Emilie Conrad is a somatics pioneer, and is the founder of Continuum. Her love for movement led her to discover the essential, primary movements common to all life forms that lie beneath our cultural influence. "These fundamental movements are a "cosmology" of life, where form is fluidly mutable, dissolving and shaping itself anew."

I'll encourage you to check out a workshop as it was only after watching Emilie "perform" that I really "got" what she was teaching. The experience of doing Continuum movement gives me an immediate sense of the the "Breath of Life" moving through myself. It's a bit like combining tai chi, biodynamic work, and ecstatic dance..... but different.

Continuum has inspired progress in my own movement practice with Poi and it has broadened my understanding of the movement I see, or sometimes more importantly don't see in my clients.

From Emilie...

Continuum is a process by which we can experience the interconnection of our own origins with the larger currents of all organismic life, beginning with the first cell and ultimately layered into the intricacies of human form.

All living processes owe their lineage to the movement of water.

The fluid presence in our bodies is our fundamental environment; we are the moving water brought to land.

Rather than following a fixed system of postures or formalized exercises that maintain patterned structure, Continuum explorations delve into the play of emerging and dissolving of form. Continuum’s elegant sound and movement practices make an art form of dissolving constraint, welcoming the liberation of the entire person at every level.

About Emilie...

Born and raised in New York City, Emilie studied ballet and Afro-Haitian dance. In 1963 she moved to Los Angeles where she began teaching at the Actors Studio. In 1974, she pioneered a protocol for spinal cord injury and from 1974 to 1979, she was Movement Specialist in a research study conducted by Dr. Valerie Hunt at UCLA. This groundbreaking study demonstrated that fluid, primary movement is essential in our ability to innovate.

Emilie has been a featured teacher, lecturer, and Keynoter at: Sri Aurobindo Assoc. in America, American Humanistic Psychology, UCLA, USC, UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Barbara, U of San Jose, U of Arizona, Rolf Institute, Esalen Institute, Newport Sports Clinic, Center for the Healing Arts, Open Center NYC, Tarrytown Group, Omega Institute NY, Common Boundary, Naropa Institute, Kripalu Institute, Actors Studio West, Lee Strassberg Institute. She has been on the advisory board of Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, Orange, NJ. and Bio-energy Field Foundation, Malibu, Ca. (Dr. Valerie Hunt). She has led workshops throughout the US, Canada and Europe. She has received awards for “Movement Teacher” of the year and for her work as a Somatics Pioneer.