These verses were all shared by members on the Waldorf School Online list HERE Original question from a member: My son’s teacher recommended we say a verse before bed to signal getting ready for sleep time. My son’s are 4 and 7. Any suggestions? 1. Guardian Angels who we love Shine on us from up […]
Waldorf 101
Waldorf Television
What Does Waldorf Education Say About TV? References for this article are listed below the article. As a naturopath, writer, and teacher this is one of my favorite projects to take on. I enjoy researching the historical uses of herbs and healing therapies and then tracing their usage up until the modern day where we find […]
Parent-Teacher Education
Have you ever heard the term “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander?” (It means, basically that what a man can do, a woman can do to or what is good for the man, is also good for the women) I would like to coin a new phrase and dedicate it to […]
Meditation and Inner Work
One thing that Steiner saw as very important for Waldorf parents and educators was to maintain a constant awareness of ourselves through meditation and self-reflection. The beginning of his work,The Foundation Meditation, expresses his thought the best when he says, Soul of man! You live in the limbs That carry you through the world of […]
Temperaments in Education
Even Samuel Hahnneman, the father of homeopathy recognized the importance of type and related that it was important to know a persons type to discover the different ways they would exhibit the same disease and the different ways they would react to similar medicines. In his essay, Suppression in the Four Hippocratic Temperaments, Samuel Hahnemann […]
Basic Waldorf Verses
You can hear these verses being sung in the video below: Good Morning Song Traditional Waldorf Good Morning Dear Earth (hands as if holding earth on abdomen) Good Morning Dear Sun (stretch arms above head in a circular arc) Good Morning Dear Trees (stretch arms to side, like tree branches) And the Flowers Everywhere (hands […]