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The helpers from beyond: L and M

In 1912, in his very first eurythmy lessons, Rudolf Steiner describes the consonants as a reaction to external influence in contrast to the vowels that weave within and reveal this inner being.

L and M

With the L, one should try to become aware of the freedom of development everywhere in nature, to experience it and to try to express this feeling through a movement of the arm and hand.

Of course, it can be seen most clearly in what is similar to plants. The grasping and gathering strength in the region of the roots, the carrying up of the juices through the stem, the gradual unfolding of the leaves, the lighting up of the flowers and finally also a sinking back to the earth in the withering. "You should be able to express an entire year in this movement."

But also in the watery, in the airy, even in the formations of the earth, in the piling up of the mountains, in the gentle waves of the hills one should learn to feel this free expandability. "But you must never want to express this sound with your feet."

With the M, one should, stepping forward, direct all of his attention, all of his groping sensation, towards feeling the Something in which one is moving. In warmth or cold, in humidity or freshness, in rain or fog. Feel how the wind blows past your body, or how water has to be displaced when you are perhaps walking through a stream. How differently you walk on a level path than through tall grass, differently over sand than on stony ground.

Yes, at first the hands should only be bent up and down so that you can feel the space above your own head. «Feeling yourself in something».

Lory Maier Smits from her lessons with Rudolf Steiner, September 1912, GA 277a

Pfad Gruppenkurs 2021 L-M