is the original founder of Continuum Movement which she began in 1967. Emilie is a visionary whose work is being incorporated by a diverse audience of professionals from fields such as Rolfing, physical therapy, dance kinesiology, psychoneuroimmunology, and physical fitness. She was born and raised in New York City where she studied ballet and Afro-Haitian dance. She spent five years as a choreographer with a folklore company in Haiti furthering her interst in primitive dance. Her love for movement inspired her to discover the essential, primary movements common to all life forms that lie beneath cultural influence. These fundamental movements are a "cosmology" of life, where form is mutable, dissolving and shaping itself anew.
Emilie's capacity for innovation has become a revolutionary influence in the field of Somatics, movement education, and physical fitness. She has originated the Jungle Gym, a dynamic workout which strengthens by incorporating multiple angles in gravity to facilitate developing diverse muscular and skeletal relationships.
adapted from the Continumm Movement 2001 brochure
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founder of Continuum Montage, teaches internationally. Her enthusiasm for the inquiry into life as mysterious has involved her with Emilie Conrad since 1975. Understanding the tremendous resource of movement and organismic intelligence is essential to all her experiments. Susan is interested in creating a dialogue of meaning between the silent organism and the mostly non-verbal, internal psyche process. She developed Portals of Perception, Continuum Dreamtime, and Em'oceans and Sensations Trainings. Susan Harper is passionate about facilitating the uniqueness of each person's creative process. She supports immersion into the depths and emergence--"coming into being." In addition to Emilie Conrad, original founder of Continuum Movement, Susan teaches with Chris Price - Gestalt Awareness Practice, Peter Levine - Somatic Experiencing, Wendy Palmer - Intuitive Body Work, Gary David - Epistemics, and Hubert Godard - Perceptural Movement work.
She also offers Quest trips in the wilderness and Asia. Quest trips are for celebrating what is still wild, inside and out. In addition to Emilie, Susan acknowledges the influence of Chris Price - Gestalt Awareness Practice, Gary David - Epistemics, Wendy Palmer - Aikido/Intuitive Body, Anne Isaacs - Bodynamics, Peter Levine - Somatic Experiencing and Hubert Goddard; in her work.
adapted from the Continumm Movement 2001 brochure
Susan Harper
Continuum Montage
1653 18th Street #3A
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310-449-6653 phone
310-453-6218 fax
www.ContinuumMontage.com
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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.
Simultaneously, Gary began his studies in epistemology, the theory of knowledge. In 1964 he met Canadian J. Samuel Bois, an ex-Jesuit, psychologist, general semanticist, and epistemologist. Bois was transforming epistemology into a new field called Epistemics, or the science-art of innovating in the field of "human being theory." Gary received a doctorate in Epistemics in 1975 at the Union Institute. Beginning in 1974 Gary participated in the movement work of Emilie Conrad called Continuum, where he helped to develop the music and introduced her students to epistemics. His long-standing interest in the biology of emotion also led him to join the Silvan Tomkins Institute where he began to study affect-script psychology in earnest and incorporated its insights into epistemics. Gary's presentation at the 2000 Tomkins Institute annual conference "Optimizing Connections" allowed him to show how participating in music can allow people to come together in freedom from scripts that might otherwise prevent joining. In 1999, with science writer Brian Rothery in Ireland, he helped create the website Philosphere, dedicated to the promotion of 20th century epistemics writers. Gary is also the editor of J. S. Bois' introductory college textbook.
Gary David continues to make music, doing occasional concerts and releasing recordings. Currently, he gives seminars and has a private practice in epistemic counseling, including affect education.
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an authorized Continuum Movement teacher, has been integrating movement, artistic expression, spirituality and healing throughout her professional career as a dancer, teacher, and choreographer. Her teaching weaves together her extensive training in both classical and modern dance, numerous exercise systems, 20 years of study within the Sufi Tradition, and her experience as a practitioner of Mariel healing energy. Robin is the founder and Artistic Director of Life Through Dance Inc., and has served on the faculties of American Ballet Theater, the Fiorello Laguardia High School of Performing Arts, Hofstra University and the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies. She also leads workshops on creativity and improvisation and is committed to working with people as they seek deeper connection to life through the body. She is a Northeast Continuum teacher. She can be reached at 212-316-2958 or robinkbecker@aol.com.
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.
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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.
is a movement integration professional and creator of The Breathable Body. He is an Authorized Continuum Movement teacher and developer of Continuum Anatomy. Robert has been working in the field of health since 1988 teaching and maintaining a private practice in movement & breath education in Tucson, Arizona. He was a faculty member and head of the Departments of Anatomy & Physiology and Movement Education at the Tucson-based Desert Institute of the Healing Arts Massage School for 12 years.
He is the founder, director and Certified Practitioner of Asthma Free Arizona, teaching The Buteyko Institute Method of Breathing Retraining helping people with breathing disorders such as asthma, anxiety, allergies, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue to control their symptoms and reduce their medications. Robert teaches internationally and throughout the US, has an advanced certification in the Duggan-French Approach to Movement Education, which has provided him with hands on skills to help guide clients’ movement and breath education awareness processes.
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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.
