Notes on the Origin of Eurythmy

“Now shift this column so that your head is behind the point of your feet, and then you will have a posture that you should learn to perceive as a.” This is now a completely different experience. The weight shifts to the heels, and the column that had risen outside the body, yet still straightening it, grasps and penetrates the spine, so that one now has a clear experience of one's bone structure and with it a certain heaviness and earthboundness. In return, however, the chest and heart are as if opened to all influences. The whole world and the whole sky send their rays in. And all these rays meet in the heart. Compared to the sensation in the first posture, it is a quiet pain, a feeling of being struck. Open and exposed to the outside world.