Notes on the Origin of Eurythmy

He said something like the following: “Stand upright and try to feel a column from the balls of your feet to your head, and learn to feel this straight line, this upright position, as i;” — I think he was not satisfied with what I was doing, he repeated while I was still trying; “The weight rests on the balls of your feet, not on your heels!” — I would now like to ask every reader to try this for themselves and to bring the difference to their consciousness by feeling and listening. And then I would like to mention a sentence that Rudolf Steiner later said in Basel, introducing the teachings and underpinning the whole of eurythmy with it, and which he put into the mouth of Mrs. Felicia in his speech at the first eurythmy performance on August 28, 1913, in Munich: “You must learn to let the heart rise up into the head.” So I stood there in the indicated posture, felt an uprightness rising from my feet (balls of my feet), I felt it in front of my body, not in my spine, through my chest and heart, up to my forehead, from which I had the feeling that it must begin to shine.