Processes & Methods
Embodiment
of ideas through imaginative expression taken into the physical architecture and movement of the body. This can include body sculpture, role taking and group sculpts.
Masks
are used to enhance the Karma research process by highlighting specific beings and archetypes that are being invoked to learn about the spiritual realities. Mask work also enables us to experience some of these elements in an embodied way.
Drama
includes working with games, improvisations and deriving from drama exercises, including scenes from plays, speeches and poems.
Poetry and prose
are artistic processes which can help encapsulate experiences and provide data for the research processes.
Ritual
is used when it is helpful to hold a deep spiritual structure by offering a series of actions and processes in an acknowledged space to bring an interface between the spiritual and sense perceptible world.
Art Work
to capture various biographical steps in our lives, and to help prepare the way for various karma research exercises, and to help process the outcomes of research.
Psychodrama
as developed by JL Moreno is implemented in using the nature of spontaneity, working with the ‘here and now ‘of the ‘there and then’ or the surplus reality of the future. Here role taking, using role reverse and doubling, to develop the work creatively in Karma Drama.
Meditation
helps to create an inner space in which one is alone and in silence, to enable other dimensions of our being to become present in our consciousness.
“Karma is not a punishment, but rather the great teacher that gives us the possibility to transform our errors into wisdom.” — Rudolf Steiner, “Manifestations of Karma,” 1910
“Reincarnation is not a repetition, but a progression. In each new life the spirit rises higher, bringing the experiences of the past into a fuller harmony with its eternal purpose.” — Rudolf Steiner, Berlin, 1905
“We are the slaves of the past, but the masters of the future.”— Rudolf Steiner, Munich,1907