The older Movements

1-The older Movements, stemming from Gurdjieff's first stage of teaching. These were practised for 5 to 6 hours a day by the whole group of Gurdjieff's pupils from 1918 until the demonstrations in 1923 and 1924. Of these Movements, a total of 27 are remembered and practised until this day in authentic lines of transmission reaching back to Gurdjieff. The Six Obligatories belong to this group. The Obligatories belong to the very first Movements Gurdjieff gave as early as 1918 in Tiflis, Georgia. As their name already indicates, each new student had to learn these exercises first before she or he could participate in the regular classes. Of several other Movements used in the early demonstrations, only the music remains because the dances themselves have been forgotten or were too difficult to reconstruct.