Notes on the Origin of Eurythmy

GA 277a/1912-08-31/p016 ·1912-08-31 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
Record: listeners' notes. This text is a newspaper's or a listener's report of the lecture, not a transcript. The wording is the reporter's: do not quote it as Steiner's own words. Evidence: «Lory Maier-Smits, from: “The First Seeds of Eurythmy”». The unit's own header line in the edition served.

“Stand upright and try to feel a column from the balls of your feet to your head; learn to feel this column, this uprightness, as i.” I don't think he was satisfied with what I was doing, because while I was still trying, he called out: “The weight rests on the balls of your feet, not on your heels.” - Now I was halfway there. I stood in the indicated posture and suddenly felt an upright rising from the balls of my feet; I felt it in front of my body, chest, and heart, as if rising to my forehead, which I felt must become warm and begin to glow.

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