InMovement Eurythmy

02/03/2026

What I’ve Witnessed

All students new to movement class look quizzically at me in the beginning of the first session. After repetition of the exercises, though, it starts to feel harmonious and natural—as though it just fits beautifully.

I remember the joy of seeing a little child leaving for the playground singing a tune from the class we’d just had. Equally precious are the moments when students move with ease and confidence, finding themselves in movement—whether skipping, jumping, or "breathing" in and out of circle formations.
As human beings, we may find our home in such moments.

From "Why Movement Makes Music and Learning Come Alive" by Sahya Samson

🔗 Link in bio
medium.com/.samson

📸 Photo by cottonbro studio

02/03/2026

What I’ve Witnessed

All students new to movement class look quizzically at me in the beginning of the first session. After repetition of the exercises, though, it starts to feel harmonious and natural—as though it just fits beautifully.

I remember the joy of seeing a little child leaving for the playground singing a tune from the class we’d just had. Equally precious are the moments when students move with ease and confidence, finding themselves in movement—whether skipping, jumping, or "breathing" in and out of circle formations.
As human beings, we may find our home in such moments.

From "Why Movement Makes Music and Learning Come Alive" by Sahya Samson

https://medium.com/.samson/why-movement-makes-music-and-learning-come-alive-516f4d0eaed4



Photo by cottonbro studio

Photo by cottonbro studio

14/02/2026

Gesture for Love supported by strength of self.

This is one of twelve exercises described in the scientific case report Eurythmy Therapy in Anxiety (Schwab et al 2011).Brief Description of Exercise:Slowly ...

13/01/2026

Why Movement Makes Music (and Learning) Come Alive

A workshop facilitator with a performing arts background reflects on teaching music and movement to young children, exploring how embodied learning through play, imagination, and traditional songs creates authentic engagement while building foundational skills

Find the article on Medium:
medium.com/.samson

11/01/2026

Cover pages for sections in my notebook for Holy Nights and Dark Night of the Soul, recording reflections and explorations.

04/11/2025

Appreciating Poetry Through Sound & Movement 🌟

Exploring Langston Hughes' "Hold Fast to Dreams" through the art of eurythmy—where poetry becomes visible through gesture and rhythm.

Finding the Sound's Emphasis

👎The simple "O" felt too literal when I started it, like miming—holding and dropping dreams in a way that doesn't capture eurythmy's deeper intention.

🙌But "HO" in the backspace gives direction, purpose.

🫴The "FA" keeps me grounded in my back, watching dreams shimmer in the distant future—an ideal not yet reached, perhaps moving toward me.

🫸And the "M" naturally evokes memory and mind, anchoring the thought.

What is Eurythmy?

"The word eurythmy stems from Greek roots meaning beautiful or harmonious rhythm."
It's the art of making speech and music visible through movement—transforming sound into a living, breathing form.

"Hold fast to dreams" — Langston Hughes (1901-1967)

26/09/2025

How I Use Movement Journaling for Personal Development

📒 Keeping a mixed media journal helps ground my thoughts in images, enhanced by tactile collage. Notebooks and journals help me follow my thread of interests, experiences, and most importantly my thoughts as they develop over time. My main interest is eurythmy, which is a new movement art:

“Eurythmy is a performance and therapeutic movement art, also used in education, where performers express the elements of music and speech through gestures and spatial forms.”

Movement Wisdom: Mapping My Journey with Eurythmy

🪷 Whenever I do eurythmy at home or think back on a performance, I always find insights to unpack, deepening my understanding of myself and the world. Through my reflective and creative journal, I can follow these intuitive movement experiences like a trail of footprints leading to my higher self.

Each page captures insights that reveal more of who I'm becoming on the spiritual-soul path, through eurythmy gestures and flow.

💌 P.S. – eurythmy articles emerging from my reflective process are linked in bio.

12/12/2024

A major experience: Inner Seeing, Inner light
from my journal

Wholeness, balance of light and dark

Five pointed star, hands

When you get the tone "A" just right, not too narrow or wide, it completes you.

"The gestures in the eurythmist's movement repertoire relate to the sounds and rhythms of speech, to the tones and rhythms of music and to "soul experiences", such as joy and sorrow." - Wiki

13/08/2024

Work in progress. Working very very slowly on a simple and lovely piece Barcarolle by Burgmuller. A new system for writing the gestures on flashcards has been helping me manage the sporadic practice sessions and very short time I practice, for health reasons. So happy with the progress nevertheless!

13/07/2023

"Few people are capable of concerning themselves with the most recent past. Either the present holds us violently captive, or we lose ourselves in the distant past and strive with might and main to recall and restore what is irrevocably lost." —JW Goethe.

When talking of the future in a well-known quote*, Goethe emphasizes full commitment and trust. When talking of the past, especially the distant past, it's more about reconciling oneself with something that has come to rest. It is no longer available or workable, but "irrevocably lost".

However, the recent past is an interesting point in time and I wonder if a connection to Rudolf Steiner's Evening Retrospect* can be made? It is a moment in time where one can meet oneself in a living way before moving forward into the new day.

And how will these qualities of time, this relationship to time, be brought to experience in eurythmic directions of space? What is the poetry in the backspace, the "irrevocably lost" or the recent past?

The plane of movement is palpable in any veil "just behind" the physical air/space. From the heart centre it can ray out in all directions like an ethereal sun!

(from my journal)

*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — "Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it."

Evening Retrospect: "Review the scenes of the day in reverse order."