Beth’s core focus is transmitting Continuum - a somatic movement and embodiment practice developed by dancer and movement pioneer Emilie Conrad.
Beth has been teaching Continuum to individuals and groups for over 40 years and also offers an in-depth program for students who are oriented toward deepening their experience in this material.
On this site, you can find information on studying with Beth in the individual, online class, and retreat contexts. In addition to live zoom teaching from California, Beth sees clients online from around the world who have an interest in deepening their felt-sense of wholeness, embodiment, ease, and vitality.
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Water Call
In our garden,
The seasonal change comes with the wind,
Heralding the storehouse of Spring’s promise:
Winter’s enclosure approaches.
Bright red apples hang on branches like ornaments.
Leaves begin to release earthward,
dissolving once more
Into loam. Sap water shifts from its upwelling surges
To the drawing down invitation of roots.
I, too, yield to the changing seasons and tides of living now –
My cellular water calls me into root and rest.
Liquid rising and falling inside,
continually baptizing
The shore of my bones, the season of my heart, this life we are living.
Water is everywhere, always coming when called.
Here is the essential gift
Touching our toes as we stand
At the edge of a future we cannot envision.
Water is Everywhere.
Offering new nourishment,
Fresh eyes – A gaze of utter equanimity and mercy,
The very movement, nature and truth of water
Opens us to a constant presence of
unceasing aliveness
from an infinite well.
Water is Everywhere.
Calling back to the garden and to us:
Be Fresh. Be Strong. Yield and Rise Again.
~ B Riley
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“Continuum exists, or one could say that the study of Continuum is necessary, due to the progressive cultural erasing of our fundamental engagement with the life of the organism as an unbounded whole participating beyond time/space. We Moderns, over a period of time, have developed as separate and apart fro other species and the ongoing life of our planet. We have continued to fragment ourselves as living processes, and in so doing have become dangerous to ourselves and the world around us. Our organismic destiny has evaporated in the smoke of our industrialized cities. Our lack of active identification with the miraculous flow of life and the creatures that have spawned us is reflected in our surrounding spoilage, which demonstrates our disregard for the life that engendered us.”
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It is truly a blessing to be able to learn online from wherever you are. Use Beth’s On Demand Library to gain access to in-depth courses, series of classes, and even complimentary practices. Each offering is mindfully curated by Beth and weaves together movement, mindfulness, and deep connection.
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“ A meaningful practice brings positive change. Habitual tendencies preserve the status quo.”
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