Gary David, PhD has led two lives simultaneously: musician and epistemologist. Each informs the other and they blend like music and words in a song. He led a jazz trio, singing and playing in clubs, until 1964 when he formed an experimental vocal-instrumental group called "The Sound of Feeling" featuring his compositions and arrangements. In 1968 the group recorded their first album for the Verve label with Oliver Nelson. After appearing opposite Duke Ellington at the Newport Jazz Festival, they were signed to the Mercury-Limelight label. Both albums received Grammy Award nominations and the group is described in The Jazz Encyclopedia as an innovation in the history of jazz singing.

Bobbie Ellis is director of Soma Center, has over 22 years experience and training in the fields of Bodywork, Yoga, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, Gestalt Psychotherapy, Kripalu DansKinetics, Movement Therapy and Motional Process. Bobbie and the rest of Soma Center’s devoted Healing Service Staff offers the highest quality in holistic health care, bodywork, body/mind education and therapy. Soma Center has had the privilege of serving Highland Park, NJ and its surrounding communities for almost 10 years. They are one of the first Centers of this kind in the area.

Robert Black has been writing for 30 years and doing healing work as a chiropractor for 20. He has created a transformational board game, edited an anthology on the subject of compassion, and authored a novella titled What Heals. Robert teaches writing at New York University, including a course he pioneered that explores the relationship between meditation, clarity, and what shows up on the page. He also teaches creative writing classes and workshops privately and presents corporate communications seminars. His work integrates a literary aesthetic with a holistic view of health and well-being.

Helen Luce holds advanced certification as a Rolfer. In that work, she facilitates deep and lasting change without pain. She has been in private practice since 1984. She has studied Trauma Energetics, Craniosacral Therapy, Visceral Manipulation, Continuum Movement, and the Buteyko Method of Breathing. Helen has also been a Doula (childbirth coach and facilitator) since 1973 and is a longtime student of homeopathy and herbal medicine. Helen is a member of The Rolf Institute and the Guild for Structural Integration

Robert Litman has guided students for the last 22 years in the use of movement as a tool for personal growth, restoring healthy breathing rhythms, structural alignment, and efficient body mechanics. He founded The Breathable Body in 2003. He is on the faculty of Continuum Movement and has made many contributions to Continuum’s practices, particularly in the sciences, incorporating neuroanatomy and cellular biology. He has co-developed the Wellsprings Practitioners Program with Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum Movement. He regularly leads Continuum workshops in the United State, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, South America and Europe.

Robert has been a faculty member and head of the Departments of Anatomy and Physiology and Movement Education at the Desert Institute of the Healing Arts Massage School. He also teaches Buteyko Institute Method of Breathing Retraining, helping people with disorders such as asthma, anxiety, allergies, panic attacks, snoring, sleep apnea, insomnia, digestive disorders, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue to control their symptoms and reduce their medications. He is a preceptor at the University Of Arizona School Of Integrative Medicine. Robert has an advanced certification in the Duggan-French Approach - Somatic Pattern Recognition, which has provided him with hands on skills to help guide clients’ movement and breath education awareness processes.

Caryn McHose has taught movement, and perceptual approaches to body therapy for over 35 years. Her experiential anatomy curriculum is the core of the book Bodystories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy, co-authored with Andrea Olsen. She teaches workshops internationally, and has a private body therapy practice.

David Belmont has been writing and improvising backgrounds for film, television, mime, dance and poetry since the 1970s. His work includes the score of Fred Newman’s award-winning art film Nothing Really Happens (with Josh Neretin), incidental music for Castillo Theatre productions of Heiner Muller’s Hamletmachine and Germania 3, as well as Newman’s What Is To Be Dead?. Live collaborations include Transfigurations with poet Jose Angel Figueroa (at Joseph Papp’s Arnspacher Theatre) and Ellipsis with Phasa Beam Arts (commissioned by Isaac Asimov). His CD WindWater Excursions spent 8 months on the New Age Voice Top 100 Airplay list in 2000-01. Since 2003 in class and workshop settings, David (with Mary Abrams) has been exploring with great interest the interplay of external musical sound--auditory wave motion created by world percussion instruments and musical toys—and silent internal wave motion with breath/sound.

Pati Stillwater , LMT, Continuum Teacher and Somatic Movement Specialist, passionately weaves healing, humor and encouraging acceptance for a creative learning environment. Her commitment to self-empowered health care and joyful well-being infuses people with a sense of possibility that is charged with pleasure. Pati was recognized as 'having a gift’ in her hands when she was very young and began training as an Energy Medicine Healer with Rev. Rosalyn Bruyere in 1988. She is a graduate of the Nippon Shiatsu Daigaku, holds a BA in Health, 'Healing and Self-development', and is one of Emilie Conrad’s authorized Continuum Movement teachers. Pati has also been teaching the Pilates Method for rehabilitation and core fitness since 1983. Her love of primitive dance, breath, voice and internal self-healing arts illuminates a calm, grounded presence that is transmitted to others. Having transformed her own life through healing from Multiple Sclerosis, Pati offers wisdom on the path to health and freedom.

Northeast USA Continuum Teachers