The Five Centres are a teaching within some Gurdjieffian Fourth Way groups relating to his teaching of the Three Centres, Three-brained beings, Law of Three, Law of Seven, etc.

The Five centres are:

• The Intellectual Centre
• The Moving Centre
• The Instinctive Centre
• The Emotional Centre
• The Sexual Centre

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The purpose of the teaching is to permit the student to gain control of the internal processes of Intellect, Emotion, physical Movement and the others and build what Gurdjieff described as "higher bodies" to enable reincarnation.

The teaching is called the "Fourth Way" because Gurdjieff taught that the first three ways were the way of the Fakir, the way of the Yogi and the way of the Monk. His "Fourth Way" is supposed to combine these three into the fourth one and develop them all together, harmoniously.

See also: Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man