Discovered Continuum: I read an article about Emilie and Continuum Movement in the Yoga Journal and in 1990 went to my first workshop with Susan, then with Emilie.

First Continuum Teacher: Susan Harper was my first Continuum Teacher; I did a workshop with her in 1990, in Albuquerque, NM.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Emilie Conrad, ever since 1990, very regularly in California.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: For many years, I brought both Emilie Conrad and Susan Harper to teach in Switzerland, partially at the IBP institute (bodypsychotherapy).

Discovered Continuum: I first heard about Continuum in 1996 from a classmate in my Dance/Movement Therapy program at Naropa University. Having just taken a workshop with Emilie, she led the class through a “Continuum exercise”. I got a headache and resisted Continuum for the next 9 years–although many of my friends were doing it and encouraging, or telling me, I was already doing it without knowing it! Finally, in 2004, I met Susan Harper at a workshop I was assisting and thought; “if this is Continuum, I need to do Continuum!” Next, I took some classes with Sarah Kane in Santa Barbara, where I was then living at the time. She encouraged me to go to Santa Monica to experience Emilie.

First Continuum Teacher: After a few months of classes with Sarah Kane, I began studying with Emilie in Santa Monica in 2005. After a year of commuting to her classes every week, I moved to Santa Monica to dive in more deeply. I then did almost everything she offered in the LA area until I moved to the UK in 2010. I returned to Santa Monica as often as I could for more.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers:

• Susan Harper – probably around 2006 – 2008, I think I took 3 workshops with her (one including Deborah Raoult teaching), as well as doing several Depths retreats with Susan and Emilie.
• Cass Phelps – one class, probably around 2007.
• Satya Kirsch – assisted her weekly classes around 2006-7 as part of my teacher training.
• Robert Litman – attended a workshop he co-taught with Emilie, 2006, as well as the Practitioner training in 2007 and Advanced Training in 2008(?), and I took Buteyko classes with him.
• Teri Carter, Continuum and Contact Improv workshop, in 2008.
• Gael Olgren, attended one class when visiting Boulder, in 2006.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• Emilie often referred to me in class as the “Resident Craniosacral Therapist.” I have introduced Continuum to many students of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy through Biodynamic trainings and seminars across North America and Europe. I have also brought into Continuum many Biodynamic concepts, and shown how they overlap with Continuum.
• I have also brought my passion for Embryology and experience of teaching it somatically through movement, and am writing a book called; “Fluid and Cosmos: Accessing Our Original Embryological Potential”, which combines aspects of Continuum with Embryological development, Biodynamics, and my other passion, Prenatal and Birth Psychology and therapy.
• I have taught Continuum classes, often relating to these themes, across North America and Europe, as well as mentoring and teaching Continuum via Skype to students and clients around the world.
• I have been teaching Continuum classes via Skype to eager students in India.
• I support the field through articles, videos, etc.

Discovered Continuum: It was about 1995 when I heard about Continuum for the first time from a friend who was involved in sound healing work. I decided to go to the next workshop offered in Seattle.

First Continuum Teacher: Susan Harper was my first teacher, starting in Seattle, WA, in 1995.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Emilie Conrad – in Seattle, Santa Monica, British Columbia, Berkeley and Santa Cruz (Mt. Madonna) multiple times over a 12-13 year period, from 1995 to 2007.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• Seven years of teaching at least 3-4 eight week classes per year – Seattle and then Monterey, CA
• Six weekend workshops over that time in AK, WA, CA
• Three 3 day residential Continuum in the Wilderness workshops outside Bellingham, WA over three years’ time.
• Presented at Women of Wisdom and Wellness conferences three times in Seattle.
• Offered class at women’s retreat of Adyashanti sangha.
• Gave intro to Merrill Lynch executive trainers.
• Gave a number of radio and one TV intro to Continuum over the years.
• Hosted Continuum peer practice weekly at my studio in Seattle – 6 yrs.
• Hosted Susan Harper at my studio in Seattle once or twice.
• Helped organize peer group meeting of Central CA coast Continuum teachers once or twice a year for two years.
• Wrote article for Continuum anthology (in the works).
• After I stopped teaching Continuum classes due to financial issues, I worked with mentally ill people who had been homeless for 6 years in Monterey, CA. I taught a weekly meditation class for them that included Continuum breaths, sounds and simple movement experiments.

Discovered Continuum: I came to Continuum through Emilie’s comments about Stephen Mitchell’s version translation of the Tao Te Ching in 1989. I was enthralled by her words around water, the amniotic, love, and what it means to be a human being.

First Continuum Teacher: It was at a workshop with Emilie at the Omega Institute in 1992 that I knew that I would be engaged with this work for the rest of my life.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: In addition to Emilie and Susan, I took classes with Kevin Smith and Rich Goodstein at Holy Spirit in Encino, in 1998, I have learned from Robert Litman at various times in the Santa Monica Studio during the early 2000s. I have been greatly influenced by Caryn Mchose and Kevin Frank, starting in 2000 – 2006 in New Hampshire.

I have also been influenced by every Continuum teacher I have met over the years.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: I have taught numerous workshops and retreats in and around Virginia and facilitated the creation of a Continuum community in Richmond Virginia.

I have been particularly interested in the confluence of Continuum with music and have introduced Continuum as a support for many musicians’ artistic aspirations.

Along with Mark Bryant, I have co-created a symbiotic meditation and Continuum depths retreat called Big Sky Mind/Big Ocean Body that is flourishing and in its 16th incarnation. We have brought Continuum to the meditation community at Springwater Center for Meditative Inquiry at Springwater, NY.

As a Duke certified Integrative Health Coach working with Veterans over the past 10 years at McQuire Veterans Hospital, I have brought the principles of Continuum into rehabilitation programs, and have seen those principles and the practice of Continuum be extremely supportive and healing.

Discovered Continuum: It may have been 1984 when I had my first class. It was a 2 or 3 weeks long retreat at Esalen with Susan Harper. My husband, a manager there, had told me about it. I met Emilie on the final week when she joined Susan, and I instantly recognized her from a dream I’d had of a dark haired woman who was orchestrating a class of folks undulating and moving like water. It was definitely Emilie! We were partners in an exploration Susan set up, and Emilie said she loved my energy. Prior to coming to Esalen, I’d had a spontaneous Kundalini experience where I’d been informed in meditation that “movement was the key”. Having been a dancer, I rented a dance studio, pulled down the shades as I knew, what wanted to move through me, was unlike any form, and that I was to dissolve the form I’d been occupying, it was all spontaneous movement. Once I found Continuum, I found a language that could articulate my prior experience. I had come home when I was led to the loving work of Continuum.

First Continuum Teacher: As I mentioned above; Susan Harper for the first 2 weeks of the Esalen workshop, then the 3rd week Emilie joined Susan.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: I only studied with Susan and Emilie, although Beth Pettingill Riley and I led workshops together for a few years at Esalen, so I was able to experience her work when we collaborated.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: In 1984, Right after I experienced Continuum, I was able to co-create the Movement Arts Program at Esalen. I immediately incorporated my inspirations from Continuum in my morning classes there, calling them at first; “Movement from the Heart”, “Moving with the Beloved”, and “Fluidity”.

For years I offered a Jungle Gym class, mostly with physio balls, that I called “World Beat Body Heat”.

I have taught at Esalen for 30 years, offering morning classes through the Movement Program I co-created. (I also teach Authentic Movement and Gabrielle Roth’s 5 Rhythms Ecstatic Dance), besides Continuum Movement which has been my home base and the primary teaching I offer.

In the 30 years that I have taught I have introduced thousands of folks to Continuum with usually 2 classes a week with about 20 newcomers each week. I then send them out to all the teachers around the world as Esalen has an international audience and folks are just passing through. I also lead them to the Continuum website, share articles, videos, about Continuum and my CD.

At the moment I have been invited to teach in the 2nd year core curriculum, newly developed experiential body/spirit classes, for my local Religious Science Church (not Scientology!) called The Center for Spiritual Awakening, for their ministerial program. Our new ministers will have—besides yoga, & tai chi—Continuum in their experience!

I also assisted Emilie in her Esalen workshops for many years. Besides being a dancer/movement artist, an abstract contemporary painter, former museum curator, and a photographer, I teach meditation, I am an ordained minister for The Center for Spiritual Healing and an Affirmative Prayer Practitioner for The Center for Spiritual Awakening. I have had a practice of Pastoral Counseling/Coaching, Spiritual Healing and laying on of hands. I feel Continuum Movement informs all of these modalities.

Additional Comments: Long before I ever met Emilie in the flesh, I met her in my dreams. I had a dream where I was in a large room; people were laying all over the floor, moving like water, under a vast piece of diaphanous peach colored fabric which was undulating from their movements, like a vast ocean of love, emanating light. There sat a dark haired woman—sitting in lotus—she was orchestrating the movements with such profound love. In 1984 at Esalen I was in the midst of a spontaneous kundalini experience, a spiritual awakening, during which I was being breathed (in a way that I found later resembled the Hu breath). This experience arrived uninvited, I was not practicing any forms that might invoke such an experience. It was a natural opening that produced hot molten undulations up my spine. I remember small tiny creature-like movements taking place deep within my body, articulating what felt like what the ancient mystical poets speak of; The Great Mystery having its way with me.

Discovered Continuum: 20 years ago I was studying at Tamalpa Institute (Marin), when guest teachers Jamie McHugh and Sue Martin taught there–neither claimed to be authorized teachers, but both included Continuum in their body of work.

First Continuum Teacher: Emilie Conrad, I participated in a multitude of Continuum Movement workshops/retreats with her at Mount Madonna, Esalen, New York, Los Angeles etc.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers:

• Cass Phelps (many classes and workshops)
• Robert Litman (2-4 workshops/retreats)
• Terri Carter (many workshops and classes in LA)
• Jamie McHugh (a few workshops)
• Susan Harper (3 workshops in Berkeley/2 retreats with Emilie)
• Mary Abrams (a few classes in NY)

I also took a few other classes with teachers early on; however, I cannot recall their names!

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: In a nutshell I am contributing to the field of Continuum by marrying body based expressive arts therapy with the practice of Continuum Movement in a fluid way. Over the years, I have combined the 2 bodies of work in workshops that allow both to flow organically, creating a stronger capacity for deeper inner body wisdom and self-development for the participant.

Discovered Continuum: I first heard about Continuum in a seminal article about Emilie that appeared in Yoga Journal in the 1980’s. I remember being struck and so impressed by her photo, and after reading the article thinking something like; “I could never do that……” Ha! In 1996, not long after I began the Body-Mind Centering training program, I was looking for support for a long standing issue I had with the circulation in my legs. My lead teacher, Myra Avedon (in the Berkeley based program), suggested I seek out Emilie Conrad to learn about micro-movements. Carole Burstein, who had studied with Emilie for a few years at that time and was in the BMC program with me (and who later became a teacher) greatly encouraged me to go meet Emilie.

First Continuum Teacher: In 1996, after it was suggested to me to consult with Emilie, I found out she was going to Toronto, Canada, to teach a workshop sponsored by Kim Brodey. I went and met Emilie. Two weeks later I traveled again to study with her in Santa Monica and from that point on for the next three to four years there was not more than 6-8 weeks that I did not travel somewhere in the US to be with her. We also spoke almost weekly on the phone for years.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: In 1999, I met Susan Harper. I was on a teacher track with Emilie and at this time when you were doing that it was required to also spend time with Susan. This “rule” introduced me to someone who would become a teacher, mentor, dearest friend and colleague. Like Emilie, Susan has also had a pervasive influence in my life. Game-changers in the best sense of the Word. I pretty much only studied with Emilie and Susan, but because of Robert Litman‘s role, I have taken a lot of classes with him. I also count Gary David as influential.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• In 2000, I separated professionally from husband and my yoga center to open an extraordinary beautiful and reputable studio in Rochester, New York called Open Sky Movement Resources, devoted to Continuum and Jungle Gym. Through my work there and Emilie’s and Susan’s workshops, I was able to greatly influence a number of people in the western New York region. Several of these people whom went on to become teachers or now teachers in training: Priscilla Auchincloss, Sheila Evans, Patricia von Weichs, and Debi Corea.
• I was one of the first people to teach a Continuum inspired class at the Yoga Journal Conference.
• When I traveled to teach I was able to able to make an impact in Chicago, IL, and the Austin/San Antonio, TX, area.
• While I assisted Emilie in many different cities, I was also able to co-teach with her in a Continuum weekend in Santa Monica, CA, called the Eternal Return where I was able to contribute a perspective on creative birthing based on physiological birth.
• I brought in Continuum to The Way of Council, a circle process. I have taught on my own and with Susan Harper with this motif.
• Through my years of practicing and teaching I have created a body of Continuum Movement protocols to dynamically support women’s experience of pregnancy and birth, called Opening the Body to Birth. This program can serve women in a single session, a basic series of 6 sessions or throughout pregnancy in a group with other pregnant women over several months.
• I am currently teaching Yoga and Somatics for Women that emerge from Continuum Movement in Santa Monica.
• I have served the Continuum teaching community as a facilitator of Council.
• Through my years of practicing and teaching I have created a body of Continuum Movement protocols to dynamically support women’s experience of pregnancy and birth, called Opening the Body to Birth. This program can serve women in a single session, a basic series of 6 sessions or throughout pregnancy in a group with other pregnant women over several months.
• I am currently teaching a Yoga and Somatics for Women that emerge from Continuum Movement in Santa Monica.
• I have served the Continuum teaching community as a facilitator of Council.

Discovered Continuum: I first heard about Continuum from a few different people, including Connie Jacobs and Barbra Mindell.

First Continuum Teacher: My first teacher was Barbara Mindell starting in 2001.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: I studied with Emilie from 2001 till her passing. Along the way I also worked with Susan Harper, Cass Phelps, Marcella Bottero, Robert Litman, Don St. John and Beth Pettigrew

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: I ran Practice Groups in the Continuum Studio for many years when Emilie was travelling. I gave two or 3 workshops a year with Marcella Bottero after she became authorized. I became an authorized teacher myself before Emilie died and now teach 4 6-week series a year in the Santa Monica Studio. My interest is the blend of Continuum, spirituality and ritual. In my series we have been exploring and extending Emilie’s teachings on cosmic anatomy and sacred reality.

Discovered Continuum: I first heard about Continuum in 2004 from my friend Leticia who was a Barbara Brennan Healing Science student. My friend studied with Donnalea Van Vleet Goelz at the Barbara Brennan school and Donnalea had introduced Continnum to that school.

First Continuum Teacher: My friend brought me to a Continuum weekend workshop with Donnalea Van Vleet Goetz in Neptune Beach, FL, in 2004. I started coming to her weekly classes right after that.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers:

• Emilie Conrad in Santa Monica, California.
• Robert Litman in Santa Monica, California.
• Susan Harper in Santa Monica, California.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: I have contributed to building the field of Continuum by integrating Continuum into the practice of hands-on healing with people. And also by working directly with animals and Continuum, through my practice as a veterinarian.

Discovered Continuum: I was introduced to the concepts of Continuum way back in the late 80s. Don St John and I were dating, and he often spoke about Emilie and Susan, and this “fluid movement work” called Continuum.

First Continuum Teacher: I had my first Continuum experience at a workshop taught by Susan Harper in Seattle, WA. This was about 1992 or 1993. It was an introduction class, but watching Susan move—and feeling the potency of meditation type movement—was captivating.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: After encountering Susan, I started attending Continuum workshops whenever possible. Don and I traveled to CA for retreats led by Emilie Conrad or Emilie and Susan. We also attended a class in Denver, CO, led by Gael Rosewood and Emilie. I have attended workshops led Susan in both Santa Barbara, CA, and Seattle, WA. Dates are hard to place; they spanned years from 1992 to 2014.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: I had a conversation with Emilie in August 2012 where I told her I wanted to become a teacher of Continuum—particularly because Don’s and my exploration together had enhanced our intimacy and has had a profound positive influence in our relationship—and I wanted to share that with others. I also shared with her how I felt Continuum is useful in working with people dealing with a traumatic history. She replied that she thought Don and I had a lot to offer together and that she would like me to teach. It was very sweet, respectful and somewhat lacking in ceremony. Don and I started teaching Continuum together in the fall of 2012—after we moved to Salt Lake City. There was no Continuum available here. We taught Continuum specific classes, but also taught it as part of larger workshops. Currently we teach a “Growing into Wholeness” workshop every six months in which Continuum is an important part. I have a small Continuum group that meets two to four times a month.

Discovered Continuum: In 1992 I met Robert Schleip, he introduced me to Continuum, and to Susan Harper, who came to Germany Munich and Hamburg in November 1992 for the first time.

First Continuum Teacher: Susan Harper became my first Continuum teacher in 1992.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Shortly after my initiation into Continuum by Susan Harper, I joined the first teachers training and studied with Emilie Conrad as well (1993). She was assisted by Donnalea Van Vleet Goelz, Robert Litman and others. Over the years I have also enjoyed close contact and exchange with Gael Rosewood, Linda Rabin and Catherine Kocher.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• I sponsored Susan and Emilie to come to Germany from 1993 on. Emilie for a set of 5 Courses and Retreats till the Swiss team took over. Susan from 1993 till the present, the next retreat with Susan in Germany will be in 2017.
• I have offered Continuum Workshops all over Germany, as well as in Switzerland, Austria, Brazil, New Zealand, and Australia.
• I have published articles in different magazines as well as two books referring to Continuum.
• I covered some of the movement material in a gym series that was broadcast in the German TV for years.
• Sharing the work and my love for it in many presentations and lectures, numberless classes and Bodybliss trainings. Although my movement concept has its own name ‘Bodybliss’, it still is rooted in the creative practical explorations and in the essence of Continuum values. Robert Litman and I name and refer this valuable source and encourage students to study with other Continuum teachers to deepen their experience.

Discovered Continuum: In 1976 I was living in Los Angeles and heard about Continuum from Brugh Joy; it piqued my interest, but seven years went by before I took my first workshop

First Continuum Teacher: I attended two Susan Harper workshops in San Francisco, 1983.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: I started studying with Emilie Conrad in 1983; then I saw her almost every year from 1996 until 2013. I took a weekend workshop from Gail Olgren in 2002 and one from Robert Litman in 2005.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• I wrote a chapter on Continuum in my book “Healing the Wounds of Childhood”.
• In the late 1990’s I introduced Continuum in my Hellerwork trainings.
• I have taught several Continuum workshops and classes.
• Emilie and I I co-taught 4 workshops together.

Discovered Continuum: In 1993 Judi Bachrach was the first person to tell me about Continuum.

First Continuum Teacher: I met my first Continuum teacher Judi Bachrach in Bearsville, NY, in 1993.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers:

• Emilie Conrad, from 1996.
• Susan Harper, from late 90’s.
• Kevin Smith, in the late 90’s.
• Judi Bachrach.
• Much peer interaction with other teachers over the years….all of whom have been teachers.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• For 20 years I have been teaching regularly in the Hudson Valley and I have been seeding Continuum in Italy for almost 10 years.
• From 2001 I have reviewed teaching tapes for Emilie.
• At Emilie’s request, I mentored a few people in their process of becoming teachers.
• I organized a number of teacher’s meetings – a few on the East Coast and one on the West coast.
• I created the council idea….which never really came into a fully lived existence.
• Since Emilie’s death I have served on the Advisory Council.
• I have served on the Teachers Review Board.
• I have taught module 2 of the Somatic Teacher training program and mentored students.
• I hold small teacher gatherings at my studio–once, or at times, twice a year.
• I created Continuum Movement Arts, which has become Watermark Arts.
• Various guest teachings, including keynote workshop for Ismeta and at BMC conference.

Discovered Continuum: In 1984 I read an advertisement for a 7 day class Emilie was teaching in Boulder, CO. I had never heard of Continuum or Emilie. I was very touched by the ad, and felt I needed to go to the class. In the class I was spell-bound and immediately fell in love with Emilie and her work.

First Continuum Teacher: Emilie Conrad, in Boulder, CO, 1984.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Susan Harper – I have done classes, retreats etc. with her since 1984.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• I’ve been teaching classes in Denver, CO and Mt Shasta, CA.
• I brought Emilie to Denver, CO for classes.
• I inspired others to go to Emilie’s classes in Santa Fe, NM
• I have taught my patients Continuum for their healing and well-being.

Discovered Continuum: I first heard about Continuum from a friend in Los Angeles in 1979, then again from Caren Borowsky in the late ’80’s.

First Continuum Teacher: I first met Emilie in Boston in June, 1994.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: I studied with: Mary Abrams – Philadelphia, April 1999, Melanie Noblit Gambino – Philadelphia, late ’90’s, Susan Harper – Philadelphia, July 1999, Sondra Howell & Mary – Philadelphia, July 2000, and Gael (Ohlgren) Rosewood with Emilie – Boulder, June 2004

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• I have held a steady, regular presence for students (both new & experienced), in the Philadelphia area.
• I was an integral part of a weekly practice group from 1996 to 1999.
• I taught 3 classes each week for 2 1/2 years from the fall of 1998 through the spring of 2000.
• I have been teaching one or two weekly classes since the fall of 2006 in Ardmore.
• I have been teaching an extended monthly class in the Lehigh Valley since 2007.
• I, along with others, brought Emilie to Philadelphia for a 3-day workshop in August ’98 and a 5-day workshop in June ’99.
• I am one of the 7 people in the Membrane that formed in January 2015 to support teachers in moving forward collectively in a positive way.
• I co-edited and co-wrote an article about Emilie and Continuum for the Contact Quarterly, January 2015 edition.
• I participated in the NYC Continuum Movements Arts Festival in October 2014 as a performer, art show co-curator and teacher.
• I will be participating similarly at the Omega Immersion in July 2016.

Discovered Continuum: I first heard about Continuum from a fellow Rolfer, Marissa Clickner. She moved to New Paltz, NY, to take over the practice from another woman who was leaving Rolfing in order to go full time into Continuum. This got me curious.

First Continuum Teacher: I had my first, really brief and incomplete, introduction to Continuum at a Rolfing movement training with Hubert Godard and Gael Rosewood in Munich Germany around 2003.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Susan Harper, in Livingston Manor NY, and Emilie Conrad.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: I advocate Continuum everywhere I go and introduce my clients to the work. I also offer workshops.

Discovered Continuum: I heard about Continuum in a 1987 yoga journal that i found in 1991 in NYC while picking up recycling as a NYC Sanitation worker. Later I was introduced to it in a Gyrotonic training in South Florida, a woman told me all about it while we were working together for the day. I don’t remember her name, but I met Emilie at the Omega Institute shortly after in 2001.

First Continuum Teacher: Emilie Conrad at the Omega Institute in NY, in 2001.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers:

• Susan Harper – 2004.
• Cass Phelps – Santa Monica, CA, 2004-2009.
• Kathy Benners – New York City, NY, 2002, 2011.
• Mary Abrams – New York City, NY, 2007-2012.
• Teri Carter – Santa Monica, CA, 2006-2012.
• Robert Litman – Santa Monica, CA.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: I have been working with Ray Castellino closely for the past 10 years combining Continuum with The Womb Surround Process Workshops he created. Using Continuum movement in embryonic stages and calling my work Womb Continuum.

Discovered Continuum: Some clients of mine in Berkeley in 1978 were the first ones to mention Continuum to me.

First Continuum Teacher: I first met Emilie Conrad and Susan Harper while they were co-teaching at Lone Mountain college in San Francisco.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers:

• Barbara Mindell in Boulder, CO, in 2001.
• Carole Burstein (with Emilie) at the Santa Monica studio, CA (a class on Alchemy).
• Robert Litman in Boulder, CO, in 2009.
• Amber Grey at the Santa Monica Studio, CA, in 2013 (a class on Trauma).

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• I introduced Continuum in Classes of Structural Integration.
• I spoke about the principles and values of this practice at a Rolfing conference.
• I also offered a presentation at a larger conference in Taos, NM, on “Our Body/Our Ecology”.
• I wrote an article called “The Tao of Exercise” for the Rolf Lines, a Rolf Institute publication.
  

Discovered Continuum: I first heard about Continuum from a close friend of mine who had been to Australia and taken a workshop with Robert Litman at the Body Mind Harmony conference.

First Continuum Teacher: Robert Litman was my first Continuum teacher, I met him in the UK in 1999. I went to every workshop that Robert Litman taught in the UK and after a few years began organizing events for him in London.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Robert recommended after a few years that I travel to the US and meet Emilie Conrad. I first met Emilie at a workshop she was teaching with Bonnie Ginntis in the Studio in Santa Monica around 2001. I also went up to Mount Madonna to take a summer retreat with Emilie and Susan Harper this same time. I continued to travel to the US about 5 times a year and take workshops, intensives and retreats with Emilie Conrad. I took the first Wellsprings training with Robert Litman and Emilie, and then went on to the advanced Wellsprings program. After I was authorized as a teacher, I continued to travel to the US annually or bi-annually to teachers meetings and workshops with Emilie. I have taken several workshops with Susan Harper and I have also attended a few classes with Mary Abrams in New York.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• I organized events for Robert Litman in the UK for several years.
• After taking some workshops with Emilie, Robert and she said I could facilitate a practice group in the UK with the participants who had attended Robert’s UK workshops.
• I became a teacher in 2007 and since then I have run Continuum movement workshops in the UK, at least once a month in London, to build the UK community.
• I have traveled throughout the UK and taught Continuum in Scotland, Wales, North of England and West of England.
• I offer individual sessions weekly in Continuum and Wellsprings.
• In 2013 at a teachers meeting I connected with other European teachers and we set up annual meetings in Europe.
• More recently I have co-taught with Gael Rosewood in the UK and I continue to organize or co-teach with other Continuum teachers.

Continuum has become a part of me and is the ground of which I base my life practice and way of moving in the world. Even when I am teaching other Somatic Movement practices, it is clear that the foundations of my work is in Continuum.

Discovered Continuum: I first heard about Continuum from Rosalyn Bruyere. Rosalyn worked with Emilie and Valerie Hunt on a study about human energy field. I was studying with Rosalyn and she kept mentioning Emilie and Continuum. One morning in 1994 I woke up and my body was undulating, that’s when I knew I needed to go and study with Emilie.

First Continuum Teacher: Emilie Conrad – Omega – 1994.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Emilie – began in 1994 + 2000+
At Omega Institute, NY, in Boston, MA, Santa Monica, CA, and Seattle, WA.

Susan – began in the mid 90’s + 2000+
at Holy Spirit Retreat Center, CA and in Santa Monica, CA, and Seattle, WA.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• I feel that from the moment I came into the field my knowledge of energy began to contribute to the field of Continuum. When I took my first “Hu Breath” with Rosalyn Brueye, I felt my connection with Continuum. In my hunger for the work wouldn’t be satisfied and as I digested each piece of the work I felt like I wanted more as I reclaimed more and more of myself.
• I went with Emilie to Las Vegas for the Fitness Expo and was a model for the “Strong Suit” in one of Emilie’s “Future of Fitness” brochures.
• I taught weekend or week long workshops in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, Seattle and Japan.
• I collaborated with Pati Stillwater in Northhampton.
• For 2 years I co-taught with Gael Rosewood in Japan.
• I see private clients using Hands-on-Healing work as well as Continuum, often blending them into my work with clients.

I have taught:

• Ohio: Akron, Ashtabula, Brecksville, Cincinnati, Chesterland, Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, Columbus, Orange Village, Pepper Pike, Rocky River, Shaker Heights.
• The Cleveland Clinic Foundation: presented as part of the 4th Annual Dance Medicine and Somatics Conference (Cleveland, OH 1997)
• Meridia Medical Center – Sponsored by Association for Holistic Health (Brecksville, OH 1997)
• Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, OH 1999) Taught for the Department of Occupational and Physical Therapy and The Department of Child Life.
• Illinois: Chicago, Evanston
• Massachusetts: Boston, Northampton, Watertown
• Washington: Bainbridge Island, Redmond, Seattle, Tukwilla.
• Evergreen Hospital – Mind, Body & Spirit Symposium (Redmond, WA 2000)
• WOVA – Women of Vision and Action (Tukwila, WA)
• Canada – Toronto
• Japan – 1998 & 1999 Co-taught with Gael Rosewood.

Discovered Continuum: I first heard about Continuum from the Rolf Institute.

First Continuum Teacher: I participated in a Rolfing conference where there was a course with Susan Harper.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: After the first course (that I found to be deeply strange), my body and psyche felt SO good that I just had to explore more of it. I took another course with Susan Harper in Germany. Kim Brodey taught in Norway, so I took some courses with her. I was very afraid of the long courses in the US so I had to prepare myself before going to the US to meet Emilie Conrad. It was scary and loving at the same time, but I was on! For years afterwards I traveled to the United States to study with Emilie.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• At the time when I met Continuum, no one in Denmark had heard about it. First I did a week training, with a theme, and was lucky to have a magazine write about it. The field built up quietly.
• I have also invited colleagues; Robert Litman, Linda Rabin, Amber Gray, Anne Sophie Anciaux and Etienne, to come to Denmark. This helped enhance the field here.
• I’ve developed something I call Fascial Flow, it generates more people encountering Continuum.

Additional Comments: Meeting Continuum movement has been the best in my life; it lives in me and will always be there, it is my beloved..

Discovered Continuum: In August of 1996 a friend asked me to go to a weekend workshop with her – and that workshop changed my life because it was with Emilie and Continuum! I was immediately hooked and began studying with Emilie and Susan.

First Continuum Teacher: My first teacher was Emilie from when I met her in Seattle in August 1996.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: I have attended multiple classes with both Susan Harper and Robert Litman.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: As soon as I took my first class with Emilie I began using Continuum in my physical therapy practice. For the last 20 years I have honed the art of bringing Continuum movement, breath, and ideas into the lives of my clients. I also teach various somatic classes which incorporate Continuum.

Discovered Continuum: In 1992 I was in Albuquerque and literally walked into a dance studio that was hosting Continuum. I had no idea what it was, but I just knew it was for me. Luckily, I got in.

First Continuum Teacher: Emilie Conrad in Albuquerque, NM, in 1992.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Emilie and Susan were the main two I studied Continuum with.
I have shared teaching with Robert Litman.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: 

• I worked in the Continuum office.
• I built a community in Alaska.
• I contributed to the Japan group through both Continuum and Jungle Gym.
• I also taught Jungle Gym in the Santa Monica studio.
• I have taught both Continuum and Jungle Gym (when they were considered separate entities) in both Marin county and other places around the country.

Discovered Continuum: I was invited to my first Continuum workshop in 1991 by Linda Zarytski. She had brought Judy Bachrach to Toronto from Woodstock, NY, to teach a weekend Continuum workshop.

First Continuum Teacher: In 1991 Judy Bachrach came to Toronto to teach a weekend workshop. That was my first experience of recognizing myself as part of a much larger body. I decided to pursue this work; beginning by practicing everyday the breath and sounds I had learned in the workshop.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: In the summer of 1992 I went to Omega to study with Emilie Conrad. January of 1993 I went to the Mystery school at Holy Spirit and had my first experience with Susan Harper. I experienced Barbara Mindell as a teacher when I brought her to Toronto, twice, to teach her Continuum and Art workshop.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• Continuum has been ongoing in Toronto since 1992.
• In 1995 I began teaching in Oslo Norway, 1 to 2 times a year — then extending up into Bergen, Lillehammer and Lofoten over a 17 year period.
• I mentored Tone Gilje—who became a teacher in 2005.
• I helped establish Continuum in NC teaching over 20 workshops between 2003 and 2007, and I mentored Rebecca Lawson—who became a teacher in 2005.
• I invited these teachers to Toronto:
• Robert Litman, to co-teach with me and to lead a Continuum workshop for men.
• Emilie Conrad
• Susan Harper
• Barbara Mindell
• Rebecca Lawson, to co-teach with me.
• I have written a paper on Continuum in childbirth.
• Emilie presented a case study I wrote on Continuum and spinal cord injury, at a Somatics conference in CA.
• I worked with several Doula’s in Toronto bringing Continuum to childbirth.
• These days I midwife psychotherapists and somatic practitioners (who experienced early trauma), back into their body’s and mentor them around growing their somatic tool bags for their own practices.
• In the earlier years I was taken under the wing by Emilie to work with spinal cord injury, which I did for several years, adding to that research.

Additional Comments: Both, Susan Harper and Emilie Conrad inspired Continuum in me equally. Much of the tool bag I offer to the psychotherapists and practitioners I midwife and mentor comes from Susan’s mentoring and modeling of all the ways we are relational beings. I believe Emilie learned as much from Susan about what it means to be in relationship and love someone as Susan learned from Emilie about what it means to enter the Mystery. Together they brought something very special to the world and I am eternally grateful to have had them both as mentors, teachers and friends.

Discovered Continuum: I first heard of Continuum from a friend of mine who was participating in classes at the studio in Santa Monica, CA in the mid-1970s.

First Continuum Teacher: My first Continuum teacher was Emilie Conrad. I was a student in the weekly classes at the Santa Monica Studio starting in 1995.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Susan Harper, Mary Abrams, Sharon Weil Aaron, Barbara Mindell, Deborah Raoult, Cass Phelps and Malcolm Groome.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

I started to help running Emilie’s and Susan’s office in September 1997. My tasks included booking workshops, advertising, connecting with students, handling fees, overseeing attendance, teaching in the studio along with doing other errands, showing up for demos of Continuum at events at the Santa Monica Pier and LA Convention Center Wellness Convention, and the studio.

I also handled details for the set up in depths retreats at Holy Spirit and being “in the field” since 1995 until 2000.

When Emilie and Susan split the business in 2000, I began working for Susan Harper’s Continuum Montage business handling the office and workshops. I was still teaching my own Jungle Gym classes in the studio in my spare time.

I continued to attend classes and workshops until around 2011.

I still work with the work I learned from being around Continuum, Emilie and the groups of participants for my own personal exploration and some in my body work practice, my art and life.

Sometimes I have a client that I would like to offer some specific breath-work and tracking movement with and occasionally I use the work I learned in Continuum and Continuum Montage.

Discovered Continuum: I first heard about Continuum in 2000-2001 from people in 5-rhytms dance. My decision to check it out came after reading Bellruth Naparstek’s book “The 6th Sense” where she includes Emilie as one of the psychics interviewed.

First Continuum Teacher: My very first teacher was Barbara Mindell.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Besides Emilie Conrad and Barbara Mindell, I wanted to experience as many teachers’ own teachings as possible. I attended Sharon Weil and Cass Phelps‘s classes. In the Continuum studio I have attended many workshops with Susan Harper (with great appreciation!), Bonnie Gintis, Robert Litman and Carol Burstein. Later I have enjoyed learning from my peers when ever possible; Jane Okondo, Amber Gray, Don St.John, Marcella Bottero and Debra Franco pop into my mind first. This year, I whole-heartedly greeted Emma Destraubé‘s classes in studio.

It is my experience that each teacher brings with them their own unique experience and being into the work. Some might be a better fit for me personally than others, yet I do appreciate everybody’s work (that I have experienced so far).

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: After being an authorized teacher for few years, it dawned to me that I need to “live” Continuum instead of “doing” or “teaching” Continuum. I am always carrying Continuum with me, both in my personal and professional practice. When I am with my patients I try to look at them through a “Continuum lense” – seeing their bodies and breath and wondering how their psychological/relational patterns might be connected to that. I also teach Continuum on a small scale in Estonia – this seems to move in waves: some years there is a demand for Continuum and other years I have held classes for only a few close friends.

Discovered Continuum: In 2000 both my Mom I were being rolfed by my friend Monica Caspari. I was in a life changing process. Monica, separately, told us there would be a workshop we should attend. When I asked her what it was about, she just replied “Go”. When my Mom told me she had also been told about the workshop, we decided to attend it together.

First Continuum Teacher: Divo Müller, was my first Continuum Teacher, we met in São Paulo, Brazil, in June 2000. I had no idea whatsoever what Continuum was, but as Divo started to move to demonstrate the first dive, my life changed.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers:

Gael Ohlgren – in Ilhabela, Brazil, 2001.
Susan Harper – Depth Retreat, in Gut Sedlbrun, Germany, 2002.
Emilie Conrad & Robert Litman – Waves & Wonders, in Santa Monica, US, 2003.
Robert Litman – in Henley, UK, 2003.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

As I live in Brazil, far from any other Continuum teacher, I asked Emilie for permission to teach. She told me in 2003 that I couldn’t call myself a Continuum teacher yet, but could say I taught Continuum-based classes. In 2006 I became an Authorized Continuum Movement Teacher.

• I am teaching workshops and one-on-one students.
• Participating on the Membrane and the Website Pod.
• Since 2012 I have been teaching Continuum at the Integrative Care course in the Neurology Dept at Escola Paulista de Medicina.
• In 2014 I wrote my final paper, “Continuum Movement: an exploration within the body” (poor translation:) for the “Theories and Techniques for Integrative Care Course”, Neurology Dept. at Escola Paulista de Medicina, UNIFESP (still to be translated).

Discovered Continuum: Jeanne Jensen told me about Continuum in 2006.

First Continuum Teacher: Shortly after Emilie Conrad visited Denmark in 2006, Jeanne Jensen became my first Continuum teacher – I was in 😉

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: 

Susan Harper, Esalen, 2011
Linda Rabin, Copenhagen.
Emilie Conrad, 2008 – 2014 – everywhere she went.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: 

I haven’t offered public classes in Continuum for 2 years, but it’s integrated in the way I teach other movement classes—and it’s ingrained in how I work with people and in management.

Discovered Continuum: I heard about Continuum in the early 1990’s. I don’t recall hearing about it from anyone in particular, there was a buzz in the spiritual circles I traveled in that Continuum and Emily Conrad were offering something very special and unique.

First Continuum Teacher: If my memory serves me correctly my first encounter with Continuum was a workshop with Emily in Florida in the late 1990’s.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: 

Susan Harper- California (In-depth retreats with Emily late 19990’s-200?)
Don Van Vleet- Florida (early 2000’s)
Cory Blake- VA (2000’s-Big Sky Mind, Big Ocean Body)

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: 

Hmmm… I have not been what you might call an active Continuum teacher.

Primarily I have folded the consciousness of Continuum into my classes on transformation and healing. I have included Continuum Dives into my teaching. To me, Continuum is not separate from the active living practice of being human and opening to our infinite potential. Continuum is a beautiful door into this experiencing and knowing. I suppose my greatest contribution to building the field of Continuum is by personally embodying and transmitting the core principles, consciousness and vibration of the work.

Discovered Continuum: In 1978, my friend Joan Ward told me about Continuum.

First Continuum Teacher: My first teachings were from Susan Harper and Emilie Conrad during a 6 day intensive in San Francisco in 1979.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Susan and Emilie from 1979 on.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• I taught Continuum inspired classes in the 1980s and 90s and became an authorized teacher in 2000.
• I co-led Dance the River trips with Susan Harper in the 1980s.
• I led two Continuum inspired treks in India and Nepal in the 1980s.
• I wrote a Continuum inspired article, “Birth”, for the book “Being Bodies”, 1995.
• I teach mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area and now also in western Austria.
• I continue to evolve “Words and Waves” with Rebecca Mark, since 2014.
• I also work individually with people. I am especially inspired by Continuum in my work with trauma survivors.
• Along with Giorgia Milne, I teach “Stillness and Waves”, a workshop arising from the union of Continuum and Biodynamic Touch.
• I am not bound by any “form” of Continuum. I regularly teach Continuum inspired vignettes in other workshops, such as “Trauma, Inquiry, and Essence” and “DARe” attachment workshops.
• I also teach Continuum based movement as part of “Planting Resiliency” workshops for homeless people and aid workers in San Francisco.

Discovered Continuum: Suzanne Scurlock Durana told me about Continuum in 2001.

First Continuum Teacher: Emilie Conrad was my first Continuum teacher starting in 2002. After that I saw her in Santa Monica, CA; Reston, VA; Israel; at Holy Spirit and in London.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Ellen Cohen at a New Years Eve dive in PA.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: I  carry the work in my field.

Discovered Continuum: I first heard about continuum from my Body-Mind Centering teachers and colleagues during my BMC practitioner training program, between 1995 and 1998

First Continuum Teacher: I met Emilie Conrad for the first time in Toronto in June 1998.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Starting in 1999 I studied with Susan Harper in a variety of places. I also took single workshops with the following people who co-taught with Emilie Conrad; Robert Litman, Bonnie Gintis, Rich Goldstein, Don van Vleet.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• I brought Emilie Conrad to Montreal in 2007 and 2008.
• In 2001 I became an authorized teacher of Continuum.
• I have contributed by teaching consistently in Montreal through weekly and monthly classes, annual intensives, additional sporadic intensives.
• I have introduced Continuum to new communities: I have taught in Canada, including Quebec City, Regina Saskatchewan, occasionally in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Vancouver, B.C.
• I brought Continuum to many Canadian dance companies, professional training programs, university dance departments and to individual creative and performing artists in Quebec.
• I had an article on Continuum printed in a Canadian dance magazine.
• I also introduced Continuum in several cities and countries in Europe; especially France and Vienna; occasionally in Israel; and to dance communities in Poland, Japan and Korea.
• I am a behind-the-scenes support cum consultant for various events, projects and planning led by other members of our community.
• I am “sous-chefing” a potential Anthology of articles written by Continuum teachers about Continuum.

I care about strengthening our immediate field by attending teacher gatherings organized on the east coast or west coast; by having regular and irregular communication by phone or skype with individual teachers, sharing experiences, reflections, questions about the practice and teaching of Continuum. For example, Elaine Colandrea and I support each other constantly with conversations about the above. I have been/am a member of “the membrane” that facilitated skype communication between members of the teaching community after Emilie’s passing.

Discovered Continuum: In 1987, Leslie Gray, a psychotherapist using shamanic techniques in San Francisco, had been on a panel with Emilie Conrad, and she thought that given my background as a professional modern dancer I might be interested in Continuum.

First Continuum Teacher: Bob Grant, in San Francisco, was my preliminary teacher before I attended a retreat with Emilie Conrad at Esalen in 1988.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: My first introduction to Emilie Conrad was in 1988 at an Esalen retreat. From 1988 until I moved to Los Angeles in 1994 either Emilie or Susan Harper was in San Francisco teaching every few weeks. During this period I also attended many Continuum retreats held in various locations from Mount Madonna above Santa Cruz and Holy Spirit in LA to several of Susan’s Sacred Journeys including Bali, Sea of Cortez, Green River, etc.
Upon moving to Los Angeles, CA, I participated in the weekly classes taught by Emilie or her substitutes; Camille Maurine and then Sharon Weil. Susan also taught on occasion at the Continuum Studio.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: I was one of those in the gray area where we were sent off to teach “Continuum inspired” movement without calling it Continuum. I taught Continuum for ten years in Los Angeles and various retreat centers and universities around the country.

• My major contributions to Continuum would be the extended outreach I have done through media and the various populations and venues where I have led Continuum movement.
• The instructional video, BEING ON THE BALL which features Continuum Movement adapted for the inflatable exercise ball was very well received and at some point I hope to re-issue the material online.
• Emilie’s quote for BEING ON THE BALL; “Lynette brings a clarity and meticulous fine tuning to her teaching allowing for a total body involvement.”
• I have led Continuum Movement to a wide array of people of all ages including university students, environmental activists, incarcerated youth, professional performers, etc., at various venues such as the Deepak Chopra Center, Institute for Deep Ecology, Bioneers Conference, University of California Irvine, University of Michigan, San Francisco State University and thousands of public workshops and classes.

Discovered Continuum: Whilst studying in my third year of the four year training at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing Sciences (BBSH), I was introduced to Continuum by Donnalea Van Vleet Goelz (who was then the dean of the third year). This was in 2003. It was love at first sight, I felt this was what my heart had longed for in a long time; to feel the fluidity of life in my body and I knew that through Continuum that I had found it.

First Continuum Teacher: My first Continuum teacher was Emilie Conrad, in the year 2003, in Jacksonville, FL.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: I’ve studied with Susan Harper and Robert Litman, in Jacksonville, Santa Monica, New York. At retreats that were organized in California, from 2003 until 2013.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: I taught Continuum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, ever since I got authorized. In 2015 I moved to California and am still settling down, I have not gotten into teaching it here—yet.

Discovered Continuum: I heard about Continuum when I joined Camille Maurine’s Moving Theater in 2000. Camille and nearly everyone else in the company had done Continuum, and it was incorporated into their movement and improvisational work. We rehearsed and performed in the Mothership; the Continuum Studio in Santa Monica.

First Continuum Teacher: One day in rehearsal, Outi Harma mentioned that she had had a deep experience in Cass Phelps’s class at the Continuum Studio. I started studying with him there in 2003.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: In 2004, I began studying with Emilie Conrad and studied closely with her until her passing in 2014. Over the years, I have taken classes or workshops with Susan Harper (starting with a Depths retreat she co-taught with Emilie), Teri Carter, and Marcella Bottero. Beyond those five, I have also taken classes or workshops with T’mimah Ickovits, Caryn Heilman, Satya Kirsch, Debra Franco, Daphne Georghiou, Gabriel Orshan, and Emma Destrubé.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: I studied and dove in the Field of the Mothership starting in 2000 in Camille Maurine’s Moving Theater, and then in classes with Cass and Emilie. In 2006 Emilie allowed me to start sharing Continuum work when I taught a shamanic workshop in Berlin, Germany. She authorized me as a teacher in 2008. I taught throughout Germany from 2006 to 2010, and sent many of my students to other Continuum teachers there. I also taught in the main Continuum Studio from 2008 to 2015, and in Topanga, California in 2014 and 2015. My participation in numerous teachers’ gatherings over the years also was part of my contribution to the Field of Continuum. Every time I move or meditate, I experience and interact with the larger web of the Field.

Discovered Continuum: I met Emilie Conrad at Esalen in 1994 when I took a week-long Continuum retreat with her.

First Continuum Teacher: Emilie in 1994 at Esalen.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Emilie since 1994, then Susan Harper shortly after that. I also took some classes with Linda Chrisman at that time.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• I have taught Continuum classes (with Beth and Lucia as cohorts in the beginning). Also taught Continuum Classes in San Francisco for years.
• I brought Continuum into Hakomi trainings in San Francico, Australia, Germany, China, New Zealand and other countries.
• I have developed a trauma therapy work that brings Continuum movement into it as a core teaching.
• I teach Continuum retreats to Psychotherapists in Germany.
• My work has been to bring Continuum into Psychotherapy, and Trauma Therapy.
• I have also recently brought Continuum into Dharma teachings at Meditation retreats in Australia and Colorado.

Discovered Continuum:
I first heard about Continuum around 2005 when I came to take a “posas” workshop with Liz Koch. She was teaching with Cass Phelps… When I saw him move that was the end and the beginning of it.

First Continuum Teacher: My first Continuum experience was with Satya Deborah Kirsch in around 2005. Nobody was teaching at the Studio and Emilie was not taking new students, so Satya introduced me to the fundamentals. I also had some privates with Cass Phelps. When I had enough experience I met Emilie.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: 

• Cass Phelps – Santa Monica
• Satya Deborah Kirsch – Santa Monica
• Emilie Conrad- Santa Monica and beyond
• Teri Carter – Santa Monica
• Susan Harper – in the context of spiritual retreats with Lama Drimed

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• Dedicating myself to make the work not just part of what I do but who I am!
• Assisting Emilie and traveling with her on the west coast in the last few years of her life.
• Having been part of Emilie’s support team during her transition.
• Having been part of the Ensemble and working directly with Emilie in her creative process and performances.
• Being in the council and the teacher’s board after her transition
• Staying in relationship with the whole in the midst of the separation the community is experiencing.
• Continuing to hold classes and workshop supporting students in LA especially after Emilie’s transition.

Discovered Continuum: I was working with Ellen Miller (Perceptual Integration) and I started moving to the meditations that I was doing. When I explained to Ellen the experiences I was having she said that it sounded like Continuum. She knew about it through Lucia Miracchi. It was clear to me that if someone was teaching and encouraging what I was experiencing I needed to go there..

First Continuum Teacher: I contacted Susan Harper in 1992; she was going to be teaching a three day workshop in San Francisco. My first actual Continuum oriented sessions were a series of four 3 hour evenings with Ann McGinnis in San Francisco. I then took the workshop with Susan and traveled to Bali and Borneo with her. The rest is a wonderful history of mystery.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: 

• Emilie Conrad – initially at Esalen, Encino, Berkeley, Santa Monica, etc., from 1993 continuously until 2014.
• Beth Pettengil Riley – in Marin and Santa Cruz
• Robert Litman – Berkeley and Santa Monica studio
• Gael Rosewood – Berkeley
• Bonnie Gintis – Santa Monica etc.

I am aware, as I write the names of some of the teachers that I have studied with, that all of my fellow teachers have influenced me and indeed have been my teachers. I am grateful for the deep presence that is held in the field and the transmissions that continue to be part of the unfolding of my own life, that of all of us as a community and holders of a field for all beings.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• I presented Continuum to some degree in Kathmandu,
• As an authorized teacher in San Francisco.
• Within my own practice.

Additional Comment: Continuum has been the matrix for the field I held and hold in the bodywork and Somatic work that I do. It has grounded and deepened my practice.

Discovered Continuum: My dear friend, Margarita Loinaz introduced me to Continuum in 2008 when we both lay down on her living room floor in Mill Valley and dived in together. Yes – an immediate yes – this was a modality I wanted to learn and I signed up for Emilie’s Berkeley retreat later that year.

First Continuum Teacher: Emilie became my first Continuum teacher when I met her I Berkeley in 2008. I was fortunate enough to spend a lot of time with her over the last years of her life, including having her mentorship as a Wellsprings practitioner.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers:

• I was able to be with Emilie Conrad in many places including Berkeley, Texas, Santa Monica, Arcata, Encino, Esalen
• I found Susan Harper’s workshops a wonderful support with Emilie’s work and she helped learn how to stay in my body and track sensations. I have attended many of her workshops and retreats between 2011 and 2016 in the Bay Area, at Chagdud Gonpa, in Encino, at Esalen and at Lama Drimed’s retreats.
• Robert Litman – Berkeley 4 times, Reno and Santa Monica – he was co-teaching with Emilie, except for the Reno workshop
• Beth Pettengill Riley – Mount Madonna 2016.
• Marcella Bottero has been a wonderful Continuum mentor as well as becoming a dear friend. She has come to workshops that I organize in Arcata, and I attended her Continuum teachings at Chagdud Gonpa and at Esalen.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: I have a devoted group of Continuum Movement students in the Humboldt area; I offer four hour workshops every 4 to 6 weeks. I have been inspired to invite other Continuum teachers to this area, including Emilie Conrad, Susan Harper, Marcella Bottero, Frank Carbone (a Continuum Womb Surround) and Beth Pettengill Riley.

Discovered Continuum: I first heard about Continuum in the 1980’s from Joan MacIntosh. We were exploring alternative ways of approaching the body and psyche—and the ways they interact. I was both a Jungian Psychoanalyst and a Teacher in the Society of Souls; a mystery school in the tradition of the Kabbalah.
I have always been interested in the connection of psyche, body and spirit or soul, as well as the reconciliation of science and metaphysics. Continuum was a perfect approach to the union of these seemingly opposites.

First Continuum Teacher: My first Continuum teacher was Emilie Conrad. I first met her in the middle 1980’s in a huge ball room of the Doral Hotel in New York City. From the first moment of the first class I was hooked on Continuum in large part because of the fluidity and inclusiveness of Emilie’s teaching and attitude.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: All my initial classes were with Emilie until I went to my first retreat in California taught by Emilie and Susan. Then Continuum got even more interesting for me and, if possible, I became even more devoted. My focus was more on the combining of classic Continuum in conjunction with an exploration of psyche simultaneously. I have also always been interested in Psychology and Science.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: I brought the exploration of psyche together with the experience of the spiritual and somatic aspect of Continuum. I always believed that Emilie’s work was aimed at the experience of Oneness.

Discovered Continuum: Ron Stephens was the first person to tell me about Continuum, I believe it was in 1974.

First Continuum Teacher: Emilie at the studio in Santa Monica in the 198.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Susan Harper, Michael Stearns, Kevin Smith, Vicki Esken and George Landry.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: I think literally through the field. All of us in our practice group have worked with Emilie and Susan (also some of us have learned from Hubert Godard and Pilar Martin as well). We take notes at workshops and keep it pretty close to what we have learned.

I personally have not felt the need to change much of what I have learned, however I use what I have learned in many different contexts; dance, meditation, prayer and therapy. Actually the applications of what I know are pretty endless, but I have not expanded the body of work directly.

I have created (I think) ways to talk about Continuum and point people in the right direction. But I don’t really know how to describe this. I am not presently teaching movement—I have my own practice these days.

Additional Comments: After so many years of sitting in the field, I have a hunch that doing almost anything that that slows one down, and takes many hours, will allow for healing. I think that Continuum is a brilliant way into slowing down, at least for me it has been a perfect fit.

However, there are many ways in. In the end I think that a safe, nonjudgmental, supportive, silent, slowing space that people come to (for long periods of time), will allow the innate desire of each of our psyches to be whole, to win out. At least I believe this is true as long as the personal damage is not too great. In which case I think a one-on-one therapeutic relationship is essential before a group field can work it’s magic.

Discovered Continuum: I first heard about Continuum in 1992-1993 from Cynthia Babat.

First Continuum Teacher: I first met Emilie Conrad Da’oud in New York City, 1994

Subsequent Continuum Teachers:

• Susan Harper
• Robert Litman
• Gary David

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• In 1966 I started a practice group in NYC and also began teaching my first class and seeing clients that year.
• I sponsored Emilie, Susan, Gary, Robert, Barbara Mindell, and Kevin Smith to teach workshops in NYC from 2000-2015.
• I have taught weekly classes, private sessions, and workshops in NYC and other parts of the country for 20 years. My teachings has spread to TX, VT, PA, upstate NY, IL, IA, Berlin, Germany, and northern England.
• Since 1999 I have run Moving Body Resources, which has held a space for Continuum and Continuum-inspired classes/workshops in New York City.
• In 2014 I sponsored the one and only Continuum Festival NYC in which 8 Continuum teachers taught.
• Continuum Movement Arts offered events.
• I have written several articles describing Continuum and my MA thesis includes Continuum as an example of Somatic Movement practice in the question of consciousness.
• I have published an article on Continuum & Affect theory in the US Body Psychotherapy Association journal.

Discovered Continuum: I first heard about Continuum in the mid-1990s through the dance and bodywork community. I was a dance major in college and already in practice as a body therapist. I was strongly urged by other people at least 3 times over the next 15 years to study with Emilie.

First Continuum Teacher: Cherionna Menzam-Sills gave me my first taste of Continuum in 2007.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Emilie Conrad in Omega, FL, Santa Monica and Israel, 2008-2014.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: I have contributed through my integrity and clarity of my desire to be a part of a teaching community that truly embodies and models the values of its practice. It was clear to me when I came into Continuum that there was a need for healing to come from within to establish a healthy ecosystem within the community. Immediately, I did not see the level of lateral support between teachers I expected based on my knowledge of Continuum. I wanted to be a part of a community that grew its interconnections rather than a reliance on one leader at the center of the web. When Emilie became more fatigued and sick, it was clearly time to move towards a teacher’s organization that could nurture and meet the needs for support that all teachers had, and especially the new teachers coming in who were not going to have the time with Emilie the earlier generations had. I stepped in as a part of the original Teachers’ Body Membrane in 2015 and have been active in midwifing the Teachers’ Body Association since then. I share my on-going discoveries (of living in a human body and within the human experience) through my interdisciplinary work as a Certified Somatic Therapist, educator, performance artist, activist, and mother.

Discovered Continuum: I first heard about Emilie Conrad from Rosalyn Bruyere in 1986. Rosalyn incorporated Continuum concepts, breaths, sounds and movement work in her workshops quite a bit when I first started studying Energy Healing with her (through the Healing Light Center Church).

Rosalyn was one of three powerful, visionary and pioneering women that I refer to as the Divine Trinity. Rosalyn served as Energy Healer, Medical Intuit and Aura Reader on the Movement and Energy Field Research Project at UCLA in the seventies with visionary pioneers Emilie Conrad and Dr. Valerie Hunt. Together these 3 women worked for many years studying the scientific implications of how energy and the physical body are affected by various movements, breaths, sound vibrations and awareness practices.

First Continuum Teacher: I consider Emilie Conrad to be my first Continuum Teacher. I started studying with her in NYC in 1988, on Rosalyn’s recommendation. Rosalyn always gave Emilie credit, she held her with such high regard, and would always honor Emilie’s work and contributions in her classes and workshops. In turn Emilie would often mention to me that any time Rosalyn was in her class, Emilie would always have a break through with the work.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Through Emilie I was introduced to her assistant teachers Beth Pettengill Riley and Kathleen Hill in NYC. I met and began studying with Susan Harper as she co-lead the depth retreats and mystery school intensives. I also took several of Susan’s Continuum Montage workshops, which have deepened my understanding and experience of Continuum and of myself.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: 

• Being authorized a Continuum Movement Teacher by Emilie, I have contributed to the field of Continuum in a variety of ways, but mostly through my own personal study and practice which enables me to deepen, refine, carry and transmit the work through the field while teaching, performing and introducing Continuum to others in a wide range of diverse contexts.
• Currently, and for the past 13 years, I have been the full time Director of Dance and Somatic Movement Meditation and Health and Wellness Educator and Resident Choreographer at The Harvey School. For the last 5 years I have been the Continuum Movement Teacher on Faculty at SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance. In these venues I introduce and cultivate the field by offering Continuum to our future generations in a variety of contexts. I am a member of TCFC Interfaith Ministerial Team. Once a month I offer healing practices, interfaith spiritual teachings and Continuum Movement.
• Member: Omega 7 July 2016, ISMETA for over 20 yrs. & CMArts, co-teacher of Module 4 2016 CMI.

In August of 2014, after Emilie’s passing, I initiated, organized and hosted a virtual teacher collaborative teleconference. This 2 year virtual was designed to assist the teachers to continue to gather and build a field of support that we could all tap into and contribute to simultaneously as we were grieving, healing and beginning to somatically process this experience, while trying to navigate ways of moving forward. This virtual was based on some of Emilie’s last Teachings/Dives that she offered in the August 2013 Teacher Meeting. At first we started this virtual intensive with the teachers who had been present at that particular meeting; with each new round we layered in more Authorized Teachers into the exploration in order to build the field using a spiral motif. This spiral was offered to strengthen and broaden the teacher field starting at the source of this particular material. Emilie offered us some of her most comprehensive & transformative work as a resource for Continuum’s Future.

Additional Comments: I offer Continuum as the underpinning overarching through line of my life and my work. The Philosophy of Continuum is how I live my life and how I approach my work in all of the above fields. To me all of the categories combined (where Continuum expresses itself) create a very coherent and integrative field. Each category is a branch of my work and they often blend, merge and emerge as a holistic approach to life as an art form and a practice. Other’s include Nature and Environmental Awareness, Self-Care and Health Ed.

Discovered Continuum: Nancy Wozny was the first person to tell me about Continuum, in 1999. Soon after that, Helen Terry sponsored Gleah Powers to teach in Houston for 3 weekend workshops, and I got hooked. One of the weekends happened very soon after 9/11 – and the way that we all used Continuum to move through the fear and uncertainty of that time was so very powerful.

First Continuum Teacher: Gleah Powers – Houston TX, 1999.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: 

• Deborah Raoult – San Antonio & Houston TX, starting in 2001
• Susan Harper – Boulder, CO, in 2005 (+ at Depths Retreats)
• Emilie Conrad – Lots of places, from 2003 to 2014
• Kathy Jennings – Houston, TX, in 2008
• Gael Rosewood – Boulder, CO, Austin, TX – many times
• Robert Litman – San Antonio and Austin, TX, Santa Monica, CA

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• I use sound (especially the Theta and Lunar Breaths) with my body work clients and have taught them to use it.
• I studied Lymph therapy as a direct inquiry into that aspect of the Fluid Intelligence and have brought that into my classes and one to one sessions.
• I helped to establish and support a thriving Continuum community in Missouri.
• I continue to grow our community in Houston and other areas of Texas as well as Missouri.

Discovered Continuum: Lizanne Fisher in BC shared a flyer of a workshop with the title Waves and Whispers by Susan Harper, 21 years ago (which would make it October of 1995).

First Continuum Teacher: Susan Harper, Vancouver, California, many times since 1995.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers:

• Emilie Conrad – California and Seattle, between 1997 (I believe) and her passing.
• Bonnie Gintis – Brought her to Vancouver in early 2000.
• Doris Maranda – Vancouver, BC – on and off over the years.
• Robert Litman – Brought him to Vancouver in early 2000.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

I have contributed to building the field of Continuum by sponsoring Susan Harper, Bonnie Gintis and Robert Litman in Vancouver.

I have also contributed by facilitating classes and sharing Continuum inspired movement offerings in many of my workshops with teens, young women and adults for the past 20 years.

Additional Comments: I share Continuum inspired movement, breath and sound explorations in both spontaneous and planned moments. Continuum is definitely part of the backing i feel in offering inquiry-based offerings of all kinds through psycho-mythology to movement to private work, to everyday moments with folks of all kinds! It is a part of my daily devotional dive 🙂

Approx. 6 years ago I suspended my authorized Continuum Teachers status, notifying Emilie in writing. Since that time I attended several workshops in Seattle where she inquired as to when i would return.

At a conference on “War and its Social impact on the Body” we re-connected and shared personal and professional time at the conference and in the evenings.

Again, Emilie asked why i didn’t return to the “family.” I replied I was listening into this and couldn’t commit at the present time due to issues i had about her neglecting to include Susan in the history of Continuum both through her recent video and her book. We talked at length in the back of a black limousine driving through the streets of New York City. At some point she said; “Okay Penny, what is Continuum to you?” I spontaneously held up the palm of my hand, pointed to the middle of my palm and said; “When you say Continuum is this and close your fist, what squeezes out and meanders through your fingers is what I feel is Continuum”. She smiled.

Discovered Continuum: Deborah Raoult introduced me to Continuum in NY, approximately in 1998 or 1999.

First Continuum Teacher: Deborah Raoult in Rochester, late 1990’s until 2003 (when she moved to the West Coast).

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: 

• Kevin Smith – in Rochester several times, starting in late 1990’s
• Emilie Conrad – first at Omega in 2002
• Susan Harper – in Rochester, later in New Hampshire, Seven Oaks in VA & at Holy Spirit, starting in early 2000’s
• Gael Ohlgren – in Colorado in 2003 or 2004
• Bonnie Gintis – in Santa Monica in 2003 or 2004
• Robert Litman – first in Santa Monica and later in Rochester, starting in in 2003 or 2004
• Suzanne Scurlock-Duranna – in Washington, DC area in 2003 or 2004
  

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: 

• Possibly through my background in physics, I’ve contributed to the grounding of the work in basic scientific principles and to helping the languaging stay precise.
• The Rochester group formed a very strong practice group after Deborah’s departure; we developed a protocol for practice that has held up well over the years. Emilie asked Debra Corea to talk to people in other areas who were forming practice groups.
• I’ve collaborated with Joseph Schmidlin to integrate Continuum in Sound Healing workshops, and with Kori Tolbert to explore Continuum in the healing process for persons dealing with chronic conditions.

Discovered Continuum: In 1980, I was at the Dance Therapy Graduate Program at NYU, my Professor was working with Valerie Hunt and told us about Emilie and the studies that she and Valerie were doing. The next time I heard about Continuum was in 1999 in North Carolina, Mary Abrams and Kim Brodey were coming to teach workshops.

First Continuum Teacher: Kim Brodey was my first teacher in NC early 2000. She was hosted by Laura Lawton, a rolfer in the community. Kim came twice a year and she encouraged me to learn from Susan and Emilie.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: My subsequent teachers were Susan Harper (starting in 2002), followed by Emilie Conrad (in 2003), and Mary Abrams (2004).

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• I teach 3 Continuum classes a week at my studio.
• I teach workshop in NC, SC, VA, Canada regularly.
• I offer trainings and immersions to body-workers and dancers.
• I host Susan Harper 3 times a year in NC, building the community.
• I hosted Emilie Conrad for 5 years in NC, building the community.
• I continue to explore, grow and share Continuum, it is my practice and inquiry into how to live life.

Discovered Continuum: In 1993 I saw a flier in Tucson, AZ for Emilie’s 3-day workshop in Albuquerque NM and went on to attend this workshop.

First Continuum Teacher: My first teacher was Emilie Conrad.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: I have studies with Susan Harper 1995-2016 and various other Continuum teachers since 1993 to present.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: I collaborated with Emilie for 18 years (since 1996). During my collaborative years with Emilie, we created The Body in Question series and the Wellsprings Program and held many workshops. I have been teaching workshops and classes around the world since 1999.

Discovered Continuum: I first learned about Continuum in 1990 from Don Van Vleet, my friend and rolfer. Don told me there was a woman I had to meet whose name was Emilie Conrad, and that she was coming to New York that week. He was sure my life would be forever changed. Inwardly, I thought that was hardly possible—but because I trusted Don, I went to my first workshop with Emilie Conrad. I immediately knew that this was the practice I had been looking for my entire life.

First Continuum Teacher: I met Emilie Conrad in 1990 when she offered a 5 day workshop in New York City.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: After meeting Emilie, I also met Susan Harper and continued to study with them both for many years. I also studied with Barbara Mindell, Kim Brodey, Bonnie Gintis, and Robert Litman. Over the years I have enjoyed learning from Mary Abrams, Elaine Colandrea, Linda Rabin and so many of the Continuum colleagues I have been privileged to take class with.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: 

• I have initiated an interest in Continuum in several communities: Ann Arbor, MI, Saratoga Springs, NY, Pittsfield, MA, and Kiental, Switzerland.
• I teach annually at The Zenith Institute in Olivone, Switzerland. People come from all over Europe to this European Sufi Summer Camp.
• I have introduced Continuum to hundreds of dance students throughout the years at Hofstra University and at Regional Dance Conferences.
• Continuum is the premise for my choreography. I introduce Continuum to the larger dance world in this way.
• I teach Continuum in the Honors College at Hofstra University.
• I invited Emilie Conrad to be a keynote speaker at an interdisciplinary conference focused on the effects of war and violence on the social body at Hofstra University.
• My Master’s thesis in the Humanities was about Continuum. The first chapter on the history of Continuum has been published in two anthologies of somatic practices.
• I am committed to gathering, deepening our practice and learning with fellow teachers at regular teacher’s gatherings.

Discovered Continuum: I was introduced to Continuum by Cherionna Menzam-Sills in 2007.

First Continuum Teacher: Cherionna Menzam-Sills, in Nelson, BC, Canada, in 2007.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: 

• Emilie Conrad, Hollyhock, Canada, and Los Angeles, CA.
• Susan Harper – BC, Canada, and Los Angeles, CA.
• Cass Phelps – Los Angeles, CA.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: I have been contributing to the cultivation of a growing field of continuum divers in Nelson, BC, Canada.

Discovered Continuum: I first heard about Continuum from Emilie in 1996, when she presented her work during a conference called ‘Humanistische Medizin’ in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

First Continuum Teacher: Emilie Conrad 1998 in Germany.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: 

• Divo Müller
• Susan Harper
• Linda Rabin
• Volker Moritz

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: 

• By being in Teacher Meetings.
• By participating in Virtual Connection.
• By doing continuum at the same time as other teachers do it.

Discovered Continuum: I  heard about Continuum from my friend and acupuncturist, Diana Hawes, in 2002. She suggested I enroll in a workshop happening locally, which was the first workshop Kim Brodey taught in North Carolina in January of 2003. The work penetrated me deeply and I had a whole being awareness of profound resonance. I continued attending every workshop Kim came to teach and that August of 2003, went to Mount Madonna to participate in my first depths retreat with both Emilie and Susan.

First Continuum Teacher: Kim Brodey in Durham, North Carolina, 2003.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: 

Emilie Conrad – starting August 2003 in Los Angeles, CA; Massachusetts; New York City and Rhinebeck, NY.
Susan Harper – starting 2003 in Santa Cruz & Los Angeles, CA; North Carolina.
Gael Rosewood – 2009 in North Carolina.
Robert Litman – 2008 in North Carolina.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: 

My contributions are primarily in creating and building a local community of students by offering regular classes and workshops since 2007, and by working with individual clients as a somatic mentor.

I have also contributed to the field by the ways I have created classes & workshops in specific arenas of inquiry:

• Alchemy of Eros – an inquiry into spiritual nature & sexual nature as related to our aliveness and capacity for self-love.
• Liquid Love – a fusion of skills and props with Continuum Movement to decompress tissue, increase conductivity and promote self-regulation. A practice of self-care and discovery.
• Primordial Depths retreat – a four day immersion of diving on the beach and in the ocean reenacting our primordial evolution out of sea and onto land.
• Sacred Belonging – nourishing relationship with self and the infinite.
• Diving to Write – Continuum Movement and creative writing.

Additional Comments: It has been an utter privilege to learn, practice and teach this work. It is the resonant language of my soul. I am profoundly grateful for every transmission and for being in the rich and creative field of teachers evolving and expressing this work in their own unique ways.

Discovered Continuum: In 2007, while teaching a work study program at Esalen, I first learned about Continuum Movement from one of my students who had studied with Emilie, and recommended that I meet her.

First Continuum Teacher: Emilie Conrad was my first teacher and I attended a weekend workshop at her studio in Santa Monica in 2009. She was dealing with glaucoma and wanted my advice on her eye situation. Of course, I loved what she was teaching and wanted more. We started a professional connection!

Subsequent Continuum Teachers:  I attended a workshop in Santa Fe taught by Emilie Conrad, and then attended her Wellsprings Practitioner Training in Santa Monica. I spent three weeks with her and Robert Litman at the studio. Life Changing! Every time I would enter her studio, I felt like I was coming home. I also attended two “dark” retreats at the studio with Emilie which were profound. They were my only 2 teachers as I began incorporating Continuum more into my daily life and my professional career.

When I became an authorized teacher, I taught with Linda Chrisman, Val Leoffler, and also interacted with Gael Rosewood. We learned from each other. I also interacted with Amber Gray during this time.

After Emilie’s death I have attended two of Susan Harper‘s retreats. Awesome! I experienced through Susan all the years of her development of Continuum–which is quite different than Emilie, but equally valuable. I feel that Susan is one of the visionaries of Continuum. We need her as one of the leaders.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: 

• Emilie wanted an “eye professional” in the field of Continuum. She felt it was needed. She (as does Susan) recognizes the value of including eyes, vision, perception with the practice of Continuum Movement.
• I have brought many people who are not somatic therapists to Continuum. One of my strengths is to be a bridge for people who never would consider Continuum as a healing modality.
• I have an opportunity in 2017 to bring Continuum to a larger audience. Stay tuned.
• In the last 3 books I have written, I have included Continuum Movement.
• I have spoken about Continuum Movement in my weekly podcasts.
• I have brought Continuum to many people during my teaching at Esalen, Hollyhock, and on my yearly dolphin swims in Hawaii.
• I have re-energized the base of Continuum students in Vancouver, BC and have worked with Doris Maranda to develop Continuum in that region.
• I have helped people with Dementia, Autism, Brain-injury, Parkinson’s, and many eye conditions.
• Continuum is my deepest spiritual practice. I live it and use it as a basic philosophy of living my life through the fluid body. 

Additional Comments: Continuum inquiry is valid (in my world) in so many areas: politics, social change, and the performing arts. Continuum has helped me develop my expression as an eye doctor by working in my specialty as a healing artist with others. To bring that attitude to patients has been very helpful and assisting people to connect to their own biological intelligence. I specially love helping children use Continuum. When I swim with the dolphins we are doing a big Continuum dive for Mother Earth.

I would like to see more men in my classes–that is one of my hopes for 2017. Overall, what a great modality!! So beyond the Yoga “trance” that is out there

The “field” of Continuum has moved away from the physical. Emilie, while alive, held this “field” for all the teachers to tap into 24/7. Since her death, and since the changing of the guard so to speak, that “field” no longer exists at this level. However, whenever I am teaching, I immediately connect to this field but it is in the shamanic world now. As an authorized teacher, I received the transmission from Emilie and committed to her that I would continue to spread her teaching through my personal and professional expression. I also believe that Continuum Movement can be a major catalyst in the Arts. I have experienced this magic. I transmit this belief in my private sessions and workshops. I am one who can carry the lineage.

Discovered Continuum: By way of Cherionna Menzam-Sills, 10 years ago.

First Continuum Teacher: Cherionna Menzam-Sills – Nelson, BC, Canada; BCST Training (2 ½ years); 2005-2007.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: 

Doris Maranda: Vancouver, Canada; 2006-2011
Emilie Conrad: Los Angeles, CA; 2005-2014
Susan Harper: Los Angeles, CA, Seattle, WA, Canada; 2006-present
Over the years, classes here and there; Teri Carter, Gabriel Orshan, Marcella Bottero and Barbara Mindell.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: 

• I have weaved Canada, New Zealand, Boulder and Ojai classes over the years, bringing in new students and connecting the lands.
• I am building a Somatic Sanctuary in Ojai, CA, to allow for a greater reach and to ground a consistent studio space for committed participants.
• I am bridging the fields of Somatic Trauma Resolution, Pre and Perinatal attachment facilitation with the rich, deep immersion of Mystery School embodied as One heals through their lineage and the collective and personal his/her – story.

Additional Comments: Deep Gratitude to be a part of this rich field of LOVE.

Discovered Continuum: In response to an injury I incurred while using rollers skates, I first heard about Continuum in 1987 or 1988, twice in one week. I had fallen on my tailbone and sprained the ligaments around my tailbone prompting my sister, Randy Weil, and another friend who lived in NY (and had just worked with Emilie) to recommended I try Continuum because of the micro movements.

First Continuum Teacher: Susan Harper was my first Continuum teacher. I joined her weekly class in Santa Monica to address this injury around my tailbone, and was fascinated by the principles and movements of the work. This was around 1987-88

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Within a year of working with Susan, I began taking weekend workshops with Emilie in Los Angeles and was absolutely enchanted by the work and her ability to speak about it. I had been a psycho biology major in college and a dancer (though I became a filmmaker) and this work was a different expression of those fields I loved.

The list of teachers I have worked with:

• Emilie Conrad, Los Angeles – 1988 – her passing
• Susan Harper, Los Angeles – 1988 – present
• Robert Litman, Los Angeles – when he presented at various teacher meetings, and I also studied Buteyko with him and have co-taught with him.
• Bonnie Gintis, Los Angeles – when she presented at various teacher meetings.
• Rebecca Mark, Los Angeles – Words and Waves 2015 – present

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• Since its inception, I have greatly contributed to the development of Jungle Gym. I worked with Emilie on a manual for the Jungle Gym. We never completed it (I still have the notes and the tapes)
• I have taught the use of explore boards, flight plan & web at many depths retreats and teacher meetings.
• I developed The Ageless Body®: fluid strength for aging bodies.
• Barbara and I were the first two teachers to teach at the studio other than Susan and Emilie.
• I have assisted in training several Continuum teachers.
• With Emilie I wrote many pieces about Continuum: once Susan started her own business I co-wrote the text for all Continuum brochures and until recently I co-wrote the text that was used on the website.
• I have conducted several taped interview with Emilie.
• I helped run the studio for several years on a volunteer basis.
• For many years I have held a leadership/organizing role with the teachers and the studio, facilitating communication, strategies, and gatherings.
• I was a close friend and adviser to Emilie; I had her ear.

Discovered Continuum: I first heard about Continuum In 1985 while participating in the 4 year Body/Mind Centering training with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. It just so happened that when we started studying the fluid system, Emilie Conrad was offering a Continuum workshop. Bonnie encouraged all of us to go and experience her work. And so I did!

First Continuum Teacher: Emilie Conrad, 1985, in Watertown, MA (of all places).

Although I met Emilie in 1985 while training with Bonnie Cohen, I didn’t submerge in Continuum until 2008. As fate would have it, I was in Berkeley California in 2008, revisiting the fluid system with Bonnie and the following weekend, Emilie was offering a Continuum workshop. I went and the connection I made was so profound, I just dove in and trained extensively with Emilie until her death in 2014.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers:

Susan Harper ~ Winter Depth retreats 2011 /2012 Summer Depth retreat 2012

Emilie Conrad/Robert Litman ~ Wellspring Professional Training 2009

One of my most favorite ways to refresh myself, remain inspired and engage in new explorations is attending classes or exchanges with some of my colleagues. My gratitude to Ajaya Sommers, Marcella Bottero, Barbara Karlsen, Gael Rosewood, Rebecca Lawson, Robert Litman, Cherionna Menzam, Linda Chrisman, Teri Carter and Caryn Hellman.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

On a personal level:

I contribute everyday to the field by tending to the depth of my own daily explorations and to offer the richness of these discoveries to others.

On a professional level:

1. The Potency of the Field: Emilie and I began shaping this training in 2012 as a form of regenerative medicine for people with life threatening diagnosis. In 2017, I will be offering the first yearlong training for dedicated Continuum practitioners who want to create a potent sound stream field for people who are severely compromised to rest in and discover what is possible in terms of system conversion.
2. Dark Retreat Facilitation: Creating a container for people to immerse in the medicine of the dark.
3. Embryologically Speaking: A series of workshops that bring together the work of Bonnie Cohen, the pre and perinatal work of Myrna Martin, the unfolding of the natural world and the embryonic spiral of Continuum.

Discovered Continuum: I first was introduced to Continuum by Deborah Raoult in 2000.

First Continuum Teacher: Deborah Raoult – Rochester, NY, 2000.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: 

• Emilie Conrad – California
• Susan Harper – California
• Mary Abrams – New York

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: 

I have offered classes in my community for 1 year.

In my subsequent spiritual practices I have brought the work of Continuum into the realm of healing.

Discovered Continuum: I first heard of Emilie Conrad and her work in about 1997 through Barbara Brennan and teachers at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing.

First Continuum Teacher: Emilie Conrad was my first Continuum teacher, we met at a Jungle Gym Workshop with Kevin Jennings in New York, I believe approximately in 2002. After that I took many, many workshops with her over the years; from New York, to the Depth retreats in California, to the Omega Institute, to North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: I studied with Emilie Conrad and Susan Harper at the Depths retreats. Donnalea Van Vleet Goelz brought the Continuum work to the Barbara Brennan School and I participated in every class that she taught, falling even more deeply in love with the work.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: Through sharing the work with my private clients, and introducing Continuum to hundreds of students at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing since 2004.

Discovered Continuum: I first heard of Continuum in 1992 from Cheri Martin, she had a friend in NY with MS who was following Continuum. (She has since deceased), I contacted her by phone.

First Continuum Teacher: I met Emilie at a conference in DC in 1993. I went specifically to experience her work. At that time I was using an electric scooter for mobility.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Susan Harper.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: I worked as a movement therapist for Jefferson Hospital Center for Integrative Medicine and brought Continuum to their patients having movement problems. Later I continued to see clients in my private practice and taught workshops and group and private lessons. My great love that I have passed on is utilizing the sacred sounds of Continuum to seed fluid movement and meditative deep stillness.

Additional Comments: Continuum has not only been a huge resource for me (as well as my students) but also it has had a big impact on living with a chronic body symptom. Continuum has changed my being and life!

Discovered Continuum: In January 1975, I first heard about Continuum from my mother, Mary Jane Harper, who was working at a mental health center. The director of the center had seen Emilie give a presentation at a Humanistic Psychology Conference and subsequently invited Emilie to lead a public retreat in Tucson. I attended with my mother, as did Michael Stearns who became one of the main creators of music for Continuum.

First Continuum Teacher: Emilie was my first Continuum teacher and I met her at a 5 day retreat in Tuscon Arizona in January 1975.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Every time I co-teach, I also learn from my fellow teachers. These are some of the teachers I have co-taught with: Robert Litman, Beth Pettengill Riley, Gael Rosewood, Carole Burstein, Rebecca Lawson, and Divo Mueller.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: I joined Emilie Conrad, founder, in 1975 to study, and eventually became a partner in developing the organization and work of Continuum.

Emilie and I co-taught 7-day Winter and Summer Depths Retreats and Mystery School Retreats for over 30 years. Together we developed teacher training programs and co-founded Continuum Teacher Organization in 2000.

In the early 90’s I expanded the reach of Continuum to Japan, Finland, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, as well as leading bi-annual retreats at the Esalen Institute. In 1992, as a part of the 18th Street Arts Complex, I designed Continuum Studio, providing a creative gathering place for the community.

It is my delight to continue to teach and mentor many of the current Continuum Teachers and continue to travel around the world, offering workshops and classes, helping to build the field of Continuum.

Discovered Continuum: I took dance from a woman in Austin, in 1984; she was the first person to tell me about Continuum. I don’t remember her name, but she taught us pieces of the work that Emilie had taught her when she was first in TX.

First Continuum Teacher: Gleah Powers was my first Continuum teacher, we met when she taught a Jungle Gym class in March of 1999, in San Antonio, TX.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: 

• Emilie Conrad – Vancouver, BC, 1999
• Susan Harper – New York, NY, 2000
• Mary Abrams – San Antonio, TX, 2002?
• Deborah Raoult – San Antonio, TX 2003
• Robert Litman – San Antonio, TX 2005
• Barbara Mindell – Burbank, CA, 2006

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• (I think) I coined the term “the cosmic body”, to represent a state of consciousness I experience doing continuum, and which Emilie later used in her three anatomies.
• I started painting with Living Water and teaching others to do it.
• I brought Continuum to Texas after a long draught.
• My team and I supported Emilie in numerous Mystery Schools here.
• My textiles have been appreciated and used to help hold the space. Emilie collected my art cloths and often used them in her retreats and classes.
• Geographically speaking, I help hold the center of the country. I taught CM classes in San Antonio and Austin, TX from 2004-2016. I was the first (and so far only person I know of) to offer Continuum Movement classes and workshops in central KY.

Discovered Continuum: In 1995, during my four year Body-Mind Centering training, several of the BMC students were also studying Continuum with Emilie Conrad; Carol Burstein, Deborah Raoult and Gabriel Orshan, and they sung Continuum’s praises.

First Continuum Teacher: In 1997, while living in NYC, I began studying with Mary Abrams.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: 

• Emilie Conrad, 1998 – 2014, Continuum Studio, etc. (I moved to Santa Monica to study with Emilie ongoingly in 2000).
• Robert Litman, 1998, Continuum Studio.
• Barbara Mindell, 2000-2003, Continuum Studio.
• Caryn Heilman, 2009-2016, NYC & Continuum Studio.
• Susan Harper, 2012, Holy Spirit Retreat Center.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: 

• Studied closely with Emilie for 16 years, and was asked to contribute in her classes/workshops regarding movement observation and embodied anatomy.
• Co-taught and developed the Continuum-Somatic Performance Laboratory workshop with Emilie in SOMAfest 2007-2012. I also inspired her to develop the Continuum Creative Edges work which she taught in SOMAfest and at other times, and I now teach this work.
• I substitute taught for Emilie in the studio while she traveled and when she became ill, 2007-2014. I supported her in areas concerning the studio, office and teacher’s body.
• I was part of Emilie’s Continuum Movement Theater ensemble; learning, sharing and performing 2007-2009.
• I produce SOMAfest & Somatic Summit, both designed closely with Emilie; this has offered teaching, speaking and performing opportunities for many Continuum Teachers.
• Lead classes and workshops globally, a Continuum Virtual series, taught Continuum 2009 & 2010 at the International Somatic Movement Symposium-Taiwan.
• I represented Continuum as an ISMETA board member 2007-2016, eventually became President of the board. I helped to carry a fluid view of somatics to this organization, supported the growth of the field, and made sure that further Continuum Teachers got onto the board (Beth Riley and Caryn Heilman). This organization helps to preserve their right to practice somatics in the US, and it helps to promote the field.
• I founded-direct-teach an ISMETA approved Somatic Movement Arts training program that blends Continuum and Embodied Anatomy. Emilie approved this training and even taught a few classes for it (as have other Continuum Teachers). Emilie did not want me to use ‘Continuum Movement’ in the program’s name, but she did okay my using the practice of Continuum openly as part of the training process. Students do not become Continuum Teachers or Practitioners; rather they become Somatic Movement Arts practitioners and can become Registered Somatic Movement Educators through ISMETA.

Discovered Continuum: I first heard about Continuum from Gael Rosewood (formerly Ohlgren), it was in 1988. I was doing my rolfing training in Boulder Colorado, and she was the assistant in the class. I could not get it out of my mind, and followed all information in the Rolf Lines about Continuum. I knew one day I would learn it, it took me 10 years!

First Continuum Teacher: My first teacher was Susan Harper, she was co-teaching with Hubert Godard in Berlin, during an annual rolfing meeting I attended. Must have been in October 1997 or -98. I went there with two rolfing colleagues; Jeanne Jensen and Martine Longum.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers:

• Kim Brodey, Norway late 90´s and early 2000
• Emilie Conrad, late 90´s in Germany, outside München (first time)
• Bonnie Gintis in Santa Monica, early 2000.
  

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum:

• I have brought Continuum to Norway. Kim Brodey had already taught in Norway, so I kept on bringing her here.
• I have collaborated with my Nordic colleagues Jeanne Jensen and Tuula Niemela, in expanding the teachings of Continuum in this part of the world.
• I brought Emilie to Norway and Denmark several times, working together with Jeanne Jensen to accomplish this.
• Since 1998 I have traveled to the US once or twice a year to get updated and learn more.
• Four years ago we started having teachers meetings here in Europe.
• Three years ago Volker Moritz and I was inspired to start inviting to 9-day Dark retreats here in Europe.

Discovered Continuum: At 4 pm, Thursday, August 24th, 1987, a group of Finnish ladies arrived at LAX airport with the intention of spending an educational holiday in California. Our friend Meri Lehtinen, who already knew Emilie Conrad, organized our three-week trip. The idea behind the trip was to make acquaintance with different alternative treatments.

First Continuum Teacher: My first teacher was Emilie Conrad Da’oud. Our initial meeting took place in August 1987. Our Finnish group spent one day in the studio familiarizing ourselves with Continuum methods. I did not listen very intensively to Emilie’s words, but her demonstration changed my life from the very first second. That experience did not leave me—though it took three more years before I went back to California. I had come to California not expecting to find anything really new, but when I think about it now, I see that I found something that was everything. I met with a Mystery.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers: Emilie and Susan, at Holy Spirit and in Los Angeles, CA, where they taught together over the years. Those were precious times for me.

In the US and Europe;

• Emilie Conrad 1987 and 1991-2013, in Finland in 2005 at The Theatre Academy of Helsinki.
• Susan Harper from 1991 until the present.
• Mary Abrams, NYC 2000-, in many learning events in her studios.
• Sharon Weil, in Los Angeles, CA, 1999-2008, Jungle Gym, which I still love and do.
• Robert Litman, Los Angeles, CA, he presented at various teachers’ meetings.
• Gael Rosewood (with Susan) in Finland, 1994. In London, 2015.
• Tone Merethe Gilje, in Norway.
• Jeanne Jensen, in Denmark and Finland, together with Tone Merete and myself in 2007.
• Kevin Smith, in Finland, 2006.
• Jane Okondo, in London, 2015.

And, of course, all the teachers I have met at teacher meetings’ in US. In 2013 the European teachers started having meetings in Europe.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: 

• I participated in Susan’s and Emilie’s workshops in the US, Germany, Italy, France, Denmark and Norway. 
• From 1991 to 2012, I travelled to the US at least once a year.
• Susan taught in Finland twelve times during the years 1993-2004, with her contributions I gradually began my teaching myself.
• I organized all the workshops in Finland together with my husband.
• Workshops in Italy, France, Zanzibar (Africa) and around Finland.
• I ran my Studio in the early 90’s.
• I taught in the Theatre and Dance Academy of the University of Arts of Helsinki.
• I am including Continuum processes in my TraumaArt- and Sexual Therapist work (2013-).
• During my studies at the Faculty of Behavioral Sciences in the Open University of Helsinki I wrote several essays and I always found a way to mention Continuum and included Emilie Conrad’s ‘ Life on Land’ in the references. When doing so, I would take a deep breath, knowing that I had sent an important message to the University world.

Discovered Continuum: In 1978 I was teaching at Center for Creative Movement in Santa Cruz and a student (who is still a participant in my classes) invited two women friends from Continuum Los Angeles to give a workshop (I believe their names were “Patricia S” and a Vicki”). I fell in love with the work and several of us formed a group that met weekly on and off for couple of years exploring the sounds breaths and wave motion that had been handed down in that workshop.

First Continuum Teacher: The first teachers I had were the above un-named Patricia S/ Vicki? Continuum bearers in Santa Cruz.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers:

• Starting in 1980 I have studied with both Emilie Conrad and Susan Harper on numerous occasions.
• I participated in Embryogenesis with Conny Obermeier and Susan in Santa Cruz 1996.
• From the 1990’s to 2013 I joined Robert Litman and Emilie, several times for Body in Questions in Berkeley.
• In the 1990s I did Jungle Intensives with Kevin Smith and Emilie.
• I attended a Bonnie Gintis Workshop in Santa Cruz 2008(?).
• I participated in Barbara Mindell‘s Art and Continuum in Santa Cruz.
• In 2014 I was with Amber Gray for PolyVagal Theory in the Santa Monica Studio.
• I attended Words and Waves with Rebecca Mark and Linda Chrisman in Los Angeles in 2015.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: I have provided ongoing explorations for my local community throughout the years, referring and building a large pool of divers that have rippled out throughout the state and beyond. I turned a lot of local students onto Continuum by contributing to a quarterly college class for many years. I co sponsored a Continuum and Trager training for Susan Harper 1996. I taught classes in how to work with sensation and movement and Continuum in therapeutic setting at a local healing arts college for five years. I developed a video on youtube; an interview with Emilie called “Diving in the Dark: A Continuum Path to Healing” that has reached thousands of people and serves as an introduction for many to Continuum. For a subsequent reading list on Neuroplasticity and Movement, I wrote : “Learning Curves: Integrating Continuum Movement and Bodywork.”

Discovered Continuum: I first was told about Continuum from Kai Ehrhardt, a Continuum Teacher in Berlin, Germany. We were teaching Authentic Eros workshops and year trainings together. He told me about Emilie Conrad and did some of the Continuum sounds and practices, I was in love from the first moment.

First Continuum Teacher: I met Emilie Conrad in Brussels 2009, she was teaching a 5-day mystery school retreat. In order to join the retreat I did 2 hours of Continuum with Ann-Sophie Anciaux in Belgium.

Subsequent Continuum Teachers:

• Linda Rabin (I invited her to Amsterdam in 2011 and 2012. Then we taught a nature retreat together in Switzerland in 2013).
• Robert Litman (while being in the Continuum Practitioners in 2011).
• Robin Becker (when she was teaching in Hilversum (Netherlands) 2012).
• Tone Merete Gilje (teaching mystery schools together in Switzerland in 2015 and 2016).
• Amber Gray, (2015 in Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Belgium).
• Batyah Schachter (meeting her at my first class in Belgium in 2009, then teaching together in Israel in 2016).
• And of course all the teachers I met at teacher meetings and who were teaching there as well.

Contributions to Building the Field of Continuum: Emilie Conrad authorized me as a Continuum Movement teacher in 2012 and I have been a Continuum Wellsprings Practitioner since 2012. I travel and teach Continuum in my workshops and classes all over the world; I have brought it to the Netherlands, England, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, France, South Africa, New Zealand and the United States. Basically wherever I go, people see me doing these ‘strange’ movements and sounds, and they get interested, there is always an element of teaching and spreading the freedom of who we are. When I was working in an psychiatric clinic I would use the Continuum practitioners skills with the patients there, I also use them with clients in my private practice. Another way I’m strengthening the field is by initiating the European Teachers meeting and by connecting and co-teaching with different teachers.