Eurythmy Address

The third aspect is the pedagogical-didactic one. In the Waldorf school founded by Emil Molt in Stuttgart and directed by myself, this visible language of eurythmy has been established as a spiritual-soul gymnastics for all elementary school classes and higher grades. And it is evident that the children find their way into this eurythmy, this spiritual gymnastics, as if by themselves. Ordinary gymnastics is more focused on the physical body, while eurythmy allows the body to perform a spiritual-soul movement at the same time as every movement it performs as eurythmy. This visible language, this spiritual-soul gymnastics, is therefore an extraordinary aid to school education and teaching. Children take to it with the same naturalness with which they used to immerse themselves in spoken language as small children, as something that was completely natural.