In this eurythmy module, we are expanding and deepening our experience of colors. In this first week, we explored the gestures of the three primary colors: Blue, Yellow and Red. Blue is slow, steady, embracing, earnest. Yellow is joyful, free, expansive and light-hearted. Red is self-assertive and vigorous, We explored these colors in many ways: how they feel, how they move, how they come to expression in different poems, and in different vowels and planets. Next week we will turn to violet, green and orange.

Orange and Green: After reviewing the gestures and forms for the sounds we learned in the first week, we began a study of the secondary sounds. Standing between Red and Yellow, orange manifests confident, wise and generous outstreaming energy, expressing more of Self than does yellow, yet stopping short of the self-assertion of red. Green, between Yellow and Blue, seeks always to spread itself in balance between the polarities, laying itself on a planar surface between the curved spaces of blue and the joyous outstreaming rays of yellow. Green manifests peace, equanimity and balance.

Violet and White: After reviewing the gestures and forms for the sounds from previous weeks, in this lesson we worked with Violet and White. Violet carries the interplay of Blue and Red, two very different colors. Blue contains worlds in a great sphere, working centrifugally from the periphery toward the center. Red contains a power that wants to break out of captivity and works centripetally. These dynamics come to expression in the gesture for Violet, which is experienced simultaneously as embrace and resistance. White is a non-color, or, rather, it contains all colors and never restricts itself by committing to any one color. The movement for White is always moving gently, as if it is contained in the white-out of a snowstorm.

In this class, we deepened our study of the color gestures with detailed work on the hands gestures and also on specific forms for each color. We also began a study of color in the Eurythmy Gestures as drawn by Rudolf Steiner. Each sound has three colors: one color specifies the "movement of the etheric body," the second the "feeling of the astral body," and the third the "will character of the ego."  The study of these qualities deepens our understanding of the sounds of language as expressed in eurythmy immensely. The Eurythmist aspires to integrate these dynamics into their artistic expression, while still focusing on the content of the words which the sounds are serving.  This study is deep and demanding, and provides angles for never-ending artistic refinement and joy!

In this, the final course of this series, we introduced an intensive practice of learning how to practice the three distinct colors for Movement (thinking), Feeling (willing) and Character (willing) as they are indicated in the Drawings for the Vowels in Eurythmy as drawn by Rudolf Steiner. This is an astonishingly deep and even difficult practice, which unlocks new levels of challenges and insights! We concluded by practicing the Vowels with their colors together with the corresponding Planets and their colors, which promises to bring new depths of work in your Personal Eurythmy Practice.