Gurdjieff Dance, Movements & Inner Exercises

Workshop language: English As a human being I can be aware of myself being aware of myself. Sustaining this, I can be aware of others and what we are doing together. I can divide my attention in three directions simultaneously: inward, outward, and on the space around. With practice, I can think, sense, and feel while “seeing” in all three directions. Such an amazing ability! But does this ability have a purpose or usefulness beyond itself? When I meet someone, I ask, „who is she?“ then „what does she do?“ When I find something, I ask, „what is this?“ then „what does it do?“ Join movement meditation specialist and street-cognitive therapist James Tomarelli and Friends in a body-centered bare-attention break-on-through workshop to answer the perennial questions: „Where am I?“ „What am I?“ “How am I?” „Who am I?“ Workshops have three fields of work 1) Letting go and opening up: By intentionally invoking gravity, breath and the organic sensation of life inside a field of active attention, we will re-member and re- experience preverbal states of relaxation, posture, and breath while integrating and deepening the three body-mind actions of seeing, feeling, and sensing. 2) I sense therefore I am: Getting beyond the Cartesian paradigm, we will use active attention and Movement Meditation to lock-in the body-mind actions of seeing, feeling, and sensing — creating a dynamic field of threefold consciousness. 3) Empirical mysticism and the science of collective being: In a mutually created field of collective presence and spiritual collaboration, we will experience the embodiment- transcendence paradox* using Gurdjieff Dance and Ritual Movement to evoke a mystic field of nonduality without dissolving our unique personal sense of embodied presence. Within in these fields, the dance arises.

Workshop Friday evening | 18.00 – 21.00 Saturday | 9.30 – 17.30 Sunday | 9.30 – 16.00

workshop fees 350,– Euro (includes breakfast and lunch: Saturday & Sunday — 8:30AM and 1:00PM)

pls contact Sonja: sonja@loveyourself.at / sonja.roessler@gmail.com