Basic
Exercises
Six soul exercises for developing the heart chakra
A shared journey through Rudolf Steiner’s six supplementary exercises – supported by a vibrant community – accompanied by a dedicated team.
path of training
Rudolf Steiner outlined six fundamental soul exercises for the development of the heart chakra. These are intended to provide the soul with such inner stability, security and balance that it can freely unfold its heart’s powers despite the manifold demands of modern external and internal life. They serve to develop concentration, willpower, equanimity, positivity, impartiality and harmony within the soul.
“One might say that every individual human being, by nature and destiny, carries within them a pure, ideal human being, and that the great task of their existence is to harmonise with the unchanging unity of this being amidst all their vicissitudes.”
Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller
in the heart
In recent years, the World Peace Index has recorded a dramatic increase in global conflicts and violence. We counter this with a path of the heart, which we walk in a large worldwide community with hundreds of different people in 12–14 languages. In this way, a peace force is created in spiritual connectedness. Individual and regional characteristics can thereby be experienced no longer as a threat, but as an enrichment. During the course, opportunities for intercultural exchange and encounter arise.
offering
The six spiritual exercises form the heart of the course. Rudolf Steiner emphasised the importance of practising them in the specified order and with inner consistency. We will devote four weeks to each exercise in depth. In return, you will receive a lovingly designed set of cards for your daily individual practice, as well as a varied programme of communal activities including international conferences held every four weeks, translated live into our languages. Your personal process of will and your immersion in the exercises will be supported and sustained by weekly letters, regional groups and tandem partners.
The six spiritual exercises form the heart of the course. Rudolf Steiner emphasised the importance of practising them in the specified order and with inner consistency. We will devote four weeks to each exercise in depth. In return, you will receive a lovingly designed set of cards for your daily individual practice, as well as a varied programme of communal activities including international conferences held every four weeks, translated live into our languages. Your personal process of will and your immersion in the exercises will be supported and sustained by weekly letters, regional groups and tandem partners.
5–15 minutes of focused thinking each day on a subject of your choice. This fosters inner alertness, clarity and a growing confidence in your own ability to think.
Strengthens the ability to actually carry out what one has set out to do. One becomes more steadfast and clear-minded. Contentment and confidence in one’s own abilities develop.
Meeting life's joys and sorrows, highs and lows, with equanimity. Maintaining inner spiritual balance without suppressing feelings. Strengthening feeling.
Seeking out the good, the excellent and the beautiful in all experiences. Conflicts can dissolve into harmony; the world becomes more peaceful, encounters more fulfilling.
Approach every new experience without prejudice. Life becomes richer, gratitude increases, intuitive power grows, the unknown can emerge, the future opens up.
The sixth exercise unites all the previous ones into a single whole. Balance, harmony of the spiritual powers – a synthesis of inner training.
The Course
in Rhythm
Every four weeks, participants come together in a joint conference – as a conclusion of the previous exercise and as an introduction to the new one. The conferences take place twice on that day: in the morning in English with translation into the eastern languages, in the evening in German with translation into the western languages. Over the Christmas period, a three-week pause invites reflection and inner deepening.
to receiving your
registration
Join us and many people worldwide on this journey through the six spiritual exercises.
To make the course accessible to everyone whilst enabling us to run this and other projects, we have developed a solidarity-based pricing model. Depending on which country you live in and your financial situation, you can choose your participation fee for the course within a certain range. To this end, we work with a transparent pricing model comprising four categories – based on the cost of living and income levels in different parts of the world.
By paying a higher fee, you not only support our initiative but also enable us to bring the project to the world in a spirit of solidarity. Your contribution covers all services, including the card set, conferences, letters, organisation and postage within the EU. For countries outside the EU, we unfortunately have to add a flat-rate postage charge of €15. Please feel free to contact us if the price is too high for you, and we will find a personalised solution.
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If you have any questions about the course or the registration process, we’d love to hear from you.
Join our information sessions free of charge. Simply register via the contact form – you'll receive the Zoom link conveniently by email the day before.
Vision
Such a large worldwide project depends on the strength of many people. You can support us by telling your friends and acquaintances about us, sending out and displaying our postcards/posters, becoming a sponsoring member of our non-profit association, or making a donation to us. You can easily download posters, postcards and an interview about the course here, or have them sent to you free of charge.
J.W. von Goethe: The Fairy Tale
Poster
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Postcard
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Shaping it together
"We accept every kind of human being," says Maria in the first Mystery Drama by Rudolf Steiner. She speaks of tolerance towards the Other, the foreign and the unfamiliar. We therefore delight in the diversity of people with their different perspectives and cultural backgrounds who join us on our path of the heart. For all these people, the worldwide impulse for peace and mutual understanding is a matter of deep inner concern. Various cooperation partners and friends walk a spiritual path with us for a time. These include the Anthroposophical Societies of various countries, Elefant for Peace, Free Columbia, the Institute for Integrative Medicine at the University of Witten/Herdecke, Greenseeds and others.
know us
Since 2019, we have been developing modern and innovative training paths based on Anthroposophy and the writings of Rudolf Steiner. Since 2021, our projects have been supported by the Institute for Spiritual Activity and the non-profit association Leben im Denken e.V. Since the beginning of our initiatives, we have reached a worldwide community of over 3,000 participants in 14 languages and more than 50 countries through our courses. Our work is sustained by a large international network of volunteers. You can see some of these people below:
Institute for Spiritual Activity
Leben im Denken e.V.
Andreas Schmitt
Board Member Leben im Denken e.V.
Overall Responsibility, CEO
University of Tübingen / GE
David Martin
Board Member Leben im Denken e.V.
Strategy and Meditation
University of Witten/Herdecke / GE
Marion Kahl
Strategy and Communication
Passau / GE
Ludger Scharlipp
Board Member Leben im Denken e.V.
Strategy, Communication, IT
Arlesheim / CH
Elvira Kraus
Board Member Leben im Denken e.V.
Exercise and Creative Meetings
Tübingen / GE
Martin Blumenroth
Exercise and Creative Meetings
Schwelm / GE
Renate Schreiber
Josefine Trapp
Yolanda Alvarez Ulloa
Susana Ulrich Alvarez
Judy
Kiwon
Susanne Fritscher
Nicole Link
Mingyu Wei
Ahiua
Micky Leach
Eduardo Yi Man
Gopa David
Elizabeth Muzzler
Gabi Glas
Jeff Martin
Susanne Schwaier
Udo Eitzenberger
K. Mihi
Min
Seongheun
Seunghee Nam
Learn more about the Institute for Spiritual Activity, the association Leben im Denken e.V. and the team:
We would be delighted if you would like to support our project with a donation (with donation receipt):
GLS-Bank: DE46 4306 0967 1254 3002 00
PayPal: Jahrestraining@Philosophie-der-Freiheit.de
Basic Exercises · 2026
A project by Leben im Denken e.V. featuring:
Annual Training Course on the Philosophy of Freedom and
Life after Death