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What is Continuum? And What is Rolfing?

Gael works from two disciplines: Continum Movement, and Rolfing. Below is a description of both, taken from her writings. To review Gael’s schedule for this year, click here.

Continuum

“Continuum Movement offers you the chance to develop a new somatic vocabulary that leads to a deepening awareness of your body, your organism and your self, as well as an increased sensitivity to movement from the subtlest breath and internal impulse to outer rapport with others.

Through diverse breaths, sounds, and unpatterned movement, we learn to enter into our body noticing and moving with the inner sensations that emerge. By initiating wave-like motions, we come into contact with the qualities and movements common to all life forms. This is because all biological organisms reside in a liquid environment having been born of water and remaining mostly composed of water throughout life. As Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum, reminds us, “we are a fluid, flowing event, not a fixed thing.”

In Continuum Movement, we dilate our awareness as awareness changes how we physically move. Healing, creativity, compassion and expansion are all activated by awareness.

For instance, in the healing process, whether the cause be from physical or emotional trauma or pain, awareness helps us to notice that there is still movement in our organism inside a situation that feels blocked or immobile. When we broaden our focus to what else is happening in the body, we are no longer held in the confines of a linearly defined problem. Instead, we have new possibilities and pathways to help us get in touch with our organism, allowing us to notice sensations other than those of our injuries and discomforts.

An opening takes place, passion and pleasure are reawakened, and we return to the exploratory, playful awe of children. The fixated habits and hardened, limiting social norms that bind and narrow us as adults begin to soften and release. Our entire person is freed up, based on biological inspiration and unfolding, not mental directing or controlling.

According to Emilie Conrad, “As we become more fluid and resilient in our body’s movement, so do the mental, emotional and spiritual movements of our lives.” By regaining fluidity in our body, we tap into our biological system where innovation and fertile possibility are always expressing. Fluidity also melts fear and resistance, opening greater trust and confidence in our ability to sense and meet what unfolds moment to moment.

Growth, creativity and healing are non-linear, fluid processes depending on an ability to mutate, adjust and innovate in response to the inevitable changes and challenges of life. Thus Continuum Movement is equally important to the creative arts as it is to the somatic therapies and healing.

Continuum speaks to the needs and interests of people from the lay person to the professional, from the therapist to the artist. No particular skill or physical prowess is required to do Continuum, only a willingness to participate deeply with yourself.

Movements can range from the most subtle, internal, meditative movement to vast, activating, full-body expression. Nonetheless, whatever sort of movement emerges, it is the body’s wisdom that is the source of the movement which is always safe, gentle, nurturing and liberating. ”

For all events, wear loose clothes, and bring water to drink and a yoga mat or something to lie on.

View Gael’s schedule for this year.