Join us for this event featuring
Donnalea Van Vleet Goelz

Our Topic for the Experiential

Continuum Movement®: A moving inquiry into what it means to be a human being.

Continuum Movement is an inquiry into what it means to be a human being, providing a somatic method to explore oneself as an unfolding biological and planetary process. We will use breath, sound, and movement and tune to our inner sensations.

Biology enables us to live on this planet; culture limits how we must live. Each culture shapes the human body according to its assumptions about what a human being is, and what is best for society. The individual can become absorbed in the consensus, and the primal bio-uniqueness of the organism can be lost. A primary value of Continuum Movement is access to the universal processes within. That process is a transcultural, universal movement of fluidity.

Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum Movement stated:

“Rather than being overwhelmed by our current cultural challenges Continuum Movement accepts them as exciting opportunities to invent ourselves differently, not as bionic-humans but as the exemplars of the courageous and the daring. Let us see these times as seeds for a probable future with the wetness of the stars still gleaming in our eyes and the rush of the seas throbbing in our heart as we dream the future, and it is US."

Central goals of Continuum Movement are the creation of health and wellness, freeing oneself from the cultural and mechanistic constraints of modern society.

Experiential Flow:

• Introduce Continuum Movement
• Introduce 5 Essential Elements
• • Breath
  • Sound – teach 2 breath sounds
  • Movement
  • Sensation – Interoception-Baseline-Open Attention
  • Innovation
• Open movement dive
• Sharing, Questions, and Closing

Learning Objectives

1. Movement, breath, and sound will be used to awaken our inner sensations. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to demonstrate 2 Continuum Movement® breath/sounds and describe how they changed their awareness of interior sensations.

2. The participant will be able to demonstrate how to take a baseline of CM practice to calm and regulate their body as well as the other benefits.

3. The participant will be able to describe what interoception is and be able to give a physical example from their own experience.

4. The participant will be able to describe by tuning into their body and demonstrating how different breaths can evoke different responses from their body.

5. The participant will be able to demonstrate fluid wave movement of Continuum Movement® and discuss the sensations in the body from doing this form of movement.

6. From experiencing the difference between mechanical movement and fluid movement the participant will have a physical understanding of the benefits and the drawbacks of both movement styles.

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About Our Facilitator

 Presented By:
 Donnalea Van Vleet Goelz

Donnalea has a PhD in Clinical Somatic Psychology and is a courtesy Research Assistant Professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville. She is executive director of Continuum Movement®, founded by Emilie Conrad Da’oud, and a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, where she served as senior faculty in the U.S. and Europe as Dean of the third year. She has taught and been on the faculty of several different educational institutions: the University of Florida, the University of North Florida, Esalen Institute, Open Center, Kripalu, and Hollyhock Educational Institute. Currently, she is involved in somatic research at the University of Florida and the University of North Florida and presents at trauma conferences worldwide.

Publications:

Donnalea has three books that she has contributed to coming out in the next year and hopefully two research papers:

1. Somatic-Oriented Therapies Edited by Herbert Grassmann PhD, Maurizio Stupiggia PhD, & Stephen W. Porges PhD published by Norton Professional Books

2. Safe and Sound: A Polyvagal Approach to Connection, Change, and Healing. Karen Onderko and Stephen Porges. Sounds True.

3. The new foreword for the reprinting of Life on Land by Emilie Conrad, North Atlantic Books.

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Event Preparation Info

This event will include our special Overtime! 
Overtime allows attendees to continue to ask questions and invite conversation on the event material, other related inquiries, or cases after the formal event ends.

Prepare for movement
Please come dressed in loose fitting clothes and the space to move around. If you can bring a mat to lie on that would be helpful. 

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Event Format - 9:50 am PST start time

• 10 min welcome and program set up talk
• 50 min experiential
• 10 min check ins, shares, and closing
• Overtime begins

Cost 
Free to members and guest.

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USABP ON THE MOVE is an opportunity for our community to connect and experience restorative practices while getting exposure to many forms of somatic movement and mindful body-awareness programs. 

The root of e-motion is “to move.” The same regions of the brain responsible for movement also carry out our cognitive processes. Our brain evolved from movement and still depends on it day to day. Join us to discover how conscious movement can bring nourishing restoration, playful community connection, and the understanding of how moving helps our thoughts, words, and actions.

Somatic tools may include, among others, breath, movement, self-directed touch, sound vibration, and conscious dialogue.

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