Notes on the Origin of Eurythmy

GA 277a/1912-08-31/p018 ·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 The wording is the reporter's: do not quote it as Steiner's own words.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.

“And now comes the third posture: to do this, bring the top of the column in front of the base, and learn to feel this as o.” - This was again a very big difference from the first two sounds when one brought it to feeling through practice. From the a, from this immersion in the physical body, to an experience of the spine, the ribs, to the clear realization that the arms are actually ribs that have freed themselves, no longer attached, from this a one comes via the , which overcomes heaviness and is experienced in the upright position, to the o.

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