Continuum is a unique inquiry into our capacity to innovate and participate in the essential, generative, and biological movement processes of life.
This professional training will integrate Continuum theory and practices into trauma therapy. We will explore movement in an experiential group practice and as a dyadic therapy application.
Continuum practitioners will learn how to offer trauma resolution opportunities that safely ground the client. Therapists will learn how to offer elegant subtle movement practices to aid their clients through stuck trauma responses.
We will learn the language of life with micromovements, subtle wave motion, primordial breathing, and sound streams. The explorations are guided by a philosophy of respect for innate organismic intelligence, which guides healing and creativity.
We invite psychotherapists, trauma therapists, movement professionals, coaches, mental health professionals, and bodyworkers into this journey of weaving continuum principles into the process of healing.
In small group explorations, we develop the witnessing and resonance skills needed to attend to our unique sensory experience and the inner workings of how we perceive. Spacious resourced movements can support us in titrating difficult sensations arising from undigested traumas. Skills to feel, identify, process, and communicate our sensations, needs, and emotions are developed.
This training provides exercises and skills in developing:
- Somatic Resources: Connection to Organismic Intelligence, Breath, Capacity for Grounding, and Open Perceptual and Sensory Channels
- Embodied Presence and Resonance: with others and the natural world
- Trauma Resolution: through the fluid engagement of the soma and psyche, trauma techniques that are tailored for movement interventions
- Intrapersonal Dialogue: exploring your inner cognitive and somatic experiences
- Interpersonal Relating: self and other, dyadic toolkit
Schedule
May 15 – June 26, 2025
- 6 live online learning sessions, weekly via Zoom
- 4-day in-person intensive in Berkeley, CA
- 6 peer-led practice group sessions, weekly via Zoom
Live Online Modules (via Zoom), 9am-12pm PST:
May 15 | May 22 | June 5 | June 12 | June 19 | June 26
In-Person Intensive (Berkeley, CA):
May 29 – June 1, 2025
Daily Schedule (PST)
- 9:30 – 11:30am: Learning Activities
- 11:30 – 11:45am: Break
- 11:45 am – 12:45pm: Learning Activities
- 1 – 2:30pm: Lunch
- 2:30 – 3:45pm: Learning Activities
- 3:45 – 4pm: Break
- 4 – 5:30pm: Learning Activities
Peer Group Practice Sessions (via Zoom)
There will be six weekly peer practice sessions, each lasting 1.5 hours. The dates for these sessions will be announced soon.
Price
For more information and to register: https://embodywise.com/continuum-training/
For question, please contact Embodywise: info@embodywise.com
How to Take An Online Course
We use Zoom. You’ll need a computer, iPad or iPhone, and a good internet connection
- Download the latest Zoom app: https://zoom.us/download. It is painless, fast, and free.
- If you have a computer, choose that over the iPad or iPhone, not only will the sound be better but also you can interact more and see more of others.
- For better sound quality, connect to an external speaker.
How do I join online?
You will receive a confirmation email after you pay for the retreat. The Zoom information will be emailed to you closer in time to the retreat. Please do not share this link and Zoom information with anyone else since we want to ensure that the people who are registering for the class will be able to attend.
About the Teachers
SUSAN HARPER, MSME/T, opens portals of exploratory consciousness. She has the ability to transmit experiences of primal and spiritual fluidity. She inspires participation resulting in embodied innovative discoveries. She teaches internationally and has been contributing to the evolution of Continuum since 1975. She is the developer of Living Dreams, Body of Relating and Perception Trainings. She is a founding member of the Continuum Teacher’s Association.
Susan's Longer Bio: Click HereWebsite: www.continuummontage.com
MANUELA MISCHKE-REEDS, MA, MFT, is a Certified Hakomi Therapist, Trauma Psychotherapist, and Continuum Teacher. She created ISITTA, an integrative trauma method, and teaches internationally in Somatic Psychology and Trauma Therapy. With 25+ years of experience, she mentors professionals, leads group work, and has taught at CIIS, JFK University, and Sofia University.
Manuela has supported survivors of political oppression and torture and led Ketamine Assisted Therapy for first responders. She is the author of 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness and Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox: 125 Worksheets and Exercises to Treat Trauma & Stress.
Manuela's Longer Bio: Click HereWebsite: www.embodywise.com