The Agriculture Course: An Intensive Study of the Origins and Future of Biodynamics
| Place: | The Pfeiffer Center, Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977 |
| Start date: | Friday 13, January 2012 |
| End date: | Monday 16, January 2012 |
| Times: | Starts 13th January 6pm, ends 16th January 4pm |
| Price: | The workshop fee of $325 includes five meals at Threefold Cafe: lunch and dinner on Saturday and Sunday, and lunch on Monday. This year we are offering a special rate of $195 for farm apprentices, and other scholarship assistance is available. |
With with Steffen Schneider, Mac Mead, Malcolm Gardner, Rachel Schneider
Come to the Pfeiffer Center on January 13-16, 2012 for our fourth annual midwinter intensive study of biodynamics.
This year's focus is The Developing Farm Individuality and the Role of the Horn Preparations. A rich weekend of lectures, discussions, hands-on work with Preparations #500 and #501, and artistic activities will highlight our investigation into how biodynamic substances and practices relate to the developing human being and the developing farm organism.
The workshop fee of $325 includes five meals at Threefold Cafe: lunch and dinner on Saturday and Sunday, and lunch on Monday. This year we are offering a special rate of $195 for farm apprentices, and other scholarship assistance is available.
In his Agriculture lectures of 1924, Rudolf Steiner offered a revolutionary approach to agriculture that treats the farm as an organism, a self-contained individuality that is also worked upon from outside by multitudes of unseen and often unacknowledged forces. A farm individuality does not arise by itself – conscious and thoughtful human deeds are required to bring it into existence. In this sense it can be compared to the developing person, who requires conscious nurturing and
guidance to become truly human. The horn preparations, #500 and #501, are integral to helping unfold this individuality.
The Pfeiffer Center’s fourth annual midwinter intensive study of biodynamics will investigate how the substances and practices described in the Agriculture lectures and practiced by biodynamic farmers relate to the developing human being and the developing farm organism. The horn preparations will serve as the central point around which the weekend’s study will revolve.
Artistic activities offer a choice of working with the principles of light/color/darkness out of the work of Liane Collot D’Herbois, through charcoal drawing and watercolor painting with Deborah Lothrop; or exploring formative forces in movement, through eurythmy with Natasha Moss.
Hands-on experiences of working with preps, roundtable discussions, a Saturday-night eurythmy performance, and meals together will afford participants a unique educational and social opportunity to broaden and deepen their understanding of the role of biodynamics in the development of humanity and agriculture.
Please note: This is not an introductory course. Participants are expected to be familiar with Rudolf Steiner’s Agriculture lectures and to have some working knowledge of biodynamics.
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The Pfeiffer Center
260 Hungry Hollow Rd
Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977
