The Mindful Enneagram: A 5-Day Retreat at Claymont
June 4 - June 8
The retreat will occur June 4-8, 2025 and will be led by Deborah Rose Longo, Amy Silver, and Rob Creekmore.
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.
To learn more and register, please visit the event website here.