we are sleep-walking our way through lifeand we don't have to be that way. but if you want to grow out of that into a...higher level of vibration experiencing a different level of emotions tasting life, and the quality of life in different ways then this work enables that
how to become a dance movement therapist, this retreat is... to enable... an inner searchit's called a "journey to inaccessible places" it's a journey deep within, touring the inner landscapesof our hearts, our minds, our body the work is a very very huge, awesome, overwhelming body of work there are philosophies, cosmologies, experiences, inner psychological mechanisms
which are being addressed at different levels,from the most basic, to cosmic levels the "gurdjieff sacred dances" a body of about 250 danceswhich were created by george gurdjieff and they provide excellent vehiclesfor the search within they help us to enter through the body, through the heart, through the emotions, through the mind you need to experience them. even sitting out and watching it,you cannot understand what's going on inside because a lot of inner work, is required to hold your presence in these dances. and the aim is not the movement, the aim in not the dance
the aim is you - the human being you have to come and see it you have to be there, and... expect the unexpected, expect shocks, expect loving spaces, expect energies being exchanged, connections between people... connection with yourself silences, conversations, discussions, debates... allowing your real self to be expressedin a safe space because ultimately it's a safe spacewhere like-minded people have gathered together in a search for inner harmony
a major aspect of the work is the notion thatwe are "sleep-walking" our way through life we're not aware, and we have no ideawhat our true potential is so this work is geared to support us, to find our way through the automatics, through the ordinary through the everyday emotions that we are constantly repeating, automatically. so it's not a therapy, but it's very therapeuticbecause it does open up a lot of spaces and brings us to a space where we evaluate, once again, ourselves not judge, but evaluate where we are at a practical level, you can expect certain movements, so the learning of those movements which have a specific music
and the learning of these is a struggle by itself because the movements are not dances like we ordinarily think of dances the leg is doing something else, the foot is doing something else, the head is doing something else and putting them together is a process of centering and coming together that's one aspect of it and then there are meditation - spaces of silence to go within and see what's happening and some conversations, about the philosophytheoretical constructs that hold us together based on a specific philosophy which was put forward by gurdjieff the work then becomes within youyou learn to carry the work with you wherever you are
something awakens in you that invites you to keep working, even when you're not in the work space i started out my life as a psychotherapist, my working life, trained in various disciplines but liked "transactional analysis", so that's where i stayed as my tool of intervention about 20 years ago, the dry clinical approach wasn't working for me any more, i was searching for new ways, and that's how i encountered the gurdjieff movements for me it was an amazing opening, first of all for my and myself, personally it was a very big shock to my whole system i saw how useful it was for me to recover my equilibrium through this process that was one aspects
the other was that, very early in my life i encountered a sufi master, in kashmir i worked for many years with this master,learned many very special techniques for inner awareness, inner healingwhich i was not allowed to use - it was a secret then i tool permission from my master, to be able to use these techniques and integrate them with the clinical work that i was doing
so these 3 things came together, "transactional analysis", sufi, and gurdjieff movements and gurdjieff, the whole philosophy.it's the space that i offer, here. upcoming retreatsireland - portugal - israel - india editing: liveloveraw.comproduction & subtitles: boaz capsoutospecial thanks to john hutcherson & 39series.org
