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Photo	Name	Bio
	Joachim Daniel	Born in 1959, Joachim has studied Philosophy, Linguistics, Archeology and, most recently, Eurythmy. As well as teaching Eurythmy, he has taught both Latin and History at Waldorf Schools. Currently, Joachim is a freelancing Cultural Scientist and Founder of "Zeitfuerkultur". Hellas Block in Greece and Art History (both second year)
	Karin Hege	Karin was born in 1941 in Basle, Switzerland. After completeing her eurythmy training with the Rudolf Steiner School at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, Karin did stage work in Dornach and Berlin. She later undertook speech training in Dornach and subsequently toured as speaker for eurythmy productions in several European countries, including Russia and Ukraine. Included in her credits are anthroposophic therapeutic speech (ATS) practitioner with patients in the Ita Wegman Clinic, Arlesheim, Switzerland; tutor in ATS training in Dornach and Stroud, England; and ATS teacher in the Ukraine. Weekly Speech Classes (Dornach/ Aesch)
	Anneka Lohn	Anneka Lohn, born 1963, married, one child, studied music in Berlin (D), music teacher in Waldorf Schools for about eight years. Postgraduate studies of conducting in Zurich (CH). Different projects in conducting orchestra and choir. Weekly Singing Classes (Dornach/ Aesch)
	Bev McCune	Throughout her life, Beverly McCune has loved and been involved in music. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education and a Master of Music degree in Oboe Performance. She has taught music to children in public and private schools, directed church and community choirs, and performed in various orchestras and vocal ensembles. She has been a faculty member of the Austin Waldorf School since 1995 and is currently working towards her certification in music-thanatology through the Chalice of Repose Project. Weekly Singing Classes (Austin,USA)
	Johannes Nilo	Born 1973 in Jaerna, Sweden, Johannes studied painting in Stockholm. As well, he has studied Russian, History of Religion, and Philosophy in various locations in Stockholm, Heidelberg and Moscow. From 2002- 2006, Johannes conducted/participated in a research project on Rudolf Steiner’s Concept of the Soul at the Friedrich von Hardenberg Institute for Cultural Studies in Heidelberg, Germany. Presently, he works at the Goetheanum Library and the Rudolf Steiner Archive in Dornach, Switzerland. Weekly Studies in Anthroposophy (Dornach/ Aesch)
	Manfred von Osterroht	Phenomenologist, Landscape Designer and Agronomist Manfred von Osterroht was born in 1962. Having graduated from São Paulo University with an ESALQ/ USP, he completed a specialization year in Biodynamic Agriculture at the Landbauschule Dottenfelderhof Bad Vilbel in Hessen, Germany. Over the course of 30 years, Manfred has logged over 500 thousand km traveling trough Brasilian nature, collecting and organizing a tropical Goetheanismus. He has been working since 1992 conducting seminars in Eurythmy, Pedagogy, and Biodynamics. Since 2007, Manfred has been leading intensive research teamwork in Observatorium, or the phenonmenology of landscape and human being. Phenomenology Block of Landscapes in Brazil (first year)
	Marcelo S. Petraglia	Born in 1961, the musician, composer and instrument researcher Marcelo S. Petraglia earned his undergraduate degree from São Paulo University USP, and later completed his post-graduate degree in Biology at the São Paulo State University UNESP. Later, Marcelo studied at Emerson College in the UK with Michael Deason-Barrow, Ursula Koepf, and Paer Ahlbom, and in Germany with Manfred Bleffert. He has been working since 1990 as a music teacher for several anthroposophical teacher seminars, including eurythmy- and biodynamic-related courses. At the moment, he is deeply involved in intensive research on the study of wave and sound phenomena and its influence upon substances and plant organisms. For more information on his current research visit his website at www.ouvirativo.com.br. Music Block in Brazil (first year)
	Simonetta Soffietini	Weekly Music Theory Classes (Dornach/ Aesch)
	Bill Toole	Born in 1951 in Massachusetts, Bill Toole spent his first quarter century expecting to live out his year as a New Englander. However, after graduating from the Waldorf Institute, now Sunbridge College, he found himself teaching at the Austin Waldorf School in 1982 and residing in the heart of Texas ever since. There, as a class teacher, he graduated three classes. With an early interest in mathematics and the sciences he had entered the University of Massachusetts as an electrical engineering student, but a search for answers to human questions led him to shift his studies to literature, eventually earning a bachelor’s degree in English. The search turned to eastern spirituality and ultimately to anthroposophy and Waldorf Education. He discovered the value of being able to draw on this broad range of interests as he moved through the class teaching curriculum. As of 2004 he has concentrated on mentoring and teaching math and physics in the middle school grades as well as a bit of mathematics in the high school.
	Johannes Wirz	Johannes Wirz holds a PhD. in molecular genetics. Since 1987, he has been a Scientific Collaborator at the Research Institute at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland. Areas of research include Goetheanistic approaches in developmental biology, morphological studies of non-target effects in genetically modified crops, bee keeping without chemical pest control, and the cultural and societal implications of biotechnology in agriculture and medicine. Currently, Johannes is the editor of Elemente der Naturwissenschaft. Goethean Observation Block (first year in Dornach/ Aesc
	Thorwald Thiersch	Thorwald Thiersch studied Sciences in Goettingen and Munich and later taught at the Munich Rudolf Steiner High School Science, Art and Religion for many years. Since 1993, he has been working with the Art Section at the Goetheanum, teaching courses in Visual Arts and Goethean Anthropology. Anatomy (first year) and Embriology- Cosmology Block (second year in Dornach/ Aesch)