They are quite exact, precise positions which demand all the student s attention. The movements and the music contain within them a knowledge deeper than we are aware of. The postures and their musical sequences are like the alphabet of the language of this knowledge. The movements require a division of attention to each body part. The feet move in one pattern, often a step that has a march quality to it, the arms move in angles or fluid suspensions, the wrists move in a different pattern than the arms, and the head moves in its own pattern.
Some movements are gymnastic, and some are quite fluid and graceful.
All seem to Evoke some sense of prayer. A particular configuration of sounds, and the listener is transported to a specific inner experience. When the inner state is brought into action through posture, it becomes a manifestation of the same universal truth. To facilitate this activity the human machine becomes the instrument for divine revelations, or at least higher intelligence. Gurdjieff s music contains within it an extremely valuable way to connect inner knowledge with the outer life.