Education
Taruna is the home of Anthroposophic Nursing Education in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Visit Taruna

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• Taruna College offers an internationally accredited Foundation Course in Anthroposophic Nursing. The programme is offered over two years with four five-day onsite seminars and home-based study and activity following each seminar.
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• A further pathway to Anthroposophic Nurse Specialist examination is currently underway with ten nurses from New Zealand and Australia participating.
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• A three-day Supportive Therapies Workshop is offered annually at Taruna.

Rhythmical Einreibung

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​Rhythmical Einreibung (rhythmical body oiling) is a defining anthroposophic nursing therapy and intrinsic to the path of the anthroposophic nurse. The journey to clinical competence in Rhythmical Einreibung requires absolute presence of mind. It calls on the nurse to consciously embody the archetype of rhythm, offer deeply human touch, and cultivate the capacity for robust self-knowledge and professional development. Through the precise integration of touch, warmth, rhythm, and substance, this therapy delivers harmonising, relaxing, warming, and enlivening effects.