Story and Puppetry School
Spring 2009 - 6-week full time Professional Puppetry Training/Apprenticeship on beautiful Vancouver Island
NEW 1-year format for the part-time certificate puppetry training begins July 09
More information about the puppetry school programs click here
Autumn Tales A delightful collection of seasonal poems and stories for young children that will connect them to the magic of the season
Around the World with Finger Puppet Animals This book brings imagination to the life of the hand and fingers. This supports the development of speech in young children!
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I am planning an exciting 2009 with 2 new trainings and several professional development weeks on therapeutic puppetry
NEW 5 day Arizona course April 6-10 on writing stories for children - Walkabout Tales.
We will learn the art of meditative nature walking to invite the muse for our children's tales. Many helpful exercises, puppet making to make our stories visible, and enlivened storytelling practice.
I believe in a renewal of puppetry where it opens the heart and soul, and brings, through the visible story, a picture of the possibilities of humanness.
The movements and gestures of the puppets, the colors, quality of voice and music, choreography, staging, and story content lifts the veil of the everyday consciousness and connects us all with the spirit worlds.
For this to be developed as a healing gift, we have the blessings of Rudolf Steiner's wisdom to guide us. For the last seven years I have been researching puppetry for the very young. read more...
Suzanne Down is researching the healing power of Nursery Rhymes and Puppetry with wise therapists and a curative eurythmist.
Here is an introductory peek into this vast and wonderful world. The hope is that this research will grow and eventually be made available in book form.
Workshop offerings on the therapeutic art of Nursery rhymes will be available this year.
As the soul descends from spiritual worlds to be born on earth, there is a sacrifice of the cosmic rhythms of planets and stars to enter earthly chaos.
The newborn arrives with no rhythm, the first breathing is chaotic. The baby needs this inner rhythm restored from the outside life by the parents, especially the mother. The mother begins to establish a daily earth rhythm of feeding, sleeping, rocking, and soft lullabies. read more...
