Harmony in abundance. Spaces full of light and warmth
5 Exercises. Duration 11 Minutes, with pause and possible rest.

In the eurythmy exercises for O (O pronounced as A in All) we connect ourselves with our inner sources of warmth and light. We make inner spaces, build relationship, and create harmony in our body. The point is to connect ourselves fully with that which we do and so awaken our inner potential to change. The texts to the exercises may be found at the bottom of this page.

Introductory videos

• Breathing with the arms Part 2
• The basic gesture of O
• Walking O

Questions to the eurythmy exercises

A2    What is the difference in the arm movement with or without the involvement of the legs?

• Do you notice a difference in the arms when moving the arms with or without the involvement of the legs? In which case do you experience the breath or the muscles in the chest region as being freer or more comfortable?
• What is the normal connection for you?
• Straightening the thighs and extending the arms?
• Straightening the thighs and retracting the arms?
• Which feels more natural? Could you imagine the opposite becoming equally natural?
• Can you let the breath swing naturally, without binding it to the movement of the arms but nevertheless perceiving a connection between the movement of the arms and the breath?
• Can you extend and retract the arms with the energy in the thighs without physically bending and stretching them? Super, that was the whole aim!

B2    How do you manage doing the “Magnetic O”?

• I simply do it without thinking too much.
• I first imagine the O and then allow the arms to glide into it.
• I perceive the O as a type of tension that builds up in my whole body except in the arms and then let the arms go.
• I experience the preparation of the O particularly in the middle zone, in the chest.

What is the after-effect?

• How does your breathing and focused awareness react?
• What is different in the resonance when you’ve slowly created the O from the heart?

C2    What helps to create an envelope around the body when doing the O with the legs?

• Do you notice that it has an effect on the sphere around you when you stay anchored in the feet? How would you describe this?
• Do you notice a great difference whether you lift and round the legs from below with the feet or whether you create and enlarge the rounding with the energy of the thighs?
• Try to vary the O in the legs with the help of the thighs until you notice a pleasant effect on your breath. What effect does this have on the forces that surround and penetrate you (your envelope) and on your stability?

Exercise texts

A2    Breathing with the arms

Gently bend the knees and bring the hands to the heart. Try to widen the arms by stretching the legs, and to bring the arms in by bending the legs. You can also try doing it the opposite way around and bring the arms in by stretching the legs and bring them out by relaxing the legs.

Video: Breathing with the arms Part 2

B2    Magnetic O

Allow the arms to hang down quite relaxed. Create an imaginary O from your heart. Allow the arms to fly up into this O as if drawn by a magnet. Fill the space created with empathy.

C2    O in the legs: Becoming big

Create the O with the legs. Try to perceive with your hands how a volume comes into being around your lower body.

D2    Walking O with O-Gesture

Create an O-gesture from the heart on a half circle going forwards. And again, on a half circle going backwards. In the course of time, you can have the experience that the gesture leads the movement of the legs.

Video: Walking O

E2    O with steps, (swan)

Create the O towards behind and below the heart. Intensify the consciousness in the shoulder blades and, by a pulsed strengthening of the tonus in the arms, intensify the pushing backwards in the step. Create the O in the middle and return to the starting point without the form getting smaller.