The Wisdom of Nature

August 6 – 9

at Partner Earth Education Center in Danby, Vermont

 

Nature is alive, and we can approach this living soul from at least two major directions.  Through dreamtime, including imagination and dream, we can attune to the plants, animals, land, and Nature as a living being.  Through the intuition we can learn to detect the primal patterns in Nature.  This is the 'language of the birds' or the 'green tongue' of which the ancient sages spoke.  Following Rudolf Steiner's idea, "Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path," we will learn how this brings us closer to Nature and the spirit.  First we will learn about the intuition, how it works and how to use it, both on its own and to supplement dreamtime, then how to recognize the patterns in Nature through the 'doctrine of signatures,' then the 'spirit signatures' that draw relationships between plants and animals.  We will then study animal medicine.  Finally, we will study the animals within, the constitutions and medicine animals associated with us.  Each of us has a constitutional medicine animal type and an instinctive animal self (sometimes the same).  We will work with the three primary constitutions (vata, pitta, kapha) and the subdivisions into twenty-one constitutions associated with different animals and medicine powers.  At all times we will seek to make the class as experiential as possible, through looking at herbs, herb walks, discussing the intuition, imagination, instincts, defining them and their differences,  In the end, we will try to help ourselves and each other to discover personal affinities to medicine animals. 

Time: 10:00am Thursday to 3:00pm Sunday, Augus 6-9, 2009.

Cost: $495 earlybird discount if paid in full by June 15^th, thereafter, the cost is $545. Includes all instruction, meals, indoor lodging or camping. Register with a $100 non-refundable deposit.

For more info or to register: www.partnereartheducationcenter.com or call 802-293-5996.