Bockholt published the basic principles and an authentic collection of Steiner’s advice.

This is Dr. Kirchner-Bockholt’s comprehensive handbook. It is both a guide for curative eurythmists in their therapeutic work as well as an introduction to this effective mode of therapy.

The Body Has Its Reasons
Self-Awareness Through Conscious Movement

Thérése Bertherat
and Carol Bernstein

Softbound

$10.95

About 25 years ago, I stumbled upon the first edition of Bertherat's revolutionary book. I don't even remember where I found it or what caused me to take it home. I do remember the amazing results of her very simple "exercises," which aren't really exercises at all but are gentle, organic movements that develop the body's range and freedom of movement, release constraints and reawaken dormant muscles. Back problems, neck and shoulder pain and a general lack of joy disappeared in the wake of using her suggestions. I passed a copy on to my mother who continues to use these movements to counteract a painful and degenerative foot condition. In short, I believe this is one of the most valuable approaches to health and healing available.

Joined now by Carol Bernstein, this new edition has much more information and insight than the original copy I began with, and includes illustrations that are extremely helpful. In this highly readable and usable book, the authors shatter myths about traditional exercise and health. They introduce movement that is based on a profound self-awareness, freeing us from our limiting attitudes about ourselves and our bodies.

Bertherat takes us through a series of precise, gentle, organic movements. These "anti-exercises" develop the body's range and freedom of movement, releasing constraints and reawakening dormant muscles. By using the appropriate energy for each gesture, they bring relief from a multitude of ills, at the same time awakening the senses and sharpening perceptions.

This is a realistic alternative to conventional body work that can help you become more efficient, creative, and self-confident. It can increase your intellectual capacity as well as your athletic ability and free you of sexual problems, including frigidity and impotence. No matter what your age, the information in these pages can help you release the beautiful and well-made individual you were meant to be.

The Healing Art of Eurythmy

Truus Geraets

Spiral Bound

$30.00

If you have ever wanted to understand Eurythmy - more specifically, how Eurythmy works on and with the human organism - you'll want to read The Healing Art of Eurythmy. More than that - you'll return again and again to the wellspring of health, inspiration and understanding that it offers.

Truus Geraets has practice Eurythmy as a healing art throught the world for over five decades - that she has shared her treasury of insight and experience with us is a cause for celebration. Her prose is personal, accessible and forthright; through stories, anecdotes and considered discourse she passes along her knowledge of how this art of movement works to heal body and soul. What a joy her book is!

Whether you are a patient, a parent or a eurythmist, there is no better book available on the subject of this art.

Eurythmy for the Young Child
A Guide for Teachers and Parents

Estelle Bryer

Softbound

$24.50

Eurythmy for the Young Child is a stunning collection of stories, songs and poems that will serve your children equally well as the basis for eurythmy, storytime, circle time or simple, delightful interludes throughout the day.

Estelle Bryer is a eurythmist with 43 years experience working with kindergarten children in Waldorf schools. She has selected each story, song or poem not only for its imaginative value, but also because each lends itself uniquely to the eurythmy forms for various consonants and vowells (which are not illustrated here -- I should be clear that this is not a how-to eurythmy instruction book). Because of this sound-quality to each of the hundreds of entries, they also lend themselves to a engrossing and even therapeutic usefulness in the realms of speech, language and movement. It would not be hard to create simple movement games using most of them -- even if they are not eurythmy, they will engage a full array of your child(ren)'s sense and lead all of you to a more grace-filled sense of moving through the world.

This is another wonderful contribution by our friends at WECAN.