Conversation with Megan Bathory-Peeler & Sharon Weil on Cultivating Resilience

Resilience is the most essential skill we can cultivate in the 21st century because we live in a time of uncertainty, recurring global natural disasters, and rapid change. Resilience—our innate ability to recover, return, transform, and carry on—can be complicated and compromised by confusion, trauma, fear, and anxiety that lock down our tissues and block our inventive responses. Continuum restores resilience by introducing body-based practices that open reliable, fluid pathways to meet change by learning to move with the nature of change.

From a movement perspective, we can view all change as the movement of change. It has weight and speed; direction and texture. How we learn to move with the movement of change will determine how well we thrive in a constantly changing environment. It is certainly my in-depth practice of Continuum that has developed within me a strength that is both steady and flexible. Continuum has trained me how to adapt and pursue, rather than shatter and collapse.

Continuum, at its core, is the embodied practice of entering the unknown, over and over again. Initiated by curiosity and courting awareness that is guided by sensation, we learn to navigate an ever-changing internal landscape and our response to the larger external one.