" ............. Nowadays people try to train the voice through the adjustment of the organs in the speech for the sound. This never leads to a natural functioning of the speech-organs. Speaking must proceed from hearing and, indeed, from hearing yourself. You must learn to hear yourself when you say an mm or and nn or an ll. In this case hearing is not quite the same as in ordinary life. It is rather like feeling the sound, as if you took hold of something in your chest and head which pours through the ears. If you remain sensitive you can feel the movements of the ear-drum. Thus speaking depends on hearing, and hearing is actually a feeling. Imagine also how the sound strikes against your ear: the ear-drum begins to vibrate. The oscillations starting from the mouth and sounding through the Eustachian tubes are equally important. They are laid hold of inwardly at first, but the ear resounds in sympathy. When someone else speaks the ear resounds more strongly. Hearing is always connected with the whole human being. It is as if you were in a globe of air and were watching what the air does when you are speaking. What takes place in the diaphragm, chest and head should take place unconsciously. You have to learn everything that has to be learnt through the sound. The breath itself must be regulated unconsciously when you sense the sound and, in sensing, hear. What has to be done in order to speak the sound has to be learnt from the sound itself. There should in no way be a feeling of using the larynx and other organs. You use the air instead. It should grow into a habit to feel what the air does. The special quality of wave sounds, vibratory, impact and breath sounds should be felt. Listening has to become a habit, above all listening to yourself, which in a certain respect is a feeling."

Rudolf Steiner, Marie Steiner-von Sivers,
Creative Speech



"..............Larynx follows naturally each smallest movement of the soul. We do not know how we do it that every mood of our soul is immediately revealed in our voice. As soon as our voice sounds, we experience ourself as soul in the environment, and in a fine unconscious mutual relationship we make sure that our soul's self-experience coincides with the sound we produce. Compared to that, the activity of articulation is a step more conscious. Yet this, too cannot be forced, but is only experienced as natural when it remains embedded in the stream of experiencing. On this basis, Rudolf Steiner founded artistic speech."

Martin-Ingbert Heigl
ARTEMIS - The Kinship and Mutual Relationship of Eurythmy, Artistic Speech and The Philosophy of Freedom

(Original text in German : ARTEMIS - Eurythmie, Sprachgestaltung und Philosophie der Freiheit)

I have received precious report from Sekem, Egypt. Harald has taken his "Eurythmy in Workplace Training" with Annemarie Ehrlich, once in Summer 2009 in Den Haag, and this time was his second module.


.........Now something about Sekem:
The time there was really great, after 2 days we felt as being there already 1 week as it was so intense.

We started with the processes - the exercises we prepared at home which we tried with the our own group.
We immediately visited the factories to see the workers: cloth makers, tea and food makers etc.
We developed small exercises we thought that they could help the workers to balance the one sideness of their work and make them "a whole being". It was a great pleasure that there were also 4 egyptians from the eurythmy school in sekem with us through the whole time. They were very creative and ambitious with preparing exercises and it was great to work together with them.

In between Annemarie taught us "focus exercises" - eurythmy exercises which train a special eurythmical ability and let this ability come to experience (e.g. straight and round). Each day of the first 2 weeks we also had half an hour of arabic, the colleges of the eurythmy school taught us. So the first week passed quickly, each day we went to a different factory to see the workers to finally decide where each of us will go to teach.

Friday is the only day of in Egypt (so it has this "sunday" feeling) and we made a tour to the pyramids in the desert (Saqqara and Dashur). It was a great experience as we also went in the big "red pyramid" throug the small corridor.

In Sekem we stayed in the brand new guest house - in the first weeks we were the only visitors there is this quite big house.

In the second week we finished our processes and each one prepared the exercise he wanted to do with the group of workers.
We tried out how we could lead step by step to slowly achieve the "end-picture" we set. We continued to work with other exercises and also started with the zodiac-exercises.

We also prepared a small presentation of a canon with the cassinic curve for 12 people we finally showed at the weekly performance at the school on thursday.



Institute for Eurythmy in Working Life –– Training / Transformation with Annemarie Ehrlich
22 January - 19 February 2010

Harald Kallinger

** If you would like to know more about the course please have a look at our "Path" page at Eurythmy in Workplace. I will upload more photos in Gallery hopefully. Thank you so much Harald to share your precious experience with us.

Report From Goetheanum “Eurythmy Work Weekend” 13th-15th November 2009

The central theme of this meeting was to look at the specific subjects at various levels of involvement with Anthroposophy, and this impulse was shared and received with great openness and enthusiasm amongst other young colleagues.

From 13 to 15 November '09, there was a Eurythmy Work Weekend in Switzerland at the Goetheanum. There were 25 young eurythmists, mostly from Switzerland and Germany, but also from Sweden and Austria who traveled to attend to this meeting. There were open and dense working atmosphere, through contributions, conversation and direct action in Eurythmy, which was filled in substances in the encounter with each other. Leading participants were Margrethe Solstad, Trond Solstad and Michael Debus.

The following two points were discussed at that meeting mainly:

1. Language in the light of anthroposophy
2. Exchange living questions and concerns regarding the eurythmy in our generation. What are the concerns of each individuals in eurythmy?

Michael Debus described in his contributions on the eurythmy as a servant of the word, with joined stimulating discussions in seminars and working groups. With Trond Solstad, participants recited together and worked on language tasks.

Out of eurythmy exercises which was given in the beginning of the eurythmy development, Margrethe Solstad developed the first question with the participants. It became clear, that we were in absence in the area of understanding for outwardly simple initial exercises, and need to bring comprehension in eurythmy.

Questions and concerns raised by the participants were addressed. Michael Debus contributed in the seminars including: the development of internal autonomy, spiritual training issues, the new essentials more needs for outward contributions as well as the approach to the core of eurythmy, and the question of an adequate build on the vital forces, so that eurythmy can have invigorating effect for the audience.

Overall, the weekend brought many exchanges, in-depth work with eurythmy and their backgrounds, and many open and further questions.

Tara John

** This article was written for "Eurythmie- Rundbrief"in German

Bericht über ein Eurythmie- Arbeitswochenende

Der Impuls sich mit anderen jungen Kollegen über fachspezifische Fragen auf verschiedenen Ebenen austauschen zu können und die Auseinandersetzung mit Anthroposophie als zentrale Anliegen dieses Treffens wurde mit großer Offenheit und Begeisterung aufgenommen.

Vom 13.- 15. November ´09 gab es ein Eurythmie- Arbeitswochenende in der Schweiz am Goetheanum. Anwesend waren 25 junge Eurythmisten, die meisten aus der Schweiz und Deutschland, aber auch aus Schweden und Österreich reisten Teilnehmer an. Es war eine offene und zugleich dichte Arbeitsatmosphäre, die in der Begegnung untereinander und durch Beiträge und Kolloquien inhaltlich an der Eurythmie und im direkten Tun stattfand. Mitwirkende Dozenten waren Margrethe Solstad, Trond Solstad und Michael Debus.

Die folgenden zwei Punkte standen bei diesem Treffen im Mittelpunkt:

1. Sprache vor dem Hintergrund der Anthroposophie
2. Austausch untereinander zu Fragen und Anliegen die bezüglich der Eurythmie in unserer Generation leben. Was beschäftigt den Einzelnen in der Eurythmie?

Michael Debus sprach in seinen Beiträgen über die Eurythmie als Dienerin des Wortes, es schlossen sich anregende Gespräche in Kolloquien und Arbeitsgruppen an. Mit Trond Solstad wurde gemeinsam rezitiert und an Sprachübungen gearbeitet. Aus den Anfängen der Eurythmie erarbeitete Margrethe Solstad die ersten Angaben mit den Teilnehmern. Dabei wurde deutlich, wie schon in den äußerlich einfachen Anfangsübungen das Umfassende der Eurythmie anwesend ist.

Fragen und Anliegen die von den Teilnehmenden kamen und auch in den Beiträgen von Michael Debus und in den Kolloquien immer wieder auftauchten waren u.a.: die Entwicklung innerer Autonomie; spirituelle Schulungsfragen; das neue Ätherische, die Annäherung zum Kern der Eurythmie, um gleichzeitig stärker nach außen wirken zu können und die Frage nach einem angemessenen Anknüpfen an die Lebenskräfte, sodass Eurythmie stärkend wirken kann.

Insgesamt brachte das Wochenende vielfältigen Austausch, vertiefende Arbeit mit Eurythmie und ihren Hintergründen und viele offene und weiterführende Fragen.

Tara John

I have uploaded the Greek Sculpture Slideshow on our Study Page. There you can see 63 beautiful Greek sculptures.

I have found Rudolf Steiner talks about eurythmy in comparison to the sculptures too....




" What has to develop out of eurythmy is a newly creating, moving sculpture. And for this living sculpture we must of course make use of the human being himself –– here one cannot use clay or marble. . . . . . Sculpture portrays what is dead in the human being, or at least that which is death-like in its rigidity. Eurythmy portrays all that in the human being which is of the life laid hold of man and placed him into earthly evolution, giving him his earthly task. There is perhaps no other art through which one can experience man's relationship to the cosmos so vividly as one is able to do through the art of eurythmy. Consequently this art of eurythmy, based on the etheric forces in man, had to appear just at that time when modern spiritual science was being sought. For it was out of this modern spiritual science that eurythmy had to be born."

From " How Does Eurythmy Stand With Regard To The Artistic Development Of The Present Day?"
Introductory words by Rudolf Steiner to the eurythmy performance 26th December 1923, Dornach.

Odilon Redon

From Endymion: Book II

Brain-sick shepherd-prince,
What promise hast thou faithful guarded since
The day of sacrifice? Or, have new sorrows
Come with the constant dawn upon thy morrows?
Alas! 'tis his old grief. For many days,
Has he been wandering in uncertain ways:
Through wilderness, and woods of mossed oaks;
Counting his woe-worn minutes, by the strokes
Of the lone woodcutter; and listening still,
Hour after hour, to each lush-leav'd rill.
Now he is sitting by a shady spring,
And elbow-deep with feverous fingering
Stems the upbursting cold: a wild rose tree
Pavilions him in bloom, and he doth see
A bud which snares his fancy: lo! but now
He plucks it, dips its stalk in the water: how!
It swells, it buds, it flowers beneath his sight;
And, in the middle, there is softly pight
A golden butterfly; upon whose wings
There must be surely character'd strange things,
For with wide eye he wonders, and smiles oft.

John Keats

From "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood!
If our great Mother has imbued my soul
With aught of natural piety to feel
Your love, and recompense the boon with mine;
If dewy morn, and odorous noon, and even,
With sunset and its gorgeous ministers,
And solemn midnight's tingling silentness;
If Autumn's hollow sighs in the sere wood,
And inter robing with pure snow and crowns
Of starry ice the gray grass and bare boughs;
If Spring's voluptuous pantings when she breathes
Her first sweet kisses, –– have been dear to me;
If no bright bird, insect, or gentle beast
I consciously have injured, but still loved
And cherished these my kindred; then forgive
This boast, belovèd brethren, and withdraw
No portion of your wonted favour now!

P. B. Shelley

Firm grows the power of thought
In union with the spirit-birth;
And sense's dull enchantment
It brightens to full clarity.
If richness of the soul
Would join with world becoming,
Then senses' revelation
Must needs receive the light of thinking.

Es festigt sich Gedankenmacht
Im Bunde mit der Geistgeburt;
Sie hellt der Sinne dumpfe Reize
Zur vollen Klarheit auf.
Wenn Seelenfülle
Sich mit dem Weltenwerden einen will,
Muss Sinnesoffenbarung
Des Denkens Licht empfangen.

"The Calendar of the Soul"
"Seelenkalender"

45th Week 9-15 February
by Rudolf Steiner
Translation William Mann, Liselotte Mann

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Hope, Faith, Love-
Beginning.

"Mystic Boat" by Odilon Redon

Asia's song from Prometheus Unbound

My soul is an enchanted boat,
Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float
Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing :
And thine doth like and angel sit
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Between mountains, wood, abysses,
A paradise of wildernesses!
Till, like one in slumber bound,
Borne to the ocean, I float down, around,
Into a sea profound, of ever-spreading sound.

P. B. Shelley

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