Cultivating the Unseen
Currents
that Shape Us
supporting healthy development through observation, movement, and embodiment.
Explore Offerings
For Schools
Bring Tending the Currents into your school for developmental screenings, Extra Lesson work, or engaging trainings for faculty and families. Grounded in an embodied Extra Lesson perspective, these offerings help school communities better understand and work with the movement and developmental processes that support children.
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For Waldorf Professionals
Sometimes you don’t need to complete another training. You just need to see the exercises.
This growing resource library showcases videos of the Extra Lesson exercises for your reference as you integrate them into your work with your class or students.
Sometimes you don’t need another training; you just need to see the exercises again.
This library offers clear video demonstrations of Extra Lesson exercises for practitioners, teachers, and schools with existing Extra Lesson training or experience.
For Families
Individualized support for children and families through movement, observation, and embodied approaches to development.
I combine Waldorf education, Extra Lesson, and craniosacral therapy to support each child’s unique developmental journey.
Individual sessions are currently offered on a very limited basis, primarily to existing families and by referral or as availability allows.
Extra Lesson Portal
A visual refresher when you need it
A growing library of video demonstrations of the Extra Lesson exercises from Audrey McAllen and Waldorf education created for adults who have already trained in or worked with these exercises.
Forgot how an exercise goes? Haven’t worked with a particular age in a while? Need a quick reminder before bringing an exercise again? This library is here for those moments.
Each video includes where to find the exercise in the book, age guidance, and a clear demonstration of how to do it, with occasional variations for making an exercise easier or more challenging.
Not a training course. It is a practical visual reference you can return to whenever you need it.
Sometimes you don’t need to complete another training. You just need to see the exercises.
This growing resource library showcases videos of the Extra Lesson exercises for your reference as you integrate them into your work with your class or students.
Meet Emily
About Emily
I have always been curious about human development.
In my youth, I was drawn to movement and the body. I was a springboard diver, practiced Ashtanga yoga for nearly a decade, and was a bit of a gym rat. Well before social media influences, I was the teenager who argued with her parents about switching to organic foods and more eco-friendly materials. Looking back, the through-line is that I have always been curious about how our movements and environments shape our bodies & development.
I became a mother in 2014, and my curiosity about development became much more personal. I went on to earn a Master's degree and teaching license in Family Education in 2018. I have spent years working with families and children in university, public education, and Waldorf settings. I have led hundreds of parent groups, from small circles to rooms of 200, and I have learned a lot from sitting with people in the messy, complicated reality of raising children.
Finding Waldorf Education was the Ah-Ha moment: the moment where everything came together.
Waldorf became a tunnel of learning from pedagogy to Extra Lesson, from developmental movement & reflexes, then onto Forest Teacher training and Craniosacral Therapy. Each has given me another way to understand the developing being and body and how they are interrelated.
Today, I work with Waldorf schools, educators, families, and Extra Lesson practitioners through developmental screenings, Extra Lesson work, educational presentations, and professional resources.
I am endlessly curious about development, but I am equally interested in making that knowledge useful. My hope is that the work leaves people with a little more understanding, a few more tools, and a deeper sense of possibility about the children in their care.