Join...
Dennis Klocek
Eduardo Rincon
Patricia Kaminski
Alex Tuchman
Bruno Follador
Anthony Mecca
Matias Baker...
...and others for 3 days of exploration into the new century of biodynamic research and practice
SOIL Day 1: Voices from the Grassroots
SOUL Day 2: The Inner Landscape
SPIRIT Day 3: The Spirit of Biodynamics
What to expect...
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New research and practical innovations from real farmers and gardeners direct from the field
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How to cultivate the inner life necessary to work with biodynamics
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An exploration of spiritual science across the realms of farming and gardening
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Biodynamic storytelling informed by a century of in-depth research and hands-on experience
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The keys to understanding the wisdom of the biodynamic principles from the experts
Event Features
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11 speakers
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Live sessions
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11+ hours of video
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Q&A panels & dialogue sessions
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Livestream & chat
Live only
Live + recordings
Special Pass: Live + recordings + The ULTIMATE Biodynamic Bundle
Early bird offer ends Jan 1st
INTRODUCING:
THE SYMPOSIUM SPECIAL PASS
$247 45% OFF
Live + Recordings + The ULTIMATE Biodynamic Bundle
9 x biodynamic audio workshops by Dennis
41 lectures, 40+ hours of content
Only $247 (valued at $465)*
For the first time, we're offering everything you need to decode the wisdom of the biodynamic method in one mega-bundle for only $247. This package is for serious seekers searching for the laws and principles behind biodynamics who want to join Dennis for 9 full length audio workshops delving into the mysteries of biodynamics. We haven't done bundles like this before, but what the heck! Fill your soul with Dennis' decades worth of biodynamic wisdom.
Included series: (Transformation of Substance, Core Principles of Biodynamics, To Every Season Turn Turn, Scientific Research Spiritual Research, Macro and Micro: The Action of the Etheric Forces in Nature, Principles of the Biodynamic Preparations, Sacred Agriculture and Agricultural Alchemy, Sacred Earth)
RECORDINGS: Lifetime access to video recordings.
*Early bird offer ends Jan 1st
Friday, January 24, 2025 – 9AM - 3:30PM Pacific
SOIL Day 1: Voices from the Grassroots
Dennis Klocek
Keynote
Dennis Klocek will explore the evolution of Biodynamics by revisiting the ancient concept of the two “cosmic books”—the book of nature, represented by science, and the book of the human, expressed through art. He will discuss Rudolf Steiner’s teachings on star wisdom, highlighting the deep connections between cosmic rhythms and earthly processes, which have inspired transformative research into plant vitality, water quality, and human health.
Drawing on the work of Goethe, Jung, and Steiner, Klocek teaches about the role of trained imagination as a bridge between science and spirit, fostering a deeper understanding of archetypal forces in nature.
His presentation will look toward the future of Biodynamic research and practice, calling for innovative approaches that harmonize cosmic wisdom with practical work in agriculture, medicine, and community renewal.
Eduardo Rincon
A Dialogue Session with Agriculture Section Co-lead Eduardo Rincon
Eduardo Rincon will join us from the Goetheanum for a dialogue session with the Soil, Soul and Spirit panel. Topics for the discussion will include: Eduardo's personal relationship to work on the land, how biodynamics entered his life, the aspects of traditional farming Eduardo believes can most readily connect with biodynamic practices and his thoughts on Steiner’s suggestion that those who work on the land need to become a new priesthood.
Bruno Follador
Researcher/Biodynamic Farmer
Biodynamics: The Early Pioneers
Bruno Follador will take us on a journey through early biodynamic history highlighting the forgotten young pioneers of the biodynamic method and the future bearing impulse they helped kindle through their research and practice. This session will delve into lost archives and letters to tell the stories of the unsung practitioners from the early days of biodynamics following the agriculture course in 1924. What moved the early pioneers to ask Rudolf Steiner for an Agricultural Course? What impulses lived within them? How can we keep those flames and visions alive today and carry them into the future?
Danilo Solano
Biodynamic Farmer
Understanding the Biodynamic Impulse: An Inquiry from a Tropical Cow and Bee Tender
The agriculture course given during Pentecost in 1924 marked a precedent for those human souls whose yearning was to be guided by the great mother nature. It is fundamental that humankind comes to understand how they can do right by the great mother while at the same time pursuing their quest to nurture souls, bellies and communities. In his presentation, Danilo will share practical methods and insights gained through his direct experience of biodynamic agriculture in wet, humid, tropical ecosystems. He will also address the questions: What was happening in the untamed neotropical jungles of Costa Rica during the agriculture course? How is biodynamic agriculture carving and shaping his farm Esperanza?
Plenum/Panel
TBC
Saturday, January 25, 2025 – 9AM - 3:30PM Pacific
SOUL Day 2: The Inner Landscape
Wali Via
Biodynamic Farmer
Spiritual Development on the Sufi Path Through Agricultural Symbolism
Wali has practiced both biodynamics and sufism for most of his adult life. He has found that these two streams of teachings can mutually support each other. Wali will share how one of the activities of his sufi path, Ziraat, uses agricultural symbolism, and attuning to the elements and nature as a means of traveling the spiritual path.
Carmen Hering
Anthroposophic doctor
Biodynamics & the Body of the Earth
Anthroposophic doctor Carmen Hering will join us to develop the imagination of the threefold human being consisting of nerve-sense system, rhythmic system, and metabolic-limb system as it relates to the earth, building upon the 2nd lecture of the agriculture course given by Rudolf Steiner.
Jonathan Code
Teacher/Researcher
Biodynamics: Building a Bridge to Understanding
Biodynamic educator, researcher and alchemist Jonathan Code will take us on an exploration into the principles behind the biodynamic method and how we can build a bridge in our thinking, feeling and willing in order to authentically encounter biodynamics as students and practitioners.
Matias Baker
Biodynamic Consultant/Researcher
The Significance of Transforming Agriculture into an 'Agriculture of Spiritual Deeds'
In this session we will explore the meaning and practice behind creating spiritual deeds in nature. Matias will share a story of a healing ritual and how this healing can inspire our biodynamic path. For example, by forming a sacrality around our biodynamic preparation work and how this can lead to new insights for new agricultural research and remedies. Ultimately, this will help us develop the artistic nature of forming inner pictures and organs of perception for experiencing the healing potential of the spirit throughout nature.
Plenum/Panel
TBC
Sunday, January 26, 2025 – 9AM - 3:30PM Pacific
SPIRIT Day 3: The Spirit of Biodynamics
Alex Tuchman
Biodynamic beekeeper
Biodynamic Beekeeping as a Spiritual Path
Join Alex as he explores the spiritual path of beekeeping through connecting to the honeybee as our teacher and archetype of the spiritual human being manifesting a life based on love. The bees’ main struggles are caused by human blunders. In engaging with the bees and developing practices to serve their needs, we have a great opportunity to develop capacities for living in balance between heaven and earth. In this way, working with the spirit is immanently practical and can be a great help in daily life and our further evolution. Alex will explore the spiritual nature of bees, the inner practices of the soul that can serve our connection and communication with them and the research that has developed from this stream of spiritual beekeeping at Spikenard Farm Honeybee Sanctuary in Floyd Virginia.
Patricia Kaminski
Biodynamic Gardener/Flower Essence Practitioner
Celebrating the Four Seasons in Biodynamic Practice: Weaving Sense, Substance & Spirit
In typical esoteric work, we're asked to step outside the physical sense realm in order to achieve communion with spiritual beings. However, in Biodynamic practice we have the opportunity to approach the supersensible realm from the opposite direction: imbuing our perception of physical matter with such intensity of consciousness that we can breakthrough to spiritual realization. Several months prior to the June 1924 Agriculture Course, Rudolf Steiner gave a truly ground-breaking lecture series entitled, The Four Seasons and the Archangels, articulating the precise chemistry of nature’s seasonal cycles in relationship to the archangels who shape each season. Patricia has approached her biodynamic practice with the core alchemical insights of these imaginations of the four seasons. Her presentation will give an overview for combining practical biodynamic applications throughout the yearly cycle with a soulful consideration of those supersensible beings who orchestrate the four seasons.
Anthony Mecca
Biodynamics and Cosmic Nutrition
Description coming soon.
Dennis Klocek
Teacher/Researcher
Endnote
Dennis will close out the proceedings of The Evolution of Biodynamics Symposium with an endnote presentation.
Plenum/Panel
TBC
What they're saying...
Thank you so much for making this presentation available. All I can say is WOW. I’m so inspired and I must admit, a little intimidated by the volume of information. With much gratitude
It was such an amazing and deeply moving experience for me. First…the scholarly content and professional attention to detail and multiple points of view are enlightening, and to be trusted. Secondly, I love the way you weave metaphysical into the scientific.
Holy moly, The question and answer session blew me away. Dennis is so far ahead of the game. He has the knack of putting Rudolf Steiner’s work and ideas in a language I can understand. I am forever grateful.
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Join the future of biodynamics!
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THE SYMPOSIUM SPECIAL PASS
$247 45% OFF
Live + Recordings + The ULTIMATE Biodynamic Bundle
9 x biodynamic audio workshops by Dennis
41 lectures, 40+ hours of content
Only $247 (valued at $465)*
For the first time, we're offering everything you need to decode the wisdom of the biodynamic method in one mega-bundle for only $247. This package is for serious seekers searching for the laws and principles behind biodynamics who want to join Dennis for 9 full length audio workshops delving into the mysteries of biodynamics. We haven't done bundles like this before, but what the heck! Fill your soul with Dennis' decades worth of biodynamic wisdom.
Included series: (Transformation of Substance, Core Principles of Biodynamics, To Every Season Turn Turn, Scientific Research Spiritual Research, Macro and Micro: The Action of the Etheric Forces in Nature, Principles of the Biodynamic Preparations, Sacred Agriculture and Agricultural Alchemy, Sacred Earth)
RECORDINGS: Lifetime access to video recordings.
*Early bird offer ends Jan 1st
Hello! When is the lecture that is for free from Dennis Klocek please?
Hi Christiane,
It’s a lecture that Dennis gave in 2013, that has been made free on our website here: https://soilsoulandspirit.com/lecture/biodynamics-and-beholding-through-the-four-elements/
Warmly,
Ben