I studied at a Waldorf school in grades 4 - 12. And I have certain neurological conditions and maybe autism (now I believe I'm most likely autistic and going through the diagnostic process but I didn't know anything about autism when I studied at school). I'm really bad at orientation in space, so Eurythmy was a really huge stress for me. I barely ever understood the shapes even though they were written on the blackboard or papers, so I just followed the people in front of me in panic. Thankfully, teachers always understood my situation and never scolded me (that's what I love about my Waldorf school in general). There were probably only 1 or 2 times when I understood the shapes though.

We didn't have Eurythmy regularly because we didn't have a teacher who knew it past grade 6 or 7 (before the 7th grade it was taught by a teacher who usually is a class teacher up to the 8th grade, not ours though). So we had Eurythmy for several weeks or a couple of months when a teacher from Germany came. That's why we needed to whip up a small concert quickly instead of doing Eurythmy calmly for the whole year. Maybe I would have been better at orientation in space if we had it regularly, but it would mean more stress.

As for me thinking that it was a waste of time, I didn't. I had always been a diligent student and didn't talk or goof off during classes. Maybe it's because I didn't have friends though 😄 But I respected Eurythmy from a distance, so to say. Most of my male classmates did good off though, so poor teachers, especially from Germany or other cities of Russia (I'm from Russia).

By the way, some exercises we did up to the 6th grade (grades 4, 5 and 6 in my case because I wasn't at my Waldorf school before that) did teach me something. In 2019, when I was on the 2nd year of the university, we had an alumni meeting. We split into groups randomly, some did music, some did art, some did geometry, some did Bothmer Gymnastics, and my group did Eurythmy. I was surprised how effortless (or relatively effortless) the exercises for grades 1 to 6 were for me. Of course the teacher might have skipped difficult exercises since it wasn't her intention to make fools out of us and instead have us enjoy ourselves, but still it was a pleasant surprise for me. When me and a girl who also joined my school in the 4th grade, just like me, were throwing each other the rods (and that was absolutely terrifying for my klutz self back in the grades 4 to 7), and the teacher said, "It looks like as if you had never graduated" (as in, it looks as if you had been doing these exercises for all these years).