Continuum Australia® Continuum Australia is the heart of Continuum Down Under. Continuum Australia integrates breath, sound, movement and dance into a healing movement and life practice, based on the work originated by Emilie Conrad. Emilie mentored Continuum Australia’s founder, Amber E Gray, who become an authorized Continuum teacher in 2006.
Continuum Australia® offers live and virtual individual sessions, trainings, classes, workshops, depths retreats, immersions, master classes and a mentoring program in the practice of Continuum. Simultaneously meditation and contemplation; movement and dance; bodywork and breath work, Continuum Australia’s services offer healing, rest, rejuvenation, restoration and reconnection to the magic and mystery of life. Recognising life as energy, and our body as 70-80% fluid, just like earth; self -generated breath-streams and soundscapes invoke our natural capacity for free, unconstrained movement. Liberating our movement is an invitation to open our hearts and connect to our world in a meaningful way. Simply put, we become the wholeness we already are.
The History of Continuum Australia®: Continuum Australia® began with a life-vivid dream, so sharp and articulate it was just like waking life.
In the dream, I was seated on a rocking chair, on the porch of an old cabin, situated in the middle of the red earth. It reminded me of a miner’s cabin from the 1800’s. The earth, the space, the environment was still. Only I moved, rocking slowly in the chair.
As I peered out into the vast red, I saw movement. Approaching. A snake. A large – very large—python. Slowly, steadfast in its serpentine movements, it crossed the red earth, heading directly for me. It did not falter when it arrived to the 3 wooden steps that climbed to the porch. I felt its undulations as I watched it slither, belly-warm on sun-basked wood, up the stairs, across the porch and to my chair. It did not stop. When she arrived to the chair I was sitting on, she climbed. I recall the contact; the coolness of her skin mixed with warmth left over from traversing the desert floor. I felt pressure, a topical caress, the S shape of her moment on my flesh. When her head reached my sternum, she paused, and rested her head into this place. She pressed into me, and her pressure left an imprint. I recognized that imprint as love.
Amber first visited Australia in 2008, to give a talk and class on Dance Movement therapy with survivors of torture at a conference, sponsored by Sydney-based STARTTS. In subsequent visits to speak or teach, she began weaving Continuum with Dance Movement Therapy. After a one-day workshop at a conference in Melbourne, she had this dream, which she recognised as an invitation from the red earth of Australia to introduce Continuum.
Since that dream, Continuum Australia has grown. Continuum Australia now has two Aussie teachers, and virtual and live offerings ongoing. 13 students are enrolled in the Continuum Australia Mentoring Program, and we are soon to launch a practitioners and depth teachers training program.
