Eurythmy Class Day3

Activity number ONE (Revision Expansion of self-space)
Stand in circle…
Follow the verse she said and move in and out of the circle.. forward and backward
Like spreading wings.. imagine a little wings behind us growing
Follow the movement breath in and out.
”Look at the Earth (out)… down to the dust of white sand(in)… Up to the heaven above(out)… Like a blooming flowers(in)…
Behold the eternity (out)… right in the hands of ours (in)…”
She said feel the words as we move… or else it will be just deadly walking in and out…
Does your breathing changes with the movement??

Activity number TWO (Occulta Philosophia drawings posture)
Open our arms to the horizontal plane…
Lift our right leg a little and place slightly apart while our hands move slightly up to the height of our head / ear
Lift our left leg a little and place slightly apart again with our hands move slightly down to lower rip cage height.. let our heart be at the center of the triangle between 2 points tip of our hands and head…
Lift our right leg a little and place more apart with our hands above the height or our head form like a star…
Then close our left leg in with both our arms close slowly down

Activity number THREE (Putting awareness of our steps)
Stand feet together and lean slightly forward feeling a golden thread connect through our heads to the heaven…

Consonant is like the outer world.. which form the world..
Vowel is like the inner

Move around the room with our hands wide open and say “Ahh” just like you met an old friend…
notice how you feel.. and the open feeling

Now form a cross with our arms in front of us.. how do you feel now..
notice the energy change.. this is “Ehh!!” don’t mess with me.. stay away from me
We start to feel our own touch and the mid point of the cross.. triggers our self existence.. Me! appear

Now move with one arm up connect to heaven and one arm down connect to earth.. (move around the room)
How do you feel?.. this is “eeeee”

How would and “Oooo” feels like… both hand curve like embracing something…

and “uuuuu” is vertical parallel line ahead of us… like the word Fuutuure…

Activity number FOUR(Putting awareness of our steps)
get a partner and one person walk like normal relax way and the other person try to follow at the back how their partner walk.. then exchange..
”Isn’t it strange to try to walk like someone else? and walking can really portrays a personality don’t even have to look at the face and you’ll know who is it.”

Stand in circle.. practice Eurythmy walk.. always feel the from put of the feet .. nothing on the heels
feel the front of your feet attached deep into the ground, lift right leg and imagine your draw and light line on the sand
place the front part of your right foot down
feel left foot roll slowly up from the ground and draw on the sand and place in front part of foot down
(very meditative walk 4 steps in to the circle then backwards same way)
Lifting and roll up our foot is our act of WILL
Moving towards is our act of THINKING

Activity number FIVE (Body balance and coordination)
She pass the rod by tossing through and invisible rainbow bridge.  She reminds do not do this to small students… for older students.
After you got the rod.. balance it on top of your head.
until everyone got the rod.. walk 3 steps forward.. 3 steps backward.
open our arms shoulder length, tilt our head to drop the rod in our arms.
(Revision of climbing up stairs and down stairs rolling rod up and down from shoulder to palm with palm facing down and up with verse)

lift the rod slightly draw half circle up and arm straighten down with a step forward.
Lift the rod up straighten our hand up with a step back
90’ down straight in front of us and push our left hand down while still holding the rod in shoulder length
Push rod slightly to right with a step to right and close
then switch to left hand up right down push towards the left slightly with a step to left and close
then to the right same gesture again…
Step back a step lift the rod straight up above head
Step forward a step while slowly put down our hands in relax.

Now repeat all the above movement in 3 steps
While stepping side way 2nd step is cross leg behind a step

Activity number SIX (coordination with peers)
Mexican wave in the circle… Teacher lift rod up then next person follow and so on like Mexican wave
teacher put down… push to right side.. push to left side… (Like the hand movement above but with steps)

Balance rod on our head… one student step behind and say ready for us to tilt our head back to drop the rod to him/her

Closing (Use idea in activity number THREE to feel the movement according with words in verse)
”The joy of light.. (one hand out in the sky and one hand receiving)
….xxxxxxxxxxxxx
May the wisdom of light, guide me as a spiritual whole…. beings… in our hands we hold.. (too long.. can’t remember)

Eurythmy Class Day2

Activity number ONE (Expand Self Space)
Stand in circle…
Follow the verse she said and move in and out of the circle.. forward and backward
Like spreading wings.. imagine a wings behind us expanding.
Follow the movement breath in and out.

Activity number TWO (Follow the expression of words)
Same movement.. follow the rhythm of her speech…
”Where is the Earth? where? (Out)
It’s there .. drops of grain… (In)
And where will the Heaven be? (Out)
…. (can’t remember)

Then she raised a question.. what is the purpose reading a verse?
Text to show focal point / expression / feeling / imagination / concentration / energy …
She showed the difference of putting the text into the body gesture.. When we talking about Heaven.. we have to be light and looking up..
NOT heavy steps and looking down…
When moving backwards feel like there’s a wing behind you.. guiding and grow… expand as you go…
Imagine we hold a golden thread together and we move in and out of the circle with connection from the person next to you…
Remember this is all about moving together

(After we do it with more imaginative emotion in our movement) “How do you feel?”
Our answer: Feel ourselves energy expanding / breathing more deep / lighter…
(one guy don’t feel anything, so she stand beside him to make him feel the energy as we move again)

Activity number THREE
She took the copper rods and stand in front of a student in the circle.
She wanted us to pass the rod according to beat as she sings…
“Sing with me if you know” As she started sing This Old Man she pass one rod..
Student grab with Left and change to right on next beat while the next student grab from that student holding the rod and so on…
Until everyone got one rod in their hand and teacher stop. “This is the idea for younger kids in the class”

Activity number FOUR
Hold the rod out between the grip of our thumb with both our palm facing down… Hands shoulder width apart..
Lift the rod a little and arms straighten down while step a step forward… (Body still straight)
Then lift our arms straight up and let the rod be at the back of our head while stepping a step back
.. and down 90’ straight in front of us a step forward
…Push our left hand down to make the rod vertical and right leg to step a step to the right…
… then push 180’ right hand down this time rod vertical and left leg step a step to the left…
Push 180’ right  vertical again and right leg step a step to the right…
Close and arms straight down.

Now same movement but make everything 3 steps.

Hold the rod with our right hand in the middle still vertical and curve towards right to have figure 8 steps..
Draw a big figure eight on floor with our steps.. remember to pull the energy from the person next to you..
Curve towards the left with the rod pass to our own left hand...
Stop at the half eight (Everyone close together in the small circle in the middle of the room)
Then walk backwards the other half of the eight.. out.. (same thing)

Activity number FIVE
Connect the movement of activity TWO and FOUR together with a verse…
”The Joy of Light.. Shines through me…. (I will try remember the whole verse next class)
(classes are not allow recording so I am writing all this down based on my memory.. maybe some missing parts… I will try my best)

Eurythmy Class Day1

(Sit in circle, introduction of Eurythmy)
History of Eurythmy: It is a young art, just 101 year-old.  Much younger than many forms of arts…
Eurythmy has a rich vocabulary of movement and gesture for both speech and musical tone, "scultped air" that arises when speech or music sounds forth.
Sue used the example of words “LOVE” and ask us to pronounce and feel it with gesture.

Sue further introduce: How Eurythmy express, how it cure sickness and problematic children…

Activity number ONE (Body balance)
Stand in circle.
1 meter long, slightly thicker than a pencil diameter copper rods were distributed to everyone.
Balance it on our heads walk forward into the circle and backwards…

hands shoulder apart let the copper rod drop from the head to our arms…
Let the copper rod roll down to the palm and roll back to our shoulder..

“Tell your little students that catch the squirrel don’t let it fall of the tree”
”this is the way climbing up the stairs” Roll the rod up to our shoulder…
”this is the way climbing down the stairs” Roll the rod down to our palm…
Turn your palm facing down while the rod stay above the back of your palm… let the rod roll up to shoulder
(She continue reading the verse.. I can’t remember.. but is really beautiful and calming…)
Rod roll down to back of palm again then turn our palm around holding the rod…

Activity number TWO (Body spaces)
Practice to move in the figure eight with the guidance of the copper road.
Hold the copper road vertical and step the steps of figure eight route, while moving to the left pass the rod to your left hand.. move to right pass the rod to your right hand.
(Some people will follow their nose, some move backwards back to the same point)
Sue encourage everyone not to afraid of the space behind and just move bravely backward not always guided by nose.
She raise a question :”Why is children afraid of moving backwards?”

Activity number THREE (Move with connection)
Still moving in the figure of eight steps… imagine we are all connected with a golden thread.
Steps out to the right imagine you pulling the person on your right.. and the person on your right feel you being pulled..
Still passing the rods between hand following the flow of your movement.. curve to the middle of eight imaginary pull the person on your left…
Stop at the half eight…
Then go backward in the same way.
The whole circle of people move together in the same force, while she recite a verse (I can’t remember the verse but it goes according to our movement very poetically and meditative)

Closing activity
Balance the rod on our head.
One person goes around and collect to rod from behind and the others just tilt their head backwards for the rod to fall straight into that person’s arm.