Welcome!
The Alkion Center offers Foundation Studies in Anthroposophy, Waldorf Teacher Training for Early Childhood through Grade 12, and visual arts courses and various workshops through the year.
Grounded in the path of inner development outlined by Rudolf Steiner, these offerings strive to awaken the individual to the working of the spirit in the human being, nature, and society. We welcome you to join us in these pursuits!
As a branch of Hawthorne Valley Association, a not-for-profit nestled in the foothills of the Berkshire-Taconic ranges in central Columbia County, New York, the Alkion Center enjoys 400 acres of Biodynamic farmland as its campus and shares in the vital community of educational, artistic, economic 
and therapeutic initiatives that comprise the Association. Great natural beauty and diversity of initiatives make for an ideal setting for studies related to inner development.
Essentially, there is no education other than self-education, whatever the level may be. [...] Every education is self-education, and as teachers we can only provide the environment for children's self-education. We have to provide the most favorable conditions where, through our agency, children can educate themselves according to their own destinies. This is the attitude that teachers should have toward children, and such an attitude can be developed only through an ever-growing awareness of this fact.
— Rudolf Steiner