WHAT IS CONTINUUM MOVEMENT?
Continuum Movement is a unique and innovative field of movement education, based on the understanding that we are fundamentally fluid organisms. All life, including the human body, has been shaped by water. The primary focus of Continuum is to enliven, join with, and augment the creative potential of the fluids that are forming, informing, and moving within us. It offers the opportunity to explore the body as an unfolding process of life.

WHAT HAPPENS IN A CONTINUUM CLASS?
In a Continuum Class, breath and vocal sounding practices are used to initiate movement explorations. Each class begins with instruction in specific sound, breath and movement practices that then form the structure of a personal movement exploration during the latter portion of each session. Attention is directed to the fluid interior landscape of the body and how it is touched, shaped, and enhanced by these practices. We connect more deeply with biological processes: we cultivate nuance, new sensations,and rhythms in the body. Our breath and movement begin to reflect this understanding of our fluidity in the world.
What distinguishes a Continuum Class from other movement courses is that Continuum does not teach or prescribe a system of movement that one must follow and learn. Instead, the primary intention of a Continuum class is to support and create the opportunity for deeper levels of movement and experienced sensation. The resonance of people breathing, moving, and sounding together establishes a safe environment for a personal exploration of one's own movement.

WHAT DOES CONTINUUM DO?
Continuum offers a dynamic and creative approach to self-awareness and healing. It can help access our capacity to move more freely, feel more deeply, and realize broader possibilities for living our lives. Continuum 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. In Continuum we are able to soften boundaries, and habitual patterns of movement and structure, which often allows new innovations in expression, and reveals expansive possibilities of movement, thought and feeling.
A core value of Continuum is relatedness. Continuum facilitates a direct interactive experience of our biological resonance with the larger living universe. The body is primarily a fluid system, and the significant characteristic of a fluid is that it functions in resonance with all other fluid systems. In activating the fluid systems of the body we access deep primordial realms of possibility, innovation, and capacity. Continuum cultivates a sense of belonging to and emanating from life's wellspring. Confidence, presence, peace, and empowerment ensue from that deep knowing.
Continuum recognizes that the body is a living model of a creative biological process. It ignites an enthusiasm of discovery and participation in one's own life processes. One subsequently approaches movement with a spirit of adventure, creativity, and possibility.
The results of continued practice are: heightened sensory skills, increased awareness of the texture of breath, expanded movement range, augmented dynamic range, adaptability, health, and vitality. Since all life is movement, one's thoughts, relationships, and so on, begin to shift. Continuum is for anyone interested in the movement of life as it relates to healing, the creative arts, or the enrichment of personal experience.

THE HISTORY OF CONTINUUM
Continuum was founded in 1967 by Emilie Conrad. Emilie's extensive, multi-cultured experience in dance and movement led her to ask what united human beings at a level deeper than culture. Her inquiry initiated and propelled the development of Continuum Movement. Continuum has had an impact on many fields of study and research, including dance, physical therapy, psychology, spinal cord injury, brain research, aging, physical fitness, and the creative process. Emilie Conrad set a revolutionary protocol for treating disease processes of the Central Nervous System, especially that of spinal cord injury. She served on the advisory board for the Kessler Rehabilitation Institute, the Bio-Energy Field Foundation, the American Yoga Association, and ISMETA, the International Society of Movement Education Therapists Association.
Continuum is recognized by ISMETA, and by NCBTMB, the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork. Since its inception over 35 years ago, Continuum has been used in many aspects of the professional healing and movement arts, to aid people at all levels of challenge and experience.