Elisabeth Osgood-Campbell
The dream of Seeds of Change Circles began to take shape as Elisabeth Osgood-Campbell, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist and Master Somatic Movement Educator, mused about life-affirming responses to the current U.S. administration’s deconstruction of core values and institutions in the U.S. and globally.
Elisabeth draws deep inspiration from her grandmother mentors, Emilie Conrad – the founder of Continuum and Anna Halprin – the co-founder of Tamalpa Life/Art Process and the Planetary Dance. In addition to working with clients internationally, Elisabeth serves as the Executive Director of ISMETA, the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. She feels honored to collaborate with the artists/activists on this project to grow tendrils of nourishment for the world we want to create.
Elaine Colandrea
Elaine Colandrea is a dancer/choreographer, Continuum teacher, somatic educator and bodyworker. Based in the Hudson Valley of New York, Elaine also teaches regularly in Italy and has been an invited presenter at ISMETA, the Omega Institute and Shantigar Foundation.
Elaine’s primary interests have always been the transformational aspects of moving, sounding and breathing, the connection with the natural world and a belief that artful embodiment creates a more humane society. In 2014, she founded the nonprofit organization Watermark Arts to support this vision.
Elaine shares an intimate, longtime involvement (since 1993) with Continuum, the practice founded by Emilie Conrad. Other influential teachers include Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Susan Harper, Robert Ellis Dunn, Lenore Latimer, Irene Dowd, as well as study of numerous therapeutic exercise systems. Elaine has an M.A. in dance from Columbia University (1982) and was certified as a massage therapist by the Muscular Therapy Institute (1988.) Her clients and students, as well as health challenges, have also served as teachers.
Robert Litman
For more than 35 years, Robert has guided people who are interested in allowing breath to be a doorway to consciousness into their personal and spiritual growth by restoring healthy breathing rhythms, structural alignment, and coherent/coordinated movement.
He offers private sessions and classes in movement and breathing worldwide through his practice The Breatheable Body. His YouTube video “The Relationship Between Breathing and Anxiety” has 163,000 views. Robert’s book The Breathable Body – Transforming Your World and Your Life One Breath at a Time was featured for a month on OprahDaily.com.
Robert is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator, a registered educator and trainer of the Buteyko Breathing Educators Association, and is certified in the Duggan/French Approach to Somatic Pattern Recognition. He has a Graduate Certification as a Breathing Behavior Analyst from The Graduate School of Behavioral Breathing and Health Sciences. He co-developed the Wellsprings Practitioner Program with Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum. Robert has been a faculty member and head of the Departments of Anatomy and Physiology and Movement Education at the Desert Institute of the Healing Arts Massage School and was a preceptor at the University of Arizona School of Integrative Medicine.
Rori Smith
Rori Smith is a dancer, somatic movement educator, art educator and researcher of bodily experience based in midcoast Maine. She holds a master’s degree in Dance from Temple University and is currently a doctoral candidate in Art & Philosophy at the University of Maine.
Her work intersects environmental performance art, ecosomatic movement practices and phenomenology. Rori has been immersed in Continuum since 2014, a practice that grounds her in the subtlety of each lived moment. She joined the Continuum Teachers Association in 2023. In 2022, Rori and Elaine Colandrea co-authored The Elemental Body: A Movement Guide to Kinship with Ourselves and the Natural World. They enjoy traveling to share the book with artists and movement researchers worldwide. In service to the somatic arts community, she acts as Associate Director for Watermark Arts. She supports Seeds of Change Circles through the design and maintenance of this website.
Lauren Wadsworth
Lauren brings over 35 years to her somatic movement teaching. She teaches group classes and also offers individual consultations. Lauren’s practice is primarily based in Continuum, which she has been offering, with Emilie Conrad’s permission, since 2003.
Lauren was also fortunate to spend ten years steeped in the Alexander technique. She fell in love with Continuum in 2000, when she first studied with Emilie Conrad, and began studying with Susan Harper, as well, in 2004. She has also benefitted from classes and lessons in BodyMind Centering with Mark Taylor and Ellen Barlow.
In addition to her somatic movement practice, Lauren has been a manual therapist since 1980. Her hands-on work has included craniosacral therapy, lymph drainage therapy, the Bowen technique, as well as other myofascial release therapies, and a variety of energy work modalities. Lauren is a certified mindfulness teacher, a restorative justice circle keeper, and a member of the Continuum Teachers Association.
Watermark Arts, Inc.
Watermark Arts is a professional development nonprofit founded in 2014 by dance artist/educator, bodyworker, and Continuum teacher Elaine Colandrea to support artists of all disciplines whose work is influenced by somatic practices.
Watermark Arts hosts a virtual gallery for each of its artist members, produces live and virtual exhibitions and performances, convenes workshops open to all who are interested in somatics, offers creative hives – our name for weekend and weeklong residencies for artist members to deepen the relationship between their creative process and somatic movement practice, and publishes longform writing on the somatic movement arts in an annual journal and a book series. Watermark Arts believes that somatic awareness and artistic expression both are essential aspects in creating a more humane and peaceful world.
In partnership with Seeds of Change Circles, through a shared inspiration from the words of Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers. Watermark Arts is programming a series of exhibitions and performances on the theme “islands of coherence.” Works in all media are accepted on a rolling basis. For more information visit the call for art.
Claudia Zama
Claudia es una arquitecta franco-uruguaya, escultora, amante de la naturaleza e implicada con el futuro de la humanidad. En Continuum, Claudia encontró una fuerza capaz de ayudarnos a vivir y hacernos mejores.
Claudia no es ni bailarina ni coreógrafa, aunque le hubiera gustado ser ambas cosas.
Ha trabajado en lugares muy diversos: en un matadero, en una fábrica de piezas de automóviles, como técnica de electrónica, sopladora de vidrio, arquitecta urbana y organizadora de salud pública. Estudió los fundamentos de la haptonomía, la osteopatía, la medicina tradicional china, la anatomía y el Análisis Funcional del Cuerpo Danzante. Sus áreas de interés son la medicina, la política, la sociología, el psicoanálisis, la cosmogonía, los rituales humanos y la somática.
Claudia nació en un país rico en naturaleza virgen y de poder absorber las enseñanzas de los científicos en ciencias naturales que la rodearon en su infancia. Su interés y comunión con el mundo natural constituye la base de sus clases de Continuum.
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