It’s a New Year!January 10, 2012

Happy new year!! the Christmas tree has been taken down, and we are busy preparing to welcome our students for 2012. Andrea and her lovely helpers have blown through the Taruna homestead and grounds clearing, cleaning and preparing the space for a brand new year.

2012 sees some big changes for Taruna, with a few staff members going into the wide world for new adventures, and new, yet familiar faces joining us to carry on the wonderful work here at Taruna.  The large wall planner looks bright, colourful and busy!

Foundations are due to be laid for the new building as the last of the clearing has been completed.  The gardens are blooming and the bird life sounds like one of those relaxation CD’s.  Little baby rabbits have even been seen flopping around on the lawn!  There is a lovely clean feeling of new beginnings about to happen.

Applications for our formal qualifications are still being received and processed, but please feel free to contact us here at Taruna if you need any further information and would like to spend some of your year with us here.

The Outdoor ClassroomDecember 5, 2011

Anything is possible in the Outdoor Classroom.  Working with the natural rhythms of nature, a space is created outdoors to foster an experience to balance head, heart and hands.  For one week, the Diploma in Rudolf Steiner Education students, also joined by 12 visiting students experienced an outdoor classroom programme, combining woodwork, metal work, leather work, pizza oven making and biodynamic gardening and preparation stirring.  Each of us experienced the unique connection with age old practises of making practical and useful objets through a craft medium.  Our visitors were welcomed with good humour, beautiful singing by morning and a harvest of refelctions by afternoon.

Thank you to John, Jonathan, Peter and Rachel, Michael, Brian and Paul for their contributions to such an enlightening and invigorating week of the outdoor classroom.  Let us continue to work with the rhtyhms of nature and be in harmony with our local environment that provides us with such rich resources for our survival.  Our connection with the natural world works to balance our state of being and allows us to experience natural, strengthening movements. – Lauren Kearney (Diploma in Rudolf Steiner Educaiton student)

Friday 11/11 PerformanceNovember 16, 2011