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Gurdjieff Residential
27 July – 1 August 2026 The Gurdjieff Society of Newport(founded by George and Helen Adie) Mary MacKillop Spirituality CentreCentral Coast (NSW)8 Humphreys Road, Kincumber South “… a public repetition was given on definite days, and in some schools perhaps even every day, of the entire course in a condensed form of the sciences that…
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Mrs Adie Book Launch
Helen Adie: “That Higher Part Gives Me Strength” 7:00-9:00pm — 24 July 2026First Floor, The Theosophical Society599 Pacific Highway, St Leonards (entrance from Albany Street) Evening Programme Introduction – M.C. Hugh ElliotA Selection of Mrs Adie’s Music – Michael Griffith (piano)Remembering Mrs Adie – names to be confirmedRecording of Mrs Adie playing from the Gurdjieff/de…
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Commemoration of G. I. Gurdjieff – 29 October 2025
On Wednesday, 29th October 2025 at 7:30 pm (AEDT), the Gurdjieff Society of Newport invites friends and students of the Work to gather online for the annual commemoration of G. I. Gurdjieff. This day marks the anniversary of Mr. Gurdjieff’s death in 1949, and is observed around the world by groups who seek to keep…
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Interview with Joseph Azize Pt. 1: Gurdjieff, Mysticism, Exercises
Found on YouTube, Channel “Mind Matters” – click here for Interview The following is copied from the “Mind Matters” YouTube description of the interview: For several decades, numerous books and explications have been published on the profoundly insightful philosophy and teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff. Some were written by the man himself, and many by those…
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Music in the Gurdjieff Work
Music is an essential part of Gurdjieff’s Work practice which has three core components or focusses: the body (related to the Sacred Dances or Movements); the mind (expressed through the Work Ideas to be found in such core texts as All and Everything, and P.D. Ouspenkys’s In Search of the Miraculous); and the feelings, related…
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Movements
The Gurdjieff Society of Newport presently has a regular Movements group in Sydney. It is planning to expand that group and, if possible, to commence one on the Central Coast. All classes are in person. The Sacred Dances, or “Movements” My late friend, Michael Smyth, a long-term pupil of Mrs Staveley, wrote: The Gurdjieff Movements…
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Suggested Reading
The Fundamentals The single best introduction to Gurdjieff’s ideas and methods is P.D. Ouspensky’s In Search of the Miraculous, which he had undertaken to Gurdjieff he would write to help spread knowledge of Gurdjieff’s teaching. In 1949, Gurdjieff’s last year on earth, when a pupil was leaving and intending to start a group, he told…
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Joining a GSN Work Group
G.I. Gurdjieff (c.1866-1949) brought an organic system of ideas and methods of practical spirituality. This organic body gives the best and most reliable results when all and only his authentic methods are used. The Gurdjieff Society of Newport, founded by George and Helen Adie, is dedicated to passing on those ideas and methods in their…
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Welcome!
Welcome to the Gurdjieff Society of Newport website! The aim and purpose of the society is the practical study, application, and development of the ideas of G.I. Gurdjieff, with a special respect for the exercises, practices, and disciplines taught by G.M. Adie and H.C. Adie, including the ideas as developed by G.M. Adie, and the…