Abstract

Dualism of body-mind, or body-self is evident in modern society under the influence of science and technology. Academia has seperated intellectual comprehension from embodied understanding and manstream psychotherapy has traditonally utiliezed an talk therapy with an emphasis on the intellect and reason and attached little importance to body phenomena. R. Steiner's Anthroposhical understanding of man's image and eurythmy- a new art of movement initiated by him in order to meet the need for whole person and holistic healing in education, counseling, and psychotherapy are reviewed and introduced. Steiner elaborated the personalistic image of man which embodies all three aspect-body, soul, and spirit -so that it does not envisage a sperate form of educaton and psychotherapy but instead a whole person development and total therapy of body, psyche, and spirit. In his image of man, he stress on the rhythmical repetition of rhythmical system which has feeling function, because soul's feeling function mediate two polarities of body and spirit. Steiner's education is based on rhythm and feeling and the centre of this rythmical education lies in eurythmy. Curative eurythmy or eurythmy therapy can be regarded as a metamorphosis of artistic and educational eurythmy. In eurythmy as curative exercise, the movements are developed so as to make them powerful in their effect on inner mental, as well as organic processes. Eurythmy is now an area of ongoing exploration an research that is yielding exciting, measurable results.