A joyful body expresses a lightness of being. A buoyant body floats. There is levity, resilience. This is a body unencumbered by density and allows the weight of grief to transform into acceptance and compassion. A buoyant body sustains a buoyant mind, a buoyant heart. It is a balance point in the continuum of human feeling and sensation, a cellular remembrance of grace.

Continuum is a self-directed, somatic practice that meets every layer of our being. Weaving breath, sound/vibration, fluid movement, attention and felt sensation, we enter the direct experience and language of our body, gently opening space and releasing tensions long held in our tissues.

Continuum allows each person to move at their own pace with curiosity. It is through our attention, moment by moment, that we reenter the field of sensation and feeling, discovering new movement. Here, we experience ourselves freshly, reclaiming a depth of aliveness and joyful embodiment.

In this Introduction to Continuum, we will explore:

~ How sound impulses deepen sensation

~ Fluid movement as the movement of love & consciousness

~ Opening the breath

~ Spaciousness as joy

~ Buoyancy in the spine, heart and head

~ The dance of gravity and levity

SCHEDULE:

Thursday thru Saturday;

session one: 9AM - 12PM

Lunch: 12PM -1:30PM

session two: 1:30PM - 4PM

LOCATION

Mana Mauna Studio in Mountain View, Hawaii

Located between Hilo and Hawaii Volcano National Park

(Please contact us directly for address)

GETTING HERE & ACCOMMODATIONS FOR OFF-ISLAND FOLKS

We are located about 25 minutes from the Hilo, Hawai’i Airport. It is suggested that you rent a car while you are here as public transportation is spotty and unreliable. Cars can be easily picked up at the airport.

You can also fly into the Kona Airport which is 2 hours away and drive over to the Hilo side. It is recommended that you spend a couple of days on the Kona side of the island too during your visit.

TUITION

$325

To register, please contact Sabine: sabine@resonantbody.com

The answer to exhaustion is not necessarily rest. It is whole heartedness.

~ Brother David Steindl-Rast

A deep well of Eros is at the core of each our our spiritual natures. It is the force of energy moving through existence that evokes union, creativity and new forms. It is what allows us to express our vitality through art and relationship to ourselves, each other and the world.

Speed & compression in modern culture shuts down our innate capacities to feel & embody the nourishing & supporting tides that Eros continuously offers. Eros is the primary healer inherent in our organism that exhilarates self, enlivens our tissues, restores our vitality & nourishes our passion, all of which are paramount to our health. This allows the flow of spirit to eradicate fear and stagnation.

Can we move beyond our preconceived cultural misconceptions of what our erotic nature is and allow ourselves to experience our primal birthright to pleasure and wholeness which allow us to and express our unique song of Creation?

In the Alchemy of Eros, we will cultivate new territories of embodied consciousness. Through the potent art of Continuum & Resonant practices, we will use self-inquiry, sensate awareness, movement and sound to arrive in the landscape of Love & claim the full expressivity of our unique aliveness.

We will explore:

Releasing tension & reversing the cumulative effects of stress

Our potential for greater resilience & spaciousness

Sensuality and receptivity

Alternate dimensions to consciousness beyond thought

Vast resources of imagination and creativity

Continuum experience required.LOCATION

Mana Mauna Studio in Mountain View, Hawaii

Located between Hilo and Hawaii Volcano National Park

(Please contact us directly for address)

GETTING HERE & ACCOMMODATIONS FOR OFF-ISLAND FOLKS

We are located about 25 minutes from the Hilo, Hawai’i Airport. It is suggested that you rent a car while you are here as public transportation is spotty and unreliable. Cars can be easily picked up at the airport.

You can also fly into the Kona Airport which is 2 hours away and drive over to the Hilo side. It is recommended that you spend a couple of days on the Kona side of the island too during your visit.

Accommodations are not included but we are happy to help you find nearby short-term rentals. Search in the “Fern Acres” or “Mountain View” area of the Big Island.

For all questions about getting here and accommodations, please contact:

Thea - cynthiabates88gmail.com - 808-205-0401

SCHEDULE

Wednesday, January 20 - Sunday, January 24

Wednesday, January 20

1:00 - 5:00 pm

Thursday, Friday, Saturday January 21-23

9:00am - 12:00pm

Lunch Break

1:30 - 4:30pm

Sunday, January 24

1:00 - 5:00 pm

Group Dinner and Music

INVESTMENT

The cost for the 3 day workshop is $575 per person

This includes all session plus the community dinner on the last evening

This does not include accommodations or daily meals.

To register, contact Sabine; sabine@resonantbody.com

Payment plans are available, please contact me.

The human organism is designed for buoyancy, our true baseline and compass. Buoyancy is a state of being that encompasses lightness and joy as well as resilience. It is both antidote and medicine, moving us from the stagnant energies of repetition and routine into realms fresh with newness.

Buoyancy requires a sacrifice – a willingness to live lighter, to simplify, to grieve and accept, to embrace yourself fully with compassion and love. Nature reveals an intelligence based in equilibrium, making corrections to restore balance. As the digital age has reinforced compression of information to support greater velocity, our human organism has sacrificed spaciousness and sensate capacity. When moving at speed, we narrow focus and limit sensation, numbing feelings. Instead, we exist in a state of abstraction. Speed and compression come at a high cost – chronic contraction, increased density, exhaustion and having no space/time to metabolize our felt sense experience of life. This occurs at ALL levels of our being – body, mind, feelings and soul. Living turns to burden and endurance and eventually, depression and despair.

Buoyancy in the body opens a felt sense of spaciousness, boundless in scope, vast enough to contain all you are, all you have experienced, all your contradictions and uncertainties. In buoyancy, we discover a capacity to live with unknowing, to be in the moment to moment unfolding of life's continuum. In this awareness, we become the place where joy touches grief, where pain is held in compassion, where the infinite confluence of our direct human experience brings us into wholeness.

Accessing the wisdom of our bio-intelligence, our body becomes a portal to shifting habits of negative thinking, returning us to felt sensation and the voltage of our potent feelings. Intuition surfaces from our depths, guiding us with discernment and clarity. We recenter ourselves in raw direct experience, confident in our belonging, our creativity, and our movement through life. Perhaps most importantly, buoyancy ignites the flame of love we are, a mystery beyond all others, the true healer within.

Continuum is a somatic practice that meets every layer of our being. Weaving breath, sound/vibration, fluid movement, attention and felt sensation, we enter the direct experience and language of our body, gently opening space and releasing tensions long held in our tissues. Continuum is self-directed allowing each person to move at their own pace with curiosity. It is through our attention, moment by moment, that we reenter the field of sensation and feeling, discovering new movement. Here, we experience ourselves freshly, reclaiming a depth of aliveness and joyful embodiment.

Sunday, November 15 & December 13

12PM - 3PM EST

Tuition: $125

Classes are recorded & uploaded to Dropbox

To Register: sabine@resonantbody.com