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Philip began his career as a eurythmist completing his training in London in 1979. He worked as a eurythmy and pottery teacher at Michael Hall School, the first Waldorf school in the UK, for 4 years before co-founding Ashdown Eurythmy, a touring eurythmy company. He worked in performing arts, first eurythmy, then later puppetry, storytelling, acting and directing, for 26 years gaining his Master of Arts in Advanced Theatre Practice from the Central School of Speech and Drama, London in 2001. In 2009 he changed his profession and became a class teacher at Michael Hall School where his five children were educated. In this time he was also an Upper School drama teacher, and play director, as well as carrying mandates and spending one year in the management group of the school. On completing eight years as a class teacher he took up work firstly as a eurythmy teacher again, in Donguan, and then as a Class Teacher at the Island Waldorf School in Hong Kong in 2018. Since 2012 he has also been the director of part time teacher training courses in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Qingdao.