Continuum Movement Fall Newsletter
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Dear friends,
Hope this fall newsletter finds you relaxing before our year starts to wind to a close. I have some good news to share with you.
First, Liz Koch has written a very interesting book that she asked me to read and review. As some of you may know, Liz taught with Emilie Conrad several times. There is a deep connection between the two of them and with Continuum as a whole. For more information and my review please read below. Hint - I recommend ;-)
There is to be a Conscious Dance Conference offered virtually that I will be participating in. You can register free with the link below. My talk/class will be November 2 at 10 AM Eastern time. Hope you will join in. I would love to have friends like you there as I share my love for Continuum Movement.
I have an ongoing virtual class going for advanced students of Continuum called Deepening. I feel such gratitude for this group—Our experience of Continuum keeps growing as our shared deep caring about each other unfolds. There is a prerequisite of taking one of Continuum Movement introductory virtual classes to join.
There will be a new introductory virtual class offered after the first of the year called Continuum Movement’s Core Elements. More to come.
Last but not least the Continuum Movement teachers are doing so many wonderful classes around the world. Please go to the teachers’ link and find out what is happening.
Remember to keep relaxing and enjoying every breath.
With waves of love,
Donnalea
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Donnalea's Review:
Liz Koch is known throughout the world on her writings and workshops on the Psoas muscle. Her latest book
Stalking the Wild Psoas
explores and takes us farther in understanding our bodies. She brings in her wealth of knowledge that she has developed by teaching with and studying with somatic greats like Emilie Conrad Da’oud. I recommend this book for all who wish to develop more understanding and connection with their bodies.
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Named after the exploratory workshop of the same name,
Stalking Wild Psoas
contains nine short essays to inspire somatic therapists, bodyworkers, yoga, and movement teachers to conceive of body not as an object to be fixed, but as a self-organizing, self-healing, and bio-intelligent system.Shifting the paradigm,
Stalking Wild Psoas
urges the reader to begin changing the language of body to actively explore the psoas as a vital messenger of integrity and creative expression. Weaving new findings in biology, living systems thinking, somatic movement, and storytelling, Liz Koch emboldens us to recognize the limitations of the predominant mechanical thinking about body and to actively explore psoas as a vital core messenger.
Liz Koch, author of Core Awareness and The Psoas Book seeks to dissolve the objectification of “body” in order to reconceptualize humans beings as biologically intelligent, self-organizing, and self-healing. Specifically addressing educators and therapists she delves into the conceptual framework of core by decolonizing the popular mechanistic thinking of psoas as muscle, inviting the reader on a journey toward re-engaging with life’s creative processes. The book illuminates the limitations of the predominant paradigm of body and actively explores psoas as a vital intelligent messenger that links us to an expansive network of profound possibilities. Employing biomorphic and embryonic paradigms, Koch redefines psoas as smart, expressive tissue that is both elemental and universal. Named after her popular exploratory workshops of the same name, Stalking Wild Psoas encourages all readers to nourish integrity and claim self-efficacy as creative and expressive individuals.
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Conscious Dance Conference
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Donnalea will be participating in this conference on Saturday, November 2nd at 10 AM-11 AM. She hopes you will join her.
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This
live online conference
will bring a delightful and rich exploration of conscious dance in your own home. Featuring school founders, and some of the most experienced teachers from around the globe, you will have the chance to taste a variety of different practices. Each session will be an hour long followed by a chat-room to meet other conference participants and share your experience.
This conference is designed to inspire and connect us as a global community. Since 2013, OneDanceTribe gathers school founders, senior teachers, spiritual leaders, world class healers, artists and dancers to share the experience of meeting as one global tribe . This online event will extend beyond the physical boundaries of the dance floor and allow many more people from around the world to join in the experience.
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Deepening Into Continuum Movement Virtual Workshop
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This event is running from 19 October 2019 until 9 November 2019. It is next occurring on October 19, 2019 10:00 am.
This is a live webinar session(s) where we dive together, plus audio and video recordings.
NOTE:
*You must have prior experience in Continuum Movement to take this course.*
Upcoming Dates:
- October 19, 2019 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
- October 26, 2019 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
- A break - but join me at the Conscious Dance Conference Virtual November 2, 2019 10:00 am – 11:00 am--this is a free event
- November 9, 2019 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
- November 16, 2019 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Deepening Part 1 – Fluid Dynamics and the Body, October 19 and 26, 2019
Deepening Part 2 – The Biology of Love, November 9 and 16, 2019
- WHEN: October 9 & 26 and November 9 & 16
- TIME: 10:00am – 12:30pm Eastern
- COST: Early Bird $125 extended to October 6; after $175
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Continuum Movement Training Program - Module 7 and 8
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MODULE 7:
This event is running from 9 January 2020 until 13 January 2020.
Developmental Movement & Body Systems Development
- Focus: Embryological implications, Pre and Perinatal imprints on the body
MODULE 8:
This event is running from 14 January 2020 until 18 January 2020.
Reading the Body, Observing Perception
- Focus- Understanding what the Body is Saying
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