Extending the Art of Healing Through Anthroposophy

In this episode, we ask what happens when medical protocol replaces human connection in medicine and in education. Medical and educational protocols are meant to meet as many people as possible in an average kind of way, but the response can be vastly different. We need to hold a space for listening to our students and our patients, our children and our community members, in order to discover the...

This episode focuses on the connection between allergy and anxiety, and the ways in which our inner world relates to these two reactive processes. Adam equates the stimulus in our environment with our digestive system. We can chew and swallow a ton of food, even junk food, but processing it is a whole other matter entirely. It’s the same with the  stimulus in our environment. With that in mind, we...

The rhythms of the body and the rhythms of the planet have great wisdom, but rhythm is not about maximal efficiency, something that our current productivity culture insists upon. Rather, it is connected to vitality and life.  Our own capacity to heal is incredible, yet in our current western medical culture, we put more emphasis on outside interventions. This is true in educational systems, where...

Burn-out! It’s everywhere. It affects parents, teachers, doctors, and students. Physicians feel it as their work becomes more and more consumed by medical records. Teachers feel it when they are asked to teach to the test. Parents feel it from the intense busyness that consumes daily life. Where does burn-out come from and how can we ease the sense of depletion it creates? Together Dr. Adam Blanni...

Claiming Wholeness Summary: Four Steps Towards Wholeness In this final episode of Season 2, you'll review the four “lenses” for medical care and how they relate to traditional and ancient insights. Practical suggestions for bringing them into the practice of medicine will be offered, and you'll hear more about why these practices bring needed flexibility and expanded capacities. They are an antido...

Claiming Wholeness Part 8: Being Part of Our Own Healing Process In this episode, you will begin opening space to step into your own healing process. We will explore the links between fever, immunity, cancer and autism. Trusting your own powers for self-regulation will be key. This fourth level of understanding is related to both personal experiences and a "sense of coherence." Find more resources...

Claiming Wholeness Part 7: Threads of Meaning How are experiences of illness influenced by age, priority and capacity? What opens when we listen carefully for aspects of meaning? You'll be asked to consider using this fourth level of insight as a key for not losing sight of the individual—on both the level of patient and provider. Find more resources at helpthehealers.org and support this work by...

Claiming Wholeness Part 6: Gesture and Connection "Gesture thinking" is a doorway to understanding body-mind connections. In this episode, you'll explore how recent increases in allergies and anxiety could be connected, and begin to understand boundary as an important element of both resilience and wholeness. Find more resources at helpthehealers.org and support this work by making a donation at m...

Claiming Wholeness Part 5: Building Bridges During this episode, you can begin looking for interconnections. Examples from the field of psychoneuroimmunology are presented. Research on how warmth bridges throughout many different parts of our physiology is presented and you're invited to view warmth as a tool for self-awareness. Find more resources at helpthehealers.org and support this work by ma...

Claiming Wholeness Part 4: Nurturing the Full Spectrum of Our Physiology In this episode, you are invited into learning to see a more complete picture of our physiology, and how all living physiology needs alternating cycles of activity and regeneration. You'll be asked to start practicing spectrum thinking as a model of “too much” or “too little.”  The next five episodes of Season 2 will be relea...

Claiming Wholeness Part 3: The Physiology of Regeneration ​​In this episode, Adam asks what it means when there are so many interventions that we forget to include time for rest? How are regeneration and recovery connected to time;? What is the link between rhythm and vitality? Find more resources at helpthehealers.org and support this work by making a donation at medicalsection.goetheanum.ch . Em...

Claiming Wholeness Part 2: Overcoming Assumptions—Including the Element of Time to Build Context How are some of our assumptions actually false anchors? In this episode we will sharing research about average body temperature, and how that has been steadily decreasing over the last 150 years and why thinking about time helps build context. Find more resources go to helpthehealers.org and support th...

Claiming Wholeness Part 1: New Viewpoints on Resiliency with Dr. Adam Blanning This episode discusses the dominant role of deductive reasoning and date-driven therapies in medicine. We consider the ways they are complimented by three additional lenses: time and progression, "gesture thinking", and meaning. Find more resources at helpthehealers.org and support this work by making a donation at medi...

 E1 Claiming Wholeness: Introduction ~ What is the Claiming Wholeness in Medicine course about? Welcome to Season 2: Claiming Wholeness in Health and Education.   The next 10 mini-episodes are part of a curriculum designed to help you find healing insights and claim a sense of wholeness in your life. These episodes are based on a course created for those who are either learning or practicing medic...

Season One: Awakening our Understanding of Illness: 100-years of Fundamentals of Therapy This podcast is your invitation to engage with new perspectives on health and your own healing processes, while also learning about the fundamentals of anthroposophical medicine.     In episode five, the final episode for season one, we discuss chapter 14 of Fundamentals of Therapy by Rudolf Steiner and Ita We...

Season One: Awakening our Understanding of Illness: 100-years of Fundamentals of Therapy  In this episode, we work through chapter seven of Fundamentals of Therapy, by Rudolf Steiner and Ita Wegman. One of the primary concepts introduced in this chapter is how a challenging experience can bring new strength and capacity. This is a part of many holistic healing traditions, but rarely spoken about i...

Season One: Awakening our Understanding of Illness: 100-years of Fundamentals of Therapy In Episode 3, we discuss Chapter 5 of Fundamentals of Therapy: Plant, Animal, Man Medical education expects young doctors to memorize tremendous amounts of factual information, but offers much less guidance for making the information their own. Modern medicine similarly focuses mostly on quantitative measures—...

Season one: Awakening our Understanding of Illness: 100-years of Fundamentals of Therapy In Episode 2, we discuss Chapter 3 of Fundamentals of Therapy: The Manifestations Of Life. This chapter asks us to expand our perspective on medicine and healing, particularly into the realm of vitality. We reflect on the static pictures that are often offered to us through medical tests and chemical analysis,...

Season one: Awakening our Understanding of Illness: 100-years of Fundamentals of Therapy The book Fundamentals of Therapy by Rudolf Steiner and Ita Wegman is our guide throughout the next five episodes as we discuss Chapters 1, 3, 5, 7 and 14. We hope you will read along with us! In this episode, Adam and Laura explore Chapter 1: True Knowledge of the Human Being as a Foundation for the Art of Med...