Well it is time for an update on my journey in NY and my Creative Speech studies. What an astounding process it has been to dive into the mysteries of the Word! Our little group has been going deeply into the qualities of each sound of speech, one by one. And what an amazing world is hidden in a thing as simple as one letter of the alphabet.
Take 'A' for instance. Ahhh – the sound can express so many meanings – wonder, amazement, delight. Making the sound Ah puts your whole body, speech organs, and being in a state of wide openness. Your arms want to open wide, as your mouth does, and you even lean back a bit to open out to the whole world. With Ah, you receive deeply from your environment. At the same time it lets your astral body stream out fully. Rudolf Steiner says that speaking Ah takes you almost to the point of falling asleep (when your astral body and ego go out of your physical body), but you catch yourself just in time. A fun image!
One of our group's most powerful speech exercises uses words with the sound Ah to put our Selves out into the space in front of us as a shining, radiating pillar of light. If you want a technique to sharply point out and then push through just where you have any remaining blocks in your physical or energy bodies, this is the one! In Creative Speech and Eurythmy (a sacred movement practice) therapies, the sound Ah is used to help with problems in falling asleep or waking, the kidneys, the teeth, eplilepsy, and migraines to name just a few areas.
We are also working on the type of Speech used for presenting Epics and Stories now. More on that in my next newsletter, as well as some exciting inspirations about combining Creative Speech, Eurythmy and other sacred arts to form deep, sacred, Mystery Dramas.
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