Founding Director of the Jerusalem Eurythmy Ensemble
and the Jerusalem Academy of Eurythmy
14–23 February, 2025
Spring Valley, NY
with Dr. James Dyson
April 4-13 South Africa
July 18-27 Holland
August 1-10 Germany
In Rudolf Steiner’s lectures Eurythmy as Visible Music he repeatedly indicated that elements of this new art of movement could be effective as therapy. Inspired by the examples he provided, eurythmist Lea van der Pals and medical doctor Margarete Kirchner-Bockholt worked together in the late 1950s to develop a sequence of exercises in connection with the diseases discussed by Rudolf Steiner and Ita Wegman in their book Extending Practical Medicine or Fundamentals of Therapy.
While this professional course is for eurythmy therapists and medical doctors, the insights it provides into the human being and the deeply transformative effect it has on the participant can benefit and enrich the life and work of artists, teachers, music, art, and physical therapists, as well as the student or lay enthusiast.
The exercises consist of tone eurythmy in its purest form and their effectiveness has been proven in practice.
The 60 course hours qualify as AnthroMed Professional Development Hours (PDHs)
All courses are held in person and are given in English unless otherwise indicated.
Tuition and Travel Grants may be available in some cases.
Information and registration:
tone.eurythmy.therapy@gmail.com
Tone Eurythmy Therapy offers a deepening of the basic elements of tone eurythmy and an introduction to the exercises developed as therapies for rheumatism, illnesses of the skin, central and peripheral congestion of the systemic circulation, pulmonary circulation abnormalities, diabetes, kidney problems, conditions of overweight and underweight, gout and arthritis. The inherent therapeutic and harmonizing properties of the basic elements of music are powerfully effective and can be applied in therapeutic eurythmy as well as in hygienic eurythmy, pedagogical eurythmy and in personal development.
Born in the USA, Jan Ranck studied music and comparative arts at Indiana University in Bloomington. She accompanied the London Eurythmy Stage Group on their 1976 USA tour and went on to study eurythmy at the Eurythmeum in Dornach, Switzerland with Lea van der Pals, where she subsequently taught. In 1984 she joined the faculty of The London School of Eurythmy. She left there to complete her eurythmy therapy training in Stuttgart, Germany in 1989, moving afterward to Israel, where she founded and directed the Jerusalem Eurythmy Ensemble (1990) and the Jerusalem Academy of Eurythmy (1992) and was an instructor in the Jerusalem Waldorf Teacher Bachelor Program in David Yellin Academic College.
Jan has held master classes at various venues worldwide, including the Goetheanum and the MA Program in Eurythmy held at Emerson College and Spring Valley. She has been the representative for Israel in the International Eurythmy Therapy Forum from its inception. As a colleague of Lea van der Pals’ successor in this field, Annemarie Bäeschlin, Jan was involved with compositional and editorial suggestions for their publication “Tone Eurythmy Therapy” (Verlag am Goetheanum 1991) and held practice sessions for the courses. Since 2016 she has carried the course to many venues worldwide where her approach brings both knowledge of healing and healing itself.