Regular Community Events

Monthly Movements Classes

We are so fortunate to have the opportunity to practice Movements at Claymont under the guidance of Deborah Rose Longo, as well as hear Gurdjieff’s music played on the piano.

Cost for our Movement teachers and space is $20/person/session.

This month we will be at the Barn.

Meditation  12:30 – 1:00 pm.
Movements 1:00 – 3:00 pm.
Closure  3:00 – 3:15 pm.

Claymont Society for Continuous Education Summer Seminar
July 18-21, 2019

Living in Unity

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The experience of unity resounds at every stage of the spiritual path. With body awareness and sensation, unity comes in the form of wholeness. Various practices engaging our attention unify that core of who we are. Consciousness opens us to the unity of the seamless, boundless, silent awareness that includes everything in our immediate experience. The inclusion of all that we are opens us to presence, unified in our I. Entering the sacred realms, we enter the one, boundless and all-pervasive light. Love springs as the essence of the global unity that embraces all, including us. The ultimate unity of the divine will that creates and sustains this wondrous universe touches our very core, without intermediary. And throughout our way, sharing the path with our spiritual sisters and brothers opens us to the unity in community.

In this seminar, we will engage in spiritual practices that support us in moving toward the experience of unity in all its forms. With the remarkably effective inner exercises, meditations, and Gurdjieff movements of the Fourth Way, in addition to practices adapted from other traditions, we will pursue the deepening of our spiritual life.

Can we live our daily life in unity?

The seminar will be facilitated by Joseph Naft. He is the author of www.innerfrontier.org and of six books, most recently The Way of Presence: Tools and Strategies. He studied with John Bennett at Sherborne, England in 1974.

The seminar will begin with dinner at 6:30 pm on Thursday July 18 and end after lunch on Sunday July 21. All activities will be at the Barn.

You are cordially invited to join us in our work and exploration.

Suggested donation for the weekend is $225 if you are staying overnight at Claymont and $135 if you are not staying overnight. However, do not let the cost prevent you from coming, financial assistance is available.

For more information and to register please contact the registrar, Amy Silver, at Claymontgathering@hotmail.com.

Monthly Movements Classes

We are so fortunate to have the opportunity to practice Movements at Claymont under the guidance of Deborah Rose Longo, as well as hear Gurdjieff’s music played on the piano.

Cost for our Movement teachers and space is $20/person/session.

This month we will be at the Mansion.

Meditation  12:30 – 1:00 pm.
Movements 1:00 – 3:00 pm.
Closure  3:00 – 3:15 pm.

Monthly Movements Classes

We are so fortunate to have the opportunity to practice Movements at Claymont under the guidance of Deborah Rose Longo, as well as hear Gurdjieff’s music played on the piano.

Cost for our Movement teachers and space is $20/person/session.

This month we will be at the Barn.

Meditation  12:30 – 1:00 pm.
Movements 1:00 – 3:00 pm.
Closure  3:00 – 3:15 pm.

Monthly Movements Classes

We are so fortunate to have the opportunity to practice Movements at Claymont under the guidance of Deborah Rose Longo, as well as hear Gurdjieff’s music played on the piano.

Cost for our Movement teachers and space is $20/person/session.

This month we will be at the Barn.

Meditation  12:30 – 1:00 pm.
Movements 1:00 – 3:00 pm.
Closure  3:00 – 3:15 pm.

Monthly Movements Classes

We are so fortunate to have the opportunity to practice Movements at Claymont under the guidance of Deborah Rose Longo, as well as hear Gurdjieff’s music played on the piano.

Cost for our Movement teachers and space is $20/person/session.

This month we will be at the Barn.

Meditation  12:30 – 1:00 pm.
Movements 1:00 – 3:00 pm.
Closure  3:00 – 3:15 pm.

Monthly Movements Classes

We are so fortunate to have the opportunity to practice Movements at Claymont under the guidance of Deborah Rose Longo, as well as hear Gurdjieff’s music played on the piano.

Cost for our Movement teachers and space is $20/person/session.

This month we will be at the Barn.

Meditation  12:30 – 1:00 pm.
Movements 1:00 – 3:00 pm.
Closure  3:00 – 3:15 pm.

UPDATE:

In an effort to make the Higher Moving Center seminar at Claymont as affordable as possible, we are rolling back the fee to what was charged last year – $450 if paid before March 31 and $495 afterward.   As you might imagine, DuVersity barely breaks even on these seminars, but we think it is important to keep the fees as low as possible for people.  Please sign up before March 31 for the lower fee.

Here is a link to a short video of Anthony Blake talking about the seminar:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vfp5k0iy65x4elc/HMCvideo.mp4?dl=0

This is the third in a series of seminars devoted to exploring the movements and potential of the moving centre as indicated by Gurdjieff.

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Movements explore the ‘hidden depths’ of the body and the pivotal role of action in realising who we are. The primary thing in this is movement and not consciousness (which is a secondary phenomenon). We will use Gurdjieff movements to reflect the inner reality to us.
In this event we will take as a centre of gravity the Gurdjieff movement known as The Great Prayer. Various dimensions will come into play, including aspects of sensation and feeling elicited by the methods of Moshe Feldenkrais as well as a understanding of the gestural language it manifests as a manifestation of death and resurrection.

Work on movements will be bracketed by music, poetry, art, visualisation, virtual reality and even algebra. We will begin with the movement of babies and may end with our prayers and the discovery of ourselves on the world stage. A great deal depends on our imagination!

Many contributors will be involved. Here is the line up as it stands now in January (it may evolve further).

Curt Golden: Guitarist. Senior member of Robert Fripp’s Guitar Craft

Lavinia Plonka: Feldenkrais instructor and movements teacher

Molly Forde: Pianist and movements teacher

Darlene Franz: Classical oboist and pianist

Steven Rhodes: Researcher in the spontaneous development of movement in babies

Mattias Ribbing: Grandmaster of memory

Jason Joslyn: Developer of Virtual Reality systems

Michael White: Travelogue writer and poet

Leslie Schwing: Artist

Travis Jarrell: Dancer

Anthony Blake: Philosopher and writer. Head of research for the DuVersity

This is a participatory seminar based on Gurdjieff’s principle of the harmonious development of the Thinking, Feeling and Moving centres. Gurdjieff spoke of higher centres of thinking and feeling and we seek to complete the trinity. This is supported by the belief that over the last few thousand years, the felt centre of gravity of intelligence was first intellectual and then in the heart but, in our time, it is moving into the body. What the ‘body’ really is, is mysterious. It may be the closest thing to will.

Dates:  May 7-10, 2020.  The seminar will begin with dinner on Thursday evening and end with lunch on Sunday.

Location:         The Claymont Society for Continuous Education

Charles Town, WV  25414

(See www.society.claymont.org for more information about the Claymont Society)

The cost of the event including lodging and meals is $545.  ($495 if registered and paid before March 15, 2020.)

All events will be at the Historic Claymont Mansion

For more information and to register:

Please contact Matt Zenkowich – mattzenkowich@gmail.com