A Litany of Wild Graces
In A Litany of Wild Graces: Meditations on Sacred Ecology, Sharifa Oppenheimer points us toward an open secret. Through poetry, essay, litany, and dreams, she invites us to step out of a 21st century virtual reality and into the emerald earth. Here we rediscover our ancient neural core: kinship with all beings. In these pages we meet close relatives: woman-in-the-mountain, northern blue ice, our sun ~ the father of all incandescence. We inhale the very breath exhaled by arctic phytoplankton.
It is through kinship ~ through Love alone ~ that we will be brought back to our senses, back home to the sensually alive inter-being that composes the living body of Gaia. It is, singularly, here at home in the one heart of earth that we will shuck off our husk of greed and domination. Here we can regain our humanity. We can rejoin the great conversation among beings. Step outside, open these pages and remember.
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Heaven on Earth
Heaven on Earth balances a theoretical understanding of child development with practical ideas, resources, and tips that can transform family life. Readers will learn how to create the regular life rhythms needed to establish a foundation for learning; how to design indoor play environments that allow children the broadest development of skills; and how to create outdoor play spaces that encourage vigorous movement and a wide sensory palette. Through art, storytelling, and the festival celebrations, this book is an invaluable guide to building a “family culture” based on the guiding principle of love—a culture that supports children and encourages the free development of each unique soul.
With Stars in Their Eyes
In this book readers will find not only a heart-filled rendering of the gentle ways young children have been traditionally raised and educated, but also cutting edge research that supports these practices. With love as the foundation, and through the neural tapestry created by joyful movement, music, art, stories, and play, we feed and bathe the young child’s brain. These deep connections with life are woven together during childhood to become the wholeness we call “I.” Each chapter offers ideas for bringing this new science and these time-honored ways into the home and classroom.
What Is a Waldorf Kindergarten
This book answers basic questions parents ask about the rhythms of a Waldorf Early Childhood day. Topic discussed are Handwork, Circle Time, Fairy Tales and more. It also addresses deeper questions parents may ask about the Stages of Development, Mixed-Age Groups, the Development of the Will and so forth. These essays are written by Waldorf luminaries, and it is Sharifa’s warm insight that opens and introduces each subject.
How to Create the Star of Your Family Culture:
The Heaven on Earth Workbook
In this gem of a book, parents are offered an exploratory approach to the principles introduced in Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents of Young Children. Using excerpts as leading thoughts, as well as “The Star of Family Culture” as a guiding image, parents are given a warmhearted lens through which to view their family life. Month by month parents can explore a new aspect of Family Culture, while weekly exercises and discussion questions help parents to deepen their ability to apply the principles in the nitty-gritty of daily life. This work book offers a structured path of inquiry and tips for practical applications. Parent groups find it helpful and inspiring!