PIA, PANEURYTHMY, AND SIGNS OF THE FROG PRINCE

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So I said that I wanted to depart by Saturday night,
Well in a way I did,
But not in the way that I thought. I thought I would be in my campervan on the road by Saturday afternoon, and I had a time schedule for reaching The Jewel by the evening of August 12th.

Now here is what happened: So on Friday, I felt weary of doing searches for German liability insurance, and everyone I called in Germany that I know, were not home. So something told me that it wasn’t the time to be finding auto insurance, so I dropped everything and went for a quick shopping trip on bicycle to the Natur House (whole foods), made a very fresh green salad, and then biked in the forest.

We’ve seen days and days of cloudy rainy weather and there was a break, so I ventured into the forest. I was almost the only one on the paths this time. A person here and there.
My body was telling me I had eaten too many sweets, unconsciously, while swimming upstream on the insurance search, so I bicycled the way the Germans had been modeling for me….as a workout, pedaling fast enough that my thigh muscles bulged and my gluts tightened, and my extremities no longer felt the cold.

Saturday, morning, my duty was to pack everything up before going out to play, so to speak. I was taking a small suitcase and a backpack with my laptop, and leaving everything else at Gina’s flat. I left the flat in a pleasant order for her students arriving that afternoon.

Although the plans for the weekend to visit Pia outside of Munich and later, Rosemarie in Salzburg could easily be made to be exciting and magical, I felt the fear of once again leaving my little nest for the unknown. So I asked to be kicked in the butt to get myself going. And I was an hour /half perfectly late out the door, walking the blocks with my rolling suitcase to the underground. As I switched trains in the center, I settled comfortably on the new bahn and suddenly realized that I was going on a wonderful adventure and I created that everything would flow with great ease and magic would be present.

20 minutes later I arrived at the train stop in the little town, Furstenfeldbruck, where Pia lives. The doors of the train opened up to a lush dark green forest. Out in front of the station, I took a cab, driven by the most cheerful young cab driver, who delighted me and I delighted him by the joy in both of us…how else can I say it. He took me through a very romantic old German village with a beautiful river running through and the most amazing monastery building and grounds. I arrived and there was Pia coming out of her condo that faced the wheat fields and the lush forests beyond.

It’s amazing how we got introduced. Beatriz, in Houston, is my friend I used to dance paneurythmy. Go to http://www.geocities.com/paneuritmia/eindex.html to see an explanation.(don't be fooled by everyone being dressed in white. I do not understand why they are all in white and are sometimes called "The White Brotherhood") I called Beatriz a few days ago, to ask who would know about contacts in Europe. Beatriz gave me Ardella’s email in CA. I emailed Ardella and after saying I was in Germany, Ardella gave me Pia’s email. I emailed Pia and Pia who doesn’t check email so often, saw my email immediately,and an hour later we were on the phone speaking to each other as though we knew each other forever.

Pia comes from Holland and now lives in this village. She has her own music studio where she teaches piano and harp and singing to a throng of students. She had never met Ardella, however she has felt so magnetized to panuerythmy that she is learning it, to be able to teach it, and has a myriad of books and CD’s. Paneurythmy seems not so known or practiced except for Bulgaria (originated) California and British Columbia. Pia and I, both are interested in the dance of paneurythmy, but not in the religion organized around it.

I told Pia, that the reason I love paneurythmy is because:1. I got my sense of smell back and as we danced it, I could smell the rich scents of spring in the park…many,many scents. I also felt light in my body and a lightness about life. This was an incredible gift to me. Pia is discovering miracles for herself, also. Some people have found that they gravitate towards eating healthfully and loose unneeded weight.

So after a tea and listening to Pia play a paneurthmy tune on her grand piano, we ventured to the other side of town. She proudly showed me her dutch bicycle. She said,”do you know what makes dutch bicycles so unique and special. Watch!” And she mounted her bicycle and said, “I’m riding like the queen of Holland” And she did look very royal in her traditional German dress, long hair, sitting up high with her back totally erect. (an common complaint I’ve had about bicycles, is I can’t keep my posture erect while riding)

Our journey across the town was totally magical…crossing the flowing river, the people with such gentle faces and happy countenances, the parks and forests, the abundance of flowers in everyone’s gardens…and we arrived at her music studio. By that time I felt the short night’s sleep, so when she showed me the room upstairs that all the children longed to see, and there was blue covered mattress with a dozen flower shaped pillows, I felt like Sleeping Beauty as I nestled in the pillows for a 20 minute doze.

Pia and I danced paneurythmy in her studio and once again as we were dancing, I began to smell the most wonderful smells. Sometimes I wonder if some of the smells come from somewhere else, somewhere outside of the room, from other places and times, because there is such a variety.

Soon after Pia walked me to the train station, where I took the bahn back to Munich and there I bought a ticket to Salzburg, at the counter from a man who said, “why go to Salzburg to have fun, just come home with me!” Hmmmm, I thought…paneurythmy is opening up all of my energy centers! I’m attracting. He’s picking it up.

On August 18-20th, there will be a huge paneurythmy gathering in Bulgaria, 1,000 people or more dancing in a mountain valley. It’s in the Rila mountains where paneurythmy originated, was first divinely inspired. Pia said to me ,”Why not go there?” This lingered with me. I know that paneurythmy is one of the dances I want to dance every day at The Jewel.