Gurdjieff Movements: A Practice of Attention and Community
A weekend workshop.
November 10-12, 2011
Join us for a weekend experience of the Gurdjieff Movements.
- Come with no experience, with experience a long time ago, or an active practice.
- Come to move with others.
- Come to “be” with and learn about yourself.
- Come with a knowledge or an ignorance of the enneagram.
- Come and experience this laboratory of the Work.
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Gurdjieff Movements 2011
Ongoing Practice: Weekly Sessions and Monthly Retreats
The Greek-Armenian mystic, George Gurdjieff, who brought the enneagram to the West, created a set of exercises for his students. These were based on the dances he witnessed traveling in the East and incorporated the laws reflected in the enneagram. He described himself as a “teacher of dancing”, so central was the experience of the Movements to the development of consciousness.
The Movements are a practice of attention with gestures and choreography set to music created for this purpose. The complexity of the Movements invites concentration and self-awareness. We move in patterns that remain unconscious. The Movements break up those patterns, making us aware of our automatic ways of being.
The effort needed to learn the patterns of the Movements and sustain the practice brings us face to face with our habits of thinking, feeling, and sensing. The work of awakening to our patterns of behaviour, thought and feeling will be the focus of the Saturday morning Work group: to approach these patterns of thought, behaviour, feeling and belief with curiosity and compassion. Knowledge of the patterns of personality will be explored as a way of understanding ourselves as a “machine”. This understanding will be supported by the practice of the Movements as well as inner exercises as active meditation.
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Facilitator: Melody Newcomb.
For more information: email Melody.
