\nMODULES OVERVIEW<\/strong><\/p>\nThis program is a 500+ hour program\u00a0–\u00a0each module is 40-45 hours of in-class time with adjunct work done of individual assignments, peer collaboration projects, and other virtual workshops of Continuum Movement.<\/strong><\/p>\nModule 1: CONTINUUM\u2019S ESSENTIAL (In-person)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Focus \u2013\u00a0Breath, Sound, Movement, Sensation, and Innovation\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In this module, students will explore the Essential Elements of Continuum Movement which are at the core of every Continuum Movement class.<\/p>\n
\n- BREATH\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 All movement originates with breath.<\/li>\n
- SOUND\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Sound is audible breath, penetrating the density of locked tissue. Sounding further connects us with each other and to the resonant whole, providing another source for communication.<\/li>\n
- MOVEMENT<\/strong>\u2013 Continuum\u2019s movements are designed specifically to enhance the undulating spirals and circularity of the fluid system. Wave motion is the primary access to our bio-intelligence that is not bound by time, space or condition.<\/li>\n
- SENSATION AND PLEASURE\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 In Continuum, we use sensation as a guide for awakening the body\u2019s mysteries and the activating principle of the life force that feeds and nurtures the entire system. Sensations of pleasure create an inviting climate for self-renewal.<\/li>\n
- Innovation \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>We learn the importance of being an open system that is able to be creative and adaptable to life and its changes.<\/li>\n
- The student will understand how all five of these Essential Elements are needed to be present in a Continuum Movement class for it to be a CM class.<\/li>\n
- Somatic teaching \u2013 Understanding how to teach somatically and how it is different from the common way we think of teaching.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nModule 2:\u00a0\u00a0PHILOSOPHY OF CONTINUUM\u00a0(In-person)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Focus \u2013 We are a fluid system\u00a0and the three Anatomies<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
This module looks at the fact that the body is a fluid system and therefore needs a fluid model for its exploration of movement and healing. Conrad\u2019s Three Anatomies will be introduced as a way to understand our body and its imprints.<\/p>\n
\n- The human body is a fluid system. We are made of approximately 70% water and yet we do not often take this into consideration when we move or think of the body. Continuum proposes that the primary characteristic of any fluid system is its ability to keep transforming itself.<\/li>\n
- Inquiring into our Fluid Nature, students develop the capacity to understand a potentially dynamic, multi-dimensional perspective of human awareness and omni-directional movement.<\/li>\n
- Study is designed to deepen the student\u2019s ability to notice and sustain sensory awareness and track experiences of flow which invoke the fluid system internally by creating a mix of interpenetrating cues and signals.<\/li>\n
- Students learn the significance that all fluids, whether in the cell, the body or the planet, function as a resonant intelligent whole and can never be separated. In Continuum, we refer to this entirety as the fluid system and recognize its essential and ancestral role in healing, movement, and fundamental wisdom.<\/li>\n
- Students learn that by amplifying wave motion through movement, our entire body resonates as a fluid, vital whole.<\/li>\n
- Class will include an introduction to Emilie Conrad\u2019s concept of the Three Anatomies: primordial, cultural and cosmic. These are the lenses that we look through in CM to develop our understanding of different states of being.<\/li>\n
- Baseline and Open Attention, two essential concepts of all CM classes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Practicum \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Students will present a class and receive feedback first from peers and then teachers.<\/p>\n
\nModule 3:\u00a0 ANATOMY I\u00a0(Virtual)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Focus \u2013 A biological and cellular overview of the human body as a fluid bio-system existing within a biosphere<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
As students deepen into the experience of conventional perspectives of anatomy, they will also learn the transformational aspects of tissue and fluids.<\/p>\n
\n- Continuum explores anatomy as a dynamic fluid system instead of the more common mechanistic model that is often taught.<\/li>\n
- Our study of anatomy is one of the living body, the flowing, ever-changing body.<\/li>\n
- In addition to studying the \u201cbody\u201d as a defined boundary that features a head, two arms and legs, and body systems that encompass very specific locales, students will recognize that the body is mutable, multi-functional, and contains a process that is not defined by boundaries.<\/li>\n
- What Continuum calls a \u201cbody\u201d is movement \u2013 a fractal dance of cells, molecules, and interpenetrating wave motions.<\/li>\n
- All of these movements stabilize in order to function in the environment of planet earth. Beyond conventional functioning exist domains of an unfathomable fluid mystery. Students will learn how this legacy of our primordial pulsating, undulating environment of blood, organs, membranes, and connective tissue has been largely forgotten.<\/li>\n
- Students will learn an overview of the three different groupings of our human bio-system, often called levels of cellular organization, where one cell is the basic level or unit of cellular organization, tissue is the second level, then organs. Cellular and subcellular consciousness will be explored in class.<\/li>\n
- The body\u2019s four basic types of tissue will be covered; connective \u2013 muscle \u2013 nervous \u2013 epithelial tissues, including their basic roles, location, and their relationship to form-dissolve and structure-tensegrity.<\/li>\n
- Plus, a technical and experiential introduction to the organ system through the lens of fluid dynamics will be explored.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nModule 4:\u00a0 ANATOMY II\u00a0(Virtual)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Focus \u2013Further inquiry into the relationship of physical systems to states of being, moving, perceiving, and other clinically important areas<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Further exploration of anatomy and neurophysiology.<\/p>\n
\n- Neurophysiology will be discussed as it pertains to the practice of Continuum, including an overview of the Nervous System, Neuro-Muscular System, the Polyvagal System, and Psychophysical Integration.<\/li>\n
- Students will deepen their understanding of body-mind connections, becoming attuned to the story that people\u2019s bodies are telling, and possible correlations between the body and past physical\u2013emotional-environmental trauma that may be stored in the tissues.<\/li>\n
- Continuum\u2019s concept of the Three Anatomies: primordial, cultural and cosmic, will be further explored and its relationship to our anatomy as well, and its implications of species inclusive movement within our bodies.<\/li>\n
- Emphasis is placed on helping students access the different levels of trauma and to be able to help them understand how to work with trauma, or when needed, how to refer students to seek professional medical support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Practicum \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Students will present a class and receive feedback first from peers and then teachers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Module 5:\u00a0 READING THE BODY AND BODY PERCEPTION (In-person)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Focus \u2013 Understanding what the body is saying<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Through movement expression of tissues\/fluids, students will learn principles of witnessing movement as a fluid re-mapping of the body, an ever-shifting process as an extension of a bio-planetary process.<\/p>\n
\n- Students deepen their capacity to embody and to observe in others, micro-movements and interpenetrating layers of fluid\/cells\/tissues.<\/li>\n
- The groundwork is laid for a more sophisticated perspective of body and mind as being plastic in relation to context. Exploration in physical, perceptual, and conceptual phenomena become bio-creative events that interconnect with the unified field.<\/li>\n
- Students will be introduced to thinking\/feeling concepts that are important to somatic psychology, learning to assess basic elements of psychophysical processing and emotional expression, what it means to be self-referential and self-responsible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Practicum \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Students will present a class and receive feedback first from peers and then teachers.<\/p>\n
\nModule 6: WORKING WITH CLIENTS & STUDENTS (In-person)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Focus \u2013 Teaching Continuum to individuals<\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Students learn the practical implementation of a somatic practice and how to apply Continuum concepts in a one-to-one situation.<\/li>\n
- One learns to see how actual physical challenges and restrictions that might arise in breathing and other physical activities in daily life can impact one\u2019s emotional and physical wellbeing.<\/li>\n
- Through aspects of Continuum\u2019s embodiment and facilitation of movement, breath, and sound, students will learn distinctions between active and passive movement that help to bring clients to various depths and states of awareness.<\/li>\n
- Conscious awareness and empathy are developed through movement and observation methods, growing the capacity to sense into one\u2019s own and others\u2019 bio-systems. This helps develop an awareness of an inner bio-intelligence.<\/li>\n
- Open Attention, a state of non-judgmental awareness, is emphasized.<\/li>\n
- Wave motion is encouraged through movement in the fluids and tissues to allow fixations and structures to release.<\/li>\n
- Continuum\u2019s gentle, non-invasive approach to movement promotes a philosophy of cooperation and respect in all of our interactions.<\/li>\n
- Ethics of touch are addressed, regarding how and when to use touch in an ethical and therapeutic manner, including appropriate boundaries, respect, listening, and informed consent of touch. Emphasis will be placed on experiential activities and safety.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Practicum<\/strong>\u2013 Students will present a private class\/session geared toward an individual and receive feedback first from peers and then teachers.<\/p>\nModule 7:\u00a0 RESONANT STATES\u00a0(Virtual)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Focus \u2013 The science of theoretical physics underlying Continuum Movement\u2019s understanding\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\u201cMovement is not something we do; it is what we are\u201d, said Emilie Conrad.\u00a0 In this module, we will explore somatically the ideas in quantum physics of wholeness of the universe versus fragmentation as well as life being an ongoing moving living process. We will look at how this relates to our somatic understanding of ourselves.<\/p>\n
\n- Students are encouraged to examine the experience and meaning of resonant states through the lens of nature and scientific interpretation.<\/li>\n
- The fractal nature of existence is considered in terms of how the spiraled movement of water mirrors our organic developmental and evolutionary process, and how that can creatively alter our way of seeing and experiencing life. This mutable and fractal model of the human form can be useful for dynamic postural analysis as well as an observational tool for injury rehabilitation and physical restoration.<\/li>\n
- Students learn to see how fluid re-patterning is orchestrated with the movement of human awareness within the body-mind.<\/li>\n
- Students learn how this awareness can change the quality of our internal processes\u2014 i.e. of pain, of movement, of shaping, of emotion, of thought.<\/li>\n
- Students learn an overview of the 5 basic senses and sense organs, plus proprioception and interoception, and how to work with language that supports the tracking of sensory-motor experience and self-regulation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Practicum \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Students will present a class and receive feedback first from peers and then teachers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Module 8:\u00a0 LEADING GROUPS\u00a0(Virtual)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Focus \u2013 Working and developing classes and workshops<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Teaching strategies on the practical implementation of a somatic class for group instruction and transmission are discussed and practiced.<\/p>\n