Mr. Aaron has been working in Education most of his adult life. He earned his B.A. in Religious Studies from UC Santa Barbara in 2002 and spent time as a Buddhist monk in India, before returning to UCSB for an M.Ed. and teaching credential in 2007. He encountered Waldorf Education as a new parent.Three of his four children have attended Waldorf School of Santa Barbara, and it was the teachers here who encouraged him to pursue his Waldorf Teacher training through WISC. Mr. Aaron taught for 10 years in public Waldorf schools, teaching kindergarten and taking a class though the grades. This year, he has returned home to where his Waldorf journey began, as our White Rose Kindergarten teacher.

Mr. Aaron has many passions and pastimes including the outdoors, cooking, meditation, visual arts, music, Tibetan translation, calligraphy and more. He is also passionate about bringing inner work and emotion skills to adults as a certified teacher of Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB), a powerful training that integrates Eastern contemplative practice with the Western science of emotion.