Continuum is a movement practice pioneered by Emilie Conrad that engages the body in the totality of our current physical reality. Continuum increases mobile flexibility, motility, well-being, creativity, innovation, adaptability and vitality on many levels. Unlike movement practices that rely on fixed patterns or postures, Continuum movement enables us to access our capacity for fluid, free, non-constrained movement, which enhances a sense of youthfulness, aliveness and well-being. By teaching us to reduce physical limitations through the innovation of movement, we can counter the “densifying” process of aging and stress, and increase our perceptual and mental awareness. Continuum is particularly beneficial to restore movement and resilience after injury, illness and chronic stress.

Continuum can also be integrated into any bodywork modality to deepen the impact of the work. This workshop will teach Continuum as a movement practice to mitigate the impact of exposure to stress and secondary trauma, and increase flexibility and vitality in these times of planetary stress and acceleration. It will also teach Continuum as a hands-on adjunct to bodywork. The hands-on format is particularly well-suited to work with survivors of trauma, including head injury, TBI and spinal cord injury.

Fee: $170

Instructor: Amber Gray is both a longtime practitioner of body centered arts and sciences (somatic psychology, massage therapy, Life Impressions Body-work, dance movement therapy, energy medicine, cranio-sacral therapy, yoga, and shiatsu), and an advocate of human rights. She is an authorized Continuum teacher, a body worker, and a licensed mental health professional. She has worked internationally and nationally as an activist, an artist, a mental health professional, a bodyworker, a program director and a trainer/consultant on behalf of victims of human rights abuses such as torture, war, and organized violence for over ten years.