Therapeutic Eurythmy
Eurythmy – as an innovative art of movement, eurythmy (“yurh-rith-mee”) makes speech and music visible through specific body gestures. Although a new art form at the beginning of the last century, eurythmy has been developed in several areas: as a form of personal growth, as a stage and performance art, and therapeutic-medical form. Teaching any of these areas requires four years of training, with additional training for the stage and therapeutic forms. The therapeutic medical eurythmy also requires a medical doctor’s indication and prescription.
In the world, only a handful of trained eurythmists are also medical doctors.
Dr. Schaeffer-Pautz, M.D., of the Persephone Healing Arts Center in Jacksonville Beach, is a graduate of the Hamburg Eurythmy School in Germany and a certified eurythmist.
Helping patients find the balance between physical, emotional, and spiritual health, Dr. Pautz is board-certified in integrative and conventional medicine and holds several other certifications. She is one of a handful of eurythmists worldwide who are also medical doctors. Eurythmy was inaugurated by Rudolf Steiner about one hundred years ago. It is a four-year, full-time movement training. Eurythmy is an accepted profession in many European countries, with professional stage groups found all over the world, including a few here in the U.S. Eurythmy is part of the mandatory curriculum in the Waldorf School system. Dr. Pautz routinely uses therapeutic eurythmy with her patients when there is a request
