At Persephone Healing Arts Center, Dr. A. Schaeffer-Pautz, M.D., brings together science, art, and spirit through Anthroposophic Medicine, an integrative medical system recognized by the World Health Organization.
Developed in the early 1900s by Rudolf Steiner, this approach extends conventional medicine with a living understanding of the human being as body, soul, and spirit. The goal is not only to treat illness, but to restore balance, vitality, and a sense of wholeness in life.
Anthroposophic Medicine uses individualized treatments that may include herbal and homeopathic remedies, lifestyle and nutritional guidance, artistic therapies, rhythmic massage, hydrotherapy, light therapy, biodynamic nutrition, and therapeutic eurythmy—a unique movement practice that bridges body and spirit.
Dr. Pautz, board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Integrative Medicine, integrates decades of study in anthroposophy, eurythmy, and holistic healing into her work. Her care is deeply personalized, meeting each patient where they are and guiding them toward self-awareness, resilience, and inner harmony.
Art as Medicine
In the hands of an experienced therapist, Anthroposophic Art Therapy becomes a profound and transformative tool for healing and personal growth.
Whether through painting, drawing, sculpture, movement, or music, the creative process itself awakens self-healing forces within. Artistic activity helps people transition through life changes, resolve inner conflict, and find new strength in times of illness or recovery.
In Dr. Pautz’s experience, art therapy often becomes a dialogue between the seen and unseen, between what is held inside and what wants to emerge.
A simple watercolor exercise—inviting blue and yellow to meet—can open communication between opposing inner qualities, while a pencil drawing can ground emotions and bring quiet clarity. It is not about producing artwork; it is about making visible the movement of healing.
The Healing Movement of Therapeutic Eurythmy
Eurythmy (“yurh-rith-mee”) is an expressive art of movement that makes the inner life of speech and music visible through specific gestures.
First developed by Rudolf Steiner over a century ago, eurythmy has evolved into a recognized practice for personal development, stage performance, and therapeutic work. The medical-therapeutic form of eurythmy requires both extensive artistic training and medical indication.
Dr. Schaeffer-Pautz is among the few physicians worldwide who are also trained eurythmists. A graduate of the Hamburg Eurythmy School in Germany, she brings the subtle yet potent gestures of therapeutic eurythmy into her integrative medical care. These individualized exercises can help rebalance the relationship between body, mind, and spirit—enhancing vitality, restoring rhythm, and supporting recovery.
Goethe’s Living Language of Color
The foundation for anthroposophic art therapy rests in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s profound Theory of Colours (1810).
Unlike Newton’s analytical approach, Goethe viewed color as a living dialogue between light and darkness—a mirror of human experience. Each hue carries a gesture and mood: blue draws inward, red radiates warmth and courage, green rests in balance.
In therapy, these qualities become living companions. Through painting and veil work, the individual experiences color not merely as pigment, but as movement—an inner conversation that harmonizes thinking, feeling, and willing.
Engaging with color in this way cultivates calm presence and strengthens the soul’s resilience. As Goethe understood, art reveals our participation in the creative life of the world; through it, healing becomes not only possible, but deeply human.
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At Persephone Healing Arts Center, Anthroposophic Medicine is more than an alternative—it is an invitation to experience health as a harmony between body, soul, and spirit.
Each therapy, whether through movement, color, rhythm, or conversation, helps patients awaken their own capacity for transformation and wholeness.
To learn more, visit www.DrPautz.com or call (904) 246-3583.
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