1) THE MEETING
My journey with Continuum Movement started earlier in 2010 in Israel
during a “Mystery School” retreat, led by Emilie Conrad, the founder of this
practice.
I knew little about Continuum, just that it was a somatic inquiry supposed to
help chronic pain or physical injuries. I was interested in somatic since I
started my dance education, and I had experienced different approaches, such
as Body Mind Centering, the Feldenkrais method, Qi Gong, Yoga, and so on…
I was striving to heal my body, as critical physical issues were
limiting my future as a dance artist, and I knew intuitively that this
healing was encompassing much more than the physical
dysfunctions. Emotional, mental and spiritual matters would show up
in this process.
On the first day, as I was helping to set up the room for the workshop, on the
border of the Galilee Sea, I suddenly felt a presence watching over me. In my
felt remembrance, it was similar to a spiralling breath, moving, seeing, and
penetrating everything in this room.
A second later, at the door, stood this woman, radiant, full of life and fierce.
With this weird and intense sensation of being seen like never before, I was
meeting Emilie Conrad.
To me, she embodied the living alchemy of
the Eye of the Spirit in a friendly and
engaging way.
From this beautiful woman, yet in her midseventieth, emanated waves of fluid motion
penetrating matter, body, personal history, psyche,
atoms, cells and molecules.
Through her, the Eternal was breathing.
Inhaling Form, exhaling the dissolution of
Form.
Rhythmically and cyclically, transforming the
physical world into a constant process of renewal
and regeneration.
Emilie Conrad (1934 – 2014)
Emilie’s presence was all that, and that was her teaching, a lifelong inquiry,
the history of Continuum Movement.
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