JUNE 2008
New York group
Registration
Sacred Dances Teacher
Gurdjieff Sacred Dances Workshop
June 21, 22 in New York City
News: Amiyo Devienne meets with Gurdjieff's daughter Dushka. In February this year, Amiyo met with George Gurdjieff's daughter, Dushka, in New York. They discussed Gurdjieff's legacy of "The Work" and Amiyo's part in bringing it into the world. At Dushka's invitation, Amiyo will meet her again short before the June 2008 New York Sacred Dances workshop, when Dushka will share with Amiyo her mother's personal notes on many of the dances to correct variations and mistakes that have crept into the movements over the years.
Sacred Dances Video
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What are the Sacred Dances? Details
* Who inhabits this body of flesh and bones?
* What immensity exists within this body?
* How to answer this call for truth?
"Given very precisely by Gurdjieff as a powerful tool for growth, the practice of the movements creates exceptional conditions for transforming the body – machine so that the forces of intelligence, heart, and action can freely expand. This happens through the development of a certain quality of attention and relaxation."
Amiyo Devienne is one of the foremost teachers of the Gurdjieff Sacred Movements in the world today. She travels the world (schedule) giving workshops in this method, and will be coming to the US in June 2008 for her third tour.
"The 3 elements of human nature are always participating in the movements: The movements of our body, our heart, our mind are brought in a harmonic exchange with each other, in a certain common vibration."
Gurdjieff Sacred Dances Workshops
June 11-15, Boulder wkshp details and registration .
June 21, 22, New York City wkshp at Joffrey Ballet School, details and registration.
Teacher: Amiyo Devienne, bio.
Workshop: Included in the workshops is intensive practice of the dances created by Gurdjieff himself as well as study of Gurfjieff's method called the Fourth Way. The combination of these Movements creates the possibility for the participant to experience an integration of body and no mind which is completely unique. There is no other movement technique or traching that challenges the participant in the same way as the Sacred Movement exercises.
Who can do it: All are welcome. This is not a workshop for dance professionals only, and is not a dance trainingas in for dance technique, although it involves very specific movements and requires some commitment from the participant. It is open for anyone with a desire for self exploration and growth through awareness and challenging the mind/personality structure. It uses movement techniques to break through the habitual structures of throught and feeling, but does not have performance as a goal.
More details on the workshops here.
"This workshop changed the whole way I felt and moved in my body." - Rachael Freeman, Boulder
"Amiyo Devienne has a fire, an intensity and urgency, which I have never experienced in a movements or dance teacher before. She didn't teach us dance techniques, she showed us a door to another consciousness...." - Clay Phipps, Boulder
"Amiyo is bringing a fire, a concentration to this work that makes it a must do workshop for anyone seeking more awareness and consciousness through movement and dance." - James St Clair, Boulder