Young Tissue and Nuanced Micro Tones

There's something "settling" going on here at Emilie's class, and its a feeling of going back into the warm amniotic realms, within the container of a 3 hour Continuum class.
It seems for everyone in class this a well needed rest from the endless "pressing" of society at large.

The Continuum Studio has been painted recently with waves of blue across the walls that gives one a feeling of being Immersed,and held in water.
Each class brings a dedicated core group, and new people joining In on this on going weekly Inquiry.

Almost 45 years of Continuum, coupled with Billions of years of planetary Intelligence leading to this moment. It's amazing to me, that this is what I'm sensing before the class even starts.

Inside the walls of Continuum this morning there is another kind of "pressing" going on. The broad scope of "Piezo" Energy Is being "Invoked" by Emilie, using wrist and ankle weights.

I now feel the pressing of my Italian ancestors with there steamer chests at Ellis Island saying "Frankie what are you trying to do break up the family"?

Something inside me is excited and calm at the same time as I look down at Emilie lying on the floor. I am beyond the realms of my of my ancestors grip, and I'm trembling inside. This trembling is a sense of something new coming in and something dissolving at the same time.

Emilie has been explaining her ongoing conversations with Valerie Hunt. Valerie has said that with the openness of the tissue is an increasing amount of fluid.

In Class we have looked at "incremental angles to gravity, with the weights pressing us down into the floor in what Valerie calls, "dynamic transactions with the environment".

"Piezo crystals" are special minerals that have electromagnetic properties. When Piezo crystals are compressed or stretched, they produce an electric field. This is called the "piezoelectric effect."
Piezo cells have small, positively charged particles at their center. Whenever force is exerted on the crystal, this small particle is forced to move and create a charge. This electric field can be harnessed to produce voltage that flows throughout the tissue via fluid and sound.

Emilie has about 15 to 20 pounds of ankle and wrist weights lying open on her stomach in an ongoing experiment, that's been going on since the end of February here at the studio In Santa Monica. People have been going out and buying wrist/ankle weights, and even weighted vest's, and bringing them to Emilie's weekly classes.

I'm watching Emilie in the middle of the class, and she is about to demonstrate the "Hum Clock", with her thumb in her "belly button"/Umbilicus

Within 15 seconds of Emilie lying there with weight on her umbilicus, psoas, across the diaphragm, and one straight up her sternum.
This gives her a feeling of a pressing down in her mid line, and Emilie reports that she feel much more "slowed down and settled."

I feel the collective wave of the group Immediately drop in response, to a slower more lateral self description Emilie is reporting.
My eyes are fixed on Em's umbilicus as her Hum clock dials "counter clockwise", and her sounds clearly become more like a young girl, or even a baby making a sound that is pure.
It's as if her body was transfixed into young cellular potential that's been waiting and available to support in the "now".

I have tears and I'm trembling, as I realize I'm watching Emilie share her body's own unique wisdom, through sensation and an acknowledgment that we are all in unknown territory at this time. It's as if her movements are revealing a "birth story" that's seemingly changing the tones of her tissue. I feel her sound is 'reaching Into young tissue'.

We are in a Pre-vertebral tissue landscape that can be the resonance with the art and wisdom of her own creation witnessed and supported by a cohesive field that shows up to "swim" within every one here at the studio.

I have been amazed at how slow the tempo in the room and the sense of dropping down people report using this pressing of the weights, and the slow gradual gradations of tissue that seems to float and almost "hydroplane' the skin from the bones.

The slide and glide becomes more alive within, and seeps into a field of womb like rest..

Frank Carbone, 24 April 2011