Upcoming Events
Regular Community Events
- Monthly Movements Classes
See the Calendar for details. - Work Weekends
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Thursday Night Inner Work – 8:00pm.
Currenty being held on Zoom.
Join us to explore the spiritual side of Gurdjieff’s work. We work collaboratively to share our experiences, our personal journeys, and to reflect on the readings and practical exercises. All are welcome, but please, contact us for details. -
Morning Meditations & Sittings 6:30am – 7:30pm.
Mondays – Fridays, Barn Community Room.
Sit with the community and be a part of our daily practice. Some mornings are guided meditations or sittings, others are on your own. Interested? Contact us!
Full Calendar
Movements of the Soul
Movements of the Soul follows on from the previous DuVersity event at Claymont, The Language of Gesture – with a major new element engaging us in the making of sacred images through movement. This requires us to realize we are bodily because it is through this that there can be real acts of worship. Word, breath and movement can combine and fuse to lose their partiality as, according to Gurdjieff, thinking, feeling and sensing can coalesce into a new body of individuality.
In a DuVersity event, we strive to merge diverse elements and avoid ideological bias and conditioning, in an open-ended participative performance. The way of understanding utilizes knowledge and experience but is not confined to them. We may come to see how gesture can give concrete form to our will, bridging worlds.
Seminar presenters will include Anthony Blake, Molly Forde, Bhati Diaz and Jesai Jayhmes
Dates: May 9-12, 2019. 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
Cost – The cost of the event including lodging is $450 if paid by March 15, 2019 and $495 after March 15, 2019.
For more information and to register:
Please contact Matt Zenkowich – zenkm1428@gmail.com
Registration and Payment Instructions Event Flyer
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.
Movements Retreat 2019
Annual International Movements Retreat to be held at Claymont June 13 – 23, 2019.
For more information and to register, please visit the website: https://movements-retreat.org/
2019 MID-ATLANTIC PERMACULTURE CONVERGENCE:
Cultivating Self-Reliance in 2019
JUNE 28-30, 2019
The Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence is a two-day festival celebrating land-based living and self-reliance. Over 20 local teachers, experts, and gurus will teach crucial skills related to food, energy, water, health, building, and community self- reliance. Come one, come all; only we can build the world we deserve.
Find out more and purchase tickets on the website:
https://www.midatlanticpermaculture.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 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
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.
A Six-Day Fourth Way and Mevlevi Immersion
A Confluence of Grace and Effort
304-876-9268