Upcoming Events
Regular Community Events
- Monthly Movements Classes
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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!
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Jun
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2025
Balancing the Three Centers through Meditation, Movements, and the Enneagram
Lead by Deborah Rose Longo and Rob Creekmore
June 4 – 8, 2025
The Claymont Society is pleased to announce an upcoming five day retreat at Claymont entitled “The Mindful Enneagram: Balancing the Three Centers through Meditation, Movements, and the Enneagram.” The retreat will occur June 4-8, 2025.
Gurdjieff, taught that humans are asleep based on a fundamental imbalance between three centers: moving, feeling, and intellectual. In In Search of the Miraculous, he describes three types of this imbalance based on over-reliance and identification with one of these three centers. We all know someone who tends to overthink things or others who are particularly dominated by their emotions or their bodily impulses. Gurdjieff taught his students how to awaken and live from the higher capacities of all three centers in a balanced, harmonious way.
Although Gurdjieff never used the Enneagram as a typology, over the past fifty years the Enneagram has become widely used as a useful map of nine basic ways this fundamental imbalance of the three centers occurs and suggests specific paths to spiritual development through awakening and balancing the centers based on our particular type of imbalance.
This retreat will use the Movements, practical work, Vipassana based mindfulness meditation, and the Typology Enneagram to help us see clearly, in a practical way, our particular individual type of imbalance between thinking, feeling, and movement – the chief feature of our type that keeps us asleep to our deeper potential. The aim of the retreat is to begin to actually observe and experience our particular type of imbalance of centers, how to awaken from it, and how to live in greater balance and harmony of the Three Centers.
This retreat begins with dinner at 6:30 PM on Wednesday June 4th, and ends after lunch at noon on Sunday June 8th, 2025.