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What is Continuum
by Continuum Teacher Cherionna Menzam-Sills, www.cherionna.com.
http://www.continuummovement.com/docs/whatiscontinuum.pdf

Answering the Call to Serve
by Stuart Lord, president of Naropa University, on the value of contemplative education
Continuum teacher Amber Gray's work is mentioned in this article from the July 2011 edition of the Shambala Sun.
http://www.naropa.edu/news/july2011-lord--shambhala-sun.pdf

Counselors struggle to save minds traumatized by destruction, death in Haiti
Includes video of Amber Gray talking about Drum circle therapy in Haiti.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/world/counselors-struggle-to-save-minds-traumatized-by-destruction-758540.html?page=2&viewAsSinglePage=true

Breathing Through Your Nose
The importance of Breathing Through Your Nose by Continuum Teacher Robert Litman, www.thebreathablebody.com.
http://www.continuummovement.com/docs/BreathingThroughYourNose.pdf

Healing from the Core YouTube Channel
Emilie Conrad & Suzanne Scurlock Durana
Excerpts from their 2010 Moving Consciousness: Touch, Health, & Resilience workshop together. http://www.youtube.com/user/HealingFromtheCore

Overcoming Post-Deployment Syndrome: A Six-Step Mission
to Health by David X. Cifu and Continuum Teacher Cory Blake
Overcoming Post Deployment Syndrome is a comprehensive guide for service members, Veterans and their families dealing with the all-too-common repercussions of combat duty, including traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, chronic pain and musculoskeletal injury, and substance abuse.
Read more and see reviews at amazon.com.

Radio interview with Continuum teacher Patty Adamik
Listen to Anna Barbosa of Houston Highlights BlogTalk radio interview Patty Adamik as she discusses Creativity and the Body-Mind Connection in corporate American and how Continuum can help…..
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/houstonhighlights/2010/09/02/body-mind-flow--an-evolved-solution-to-sparking-cr

July 24, 2009 New Frontiers For Health: An Interview with Emilie Conrad
by Liz Koch and Core Awareness

2 podcasts of online radio interviews with Cherionna Menzam
Continuum & Biodynamic Craniosacral Teacher/Practitioner

Embodying BioDynamics.
http://artofpeaceradio.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-02-09T23_54_45-08_00
Exploring the Cranial Sacral system with Continuum Movement. Our bodies are made up mostly of water. We are designed to flow through our lives in fluid resonance with the Cosmos...
Living Our Embryological Potential.
http://artofpeaceradio.podomatic.com/entry/2009-05-18T12_04_00-07_00
Floating quietly in our private ocean, we begin as a single cell, mysteriously finding our way into form...

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The Ageless Body™: Anti-aging, Fitness and Continuum by Sharon Weil Aaron

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The Re-enchantment of Movement by Penny Allport

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Continuum in High School classes by Melanie Gambino

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Engaging the Movement of Life: Book Excerpt Book Excerpt by Bonnie Gintis, D.O.

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Continuum and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy: Parallel Paths to Health by Cherionna Menzam

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Tao of Exercise and Self-care by Gael Ohlgren and Robert Litman

Other items...

www.khanacademy.org
Educational videos on everything from embryonic stem cells to accounting and
economics to cosmology, history and physics-an amazing resource!

Piano stairs - TheFunTheory.com - Rolighetsteorin.se
More fun ideas and videos at http://www.thefuntheory.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw

‘It’s Alive! It’s Alive!’ Maybe Right Here on Earth by Dennis Overbye
Published: July 27, 2011, New York Times
RNA's role in early life is discussed in this article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/science/28life.html?pagewanted=all

Time-lapse Tuesday: Milky Way forms in fine detail, Sandrine Ceurstemont, video producer. This epic time-lapse shows the Milky Way forming and evolving over 13.7 billion years. Developed by a team led by Piero Madau from the University of California in Santa Cruz and Javiera Guedes from the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Zurich
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/08/time-lapse-tuesday-milky-way-as-youve-never-seen-it-before.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=nstvmilkyway

Fractals - The Colors of Infinity with Arthur C Clarke
includes Stephen Hawking and others
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6939286120674554766&hl=en
At the 12 minute mark, the mathematical process of iteration is described like a uroboros, producing both open ended and closed ended systems in the Mandelbrot fractal pattern.

Black Swan Theory
The Black Swan Theory or Theory of Black Swan Events is a metaphor that encapsulates the concept that The event is a surprise (to the observer) and has a major impact. After the fact, the event is rationalized by hindsight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory

RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilisation
Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g&feature=related

Exploring the Mind Through Music
June 13-17, 2011 at The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. A lecture series is being held in conjunction with the conference and webcasts of the lectures will be available online after July 1st.
http://www.rice.edu/mindandmusic

John Bonner's slime mold movies, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkVhLJLG7ug
Biology Professor Emeritus John Bonner's microscope films show the curiously collective nature of slime molds.
Read more: http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/40/89S11/?section=featured

Slime mold form a map of the Tokyo-area railway system
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwKuFREOgmo&NR=1
When the researchers place food at cities on the map, the fungus collaborates, spreading out to map many possible configurations and then dying away to highlight the shortest routes between cities and the most efficient overall system map.
See related story, Mould networks match railways, http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2010/100122.html
For more about the problem-solving power inherent in networks, see "Networked" (May-June 2010), http://harvardmagazine.com/2010/05/networked

DNA Can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies
by Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf (Russian DNA Discoveries: Original version)
http://quantumpranx.wordpress.com/dna-can-be-influenced-and-reprogrammed-by-words-and-frequencies/
THE HUMAN DNA IS A BIOLOGICAL INTERNET and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. The latest Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing… read more

Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) are a breakthrough in stress management and trauma recovery. It is a body centred process that releases deep chronic tension created during traumatic or stressful events. This 6 minute video below provides an efficient overview of TRE from a South African Medical TV show -- there is more written explanation and information on TRE below the video as well. http://trauma-release-exercises.com.au/

Pendulum Waves
Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and (seemingly) random motion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVkdfJ9PkRQ&feature=player_embedded

Anatomical clues to human evolution from fish
By Dr Michael Mosley
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13278255
It may seem strange that humans have evolved from fish, but the evidence can
be found not just in fossils but also within our own bodies

Japan, Radiation, and Spiritual Emergence by Rama Jyoti Vernon
http://www.ramavernon.com/Radiation.html

The Body’s Crystal Matrix by MaAnna Stephenson, Part One & Part Two
http://www.sageage.net/article_crystal_matrix_1.shtml
http://www.sageage.net/article_crystal_matrix_2.shtml
The human body is a sophisticated, multi-faceted antenna system comprised of a crystalline matrix...In Part One, we cover the function of piezo crystals and how they convert electrical energy into mechanical energy and vice versa, creating piezoelectricity. In Part Two, we investigate the roll of liquid crystals in the body’s matrix.

Young Tissue and Nuanced Microtones
http://www.continuummovement.com/piezo-frank.html
Continuum teacher Frank Carbone reflects on his experience in class last week with Emilie about connective tissue, nuanced microtones, and piezo. 24 April 2011

David Wolfe & Daniel Vitalis - The Best Drinking Water Ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wnh0zWgJw4&feature=related
David Wolfe & Daniel Vitalis talk about living natural spring water.

The Hidden Brain by Sharon Begley, NEWSWEEK's science editor
What scientists can learn from 'nothing.'
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/31/the-hidden-brain.html
…neuroscientists have traditionally ignored the brain activity that just hums away quietly in the background when the brain isn't doing much of anything...

Without glial cells, animals lose their senses
http://newswire.rockefeller.edu/index.php?page=engine&id=843
...scientists reveal that while neurons play the lead role, a second type of cell, the glial cell, pulls the strings behind the scenes. The work not only lifts a long-ignored cell out from obscurity but shows how it is a critical member in shaping sensory experience.

Jellyfish Cells Used to Diagnose Hard to Find Cancers by Deborah Huso Nov 3rd 2010
http://www.aolhealth.com/2010/11/03/jellyfish-cells-used-to-diagnose-hard-to-find-cancers/
...researchers...have discovered that when proteins from luminous jellyfish cells are injected into humans the cancer cells essentially "light up," making them visible to a special camera that can then identify the presence and location of tumors within the body…

Real Dinosaur Sounds!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeJ1GWGmkRU
I went back in time 150 million years and recorded this with binaural microphones.
Two sauropods are talking to each other across a lake while many other dinosaurs occasionally call out...

Cellular Visions: The Inner Life of a Cell
http://www.studiodaily.com/main/technique/tprojects/6850.html
More clips at http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/media.html
User guide blog describing the video at http://sparkleberrysprings.com/innerlifeofcell.html
A related project called Powering the Cell: Mitochondria at http://www.xvivo.net/powering-the-cell-mitochondria/
The Inner Life of a Cell, an eight-minute animation created in NewTek LightWave 3D and Adobe After Effects for Harvard biology students... the animation illustrates unseen molecular mechanisms and the ones they trigger, specifically how white blood cells sense and respond to their surroundings and external stimuli.

Autonomic Nervous System Insights
Part 1, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_E7MHn00Tc
Part 2, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjeuvVjQTLU
Part 3, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hunp9GjsbuI
Part 4, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMmwpVvi5_M
Informative video clips by John Chitty, BCST, RPP Colorado School of Energy Studies, May 2009
on the Autonomic Nervous System and the Polyvagal theory of Stephen Porges.

Anatomy of the Triune Autonomic Nervous System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPLKl5Qc3hs
In this clip, John Chitty, BCST, RPP, continues the discussion of the "Polyvagal Theory" of Stephen Porges, PhD. This clip is a follow-up to "New Insights to the Autonomic Nervous System," and gives special focus to the anatomy of the system.

Some very good and interesting sections from Biology of Kundalini by Jana Dixon.
Zero to 3 Years, http://biologyofkundalini.com/article.php?story=Zeroto3Years
Polyvagal Theory, http://biologyofkundalini.com/article.php?story=PolyvagalTheory
Viva la Vagus, http://biologyofkundalini.com/article.php?story=VivalaVagus
Biological Relation to Zero-Point Energy,
http://biologyofkundalini.com/article.php?story=BiologicalRelationtoZero-Point

Caught on Tape: Muscle Stem Cells Captured on Video
by MU (University of Missouri) researcher, May 05, 2010
Information about how the cells move could help patients with muscular dystrophy.
http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2010/0505-caught-on-tape-muscle-stem-cells-captured-on-video-by-mu-researcher/

Lost in Translation
Wallstreet Journal, June 9, 2010 by Lera Boroditsky.
New cognitive research suggests that language profoundly influences the way people see the world.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467304575383131592767868.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5June 09, 2010

Mike deGruy: Hooked by an octopus
Underwater filmmaker Mike deGruy has spent decades looking intimately at the ocean. A consummate storyteller, he takes the stage at Mission Blue to share his awe and excitement -- and his fears -- about the blue heart of our planet.
http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_degruy_hooked_by_octopus.html

Water - The Great Mystery (online vesion)
Fascinating movie spans the globe to reveal recent discoveries about water.
http://vimeo.com/11763906

Mozart for microbes in German sewage plant
Opera used to help break down waste, Rebecca Thumpston, 04/06/2010
A pioneering German sewage plant is piping Mozart opera to waste-eating microbes in a bid to increase their efficiency.
http://www.bbcmusicmagazine.com/news/mozart-microbes-german-sewage-plant
related story below, 06/01/2010, Symphonic Sewage, Waste-Treatment Plant Plays Mozart to Microbes
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,698040,00.html

Einstein's Brain Unlocks Some Mysteries Of The Mind
by Jon Hamilton, June 2, 2010 on NPR, Listen to or read the story, includes info on Einstein's brain and glial cells.
In the 55 years since Albert Einstein's death, many scientists have tried to figure out what made him so smart.
But no one tried harder than a pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who lost his job and his reputation in a quest to unlock the secrets of Einstein's genius.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126229305&ft=1&f=1001

Weird H2O -Science Catches Water Doing Some Bizarre Things
June 09, 2010
Recently exotic new states of water caused Harvard researchers to question what we really know about one of the most common and abundant substances on the planet.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/06/weird-h2oscience-catches-water-doing-some-bizarre-things.html

Water forms floating 'bridge' when exposed to high voltage
September 28, 2007 By Lisa Zyga
http://www.physorg.com/news110191847.html

Immortal Stem Cells for Anti-Aging Therapies
An Interview with Michael D. West, PhD By Gregory M. Fahy, PhD and Saul Kent
Life Extension Magazine June 2010

The paper reported the reversal of what Dr. West has called the “developmental aging” of adult human cells in the laboratory dish. Utilizing genes that grant our reproductive cells the potential for immortal growth, the researchers showed that it was possible to turn back the clock in human body cells, enabling the potential for young patient-specific cells of any kind for use in regenerative medicine. (Read more...)
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2010/jun2010_Immortal-Stem-Cells-for-Anti-Aging-Therapies_01.htm

Ride the Slime Mold Express!
by Tim Wogan on January 21, 2010 12:00 AM
from Science NOW
If you want to design a railway system, you could do worse than hire a slime mold. Researchers have shown that, when grown on a map of Japan, the gelatinous, funguslike organism connects points of interest in a pattern similar to Tokyo's train network. Engineers might be able to take a cue from the organism's approach to design more-efficient transportation systems. (Read more...)
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/01/21-01.html

Reefs may sing siren song to coral
May 20, 2010 by Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times
Coral larvae, tiny hair-covered sacs of cells, can "hear" reefs and actually swim toward them, researchers report. The finding suggests that sound is far more important in underwater ecosystem development than previously thought.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-coral-20100516,0,510335.story

TED talk video: Carl Honore praises slowness
Author of In Praise of Slowness: How A Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed
http://www.ted.com/talks/carl_honore_praises_slowness.html

Sweet Reunion Between a Man and the Gorilla He Raised as a Baby
A very touching interspecies moment posted by Helena Sung, May 24, 2010
This heart-tugging video captured the extraordinary reunion of two old friends: a man and the gorilla he raised from infancy. It had been five years since British naturalist Damian Aspinall had seen Kwibi, a lowland gorilla who was born at Howletts Wild Animal Park in England as part of an ongoing conservation program by the Aspinall Foundation to re-introduce gorillas back into the wilds of Africa.
http://www.pawnation.com/2010/05/24/sweet-reunion-between-a-man-and-the-gorilla-he-raised-as-a-baby/

The Search for Genes Leads to Unexpected Places
by Carl Zimmer, New York Times, April 26, 2010
...The scientists took advantage of a peculiar feature of our evolutionary history. In our distant, amoeba-like ancestors, clusters of genes were already forming to work together on building cell walls and on other very basic tasks essential to life. Many of those genes still work together in those same clusters, over a billion years later, but on different tasks in different organisms. (Read more...)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/science/27gene.html?sq=carl%20zimmer&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=all

Building blocks of life are found on asteroid
by Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times April 29, 2010
For the first time, scientists have discovered evidence of water ice, as well as organic compounds, on an asteroid — findings that bolster a leading theory for the origins of life on Earth. (Read more...)
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/04/building-blocks-of-life-are-found-on-asteroid.html

Mind Over Matter video by GrowingBolder.com with Jennifer Field
of our Santa Monica Continuum community.
http://growingbolder.com/media/health/disabilities/mind-over-matter-607226.html
Information about the J. Field Foundation, inspires and informs those affected
by brain injury of alternative treatments, www.jfieldfoundation.org.

Video of TED talk by Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran
about Mirror Neurons and "Empathy Neurons"
http://www.ted.com/talks/vs_ramachandran_the_neurons_that_shaped_civilization.html
"Neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran outlines the fascinating functions of mirror neurons.
Only recently discovered, these neurons allow us to learn complex social behaviors,
some of which formed the foundations of human civilization as we know it. "

Species Discovered this Millennium, and Other Natural Wonders...
http://zaxy.wordpress.com/

Drop of Water
http://www.flixxy.com/water-drop.htm
Watch the 2-minute video that shows a drop of water falling into a puddle at 2000 frames a second. You will see something totally unexpected.

The Multiplying Mystery of Moonwater
NASA Science News for March 18, 2010
Researchers who once confidently stated that the Moon was bone-dry are now thinking the unthinkable: The Moon has so much water, there's actually a "lunar hydrosphere." International spacecraft have recently discovered no fewer than three "flavors" of moonwater and no one knows when the discoveries will end.
FULL STORY at
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/18mar_moonwater.htm?list1105966

The Ghost In Your Genes (2006) (48 min)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1128045835761675934#
Article at http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1951968-4,00.html#ixzz0iN8c5eVs
Our genes carry unbelievable information of our past and how does this genetic information affect our present is revealed in this film.The only way forward is to look into the past.

NOVA DVD, "What Darwin Never Knew".
The reason for the recommendation is that the material is not only fascinating but it also confirms the entire Continuum point of view from the New Science perspective. I was pleased to learn their theory of the emergence of our bodies having been shaped by the sea and the implications of the role wave motion plays in DNA evolution. I think you will all be inspired and excited by the information.

Cymatics, see the power of sound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stfIjObFZYU

Inner Life of a Cell
http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/anim_innerlife_Hi.html

and if you are requiring some Validation, check out the short film at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk980jV7Ao

Regeneration of cells - CBS Cutting Edge Video on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxhi4Q8EDTU

Water - The Great Mystery, a DVD from Intention Media
"Witness recent, breathtaking discoveries by researchers worldwide from Russia, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, Israel, the USA, Britain, Austria, Japan, Argentina, China and Tibet.
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The Geography of the film spans the globe. The implications go beyond the solar system, suggesting that water has the ability to convey messages faster than light, perhaps linking water with the absolute. Water is so unique, and so profound, its miraculous properties are still awaiting to be discovered."
more at http://www.intentionmediainc.com/water.asp

Otto the octopus wreaks havoc
A octopus has caused havoc in his aquarium by performing juggling tricks using his fellow occupants, smashing rocks against the glass and turning off the power by shortcircuiting a lamp
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3328480/Otto-the-octopus-wrecks-havoc.html

Evolution's new wrinkle: Proteins with cruise control provide new perspective
by Kitta MacPherson
on the Princeton University Web site at http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S22/60/95O56/index.xml

Please Read this article to support your greater understanding of self-regulation.

Humming Fish Reveal Ancient Origins of Vocalization.

This Is Your Brain On Jazz: Researchers Use MRI To Study Spontaneity, Creativity
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080226213431.htm

A pair of Johns Hopkins and government scientists have discovered that when jazz
musicians improvise, their brains turn off areas linked to self-censoring and inhibition,
and turn on those that let self-expression flow.

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David Gallo: Underwater astonishments: a brief talk on astonishing sea creatures including some cool footage of one of Continuum's favorites, the octopus. (Octopus part at end on YouTube)

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Sound Medicine interview with Neuro-Scientist Jill Bolte Taylor on her experience of having a stroke (podcast, MP3 file)

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Cass Phelps introduces BioTune.net
home of his Sound Frequency Healing™ CD's and MP3's