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Emilie Conrad 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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Susan Harper, 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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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.

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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Robin Becker, 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.

Kathy Benners is an authorized Continuum teacher with an extensive background in dance and Shiatsu massage. Using Continuum, she is working with clients that suffer from various ailments, including paralysis due to stroke and post-polio syndrome. Kathy’s Continuum classes meld students at the beginner level with those who have many years of experience. Kathy resides with her family in New York City and is a Northeast Continuum teacher. She can be reached at 917-864-8232 or mkbenners@nyc.rr.com.

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.

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Kevin Smith co-leads Jungle Gym intensives with Emilie Conrad as part of an ongoing inquiry into the nature of movement, health, and fitness. He is an advanced practitioner of Rolfing, and an instructor at The Moving Body in Bearsville, NY, a studio specializing in individualized exercise programs based on the work developed by Joseph Pilates and Julio Horvathâs Gyrotonics. He is an avid road and mountain biker, and lives in Bearsville. He is a Northeast Continuum teacher. kdsmith@netstep.net

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.

Robert Litman 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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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.

Kevin Frank is an Advanced Certified Rolfer. He has practiced structural integration for 18 years and has written extensively on the gravity response approach to Structural Integration. Kevin and Caryn are the co-founders of Resources in Movement in Holderness, NH. They are the co-authors of a forthcoming book, The Evolutionary Sequence: Explorations in Meaning and Movement. Articles about and by Kevin and Caryn can be found at www.resourcesinmovement.com

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.

Elaine Colandrea has 30 years of experience as a somatic educator and student of somatic practices, 20 years of experience as a bodyworker and NYS licensed massage therapist, and a lifetime of dancing on planet Earth! Influential teachers include Emilie Conrad, Susan Harper, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Robert Ellis Dunn, Irene Dowd, Lenore Latimer, and Erick Hawkins. She is an authorized Northeast Continuum teacher, and she holds a Muscular Therapy Institute Certification, and an M.A. in Dance/Dance Education from Columbia University.

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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.

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Northeast USA Continuum Teachers

Mary Abrams
New York, NY
212-206-7542
mary@movingbodyresources.com

Robin Becker
New York City
212-316-2958

East Chatham
518-392-9805
robinkbecker@aol.com

Kathy Benners
New York, NY
212-799-5574
mkbenners@nyc.rr.com

Kim Brodey
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
416-690-8470
kbrodey@iprimus.ca

Ellen Cohen
Ardmore, PA
610-645-6050
whitewinde@comcast.net

Elaine Colandrea
Rhinecliff, NY
845-758-4143
colandrea@webjogger.net

Bobbie Ellis
Highland Park, NJ
732-777-9642
somactr@aol.com

Sheila Evans
Rochester, NY
585-482-5703
sheila.evans@greece.k12.ny.us

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Martha Harrell
New York, NY
212-877-3347
martha.h@mindspring.com

Kathleen Hill
New York, NY
212-851-2713
khill@theschool.columbia.edu

Sondra Howell
Birchrunville, PA
610-933-8095
slhowl@aol.com

Melanie Noblit-Gambino
Westchester, NY
914-276-0457
fluidform@aol.com

Kevin Smith
Bearsville, NY
845-679-2335
kdsmith@netstep.net

Pati Stillwater
Springfield, MA
413-781-4044
stillh2o@crocker.com

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