“Movement is something we ARE, not something we do.” Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum Movement

All life, including the human body, has been shaped by water. Continuum Movement is an exploration of the properties and movement of water as it shapes and forms life both within the body and the larger world.

Often, in western culture, the body is understood as a stable form with clear boundaries. In Continuum Movement, the human body is understood as an unfolding planetary process of fluid movement rather than form. Because the body is fluid and primarily liquid crystalline, all communication within the body happens through the arcing, spiraling, and oscillating movements of our biology. Streaming bio-movements create a radiant communication network throughout the body that reaches far beyond the apparent boundary of the body. A principle of all fluid systems is that they function in resonance, or immediate communication, with all other fluid systems. How we listen and offer attention to the fluid sensory language of our bodies influences the way in which we perceive ourselves and all life events.

In this workshop we will be working with the practices of Continuum Movement. Through breath and sounding practices, personal movement explorations are initiated. Continuum offers a practice of intentionally deconstructing form and habitual patterns in the body so that new information, nourishment and possibility may enter the body. In the same way that an artist meets the unknown and learns to trust an intuitive sense about the whisper of a new form, we begin to tangibly sense how our body shapes, contributes, and participates in the desires, movements, and thoughts we express.

Continuum Movement provides the opportunity to expand our experience and understanding of the body as a resource for change; a pulsing dynamic organism, instead of a fixed entity. Many people experience profound restoration and renewal through the practice of Continuum, and express the delight of finding a way to offer self-care and a type of bodywork to themselves. An increased awareness of nuance and sensation develops that allows for more permeability, presence, and receptivity in working, moving and communicating with others.

This movement practice is appropriate and safe for everyone at ALL mobility levels. Continuum Movement informs and benefits all other movement practices whether one is a student of cranial sacral work, shiatsu, massage, yoga, dance, general fitness, nature or life.

For more information about Continuum:

www.RobinBeckerDance.org www.Continuummovement.com www.continuummontage.com