Andrea Marquardt-Preiss
Andrea was born in the Black Forest in the southern part of Germany.
Her love and passion for movement and its healing capacities for the human being have been guiding her early on her path of continuous learning.
In the early 1980s she started out as Physical Therapist working with all ages in medical clinics and private practices. On her path of professional development, Andrea’s inner picture of the human being yearned for something else, and subsequently, she explored Tai Chi, the Feldenkrais Method, and finally she found her true home in Eurythmy and Therapeutic Eurythmy.
Eurythmy – founded by Dr. Rudolf Steiner in 1912 – is speech and music made visible through gestures we perform with our arms. As we move to these well-defined gestures and forms, we work back into our organism in harmonizing and healing ways. Andrea has been working in various settings as Therapeutic Eurythmist and Feldenkrais Practitioner, including Seattle Waldorf School (K-12), Waldorf teacher trainings, and her private practice. In addition, she performed on stage with Eurythmy Northwest. Since 2022 she enjoys working with patients in her private practice on Orcas Island, and teaching classes at the Orcas Senior Center and other venues.
Andrea currently serves as Board Member of ATHENA (Association for Therapeutic Eurythmists of North America)coordinating and attending professional conferences on a regular basis. If she’s not working, you can find her in her garden, spending time with family and friends, or hiking on one of the beautiful island trails with her dachshund Emma.
Events with Andrea Marquardt-Preiss
EurhythmyAugust 21 - 24, 2026
(Friday Dinner-Monday breakfast) Eurythmy for Everyone – Come to Yourself – Connect with the World Eurythmy (developed by Dr. Rudolf Steiner in 1912) is speech and music made visible through movement. Rudolf Steiner, former lecturer and member of the Theosophical Society in Germany and founder of Anthroposophy, saw how the formative forces of speech can be transformed into movements with our limbs, and how these gestures work back into our organism in harmonizing and healing ways. “Who would suspect that the dictionary sitting motionless on a shelf, its pages a static listing of still words, is in reality a treasure house not just of meaning but of movement? That the twenty-six letters of which its countless thousands of words are built are a troupe of dancers, waiting in the wings to be called upon to perform just as many thousands of fascinating dances, everyone different? For words are sounds and sounds are movement, and movement is dance.” Marjorie Spock, Eurythmist. In this workshop, we will discover the power of the word, and the quality and effect of sounds in motion. Gestures for vowels and consonants can be enlivening, calming, strengthening and protecting. Some people call Eurythmy “Tai Chi for the…
