WTEE Summer Retreat 2025
Healing Immersion in the Therapeutic Movement and Music
created by Wilma Ellersiek​​
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July 19-24​​​​​​​​​​​
We know that children are one with what exists in their environment—nature and the elementals, people, and their states of being—and that everything in their environment deeply affects them. How do we curate their environment in a four-fold way, in order to create a healthy, age-appropriate experience for the children? In our current political reality, how do we purify our hearts and minds to be able to be present with the children in warmth, joy, clarity, wonder, and, most importantly, love? How do we work with parents to protect and shield the children from the negative and destructive forces that we are bombarded with continually in our world? How do we purify and simplify the spaces we create for the children so that magical moments abound?
Join us for rejuvenation and inspiration as we prepare to meet our children in these extraordinary times.
Summer Retreat
​with Dr. Lakshmi Prasanna ~ Plant Study and Child Observation;
Lynn St Pierre ~ Ellersiek Work and Spacial Dynamics;
Beth Daly ~ Ellersiek Work and Handwork; and
Jason Yates ~ Eurythmy
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Begins July 19 at 4:30 pm through July 24 at 12:30 pm
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Early registration until July 1st: $590 ($645 thereafter); lunch and snacks included​​
Register now!​​​​​​​​​​​
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​​​​​​​​Dr. Lakshmi Prasanna is a pediatrician (neonatologist) with 25 years of experience. Before starting her private practice, she was the Head of the Department of the Child Development Unit at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai. She then founded Little Hearts Children's Hospital in Hyderabad, India in 1997. Dr. Lakshmi also founded the Saandeepani Centre for Healing and Curative Education in 2004 (in Hyderabad) for children with special needs and developmental delays.​​ Dr. Lakshmi uses an integrated approach to child development and treatment. Her approach includes consultation, teacher training workshops for schools, child development workshops for parents, and family meetings. She has worked extensively in India, Nepal, Singapore, Australia, and the US.
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Lynn St. Pierre joyfully presents early childhood developmental movement and music, including hand gestures, loving touch, large movement adventures, and singing in the mood of the fifth, as well as Spacial Dynamics® for Waldorf teacher trainings, conferences, and schools around the world. She offers a two-year deepening program for those who wish to carry this work forward. As a certified teacher trainer in both the developmental movement & music for early childhood created by Wilma Ellersiek and Spacial Dynamics®, Lynn enjoys mentoring and working with parents. In the mid-nineties, Lynn came to Waldorf Education as a parent and Specialty teacher of movement and has led Kindergarten, Nursery, and Toddler classes.​
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Beth Daly is a Waldorf Early Childhood Educator and Early Childhood Coordinator at Waldorf Teacher Education Eugene. Beth is also the WECAN Regional Representative for Oregon, and her advanced trainings include Ellersiek early childhood games and Nurturing the Roots, an advanced Anthroposophic early childhood therapeutic training.
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Jason Yates is the School Director of Waldorf Teacher Education Eugene. Jason graduated from Rudolf Steiner College eurythmy training in 2010 and subsequently performed eurythmy across Europe and Asia for two years. He then deepened his work with a diploma in therapeutic eurythmy from Paracelsus-Zentrum für Anthroposophische Medizin in Unterlengenhardt, Germany, and earned an MA from Alanus University.