Rudolf Steiner Centre Toronto facilitates cultural renewal. We offer workshops and trainings in Waldorf Teacher Education, Remedial Education, Foundation Studies in Anthroposophy, Biodynamic Agriculture and the Arts. Here research into the spiritual nature of the human being brings practical insights for work, play and community.
Waldorf Teacher Education
Foundation Studies in Anthroposophy
We offer internationally accredited programs for Waldorf teacher education. Focus on early childhood, grades, high school or specialty subjects. Click here for Waldorf Teacher Education
The Eurythmy Spring Valley Post-Graduate Class of 2018 will be performing in Toronto, May 14th-18th, 2018. Their program, "Splinters of the Sun" weaves together music by Beethoven, Kodály, Sculthorpe and Sibelius, with poetry by Kathleen Raine, William Everson, David Wagoner and others, and includes the...
The Eurythmy Spring Valley Post-Graduate Class of 2018 will be performing in Toronto, May 14th-18th, 2018. Their program, "Splinters of the Sun" weaves together music by Beethoven, Kodály, Sculthorpe and Sibelius, with poetry by Kathleen Raine, William Everson, David Wagoner and others, and includes the Grimm’s fairy tale "The Queen Bee".
Performance Dates, Times, Locations
Monday, May 14th Novalis Hall 2:30 p.m., Camphill Communities Ontario, 7841 4 Line, Angus, Ontario L0M 1B1, www.camphill.on.ca 705-424-5363
Tuesday, May 15th Waldorf Academy 7:00 p.m., 250 Madison Avenue, Toronto, ON, M4V 2W6, www.waldorfacademy.org 416-962-6447
Wednesday, May 16th Toronto Waldorf School 7:30 p.m., 9100 Bathurst Street, Thornhill, ON, L4J 8C7, www.torontowaldorfschool.com 905-881-1611
Thursday, May 17th Halton Waldorf School 7:00 p.m., 2193 Orchard Road, Burlington ON, L7L 3X5, www.haltonwaldorf.com 905-331-4387
About the Performers
The performers are a group of 8 eurythmists from 5 countries, with diverse professional backgrounds. Over the past 8 months, they have been engaged in a post-graduate eurythmy stage-training course at the Spring Valley School of Eurythmy in New York. Their performance program, Splinters of the Sun, is the culmination of their work together, which they are bringing on tour in May 2018, to Toronto, as well as to Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York and Pennsylvania.
The program explores the theme of our human capacity to find and create light in the darkness. For more information about the performances in the Toronto area, please contact the venues directly. For U.S. venue information, please contact Olivia Hanna: olivia.d.hanna@gmail.com
We will explore, from conventional and esoteric perspectives, how mind altering substances including opiates, amphetamines, cocaine, marijuana and alcohol work on our bodies to give the experiences they offer.
We will look at these effects in the short and long term, with a special focus on human development. There will...
We will explore, from conventional and esoteric perspectives, how mind altering substances including opiates, amphetamines, cocaine, marijuana and alcohol work on our bodies to give the experiences they offer.
We will look at these effects in the short and long term, with a special focus on human development. There will be an opportunity for questions after the talk
At Hesperus Friday April 27th, at 7 pm
Pay at the door ~ Suggested $20 or pay what you can. The proceeds will go to Kenneth’s favourite charity, Hesperus Village www.hesperus.ca
Location: Hesperus Village 1 Hesperus Road, Thornhill
Date: Friday, April 27, 2018. 7:00 ~ 8:30PM
Kenneth McAlister M.D.
Kenneth McAlister BA, MD, is a General Practitioner, certified in Anthroposophic Medicine and has been in practice for over 30 years. He has been involved with the development of Hesperus Village where his practice with the Pegasus Medical Centre is also located. He is a founding member of the Canadian Anthroposophic Medical Association and has six children. He likes to play music in his spare time.
From April 23-27 , guest lecturer Diane Walters will be giving a four-day course on the subject of “Classroom Management and School Leadership” as part of the Professional Development for Waldorf Teachers Full-Time program at the Rudolf Steiner Centre Toronto. Over...
From April 23-27, guest lecturer Diane Walters will be giving a four-day course on the subject of “Classroom Management and School Leadership” as part of the Professional Development for Waldorf Teachers Full-Time program at the Rudolf Steiner Centre Toronto.
Over the last ten years, Dianne Walters has worked as an educational consultant, mentor, evaluator and teacher, mostly working with Waldorf schools in the Pacific Northwest region. She is currently based in Calgary.
Open Invitation for Continuous Learning
This is an open invitation to all to attend in full or in part and to engage in this important topic for our schools. The fee is $60 per day or $300 for the week. Please contact James at jbrian@rsct.ca if you are interested in attending. Here's a link to a video of Dianne speaking at TED:
This Saturday, April 14, I will be leading a group through Rudolf Steiner’s Mercury Seal. Steiner created seven seals in all, the five initial ones for a conference in Munich at the turn of the 20th century. A few years later they appeared, transformed, on the...
This Saturday, April 14, I will be leading a group through Rudolf Steiner’s Mercury Seal. Steiner created seven seals in all, the five initial ones for a conference in Munich at the turn of the 20th century. A few years later they appeared, transformed, on the columns in his architectural masterpiece, the first Goetheanum. So far we have covered the ‘past’ seals of Saturn, Sun, Moon and Mars. Mercury is the fifth, the one which corresponds to the time in which we are living, where we have to develop a “self-conscious image consciousness”. On May 5th and June 2nd we will explore the ‘future’ seals, Jupiter and Venus.
Mystery Drama Connections
In this Mercury session the focus, aside from immersing ourselves in the form itself, will be to take a look at how Steiner used this form in one of his Mystery Dramas, The Portal of Initiation. In the seventh scene, Maria, one of the main protagonists, meets her three soul forces as objective beings in the spiritual world: Astrid, Philia and Luna. They carry the forces of thinking, feeling and will, respectively. Maria circles the three with specific soul gestures, while the soul forces gesture their respective vowels in their respective zones and with their respective qualities.
The participants have varied from group to group—a mixture of those who had attended a previous seal plus some were new to the endeavor. The majority are beginners as regards eurythmy so don’t be shy about turning up!
