PARENTING, CHILDCARE & HEALTH

Care of the very young child is a very important concern, not solely for the healthy development of the individual child, but eventually for a healthy society. By health we refer to the physical, emotional, psychological, intellectual, social and spiritual life of the human being. We choose to focus on the child’s early years of life because these serve as the foundation of the succeeding years of one’s life.

Caring for Children’s Health from early childhood to the age of 9

- Why do children suffering from Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma and how to cure ?

- Managing Common Cold, Fever and Inflammation Using Hot & Cold Principle

- Nutrition and Immunization

- How does homeopathic medicine work on the children’s health?

Practicum: Preparation of Cleansing Teas to Help Remove Toxins

Date: 5^th October, 2008 Sunday

Time: 2:00 – 5:30pm

Venue: Garden House Pre-School and Playgroup

Garden House Silverstrand Shopping Centre. 7 Silverstrand Beach Road. Clearwater Bay. Kowloon Tel/ 2358-1177

香港 清水灣 銀線灣道 7號 銀線灣商場（坑口地鐵站 A1出口，坐的士約3分鐘）

Children with carers may enjoy the wonderful playroom in Garden House

Cost: $180-HK

Speaker: Jake Tan

Trainer, Community Based Alternative Health Program (CBAHP) on the Various alternative healing modalities, introductory course on Steiner Education and Child’s Health and Development

Manufactures Anthroposophical / Homeopathic Remedies

Co-founder of the Homeopathic Producers’ Enterprises

A Window to Anthroposophical Medicine – its healing and nurturing power

The Principles and Processes of Making Medicinal Mother Tinctures and

The Principle and Processes of Making Homeopathic Dilutions

Practicum:

- 5 Medicinal Plants and Their Indications (whichever is commonly available)

- Preparation of Cleansing Teas to Help Remove Toxins

- Tour around the garden and surrounding countryside for Jake to introduce medical use of some very commonly seen plants

(A cleansing tea will be served)

Date: 7^th October, 2008 Tuesday

Time: 1:30 – 6:00pm

Venue: Children’s Garden, 25A Pak Tin Kong Village, Tai Po Lam Tsuen, New Territories

Cost: $280-HK

Children with adult supervision can share the outdoor play area.

(Note: I got Jake’s Anthroposophical remedies during his last visit and since then I have organized children camps. With permission of their parents, I gave them the remedies for different needs ranging from coughing, cold, stomach pain to inflammation of the eye… also emotional swings. It turns out that all children try to taste the remedies. So during Jake’s visit this time, I would like to invite to disclose the secret of the remedies he made. Jake is the medicine man, who studied in Germany and Switzerland on how to make the remedies and has been manufacturing these through the past 15 years.)

Spirit Triumphant!

Flame through the weakness of fainted-hearted souls!
Consume our self-seeking,
Ignite our compassion.
That selfless desire, the life-stream of mankind
May hold sway as a well-spring of
Spirit Reborn!


精神勝利！
讓火焰穿透璿—軟弱無力的心魂，
耗掉我們自我的尋求，
燃點我們的慈悲 —

Trust in the ever present help of the Spiritual World

For the Michael Age

We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror of what comes to meet us from the future.

We must look forward with absolute

equanimity of whatever comes;

And we must think only that whatever comes is given to us by a world direction full of wisdom.

It is part of what we must learn in this age, namely,

To act out of the pure trust in the ever present help of the spiritual world.

Truly, nothing else will do if our courage

is not to fail us.

Let us discipline our will and

Let us seek the awakening from within ourselves

Every morning and every evening.

DON'T DOUBT IT

It is a matter especially of cultivating this courage and this fearlessness in the inmost depth of the mental life. The disciple must learn never to despair.
He must be equal to the thought - "I will forget that I have again failed in this matter. I will try once more as though nothing at all has happened."

Thus he will fight his way on to the firm conviction that the Universe contains an inexhaustible fountain of strength from which he may drink.
He must aspire again and again to the Divine, which will uplift and support him, however feeble and impotent the mortal part of his being may prove.
He must be capable of pressing on towards the future, undismayed by experiences of the past.

--Rudolf Steiner

these are words spoken by

many a thoughtful persons

and Steiner is one ........

we all feel despair and hopelessness

so it is reaffirming to hear this

encouragement now and then.....

Prayer to the Great Spirit

Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind,
Whose breath gives life to all the world.

Hear me; I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty,
and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset.

Make my hands respect the things you have made
and my ears sharp to hear your voice.

Make me wise so that I may understand
the things you have taught my people.

Help me to remain calm and strong
in the face of all that comes towards me.

Let me learn the lessons you have hidden
in every leaf and rock.

Help me seek pure thoughts
and act with the intention of helping others.

Help me find compassion
without empathy overwhelming me.

I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy,
Myself.

Make me always ready to come to you
with clean hands and straight eyes.

So when life fades, as the fading sunset,
my spirit may come to you without shame.

Lazure Painting with Master

We have had a wonderful workshop with John Stolfo, painter, scultpor, director of Studio Aurora, Chicago, held on the 26th to 28th July 2008

A progressive programme learn about the exciting lazure painting method and

through using layers of translucent color: -

*to create visually qualitative, richly modulated tonalities on architectural surfaces.

*to qualitatively transform architectural space to support space function

*to aesthetically harmonize the space to create luminous color moods or atmospheres

Venue: 香港兆基創意書院 九龍聯合道135號

Co-organised by:

Evera Rudolf Steiner EducationCenter * HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

View pictures at

http://picasaweb.google.com.tw/evera.steiner/LazurePaintingWorkshopJuly26282008#

About Studio Aurora Chicago

http://www.studioaurorachicago.com/index.html

From Mid-Autumn Festival to Michaelmas Feast

Mid-Autumn Festival is an important Chinese festival celebrating abundance and togetherness -- union of family and friends, as well as the abundance of summer harvest.

Michaelmas is a Christian tradition where Michael's mission is closely related to that of Christ and will only be fulfilled with humanity's cosmic vocation of freedom, individuality, and love. In view of karmic relationships we may have known each other in the spiritual world before birth to make our tasks in this life possible. We are moving on to a new kind of community, based not on family or race or profession or even age, but on spiritual recognition of each other.


Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration
Saturday September 13th
1000 - 1030 outdoor play
1030 - 1130 making icy mooncake (冰皮月餅)
1130 -1200 singing and storytelling
1200 onward sharing mooncake and lunch, we shall then wander off the meandering of the river down the valley and let children enjoy nature
Venue: Children's Garden

"Michaelmas - a feast of courage and community"
Wednesday September 17 7 - 9 pm

塔冷通心靈書舍

九龍油麻地彌敦道523號禮基大廈一樓

Speaker : Ben Cherry experienced trainer in Waldorf teachers' training for Asia in the past 10 years