Chalk drawings of Rudolf Steiner:"Inside and Outside" and "Living in three Worlds", from the UC Berkeley Art Museum Exhibit
In l973 Gina Lalli was introduced to the teachings of Rudolf Steiner by Robert Walker and Jan Webster in Houston, Texas. The course of her life changed as she felt that the body of knowledge which Steiner imparted gave a deep sense of completion to her search for meaning in life. She led a study group for five years in an intense study of the four basic books of Steiner, as well as many of his lectures on subjects that would naturally come up from a study of the four basic books. Gina Lalli also gave weekend seminars and individual lectures on these books: Occult Science, Theosophy, How to Know the Higher Worlds and The Philosophy of Freedom. At the end of the five years, the group disbanded and the first Waldorf School in Austin came into being.
Gina Lalli has continued to lecture on Steiner topics, as well as astrology and the spiritual texts of India: the Bhagavad Gita, Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and many more which, like Steiner's thought, bring spiritual awareness into the fabric of daily life. She was invited to Detroit, when the Steiner Instutute was located there, to give a weekend workshop on the Bhagavad Gita. She is in a unique position of having experienced some of the finest teachings of meditation in the traditions of India and Tibet, as well as the teachings of astology, which have the Kabala -- Western "Yoga" -- at their heart. In addition, she has studied Steiner's meditation exercises to attain awareness of the spiritual worlds through Inspiration, Imagination and Intuition.