Wholistic Living University Online Biodynamic Gardening Course & New Range of Practical Workshops on: Biodynamic Beekeeping, Living Water, and more
2024-08-01 14:27 - 2026-08-02 14:27 (Europe/London)
A Seasonally Oriented Ecology of Biodynamic Practices
The existing and forthcoming programme hosted by Wholistic Living University (WHLU) is conceived as a seasonally orientated ecology of biodynamic practices, with practical gardening and land-based work at its core. The primary emphasis lies in the biodynamic/wholistic approach to growing food, enhancing biodiversity, the restauration of soils, building life-giving compost, understanding plant rhythms, developing clear observation skills, and discovering the seasonal gesture, supported by in-person practical experiences, online learning, masterclasses, and the WHLU Calendar Club, created to accompany those working consciously with the WHLU 2026 Grow your Own Health Calendar.
Alongside this land-oriented core, the programme is enriched through complementary strands including biodynamic beekeeping, water phenomenology and flowform work, observational and sensory schooling, and embodied movement and formative arts. These offerings are developed with experienced practitioners and partner organisations, allowing participants to encounter living processes, soil, plants, water, bees, form, and movement through a multi-disciplinary approach to develop coherent perspectives. Together, these strands support the cultivation of perceptive, responsible, and future-oriented biodynamic/wholistic practices.
What’s on offer in 2026
Grow your own Health (GYOH) Online Courses, MasterClasses & Monthly Live Introductions Hosted by Hans-Gūnther Kern
Structured online learning and live seasonal sessions providing foundational understanding of biodynamic principles and ecological thinking with guided practices to apply at home or in community settings, for beginners, intermediate and advanced learners. For all details, visit: www.whlu.org/courses
Grow Your Own Health (GYOH) – Practical Biodynamic Gardening Workshops Hosted by Hans-Gūnther Kern Hands-on, seasonal workshops introducing biodynamic gardening practices, working with soil, compost, plants, observation, and the rhythms of the year to cultivate resilient gardens that nourish both land and human health (Dates and places to be announced).
Wholistic Living University (WHLU) Online Calendar Club (with GYOH) Hosted by Hans-Gūnther Kern
A shared learning space supporting gardeners and practitioners working consciously with the WHLU Biodynamic Calendar, offering seasonal orientation, reflection and practical guidance across the year – for full details and how to book your place, click here
Water Phenomenology & Flowform Work Hosted by Ebb & Flow Ltd, Foundation for Water; Simon Charter and Matt Thornton
Lectures and practical workshops exploring the true nature of water through observation, rhythm, movement, and form, supporting biodynamic agriculture, landscaping and ecological understanding (Dates to be announced).
Biodynamic Beekeeping, Practical Hive Work & Masterclasses Hosted by Scott Thompson at Paradise Gardens, London, SW18 3HU
Practical workshops, online theory sessions, and seasonal hive days exploring the honeybee as a keystone being within Earth and Cosmic Ecology, including selection, genetics, and future-oriented stewardship (Dates to be announced).
Observation & Sensory Schooling The Healing Garden, hosted by Kirsten Hartvig, Joshua Bartel and Hans-Günther Kern (Dates to be announced).
Cultivating refined perception and sensitivity through seasonal attentive observation of living processes in plants, landscapes, and water
Embodied Movement & Formative Arts
Explore Life Forces in Nature Course Leaders: Eurythmy Therapy (Katherine Beaven), Art Therapy (Johanna Berger) 23rd May 2026
An integrative experience of getting closer to your inner and outer nature, breathing together through embodied movement and artistic expression
Venue: Peredur, Centre of the Arts, Sussex
Experience the Qualities of the Pentagram – Gesture of Venus Course Leaders: Eurythmy Therapy (Katherine Beaven), Sacred Geometry (Saba Kafil) 4th July 2026 An exploration of the qualities the gesture of Venus, the number 5 and its form giving impulse in the Rose family through eurythmy and sacred geometry sou.
Venue: Peredur, Centre of the Arts, Sussex
Integrate Your Diverse Soul Experiences Course Leaders: Sculpting (Maria Albiez), Bothmer Therapy (Ionela Hanganu) Date to be announced
An immersion through playful and sacred movement, working with clay and forming a living expression of beauty and living proportions. An experience to feel deeply the expressions of living processes and pathways for cultivating full expression of our soul, the integration and balancing of our different centres of consciousness
Venue: Hoathly Hill Community, Sussex
Seasonal Living: Festivals, Feasts & the Arc of the Year (Dates to be announced)
Workshops, gatherings and practices aligned with key seasonal festival thresholds: Advent to Holy Nights, Lent to Easter, through to Whitsun, St John’s to Michaelmas, alongside various seasonal feasts of the Saints and Heavenly Hosts in support of cultural renewal and communal rhythm.
