Dear donors,
It's been a very long time since I've written anything. And I'm very sorry about that. There has been a lot of work to do, but more than that, I don't feel easy and I didn't want to burden anyone with my mood. The war continues, my hometown (where my parents, relatives and old friends live) is being bombed day and night.
I have learnt to laugh again when I talk to my parents on the phone, because life goes on and they also get used to it and adapt. But it's hard.
I'm now in the fifth and final year of our training programme. This year we are working on the artistic programme in speech and ton eurythmy: with the group and also solo. I have started practising with the cello for my ton solo. During my training we eurythmised with piano, lyre and a little bit of flute, and it feels completely different with the cello. I have chosen a poem in Russian for the speech solo and would like to learn Russian eurythmy. We didn't have that in our training, and I think I miss it a lot because Russian is my mother tongue. I have the feeling that I can connect better with eurythmy, also as a eurythmy therapist, if I also learn to eurythmise in my mother tongue.
Our artistic finale will take place at the end of June at the Eurythmy Olympics in Dornach. Before that, performances are planned at various venues, which we still have to enquire about.
Last year we did a six-month eurythmy therapy internship. I did my internship at the psychosomatic clinic in Badenweiler, Germany. On the one hand, it was a very nice experience. Most of my patients had their first encounter with eurythmy therapy and really enjoyed it. It was also nice to experience how the co-operation with the circle of therapists, nurses and doctors works, how each patient is taken along and supported in many different ways. On the other hand, working in psychosomatics triggered my own problems and it took me a while to find my balance again. However, I have seen what the next priorities are for me in my new profession and what I still need to practice a lot.
In July I received Swiss certificate as ‘Complementary therapist. Eurythmy therapy method’. After the fifth year we will receive the diploma from the Goetheanum.
I am very grateful to my training that we had the opportunity to experience many experienced eurythmy therapists in different areas and to learn from them. From the middle of the third year, we had many epochs to look into the different areas of eurythmy therapy and to practise specifically: on different clinical pictures and for different age groups.
At the same time, I am doing further training in ‘Eurythmy therapy for women’ in Frankfurt, Germany. My first patient was a pregnant woman from the Ukraine, and I enjoyed to work with her very much. Now I am very interested in continuing to work with pregnant women. And I became a godmother.
I also focussed on ton eurythmy therapy during my internship, which I would like to develop further. And working with children, this time as a eurythmy therapist. I've missed working with children over the last three years. But it was also good to take a break for a while, to study and only work with adults.
And of course there is a lot to do at Eurythmy4you. This autumn I'm taking part in two HSP courses as an interpreter. And in the Ukrainian course as a group leader.
Various eurythmy courses are planned for the Zodiac Festival in spring, where I am co-organizing one course. There are more projects coming, and I hope that I have enough strength and the necessary qualities to help organize them.
I wish everyone a wonderful autumn!
With kind regards, Anastasiia
Dear everyone,
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting me the whole time that I am here. I appreciate it very much!
Parallel to the studies I already begin visiting curative eurythmy classes in clinics, schools, private practicies. It is so great to be able to observe how different therapists work! I am very grateful to be here and be able to gain so much experience, to learn from so many therapists!
Your silent support gives strength to go on!
EURYTHMY=COURAGE
Eurythmy gives me the strength to paint. I used to be afraid of painting. Eurythmy gives me courage, but not the kind of courage I am used to, when, like Baron Munchausen, you pull yourself out of a swamp by your hair, but a very gentle and unobtrusive courage, coming from the very depths. It softens and dissolves fears and cramps in the body and character as if they never existed. And at the same time it gives shape and strength, helps to build boundaries and expand the heart.
But one notices it over time. Everything happens as if as a matter of course. And the influence is very stable, smooth and strong.
The mood becomes stable good. And there happens so much more.
It’s great that eurythmy is there, and one can discover it within oneself!
Thank you all warmly for your support, which allows me to go on with my studies!
Here are a few photos giving some impressions from my previous year.
With warm wishes, Anastasiia
Dear donors!
I haven't written for a long time.
The war in Ukraine had a big impact on me. For the first two months, I almost could not work - I participated and organized many volunteer projects to support my relatives, friends and other people in and from Ukraine, both familiar and unfamiliar to me. Then I got sick for a long time and needed to do a break and take care of myself.
The support of each of you is extremely precious for me, because thanks to it I can continue my studies, which now plays an increasingly important role for me. With the time I become even more and more convinced of the powerful therapeutic effect of curative eurythmy. Talking with family and friends who are now experiencing the horrors of war – some at a distance as refugees, some – at the epicentre of events staying in mortal danger for all those months – I see how great the need for therapists is, and how little of them there are.
Of course, I still have a lot to learn. The more I learn and practice, the more I realize how much more I need to learn and how much practice I need to become a good therapist. Discoveries in my studies bring me joy. There are a lot of them. What is very pleasant, there appears a feeling of a calm, confident "flow" – in the materials of the classes and daily practice.
Inwardly, I begin to more clearly feel the difference in sound and tone eurythmy. I drew my first forms for music and poetry and worked on my first solo. Also, medicine stopped “frightening” me with an abundance of terms in Latin and German, and it became easier to master it.
I have also started playing the lyre and I think I will definitely use it in my work in the future. I just need to get me an instrument and practice a lot!
With the outbreak of the war, I began to record my songs and post them on YouTube in order to morally support everyone who is now in difficult circumstances. The last songs are sung in two languages: Russian and Ukrainian. The very last song is accompanied by the lyre.
You probably already know about Eurythmy4you weekly online projects in English and Ukrainian. We cordially invite you to join! Live broadcasts take place at 19:00 CET on Monday and Friday on our special YouTube channel. More information can be found here: https://www.eurythmy4you.com/eurythmy-ukr
Overall, this is how much support I received, for which I am very grateful to all of you:
• 727.07 euros - donations from the English page
• 507.95 euros - donations from the German page
• 18 euros - donations from the Russian page
• 3'877 euros - support of the fund Schwestern-Farnikova-Stiftung
• I also earned something myself and got some support from my friends.
I wish you all peace in your soul and a peaceful sky above your head!
With many blessings, Anastasiia
Dear donors!
It's already four months since I've come to Switzerland. The first trimester will soon be over. During this time we have moved a lot in our studies. We have sound eurythmy, ton eurythmy, hygienic eurythmy and eurythmy therapy with four teachers, as well as medicine, psychology and practical anthroposophy, and there are even more classes (this trimester clay crafting - embryology, next - projective geometry and theoretical foundations of our subject – eurythmy therapist).
The lessons are from 8:15 am to 6:00 pm Monday to Wednesday (with a large lunch break), Thursday only until 12:00. Friday and weekend are free for us to work. In my case, I go to Nidau almost every week to continue with Eurythmy4you projects. And I get back on Sunday.
Our first two weeks at school were very special: the focus was on the development of eurythmy, and we experienced and practised the first eurythmy exercises that were given to Lorie Smiths, as well as the first eurythmy performance - from the Mystery Dramas. We also dived into the creation of the eurythmy figures. And continue deepening it in practical lessons.
And in my free time, when I wander through the forests of Eurythmy4you, cairns jump out of my fingers - now not as many as in summer - apparently it is time for them to fall asleep! My first pictures on the new paper with new colours were also painted here, but still quite little. I'm sure there will be more as I get used to the new daily and weekly rhythm.
Thanks to your help, I received “earth”under my feet for the first months of my studies. It also gives me a bit of "air" (freedom) - as I have not yet received any positive answers from the foundations, but the money I have, should (hopefully) be enough until I get them.
I could finance the first two months of my training myself. For this and for the plane ticket to Switzerland, I had just enough money that I earned at my last job - a Waldorf school in Kiev.
The eurythmy therapy school found a sponsor for me, who pays EU 350.00 of the monthly EU 527.00 of the tuition fee. He has worked in several countries, including 13 years in Switzerland as a biodynamic gardener.
Overall, this is how much support I received, for which I am very grateful to all of you:
- EU 330,97 - English donations
- EU 1’215.24 - German donations
- EU 175.97 - Ukrainian and Russian donations
- I also earned something myself and got some support from my friends and
- even more books on eurythmy, eurythmy therapy and music for eurythmy
I wish you all an inwardly illuminated Advent time and peaceful Christmas!
With many blessings, Anastasiia
Many thanks to three wonderful people coming from different countries - Marie, Siele, Theodor - who donated these books to me! I would definitely need them for my training!