Doris Maranda

What would it be like to live a fully sensual life, to be so tuned into your senses that you would know instinctively what is occurring not just in your own body but in others’ bodies & in the body of the earth? Australian Aboriginals know where a member of their tribe is within 1,000 miles, where water is, and are able to commune with different species in the natural world. Being tuned in to that extent is foreign to our modern Western culture & probably scary. Yet, 80% of the information received in our brain comes directly from the senses.
In order to live more fully in the realm of the senses, we need to surrender our reliance on the thinking mind & on our past experiences, to attend to what is occurring here & now, inside our bodies, in our connection to earth, gravity, ground, space, to the context we are in. In this workshop, we will focus on practices of sensory awareness, and of perceiving & moving from the inside out.

Tapping into your Visionary Self

We all have the potential to perceive beyond our limited, habitual ways, to see our relationship to self, to others & to the world. To tap into the mystery, to the unknown, unrealized parts of ourselves, we need to shift our gaze & open up to new possibilities, open up our dreams to “the thin place where the seen meets the unseen.” Springtime is a time of new beginnings, seeds that have been planted in the soil over the dark time of winter, now begin to sprout & emerge from the earth where they’ve been composting, preparing to be transformed.

We need a supportive & enlivening container to enter into this adventure, to find the missing, unexplored realms in ourselves. In this workshop, we will use the tools & processes of Continuum, to create a neurally rich, hibernative field which supports & enriches the slowing down into an empty, still place where each of us finds the opening to who we really are & our connection to the larger field.

Saturday, February 20th “Journey into the Realm of the Senses,” & Saturday March 27th “Tapping into your Visionary Self,”
Time: 2-5pm @ Yoga on 7th, 156 E7 (between Main & Quebec – enter @ side off alley). Investment $45 for each workshop or $80 for both. (20% off for underemployed).

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MARCH 19-21, Optional 22, 2010 VANCOUVER, B.C. CANADA
SUSAN HARPER
HEART OF AWAKENING

Each heart
contains our
essential song,
which dwells
in seed form,
and waits
to be watered
with attention
and nourished with
genuine emotion.
Together we create a
context of awakening,
courtship of the
mystery and
creative expression.
This weekend is
devoted to practices
of movement,
awakening
wholehearted
attention, and
perceiving the
discoveries of the
listening body.
On the optional
Monday we deepen
the explorations
with a small group,
which allows for
individual inquiry
and attention.

WHAT WILL WE DO?
In deep long movement dives, we breathe, slow down, sound, listen, feel, deepen our capacity for fluid
grounded embodiment, and rest into spacious silence. We explore movement in the language of life
with subtle wave motion, primordial breaths and sounds, micromovements with open attention.
Through movement, perception and new coordination we strengthen the roots of our heart in our legs,
feet and pelvis. We express what lives in our heart through the gestures of our hands, arms, and body.

INQUIRE IN A CONTEXT OF DISCOVERY – The unknown in each of our hearts is deeply personal and
intimately connected to the heart of the world. May this be a context for your soul to awaken,
discover, and articulate your heartfelt longings, and offer your discoveries to our world.
Many of us spend much of our energy protecting our tender, sensitive hearts from being overwhelmed,
and from further heart wounds. Through perceptual and movement exercises we will build whole body
resources to arouse the fire of the heart, to build strength of heart, in embodied ways, to support
having a tender, receiving heart as we awaken our generative, full of passion, creative heart.

LOCATION: Canadian Memorial Church & Centre for Peace ( the Great Hall)
1825 West 16th Avenue (at Burrard) Vancouver, BC
WORKSHOP TIMES: Friday Night 7-10, Saturday 12:30-6:30pm, Sunday 2-6:30pm Optional Monday 10-5pm
FEE: Full Weekend $395, Four days $495. EARLY BIRD FEE: Weekend $325, or $445 If paid in full by February 19, 2010.
All prices are in Canadian dollars and include GST. All payments non-refundable after February 19, 2010
TO RESERVE A SPACE send a $100 non-refundable registration fee
CHEQUES PAYABLE TO: Swara Inspiritations 1831 Tyson Rd Sechelt, B.C. V0N 3A1 or Visa, MasterCard
CONTACT: Penny Allport 604 803-4607 pennyallport@gmail.com www.pennyallport.com
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT SUSAN HARPER – www.ContinuumMontage.com

SUSAN HARPER brings her thirty-five years of experience teaching
Continuum Movement internationally to all the work she develops. She teaches a
Continuum Depths retreat twice yearly with Emilie Conrad and is developing Portals of
Perception with Hubert Godard. In her Em’oceans and Sensations Training and Heart
of Dreaming work she has also been deeply influenced by the work of Chris Price,
Reggie Ray, Michael Meade, Robert Sardello, David Whyte and John O’Donohue.

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ORBITAL CONSCIOUSNESS with Emilie Conrad April 30-May 3, 2010
(description below and/or see same at http://www.continuummovement.com/cm-schedule.htm#oc-wa )

Location: Cascade Room Nexus Hotel, Northgate Seattle

Fees:
Early Registration: before April 1, $475 US

Early and Frequent Flyer: before April 1, $465 US
(attended Continuum in Seattle with Susan or Emilie in ‘09)

Regular Registration: $495 after April 1
Canada: Please send only $US funds.

Hours:
Friday 1:30PM-6:30PM
Sat 1PM-6:30PM
Sun 1PM-6:30PM
Mon 9PM-3:30PM
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Please make check payable to Doris Mosler and send to:
Doris Mosler
7015 2nd Ave NW
Seattle WA 98117
Please include your email address with your registration check so I can send an
email confirmation with driving directions and what to bring!
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More info: Contact me at 206-782-0120 or dhmosler@aol.com (best)

Wanted: Housing for Out of Towners (who will pay $20-40/night or whatever you need for your space).

Referral Discount: $25 per person you refer not already on our mailing lists.

Deposits/Cancellations: $100 will hold your space until April 15 at which time full payment is due. For the early registration discount the balance must be paid by April 1. $100 is non-refundable for any cancellations prior to April 15. After April 15, 50% of the full fee of the workshop is refundable. No refunds after April 28. Fees are not transferrable to other workshops.

Description:

Orbital Consciousess with Emilie Conrad
April 30-May 3, 2010 in Seattle, WA
Doris Mosler 206-782-0120, dhmosler@aol.com

We humans carry with us a four billion year planetary lineage that offers a 360-degree participation with the world we live in. Our bodies are in a phase-shift as all of our intrinsic functions are waiting to continue their bio-sequencing.

Our unfolding “orbital consciousness” transforms our bodies, and circulating full body breath, we gleam like an octopus. Our new structure gifts us with extended faculties,new forms of communication and ways of knowing we never thought possible.