Dear Friends in the Fluid Field,
Happy New Year!!!! 2025 is here and many changes already in the horizon!
As is tradition for me, I start the year sitting on the west porch of our cabin in the Mojave Desert witnessing the sunset.
This year in particular, the sunset on January 1, 2025 was imbued with peace and tranquility.
Winds were very calm. There were just enough clouds to offer some contrast and color in the sky yet not disturbing the luminosity of the crescent moon and her stars companions.
No people, no cars in the surroundings, just the sounds of the birds returning to the nests for night’s rest.
Continuum has been an incredible place of refuge for myself.
For many years the certainty the Tuesday and Wednesday morning classes Emilie Conrad held at the Continuum Studio in Santa Monica invited us to find innovation and resource in our own Biology regardless of what outer events were pulling us off our centers.
Emilie’s consistent and persistent invitations to join in carried me through the loss of my mother, through changes in the socio-political scene, changes in my own aging body!
I have been pondering on how to provide a place of safety in community. A place where despite different views, different color skins, different ideologies we, “uninformed bipeds” (as Emilie used to call us), can find the common ground of wholeness that undeniably binds us!
This quote from Craig Foster has been at the core of my inquiry:
“Though our souls crave communion with wildness, we are a species that has overwhelmingly embraced tameness and “comforts” that anesthetize rather than truly nurture.
But we are made of water, and we came from water, and when our souls need tending, it is often to the water we return.”
Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul, p. 39
The invitation to commune with nature and not anesthetize myself rung more potent than ever!
YES!!!!!! When my soul needs tending, I do return to my Inner River Flow and have learned, over the years, to Ride it…unapologetically!!!!!
YIELDING is indeed the thread I am choosing to follow this new year!
Yielding as softening and meeting the world without resistance YET keeping my integrity and values.
Yielding as trusting the inherent wholeness of the matrix and riding the waves of change wholeheartedly.
Yielding as a deep inquiry into my own ability to meet the support I KNOW is there all the time regardless of circumstances and outer appearances.
Yielding as rest.
Yielding as meeting my self and my needs.
Yielding as meeting every person and every occasion with open heart.
I invite you to join me, to tend to your Soul in 2025 with the teachings of Continuum.
Our “Riding Our Inner River Flow” 2025 Adventure consists of:
5 AT-HOME Continuum Immersions on Saturdays 10 AM – 12:15 PM PST
~ January 18, 25 February 1, 8, 22 ~ YIELDING
~ April 12, 19, 26 May 3 ~ SYNERGIZING
~ June 7, 14, 21, 28 ~ EXPRESSING
~ August 9, 16, 23, 30 ~ ADAPTING
~ October 4, 11, 18, 25 ~ DISSOLVING
~ November 22 Celebrating Gratitude, Saturday 10 AM – 1 PM PST
~ December 20 Celebrating Solstice, Saturday 10 AM – 1 PM PST
There will be In-Between Gatherings open to participants during the months between the immersions in March, May, July & September to keep the thread of our connection alive.
All classes will be recorded and available to participants for the whole year to revisit.
During 2024 we had a core group of practitioners participating in the year long series. They provided an exquisite weave of support and depth that allowed students only able to join an individual immersion a powerful portal into their fluid nature!
You do not need experience in Continuum!
The only requirements are:
~ Being human!
~ Being able to breathe!
~ Being open and curious to explore the body!
~ Being willing to explore unknown ways of moving and thinking!
~ Being willing to expand your attention to invite ALL body sensations to guide your exploration!
~ Being willing to slow down…slown down…in the midst of…allllllll that goes on!
~ Being willing to tend your Soul and return to your inner waters of health and wholeness!
Truly hope you are inspired to be part of the core fabric of Riding Our Inner River Flow 2025!
From my soul to yours!
Warmly,
Marcella
RIDING OUR INNER RIVER FLOW Year-Long Adventure Series includes:
~ Five Continuum AT-Home Immersions, Saturdays 10AM – 12:15PM PST, US
~ In-Between Dives happening in March, May, July & September
~ November 22 Celebrating Gratitude, Saturday 10AM – 1PM PST, US
~ December 20 Celebrating Solstice, Saturday 10AM – 1PM PST, US
INVESTMENT OPTIONS:
Year-Long Adventure:
Click below to pay via Paypal:
$666
Choose Friends & Family option to avoid fees
or Pay via Venmo: @Marcella-Bottero
Single Immersion:
YIELDING, January 18, 25 February 1, 8, 22, 2025
$155
Choose PayPal Friends & Family option to avoid fees
or Pay via Venmo: @Marcella-Bottero
Each Immersion program includes:
- Live Continuum Classes via Zoom
Saturdays 10 am – 12:15 pm PST
Each week we will explore a different theme and the immersion will build week to week. You will receive the sequence to explore prior to the class by email. - Inspiration Wednesdays
Midweek you will receive an email with suggestions on how to refine the practice we embarked on Saturday and with related inspirational reading.
All sessions will be recorded and replay links emailed to participants.
For questions or further information email:
Marcella@Still-Movement.com
