What is Continuum?

Continuum is an approach to exploring how we live in, and move through, our bodies. Continuum is a portal to a deeper awareness of, and connection to, embodiment, movement, learning, growth, well-being, and creativity. Attention to internal experience through breath, sound, meditative awareness and fluid movement expands our experience of embodiment and opens us to new possibilities of inhabiting our bodies and expressing ourselves through them.

It is challenging to define or describe Continuum without having a direct experience of it.  The following summary of Continuum’s basic principles and practices is intended to spark your curiosity and inspire you to find out for yourself by attending a class or workshop.

In a Continuum class, emergent ideas, potent images, or interesting themes set the ground for movement exploration. Different movements are combined with breath and sound to encourage embodied, mindful exploration of the idea, image or theme. We often change our relationship to gravity to invite new internal feedback and information. The pace of a class may be quiet, slow, and meditative, with participants exploring nearly invisible micro-movements. A class can also be fast and lively with a room full of bodies moving in large wave-like, spiraling motions. Continuum fitness classes combine sound, music and fluid movement to create aerobic activities using weights and other exercise props and equipment. A class may be composed of a group of any size, ranging from two to several hundred. 

Continuum as a regular practice can become part of a person’s daily reality and many students observe shifts in all the ways they move in the world. The sensibility of Continuum can inform and influence our physical activity, behaviors, feelings, thoughts, daily actions and lives. Continuum contributes to the field of health and movement education by providing a varied spectrum of movement modalities for all people. 

This practice has applications in countless areas of personal and professional life: healthcare, science, bodywork, meditation, psychotherapy, spiritual practice, business organization, group dynamics, education, dance, artistic creativity, performance, sports and fitness, etc. Continuum invites passionate and intimate participation in the myriad ways we engage with our own lives and converge with the lives around us.  

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movement

In Continuum, we explore new ways of moving and participating more fully with the intrinsic, internal movements that are always expressing themselves through our bodies.

fluidity

Continuum explores the nature of fluidity in all aspects of movement, embodiment and life. That the human body and planet earth are both 70% water suggests that we can and do resonate with all that lives and moves.

breath

Continuum increases the variability, dexterity, & capacity of our breath. Giving ourselves the opportunity to change the way we breathe offers our system options we might not otherwise find. This allows us to be responsive to the necessity of each moment of our lives by accommodating with the most supportive breath for any given context.

sound

In Continuum we use a variety of sounds to invite adaptations and innovations in our movement and our bodies.

stillness

Where there is sound and movement, there is also silence and stillness. We explore this rich range in the laboratory of our bodies.

mindfulness

The quality of mindful attention and refined awareness that we bring to all of our relationships opens the possibility to trust the body’s wisdom, when it’s given the opportunity to move and express itself freely.

choice

Continuum can make us aware of our deeply ingrained habit patterns, allowing us to evolve alternatives in service of renewal.

creativity

Continuum recognizes that what we call the human body is a creative, unfolding process rather than a static object. As such we have infinite possibilities for healing, adaptability, innovation, growth and change.

sensation

Continuum invites us to refine and elaborate our "felt sense" of sensation as a rich resource for healing and self-emergence. Learning to be informed by our sensory information without the overlay of interpretations, conclusions, and personal stories can more effectively inform our choices about how we care for ourselves, others, and the world. In Continuum practice, we learn to distinguish our biology from our biography.

pleasure

The discovery of pleasure and enjoyment in our experience of moving, breathing and being embodied is fundamental to Continuum.

curiosity

Continuum cultivates curiosity and a sense of open-ended inquiry. Venturing beyond our preconceived notions and popular cultural models of what we think of as “the body,” we can discover a deep inner world that is an unending resource for healing, adaptability, and change.

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