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Christian Alf studied piano and music pedagogic at the Musikhochschule in Köln and then in München, Deutschland, where he received his degree in 1989. He accompanies performers and singers in theaters and cafes, often composing original music for them. In 1996 he came in touch with Gurdjieff's Teaching and Music. Since 1998 Christian has been accompanying James Tomarelli's classes of the Gurdjieff Movements and giving concerts of the Gurdjieff/deHartmann Music. Christian teaches high school in Münich and is a student of Tai Chi Chuan and Kung Fu.
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Ugo
Bonessi is a musician and teacher of music who took his degree in piano with Maestro
Fausto Di Cesare. He attended DAMS of the University of
Bologna and has been present on the Rome music scene for many
years.
A frequent traveler
to India and Egypt, he has studied the classical singing traditions of khyal
and dhrupad. He has also studied harmonic voice techniques with
David Hykes.
He has been interested in Gurdjieff's music since
1987 and has worked professionally with James Tomarelli and Gruppo If since 2002.
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The dancer, dance teacher and movement therapist Susanne Clemens has been sharing her holistic approach of Dance and Moving Art with people of all ages for over 25 years. In 1994 she created Sanatando an analogue dance method which enables people to become aware of their talents and abilities for moving and dancing, for expressing themselves in creative and archetypal ways and for perceiving everybody's creativity to respond to rhythm and musicality.
Susanne is a certified teacher of the Lichtenberger Lichtenberg® Institute Applied Physiology of the Voice whose basic aim of research is the relation between the sensorical nervous system and the sound of the voice. Relating to her experience of studying the ideas of Gurdjieff/Bennett as well as to her research work about how differentiated perception of senses and sensorical awareness influence moving capabilities and state of mind she developed “Sensory Movement and Dance Experience.” Deepening and continuously developing this idea has become central part of her research work.
Her husband Richard Clemens and Susanne are leading an Academy of Holistic Astrology for many years and in 1996 together with others they founded a community to build a place where people are offered the possibility to explore and study Fourth Way ideas in daily life, weekly gatherings and seminars.
Contact: “Haus Sonnentanz” in Singhofen, Germany. email phone: +49 2604 95 43 37.
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Vivien
Engelberg,
MBA Business Administration, first encountered the Gurdjieff work
in 1971 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she joined a Gurdjieff Foundation
group affiliated with Madame de Salzman in Paris. She started
her work with the Movements and Sacred Dances in 1972 in Boston,
met J. G. Bennett and enrolled at his International Academy for
Comparative Studies in Sherborne, England 1974-75. In 1976, at Sherborne,
she worked with the J.G. Bennett tape legacy and assisted the
teaching of women's movements.
She became interested
in Buddhism along with the Fourth Way and studied with Bhante
Dharmawara, Sogyal Rimpoche, Trungpa, Thich Naht Hahn, and others.
She has also explored the work of A.H. Almaas.
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Fosco Matteini Physio-kinesi therapist since 1972. After graduating at the University of Padua - Faculty of Orthopedics - he started his professional career at a rehabilitation center in Rimini, Italy. In 1982 Fosco met Francoise Mézières, discoverer of human muscular chains, and Thérèse Bertherat, French physio-therapist and founder of the Anti-gymnastics movement. In 1985, a mézièrist certified therapist with Francoise Mézières, he started his own business.
In 1988 he studied with Thérèse Bertherat and become certified Anti-gymnastics praticien. The latter step was crucial for his educational path, enabling him to move away from the therapeutic aspect (pathologies) to embrace a training based on a pedagogic-physical wholeness. From 1997 to 2006 he worked with Thérèse Bertherat as workshop instructor in Rimini, Paris and Buenos Aires.
Such extensive training experiences forced him to question his own inner workings and in 2002 he met James Tomarelli and a new path toward human psychic evolution -- the Gurdjieff-Bennett path.
A founding member of If Group Italia, Fosco currently assists James at seminars -- using his knowledge and expereince of body structure to help participants develop their full human potential.
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Margaret
Monsour,
graduated in 1991 with a MFA from the School of the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, and has been a student of the
piano since childhood. Since 1996 she has accompanied for movements
classes in Santa Fe and at the Gavilan Ranch Movements Intensives.
Margaret is a practicing folk artist and lives in Santa Fe.
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Chiara
Purcaro is a pre- and post-natal
educator. In 1999 she founded
the Spazio Nascita Cultural Association, where she leads maternity
courses through movement and bodywork for women and couples and
offers post partum assistance and support.
Her formal education includes bodywork, contemporary dance, and psychomotor practice according to the method developed by Prof.
B. Aucouturier at the I.F.R.A. in Bologna.
Through training and personal
search she has developed a particular methodology, which
has been further influenced by contact with
F.Leboyer, M.Odent, North American medicine women,
and empirical obstetricians.
Since early 2003 she
has undergone intensive training
in Gurdjieff Dance and Body-Mind Research with James Tomarelli. Chiara Purcaro is a founding member
of Gruppo If and a student in the Gurdjieff-Bennett Tradition.
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James
Tomarelli has university degrees in physics & psychology and is a practicing student of the Gurdjieff-Bennett Tradition since 1967. He is solely responsible for the contents of this web site.
In the early 1970s, James studied with Robert de Ropp in the USA (author of Drugs and the Mind and The Master Game) and John Bennett in England (author of Transformation, Creative Thinking, and Spiritual Psychology) where he began study and practice of Gurdjieff Dance and Movement Meditation and the Gurdjieff-Bennett Inner Exercises. Since 1984, James has directed seminars and guided group work in Italy, Austria, Mexico and the U.S.
Practically interested in the cognitive sciences, empirical mysticism, and psychological intervention, he is, along with senior members of his Italian and U.S. group, researching the role of active attention in the work of human transformation.
A longtime meditator in the Buddhist Vipassana tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin as taught by S.N. Goenka, and an eight-year student of the late Sufi mystic M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen of Philadelphia (U.S.) and Jaffna (Sri Lanka), James resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his Italian girlfriend and their two sons, where he and Michela manage Bennett Books Publishing.
Twice a year James and his family travel to Italy and Austria where he directs group work and gives seminars.
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