DeepBody AVL:
Somatics & Continuum

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Inhabit, Down-Regulate & Be Nourished by your fluid body in an in-person group container in Asheville, NC.

  • Reset your nervous system

  • Enliven your senses

  • Nourish your soul

For Asheville Body Explorers

This weekly offering is an invitation for you to:

  • Bring what is alive in your life to class

  • Come find deep reset and rejuvenation

  • Come to expand your capacity for pleasure

  • Learn this new practice to support your self & co-regulation

  • Gather in a group to be felt, seen and received

  • Bring your ongoing nervous system & body challenges

  • Meet others interested in somatics, trauma healing and embodiment

Based on the practices of Continuum Movement, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Polarity Therapy and Pre and Perinatal Somatics.

Arrive at 6:15pm, doors close at 6:35pm, ending at 8:45pm.

This class incudes some verbal sharing, creating a coherent group field, teaching of the practice of Continuum and solo somatic exploration and a group check-in process.

You can’t escape the Matrix just by knowing you’re in it.

Top-down. Command and control. Override. Ignore. Push. Achieve. Conquer. Don’t stop. 

That’s how our modern culture teaches us to relate to others, to nature, and — most importantly — to our own bodies. No wonder so many of us suffer from various forms of toxicity and dis-ease. It looks like:

• Burnout
• Overwhelm
• Disassociation
• Lack of meaning
• That general feeling of living in the Matrix

More of us are waking up to the fact that there’s a better way… But that doesn’t mean we’re able to live it. Our patterned bodies are still following our culture’s conditioning. We’re unconsciously civilizing our inner animals, blocking the aliveness and freedom they’re reaching towards. We’re trapped in our programs of trauma, addiction, and control. 

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Loneliness
• Addiction
• Chronic illness

Q: In a toxic culture, where does sanity reside?

A: In the body’s primordial intelligence

Continuum Movement® is a body-based practice that uses sound, subtle movement, and intention to carry us into a direct experience of the ever-present health of our Source. We move out of our habitual contexts and dive into group ritual and personal inquiry. We slow down to the pace of pleasure and reconnect to the greater field.

  • It’s a partner dance with the inner intelligence of your body

  • It’s a vision quest into your sensations

  • It’s a journey without plant medicine

  • It helps repattern our familiar ways of moving and perceiving

  • It ushers us beyond cultural expectations and agreements around what it is to be human

  • It’s a Mystery School where our soul and the universe teach us how life wants to move through us

What to expect:

• It can be pleasurable 
• It can be uncomfortable
• Visions may arise
• Insight may come
• Childhood memories may float through
• You may have the best nap ever
• The tension in your spine may unwind
• Your jaw might drop (into relaxation 😉)
• Something will surprise you
• Your ego might die a little death
• You might be visited by the loving hand of God
• Eros will certainly have its way with you

What happens in a Continuum class?

When we come together, everyone brings a different piece of magic that helps us all become even more ourselves

Over the years, through thousands of hours of workshops, therapy, and healing, I reclaimed my inner pathways to a wild well of nourishment, power, connection, and pleasure.

I love creating safe, trauma-informed spaces for people to feel really good inside themselves. I’ve been called a “somatic genius” and a “nervous system whisperer.” I bring a deep energetic sensitivity and nourished relationships with the unseen into all my Continuum classes. 

Note: I’m not the only teacher of this work. Each one carries a special part of the lineage. Learn about other teachers here and here

Authorized Continuum Movement® teacher since 2016 

  • I participated in 500 hours of retreats and workshops over the span of 7 years with Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum Movement, before she passed in 2014

  • I’ve done hundreds of hours of practice with other Continuum teachers including Susan Harper, Cass Phelps, Beth Riley, Robert Litman and Gael Rosewood

  • Twice-trained in Ray Castellino's Prenatal and Birth Therapy

  • Twice-trained biodynamic craniosacral therapist

  • Trained in Daniel Foor’s Ancestral Repair

  • Registered Somatic Movement Therapist

Meet your guide to the depths

Hi, I’m Elan. 

I know what it’s like to feel unsafe and disconnected from one’s body. And I believe it’s our conception right to experience being in our bodies as easeful, pleasurable and joyous.

What other seekers are saying about
Continuum with Elan

  • "The wave continues to move. It is magic. I am so grateful for Elan’s introduction and holding in the Continuum practice this weekend. It was just the right moment for me as I desire to both integrate and find freedom. Somehow this work does both in meeting the constellation of weaving I have wound into, respecting it, and holding it in a field of health and wisdom. Elan’s willingness to share his vulnerability and be transparent with integrity provided a fluid holding that supported just the right amount of containment and freedom for resting into, feeling, acknowledging snags while asking the question, "What else is possible?"

    - Kim Nelson

  • "When I know, I know... without thinking or deciding, I said Yes to my first Continuum Movement experience with Elan. With the combination of Elan's articulation, slowed-down-deeply-connected wisdom and the nonlinear way of Continuum, I have discovered my essential being-ness."

    - Kelly LaValley

  • "In a world of such seeming fracture and separation, Continuum Movement guides us home, to ourselves, to our pure innocent nature, to our softness and our wholeness."

    - Verana

  • “I experienced a fresh, raw meeting of my own aliveness that carried with me off the mat. My food tasted better, and I became entranced by the textures around me. I felt even more myself somehow.”

    -Rachel

  • "Elan is a very sensitive teacher with special inner eyes everywhere. He feels the atmosphere in the room, holds the energy in a special soft way of love and stillness and lets everybody move in their own time. Slowly, always in contact with us, holding all as loving father and mother."

    Elisabeth Garner (native German speaker)

  • "I felt I was a half-step outside of myself as I entered the weekend of Continuum Movement. I am especially thankful for Elan’s clarity of teaching, healthy boundaries and kind invitations to explore the inner landscape. His attention to the group and helping individuals to feel welcome made for a lovely time of caring and connection. I feel more integrated, alive and able to rest in myself and my inner GPS is reignited."

    - Mia Bolte

3 Steps to Reconnect to Your Somatic Knowing

Sometimes the simplest thing is the hardest thing to allow

01.

Slow down to the pace of pleasure

Your body wants your presence. Your own sensuality is calling you inward. Get back into your body. Discover what’s there.

02.

Get fed by the Source within you

The eternal is always available. Take the time to open. Let yourself be transformed by the love that floods in.

03.

Arrive more deeply in your fullness

You’ll naturally evolve into a more whole version of yourself. Access greater pleasure in relationships, heal trauma, and flow forward with enlivened purpose

“We don’t know what the body is for.”

—Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum Movement

What makes Continuum so special?

This is a practice unlike any other. It’s not dance, yoga, Tai Chi, Chi Gong, meditation, or anything else you’ve experienced before.

  • Slower

    No matter how much we talk a good game about slowing down, actually doing it is surprisingly hard. Continuum provides a gentle invitation and the resource to be with the experiences that arise as we slow down. The group field supports us to access and anchor healthy rhythms we often can’t reach on our own.

  • Wilder

    Each culture has its own ways to domesticate its people. No matter where we grew up, our parents were limited in their full expression, and our growing bodies took on those patterns in order to survive and belong. Continuum’s permission and subtle invitations support your Inner Animal to be free and expressed.

  • Safer

    Continuum is about meeting exactly what is, as it is. Rather than forcing ourselves into specific postures, we welcome the subtle movements and impulses that come before the form. You get permission to be. You have permission not to do. You get to unfold and arrive at your rhythm. You have full choice.

  • Eternal

    Modern life pulls us into a dualistic consciousness full of half-truths and endless invitations to dysregulate our nervous systems. Continuum is a way to somatically experience Source and recalibrate to the coherence of the Eternal. It can be a personal lifelong practice that anchors you into the direct experience of Love.

  • Mystical

    Continuum continues the tradition of ancient ritual practices that invite seekers into new ways of seeing and knowing — without external stimulants. When we drop out of cultural brainspace, we step into the grand mystery and cultivate the conditions for mystic experiences.

Once is enough to touch deeper waters. With regular practice, you learn to never leave.

Try it for yourself

You might be wondering…

    • People who trust their own transformation in their life and are ready to evolve into the next version of themselves.

    • You’re ready to embrace change, and tap into a system that holds you through this metamorphosis process.

    • Healing arts practitioners, somatic practitioners, mental health professionals, healers, mystics, body workers, acupuncturists, facilitators, mindfulness and meditation trainers, yoga instructors, and stewards of transformation.

    • You’re ready to greater pleasure, ease, balance, and aliveness.

    • You’re feeling lonely and disconnected, and are ready to access greater belonging and connection with fellow practitioners, facilitator support and within the metaphysical and unseen elements.

    • You appreciate embodiment and somatic practices.

    • People who want to stay in the land of ideas and in their heads

    • People who haven’t realized they have a body

    • People who are scared of feeling good in public

    • People looking for a quick fix

    • People seeking healing as entertainment

    • People most comforted with very specific rules and instructions on how to do everything

    • People unwilling to experience regular ego death

  • Most early traumas are traumas of relationship or intervention. Or challenging environmental contexts that creates a dilemma of life and death. In order to face those things, we need greater resources than are available to us in a traditional cultural context or a solo practice context. What happens in a continuum workshop, there are more unseen, energetic, and relational resources that allow us to somatically renegotiate those early experiences potentially in an effortless way. And even if it’s effortful, there’s so many more resources at the inner disposal.

    We are re-invoking the energies of the embryo. The same forces that shaped and created us can be developmentally revisited with our present-day consciousness and the renegotiated. Which simply means you get back to into that place, your body remembers what it was like to grow, is able to regrow itself / restructure itself without those external challenging forces that were there at the beginning

    Part of that is reliving and remembering what happened somatically. The way out is through. No one wants to revisit challenging places at home by themselves. Revisiting is meant to happen in a safe group context with a facilitator who’s observing, watching and tracking.

  • There are both virtual and in-person offerings.

  • Wear something you are comfortable to move in. For in-person weekly classes in Asheville (DeepBody AVL) our venue has yoga mats, blankets, pillows, etc. So you only need to bring a journal and water (there is no filtered water source there).

    For workshops in other locations, you may need to bring your own mat, blankets, pillow and items you need for your comfort. This information will be in the post-registration email.

  • There are benefits to doing it in a group setting (virtual and in-person), but Continuum can very much be effectively done 1:1 or on your own.

Let go of your conditioning and learn to embody your wildness.

Come home to the Divine.