In Camino Walk, Marie-Laure Valandro takes readers on a very personal pilgrimage along the centuries-old Camino de Santiago in northern Spain. The Camino de Santiago de Compostela (the Way of St James) is literally a path of devotion to the beings of Christianity--to Christ, to Mary, and to Saint James, for whom the Camino and the cathedral at the end are named. The Camino de Santiago winds its way through terrain that ranges from high plateaus to rugged mountain trails. It is a challenging pilgrimage during which inner and outer paths meet.

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Marie-Laure Valandro takes the reader on both an outer and an inner journey of discovery by way of the grand, living museum of Western history and tradition, Florence, Italy. Wandering the streets, cathedrals, and museums of Florence and the surrounding towns of Tuscany, the author gives fresh life to the Florentine painters, philosophers, poets, and architecture of bygone eras, while showing their relevance for our lives today.

Letters from Florence is much more than a travelogue; it takes the reader on a personal journey to inner landscapes, ancient and...

Marie-Laure Valandro, the author of Camino Walk and Letters from Florence and a long-time student of Anthroposophy, takes readers on yet another journey--this one more inward.

Marie-Laure begins this journey with a Vipassana Buddhist retreat in southern Quebec with the well-known meditation teacher, Goenka. The meditation retreat becomes the touchstone of the author's travels, while Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy serves as the ground. The author describes the spiritual dimensions of her travels in India and Europe, while always returning to her deep understanding of...

"One should try to see health and disease in light of the theory of color."
--Rudolf Steiner

This book is the result the of the author's adventure in painting and work with Liane Collot d'Herbois (1907-1999), the well-known artist and therapist who worked in the tradition of Rudolf Steiner's spiritual research. The author learned to surrender to the beings of color, to remove one's self from the process, and to paint as "one would do mathematics," that is, in an orderly way.

The journey recorded in Touched takes the reader first to...

"Writing this story was not planned, but just happened like much else in my life. Nonetheless, I hope that many readers will become enthusiastic about farm life and move to a small piece of land, no matter how small"somewhere, anywhere. Do it with the intent to enjoy our Earth and love and preserve it with enthusiasm for the future, to be in God." --Marie-Laure Valandro

In this captivating collection of stories, Marie-Laure Valandro shares her adventures and insights from her life and work on a sixty-acre biodynamic farm and garden in a small rural town in eastern Wisconsin....

This book takes us on an epic journey throughout Africa, Western and Central Asia, and Europe to explore the lives, culture, and landscape of the Judaic, Christian, and Muslim worlds. Motivated by a yearning to learn about and understand the "other," regardless of culture and faith, the author invites us on her adventures to ancient cities, architectural masterpieces, stunning landscapes, and even a camelback expedition in the desert. Marie-Laure Valandro shares her insights, joys, and inner struggles--and her human-to-human and down-to-earth encounters with the people she meets along the...

In Nutrition for Enlightened Parenting, Marie-Laure Valandro draws on her deep study of Rudolf Steiner and Spiritual Science, as well as on the works of Rudolf Hauschka and Karl Konig, attempting to bring greater consciousness to one of life's most common and vital activities--eating. Food can be the object of instinct, desire, obsession, and even fear. We all want to be healthy in body and soul, and gaining increased awareness of what we prepare and put into our body can become a powerful path toward heightened consciousness. It is one key to taking charge of our life and determining our...

This book makes no pretense whatever of being "learned." The author has brooded over these things for many years, painfully aware of the overshadowing mass of research and scholarship, compared with which her efforts are no more than little glow-worm lamps in the night.... Such a book, too, can have no "style." It must, all the time, be struggling with the necessity to create a conversation between the accepted facts of history and the visions of the Hills of Dream, and it has to be a friendly conversation and not an argument. -Eleanor C. Merry, The Flaming Door In a kind of sequel to her...