JUNE 2008
New York group
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Sacred Dances Teacher
Part II
"What you cannot discover in your own body,
you will not discover in any place of the world..."
- Idris Lahore
Our sleep and slavery express themselves in the automatism and limitations of our feelings and thoughts, these being closely bound up with the automatism of our movements and postures. This is a vicious circle. Vice versa our usual limited vocabulary of movements will keep us within the confinements of a restrictive routine like way of feeling, seeing life, thinking. We do not realise how intimately connected together are our 3 functions, moving, emotional and mental. They depend one upon the other. They result one from one another. One does not change without others changing too. The attitude of our body is the outer reflection of our emotions and thoughts. An emotional change such as a sudden relief of worry will immediately affect our way of standing, the depth of our breathing, the movements in our eyes etc.
To each position of the body corresponds a certain inner space and to each inner space corresponds a certain posture. In our life we have a certain number of habitual movements and postures quite limited in regard to the immense potential of the body and we move through them most of the time without awareness. Taking new unusual positions enables us to observe ourselves differently from the way it is possible in usual conditions. And the Gurdjieff Dances break the cycle of automatism by introducing non-habitual movements and sequences.