Anny & Paul König

A fairly crazy pair, but really not screwed up J. Paul's the Owl and Anny's the Pussycat in the team ... hence the "peagreenboat" domain name. They've been together (and working) since 1st April 1974, so claim a gold medal (or was it a watch?) for endurance as well as length of service J.

PS from Paul ...This is me and Anny in our kitchen, wearing our "owl slippers" got from the RSPB

Here's more personal details from each of them ...

 

 

Anny                                

You might know me by my writer's name of Elen Sentier ... I'm your main tutor throughout the 3 years

I'm a practising Shaman, so I teach from what I know and do every day. I'm also transpersonal counsellor, Druid, numerologist and artist. I founded Rainbow Warriors in 1998 as an Internet School for Shamans, utilising the manifestation of the Web J, so we can be togher even if we live half a world apart. 

I began magical work with my father and two uncles as a child, learning forest and gardening lore as well as the British Mystery Tales and Traditions. These experiences have lasted all my life and expanded over the past twenty years through bio-dynamic gardening. During my 25 years in London, I was a member of the Theosophical Society, and a healer and teacher of healing with the National Federation of Spiritual Healers of Great Britain. To augment my own experience and early training I studied Celtic Shamanism with Caitlin and John Matthews. I did several years, from the early 1970s, studying bio-feedback with C Maxwell Cade, dowsing with Tom Graves, Hamish Miller, Far-Seeing with Michael Poynder and Colin Bloy in the Fountain network and Ley Lines with Paul Devereux. I've also been a project manager of a software design team in the Ministry of Defence and a dancer, specialising in Rudolph Laban, contemporary dance at The Place, and jazz-dance  at Pineapple, London, where I was demonstrator for a friend who taught for Arlene Philips.

My family has a lot of magical connections, my grandmother’s cousin, Esther Bright, was the personal friend of Annie Bessant - who became the head of the Theosophical Society after Helena Blavatsky passed on. Esther’s mother, Ursula, bought the Benares Centre in India for the Society in 1895. My family also knew Rudolph Steiner, who began the bio-dynamic farming movement. Another uncle was Axel Munthe who wrote the biographical Story of San Michele, he married my grandfather's sister, Hilda Pennington Mellor. One of the family homes, Hellens, is not far from where I now live. It has associations with Gawain through the Wallwyn family.

I'm also a garden designer. In 2003 I founded the Biodynamic Gardening Initiative, which aims to promote biodynamics amongst ordinary gardeners. I've done three show gardens for Weleda UK at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in 2004/5/6.

Paul

I help Anny with the work and do some biodynamic work with you on the workshop.

I've been working biodynamics practically in my own garden from 1992 to the present, first in London from 1992-9 and now in the Welsh Marches. I've taught healing, dowsing, radionics and kirlian photography since the 1980s and worked with many leading people such as Lilla Bek, C Maxwell Cade, Hamish Miller, Colin Bloy, Michael Poynder, Gordon Smith. I'm a member of the Biodynamic Agricultural Association (BDAA) and the HDRA. I currently work a 1/4 acre of vegetable, fruit, ornamental and wildlife garden.

I was a computer consultant (boffin!) and I began my working life as a scientist at the Rutherford Laboratories, Harwell, Oxford, Britain. I changed careers in the late 1980s becoming a healer and a transpersonal counsellor and I've taught healing since 1988. I'm now a radionics practitioner and live with Anny, our three cats, a host of wildlife and a regiment of gnomes, ondines, sylphs and salamanders on our biodynamic smallholding in the Welsh Marches. I'm also supposed to be writing a book, with Anny, on practical biodynamic gardening for ordinary people called Gardening Gnomes ... but don't hold your breath too hard, I'm a bit of a slow writer and so it won't be out for a while!