Story and Puppetry School
Beginning Summer 2008 Elements of Therapeutic ECE Summer Institute
Spring 2009 8 week full time professional Puppetry Training on Vancouver Island
Juniper Toy Puppets
Juniper Tree School of Puppetry and Arts
Favorite Resources
Felting Needle Magic kits most popular autumn kit is 'Mouse Finds His Winter House', a therapeutic story kit
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!
My Puppet Journal
Looking forward to giving a 12 day artistic and therapeutic puppet intensive in Maui Summer 2008!! What a place for artistic and healing work! Join us!
Older issues of our seasonal story and puppet newsletter are now available on this site. Go to Resources they are in printable format. Sign up for your own email newsletters here.
Last Feb teacher conference in Maui workshop on puppetry as a bridge to social change and community produced enthusiastic ideas for using puppetry to awaken hearts and thought on conservation and world ecology, parenting issues, high school initiatives and more! Click on Institute for more info.
Puppetry Articles
Puppetry For Children
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...
The Healing Art of Nursery Rhymes
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...