Weekly Gurdjieff Movements Group Meeting

Healing
Classes

Sun, 06 May 2018 4:00PM - 6:30PM

2500

2500 for 4 sessions
8 or more sessions – 10% discount

“It always starts with innocence, the fool’s road, demanding the courage to take risks, to experiment with the unknown.” – Dr.Edith Wallace

Our movements (in the world) are composed of a set of typical or recurrent postures. We walk in a certain way, talk in a certain way, and sit in a certain way. These ways are finite and limited. Most people’s movement exhibits considerable waste of energy.

Gurdjieff had a firm grasp of an ‘abstract ‘ method that was not based on belief but on the living action of deep inquiry. He is widely recognised as being pretty unique in disdaining belief and advocating an empirical approach, ‘find out for yourself’ or self-validation as it were.

One of the most valuable products of Gurdjieff’s teaching consists of a series of ‘movements’ (sometimes called ‘sacred gymnastics’), and accompanying music particular to each ‘dance’. The movements were created and intended to transmit the teachings entirely through dance. They can enter into our bodies as sensation and liberate insight through feeling. To get into sensation requires the suspension of the ingrained ‘body-image’ we have that overlays the body’s own consciousness.

The movements are a means of teaching our three major centers to work together – the intellect, the emotion and the moving body.

The movements consist of abstract gestures and positions that have mathematical precision. However, the deeper emphasis in movements is on inner work that develops in time. Music has a vital role to play in transmitting these teachings. Each movement has a piece of music especially composed for it in order to facilitate the desired effect on the practitioner. The true function of music has absolutely nothing to do with “accompaniment” but is a living part of the inner work that takes place in the classes.

What: Weekly Gurdjieff Movements Group Meeting
When: Sunday(s) | Apr 22 / Apr 29
Time: 4:00pm – 6:30pm

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For any enquiries, please call Tabasheer at 9820391883

Tabasheer Zutshi began her journey with the ‘Work’ in 2001 in Delhi when circumstances brought her to visit a psychotherapist, Akash Dharmaraj. Akash had recently set up a Fourth Way school called ‘Akhaldans’. There, Tabasheer was introduced to Gurdjieff’s dances and movements for the first time. Over the next decade her practice deepened and she also participated in a number of public movement demonstrations. Parallel to her inquiry of the Fourth Way, she began learning Transactional Analysis as a means to complement her practice from a more psychological perspective.

As her study intensified she trained with other senior practitioners of the work from the J.G. Bennet Lineage. Bennet was a direct student of Gurdjieff and one of the few who carried his work forward after his death. Later, under the guidance of her teacher she was trained and nominated a teacher of the movements. Tabasheer now explores Gurdjieff’s teachings from the perspective of the 21st century, and its relevance today.

Born in Bombay in 1975, Tabasheer Zutshi graduated in Ancient Indian Culture from St. Xavier’s College, Bombay and later studied painting at The Delhi College of Art. Professionally she is a Production and Costume designer. She has worked on award-winning Independent films. Her work extends to theatre, site-specific installation and performance art. Her artist collaborations as costume designer and art director have been part of art and theatre festivals such as the YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE, Kunst Festival des arts (Brussels), National School of Drama theatre festival (New Delhi), and at the Baroda Palace. She has collaborated with experimental sound artists in site-specific installations.

She views environments as possessing a metaphysical quality that impacts the viewer’s perception of the narrative and characters. She experiments with the minutiae of everyday life and found objects to bring an emotional and sensorial response to her work. Currently she lives in Bangalore and is an almost full-time gardener.