{"id":8573,"date":"2024-07-18T08:58:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T12:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=8573"},"modified":"2024-07-18T08:58:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T12:58:41","slug":"1996-continuum-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=8573","title":{"rendered":"1996: Continuum Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

From my journal for May 18, 1996\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I was at a<\/span>\u00a0Continuum<\/a> workshop. It’s a \u00a0movement practice developed by Emilie Conrad Da’oud<\/p>\n

Emilie\u2019s talk is quite fascinating.\u00a0 <\/span>I don\u2019t buy it all on a literal, scientific level, but as poetry, as suggestion, it creates a context in which new things can be experienced.\u00a0 <\/span>She started by saying that we think we know what we are, what a human being is, but in fact we have no idea what we are, or even if<\/span> we\u2019re here.\u00a0 <\/span>She described how we began as aquatic beings, and as we stabilize, choosing a narrow path thru many possibilities, we become rigid, and lose touch with the source place from which we can be nourished.\u00a0 <\/span>Then we need to liquify our rigidities and dissolve our tightly held boundaries, in order to get back in touch with the source.\u00a0 <\/span>She described people who grow up in a hostile environment, hunching her shoulders to show the rigid defensive pattern.\u00a0 <\/span>Someone said after paying so much attention to the inner world she found it very hard to move.\u00a0 <\/span>Emilie said that could be a result of making too sharp a distinction between inner and outer, e.g. that the inner world is full and rich and meaningful and the outer one is not important.\u00a0 <\/span>This can make it hard to move.\u00a0 <\/span>Emilie says \u201cYou must push through that wall. You must just rough it.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was a lot of talk about \u201cself-referential.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>This work is obviously self-referential, we look inside ourselves for what to do next, for the meaning of our experience.\u00a0 <\/span>Emilie said that the beginning of all political systems is looking for some authority to tell you who you are and what your life means.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For a while after this workshop, Continuum was a very important part of my day. It helped me hold together psychologically, and improved my body’s flexibility. It’s possible that I stopped doing it during the Summer from Hell<\/a> in 1996. Haven’t read far enough in 1996 to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From my journal for May 18, 1996\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I was at a\u00a0Continuum workshop. It’s a \u00a0movement practice developed by Emilie Conrad Da’oud Emilie\u2019s talk is quite fascinating.\u00a0 I don\u2019t buy it all on a literal, scientific level, but … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}