Gurdjieff, The 4th Way & the Movements
Gurdjieff, The 4th Way & the Movements
The Movements of The Fourth Way
The Movements facilitate inner growth by assisting in the balance of the inner and outer aspects of ourselves. The physical discipline of the movement and rhythmic forms help align the energy systems of the human machine, but the essential ingredient has to do with the integration of the internal exercises that proceed, with ‘split attention’, simultaneously with the outward manifestations.
Incidentally, the Movements can also increase the vibrancy of one’s health and overall well-being. that is a natural by-product of this kind of discipline, and it has been seen that it is useful and necessary to have a well balanced and ‘finely tuned’ machine that will allow one to proceed with their inner work and optimal development. One might liken the Movements to an internally driven martial art in the “war against sleep”,
This system is for those wishing to live more consciously: to be ‘in the world, and not of it’.
Our primary Movements instructor began studies and practice in the Fourth Way tradition in the early 1970’s, and has taken responsibility for classes, workshops and demonstrations by students from 1977 to the present.
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G.I. Gurdjieff
There are many websites that will give you biographical information about this great man.
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