Poems and Soul Gestures for the Advent Season
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Poems and Soul Gestures for the Advent Season
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Poems and Soul Gestures 1
The practice of Soul gestures in eurythmy teaches us how the actively creative self does not need to live life at the mercy of the astral, or soul, body. Instead, as artists we plunge into different feelings and raise them into consciousness by creating them and then pouring the feelings into specific movements. We thereby become more aware, more awake, more flexible in spirit, soul and body. In this first session of this series, we began with 5 soul gestures: Earnestness, Lightness, Happiness, Laughter, and Sadness. We closed with a lovely Christmas poem by Angelus Silesius and the eurythmy "Halleluiah."
Poems and Soul Gestures 2
In this, the second lesson of the series, we covered many soul gestures and considered how they are used in both therapeutic and artistic eurythmy. Warm up exercises: Peace Exercise, Contraction-Expansion, Threefold Walking A few foot exercises: Sympathy, Antipathy, Yes, No, Eagerness, Excitement, Strength Soul exercises: Earnestness, Lightness, Loveability, Joy, Laughter, Sadness, Grief, Despair, Announcement, Question, Devotion, Piety We then wove these into a poem by Angelus Silesius We concluded with a first look at a poem for the Calendar of the Soul verse for Christmas
Poems and Soul Gestures 3
Poems and Soul Gestures 4
In this, the fourth and final lesson of the series, we began with exercises to help discover and cultivate the moods of quiet and inner peace that open the doors to the healing Advent experience.Through these practices, we prepare ourself for the birth of Light and Love in the inmost place of the soul at Christmas. Warm up exercises: Peace Exercise, Contraction-Expansion, Threefold Walking with the gestures of the four seasons Soul exercises: A series of devotional soul exercises, woven into a poem by Angelus Silesius We then worked extensively with the Soul Gestures, Sound Gestures and form for the Calendar of the Soul verse for week of Christmas We concluded with a verse the second week of Advent, when the mood turns more to the Three Kings, and to the gifts of Thinking and Self Awareness.
