Ellen Jane Schildt van Geest
Mrs EllenJane Schildt van Geest born in DenHaag (Netherlands) degree in fine Art , as a mother of 4 children, started a Antroposophical orientated evening school for young adult in early childhood , home economics and handcraft like doll making .She was involved in founding a Biodynamic farm for the community, and later a Steiner School .She immigrated to New Zealand for a school how was starting an upper school .After a diploma from Taruna Teachers training college , she joined the upper school staff and became the art and craft teacher, taking all the Art History Main lesson and book binding. During her sabbatical year she joined the painting school with Gerard Wagner and worked on the art curriculum for lower and upper school.
Diploma in Eurhythmy, Dornach. Diploma in curative Perdue
Founding an Art Department in the international school (Basel Switzerland) teaching art up to I B level.
Currently back in New Zealand she has a private practice ,teaches Eurhythmy in Taruna College and curative eurhythmy in the local Steiner school, during teachers seminars and medical conferences
Practical Exercises for Teachers in the Classroom
”Concentration and expansion” :Rhythms –Spirals, Straight lines and Curves
The transformation between the Kinder-garden age to the elementary school age
Working with the essential harmony between the breathing process and the circulatory blood system
Harmony which we can bring with music in the tone eurythmy lesson |