PRESENCE: Continuum Improvisations

PRESENCE is a new somatic movement workshop series that blends Continuum Movement® with improvisational dance practices. Together, we’ll dive deep into individual practice, then explore what unfolds as we bring those experiences into shared movement in community. This series aims to deepen somatic awareness while fostering meaningful connections with others. Drop in for one class or take the whole series!

Description

This somatic movement workshop series explores the intersection of individual, contemplative practice with collective improvisation. Grounding our inquiry in the principles of Continuum, we will explore how we can take the potency, clarity, and fluidity that can arise from contemplative practice into the realm of relationship through somatic movement. Practicing a form of presence that keeps one eye on our internal experience and one eye on our relationships with others and the larger environment, we play with how we can balance attention in a way that honors our own flourishing and skillfully responds to all that we encounter.

The practice will start in a Continuum dive. When we are in the diving space, we are focused entirely on our internal experience, drawing on breath and sound to activate intuitive movement by following sensation. If the desire arises, we can leave the individual dive space, and enter a collective movement space where we open to interacting with other movers and the larger environment. When in this collective space, we practice a form of presence that attends to our internal experience while relating to others. At any point, we can return to our individual dive space, and we may even oscillate between the two. The aspiration is to find play – and maybe even joy! – as we lean into embodied trust in both individual and collective movement practice.

What is Continuum?

Continuum Movement® (CM) is a somatic practice that combines breath, vocalization (sounding), and intuitive movement to tap into the fluid nature of the body. Modern life—with its impossible work expectations, oppressive structures, and unlivable environments—can disconnect the body from its inherently fluid, lively, and creative state. Through gentle explorations, CM practices teach us to move the body intuitively by listening to the language of sensation, while giving full permission to be guided by pleasure and ease. Unlike other movement modalities that focus on physical form and external technique, Continuum teaches us to slow down and trust the body—regardless of how the movement appears on the outside. Continuum may be of particular interest to people who want to move their bodies in community without pressure or expectation about how the movement “looks.”

Cost 

Drop-In: $28

5 Class Pass: $125