Instructors
Nina Wallace-Ockenden - eurythmy
Nina’s deepest interest lies in developing ensouled movement, both to music and to language. She loves dramatic expression and strives to create spaces for the sacred as well as for humour. Nina completed her eurythmy training with Jeannie Schwarzkopf at the Charis Eurythmy Training in Auburn, California. She completed an artistic 5th year at the Stuttgart Eurythmeum and received her BA in Eurythmy Education through the Den Norske Eurythmihøyskole in Oslo, Norway. Nina is the founding eurythmist of Auriel Eurythmy.
She has performed with various groups in Europe, North America, and South Africa. A Waldorf graduate herself, Nina has taught children and adults in Camphill communities and Waldorf Schools, as class teacher, music instructor, as mentor and eurythmy teacher in England, Canada, South Africa, Mexico and China. She currently also teaches the Foundations Studies Distance course as online mentor for Rudolf Steiner Centre Toronto.
https://anthroposophy.ca/en/meeting-one-another-nina-wallace-ockenden-mexico-city/
Nina’s deepest interest lies in developing ensouled movement, both to music and to language. She loves dramatic expression and strives to create spaces for the sacred as well as for humour. Nina completed her eurythmy training with Jeannie Schwarzkopf at the Charis Eurythmy Training in Auburn, California. She completed an artistic 5th year at the Stuttgart Eurythmeum and received her BA in Eurythmy Education through the Den Norske Eurythmihøyskole in Oslo, Norway. Nina is the founding eurythmist of Auriel Eurythmy.
She has performed with various groups in Europe, North America, and South Africa. A Waldorf graduate herself, Nina has taught children and adults in Camphill communities and Waldorf Schools, as class teacher, music instructor, as mentor and eurythmy teacher in England, Canada, South Africa, Mexico and China. She currently also teaches the Foundations Studies Distance course as online mentor for Rudolf Steiner Centre Toronto.
https://anthroposophy.ca/en/meeting-one-another-nina-wallace-ockenden-mexico-city/
Karen Gallagher - eurythmy, rods, study, singing
The synthesis of speech, music, and dance with spiritually inspired movement resonates deeply in Karen. She especially loves to enliven the ‘spaces between’, wherein we all live and breathe and have our being. Karen crossed paths with eurythmy and Waldorf education in 1998, in the beautiful Central American country of Costa Rica. She graduated at Eurythmy Spring Valley, New York and also earned a Bachelor degree through the eurythmy school in Oslo, Norway.
Karen enjoys an ongoing relationship with the annual Waldorf Teacher training at the Centro de Desarrollo Antroposófico in Cuernavaca, Mexico. In addition to eurythmy, twenty-four years of classroom experience enrich the story through a variety of subjects: Spanish, Choir, Theater and Life Skills. Karen is the mother of four grown daughters, the youngest of whom was born in Costa Rica where their young family lived for nine years. Currently she resides in Coyoacan, Mexico City.
The synthesis of speech, music, and dance with spiritually inspired movement resonates deeply in Karen. She especially loves to enliven the ‘spaces between’, wherein we all live and breathe and have our being. Karen crossed paths with eurythmy and Waldorf education in 1998, in the beautiful Central American country of Costa Rica. She graduated at Eurythmy Spring Valley, New York and also earned a Bachelor degree through the eurythmy school in Oslo, Norway.
Karen enjoys an ongoing relationship with the annual Waldorf Teacher training at the Centro de Desarrollo Antroposófico in Cuernavaca, Mexico. In addition to eurythmy, twenty-four years of classroom experience enrich the story through a variety of subjects: Spanish, Choir, Theater and Life Skills. Karen is the mother of four grown daughters, the youngest of whom was born in Costa Rica where their young family lived for nine years. Currently she resides in Coyoacan, Mexico City.
Silvia Wend - eurythmy, geometry, study, improv
Silvia's joy is in the dance. And in moving creatively together.
She has journeyed through the arts of theater, poetry, and various movement forms. Silvia has been a Waldorf teacher in Colombia, Uruguay and New York; and has offered adult courses in body expression, poetry recitation, and also Tai-Chi.
She completed her Eurythmy training with Sound Circle Eurythmy in Boulder, CO, where she now lives and participates in artistic Eurythmy presentations. Silvia also travels to Uruguay to teach Eurythmy to adults and children.
Silvia's joy is in the dance. And in moving creatively together.
She has journeyed through the arts of theater, poetry, and various movement forms. Silvia has been a Waldorf teacher in Colombia, Uruguay and New York; and has offered adult courses in body expression, poetry recitation, and also Tai-Chi.
She completed her Eurythmy training with Sound Circle Eurythmy in Boulder, CO, where she now lives and participates in artistic Eurythmy presentations. Silvia also travels to Uruguay to teach Eurythmy to adults and children.
Ileana Villareal - eurythmy
Simone Iafolla - eurythmy
Patricia Leiva - eurythmy, art
Rebecca Tuttle - eurythmy, rods
Leticia Tarno - eurythmy
Module Guest Teachers:
We have the honour to welcome other Eurythmists to observe and to teach during our Modules as well as during the ongoing part-time training. Past Guest Teachers have included:
Michael Leber, Stuttgart
Stefan Hasler, Dornach
Bettina Grube, Hamburg
Darsi Ribeiro, Lima
Kleber Akama, São Paolo
Emmanuelle de Koning, Paris
Yolanda Frischknecht, Portland
Michael Leber, Stuttgart
Stefan Hasler, Dornach
Bettina Grube, Hamburg
Darsi Ribeiro, Lima
Kleber Akama, São Paolo
Emmanuelle de Koning, Paris
Yolanda Frischknecht, Portland
Our Mentors:
Renate Nisch, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Astrid Infantas, Stuttgart, Germany
Astrid Infantas, Stuttgart, Germany
Pianists:
Katya Trejo Smith MacDonald - piano accompaniment, music theory
Tanya Trejo Smith MacDonald