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Eurythmy
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Eurythmy - DVD
Balance of Body and Soul
Mark Neil, Beatrice Gwinner, Friederike Heinsdorff
12 Exercises for Harmony of Body, Soul and Spirit - Gentle and appropriate for all ages
$39.95
*Bookstores and School Stores - we distribute this DVD. Click here to
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One of the most frequent questions we have heard over the past 10 or so years has been, "Is there
any book or video that teaches eurythmy?" Now we can answer, "yes." Australian eurythmist
Mark Neil has taken up the challenge and answer the need beautifully. In fact, what you'll find on this DVD
goes far beyond anything we dared even wish for - even someone as naturally ungraceful as I am can follow
the simpler exercises successfully, notice improvement over time, and emerge from each session feeling invigorated
and happy (that's a testimonial - I have actually been doing them).
Every exercise is presented more than once, with clear movements for you to follow. My favorite, recommended
for the evening, but I do it whenever I feel the need, is Hallelujah! Try it when you're feeling a bit frazzled
- it's like seeing the sun come out on a rainy day.
The exercises are gentle and appropriate for all ages, though some of the more complex exercises may be
best for teens and adults. As with all eurythmy instruction, there is no spoken instruction so as to be able
to go from the act directly into body and soul without detouring through the intellect. As someone who loves
to detour through the intellect, I must (reluctantly) confess that the approach works beautifully, once you
just do it. It's not the way we are accustomed to being taught, but the results are something we can all
love.
And, what will you gain from this? The list is enticing and in my experience, accurate: strength, flexibility,
balance; you'll find you're more relaxed after a while and that you feel more alive; you'll sleep better
and your ability to focus and percieve will be heightened; best of all, you'll rediscover your playfulness,
you'll smile more often.
Contents:
Exercises for the Morning
- I take the warmth of the sun
- Rod exercise
Exercises for the Day
- I think speech
- I A O
- Looking for love
- Five pointed star (A E I O U)
- I'm happy, I'm sad
Exercises for the Night
Further Exercises
- I A O with jump
- Second rod exercise
- Evolutionary sequence
- Contraction and expansion
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Therapeutic Eurythmy for Children
From Early Childhood to Adolescence
Includes practical exercises
Anne-Maidlin Vogel
Hardbound, large format
$45.00
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Therapeutic Eurythmy for Children is a collection of exercises gathered by
Anne-Maidlin Vogel from 1968 until 1998. Many arose from lectures the author attended,
given by experienced therapeutic eurythmists—especially Trude Thetter and Ilse
Rolofs, as well as medical doctors and colleagues. Much of the material she used in
her own therapy lessons with patients, with some of the exercises created from her own
work with children for over thirty years.
As a form of movement therapy, eurythmy has been very effective
in treating physical and mental developmental disorders. This book is a rich source
of information for professional eurythmy therapists, physicians, and teachers of children
up to fifteen years of age. Therapeutic Eurythmy for Children provides not
only examples for exercises, but also offers useful references for personal development
and additional training for therapists.
Included here are eurythmy therapy exercises to be performed with
premature infants, babies, and young children up to the age of fourteen. Although based
firmly on Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science and his general recommendations for
eurythmy, anyone can follow the descriptions and sketches for individual exercises,
which are based on healthy movement of the developing human organism.
Speech eurythmy exercises (specific spoken sounds and sequences)
are included for postural problems, enuresis, lack of concentration, and more. These
encourage readers to study the principles behind the practice of eurythmy performance
and eurythmy therapy.
Therapeutic Eurythmy for Children will inspire and enrich the work of therapists,
provide a means to more holistic pediatrics, give teachers a better understanding of
how to approach their students through movement, and encourage parents toward a more
effective, holistic aid to their children’s overall health and development.
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Foundations of Curative Eurythmy
Margarete Kirchner-Bockholt
Softbound
$50.00
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In 1921, Rudolf Steiner delivered a series of lectures on curative eurythmy. Over next years, when his advice was sought in cases of illness, he added to the initial therapeutic exercises and indications. For those who were unable to attend the original courses, Dr Kirchner-Bockholt published the basic principles and an authentic collection of Steiner’s advice.
This is Dr. Kirchner-Bockholt’s comprehensive handbook. It is both a guide for curative eurythmists in their therapeutic work as well as an introduction to this effective mode of therapy.
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The Human
Being as Music
Lea van der Pals
Softbound
$19.95
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Lea van der Pals was very much involved
in the founding of eurythmy. She performed and taught
the art throughout her life, travelling extensively
in Europe and North America. The Human Being
as Music reflects van der Pals' extensive experience
as teacher. The book is specifically aimed at students
of eurythmy and assumes some prior knowledge of the
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Rests and
Repetition in Music
Christoph Peter
Softbound
$19.95 |
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This book provides an introduction to
Peter's convition of the power of music as essential
to the development of well-rounded, balanced human
beings. It is an exact yet sensitive study of the
phenomena of rests and repetition in music.
For musicians and eurythmists, the import of
the 'rest', the absence of sound, and its position between and relationships
to the sounds before and after is fundamental. So, too, is the effect
of repetition. For parents and teachers, Peter's shows how theses phenemena
are more generally applicable in educaiton and life.
**Having taught at the Hanover Waldorf School
for 22 years, Christoph Peter became Director
of Music at the Stuttgart Teacher's Seminary.
He was composer, promoter, performer and
author whose magnum opus, Die Sprache
der Musik in Mozarts "Zauberflöte" [The
Musical Language of Mozart's "Magic
Flute"], was published (in German)
by Verlag Freies Geistesleben in 1983. This
massive volume explores the intricacies of
Mozart's Magic Flute. |
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Eurythmy
rhythm, dance and soul
Thomas Poplawski
Rudolf Steiner's ideas in practice
Softbound
$12.95
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This book offers a concise introduction to the principles
and practice of eurythmy, a new art of movement initiated
by Rudolf Steiner.
A historical context is provided by means of a brief survey
of dance, from its beginnings in the ancient mysteries to
today's forms of dance. The author explains Steiner's insight
into the hidden laws of movement —which Steiner designated
as belonging to the realm of the etheric.
Eurythmy provides a way to make speech and music visible.
The author discusses eurythmy and stage performance and its
importance in terms of education and therapy.
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How the New Art of Eurythmy Began
Lory Maier-Smits
The First Eurythmist
Eileen Hutchins
Magdalene Siegloch
$22.00
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This book traces the story of the first eurythmist, Lory Maier-Smits,
with artistic care and loving detail. The author describes
her early exposure to anthroposophy; her training under Rudolf
Steiner from 1912; the first performance of eurythmy during
the Theosophical Society festival in 1913; Rudolf Steiner's
lectures on the new art of movement; the staging of eurythmy
under the direction of Marie Steiner; and Maier-Smits' later
work as a trainer of eurythmists. Also given is an account
of Maier-Smits' path of personal development, her marriage
and family life.
Born in Stuttgart in 1917, Magdelene Siegloch trained in
eurythmy under Else Klink at the Eurythmeum in Stuttgart.
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A Lecture on Eurythmy
Rudolf Steiner
Softbound
$5.95
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An important introductory lecture on the new art of eurythmy
given prior to a performance during a conference in Wales.
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Curative Eurythmy
Rudolf Steiner
Softbound
Sorry - Out of Print
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In April 1921 a course of lectures for doctors was given at
the Goetheanum in Dornach. Within this framework Rudolf Steiner
gave the first six lectures on curative eurythmy to doctors
and invited eurythmists. In these lectures all the basic curative
eurythmy exercises were shown. A seventh lecture was added
for doctors only, dealing more with the physiological side
of curative eurythmy.
In the following year, at a medical conference in Stuttgart,
once again at the urgent request of the doctors, Rudolf Steiner
gave additional material on the subject of curative eurythmy
These lectures present the first seeds of a curative eurythmy.
Originally intended for eurythmists concerned with therapy,
they will also interest anyone concerned with the rhythmic
interplay between physiology, the formative forces, and language.
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