About Classes & Workshops With Bonnie
Classes with Bonnie Gintis, DO explore the common ground shared by mindfulness, Continuum’s fluid movement, and Osteopathy.
A variety of workshops are offered for people who are interested in exploring the vast possibilities for the full expression of health and embodiment. Classes are valuable as a form of self-treatment, and as a way for people involved in any aspect of healthcare to develop and deepen diagnostic and treatment skills.
Some classes are open to people of all levels of function and ability, including those with disabilities, or limited movement and exercise ability. Some courses are tailored to the needs and interests of people with particular health concerns. Others are oriented to Osteopaths, MDs, and other healthcare practitioners.
Please read the descriptions below to choose a workshop or course suited to you.
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Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health: Oct 27 - Nov 1, 2024
Embodiment Through the Senses: A Transformative Self-Care & Continuum Retreat
at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, US
The primary language of the body is silent-felt sensation. This workshop will present a wide scope of views and opportunities to experience the wisdom and creativity of this language of your senses.
Discover the radical possibilities in health and well-being available when you combine the fluid movement practices of Continuum and mindfulness meditation with the principles of osteopathic treatment into the way you care for yourself. Cultivate awareness of internal experience through breath, sound, meditation, and movement, and integrate these practices into daily life, nurturing a renewed sense of devotion to self-care.
Restore trust in the wisdom of your body as you allow yourself to sense deeply. Step outside your preconceived notions about your body and discover your inner resources for resilience, adaptability, and change. This workshop offers the tools you need to access this inner healing realm on your own.
This workshop experience can be valuable both as a form of self-exploration and self-care, and as a way for practitioners to develop and deepen the perceptual skills used with patients or clients.
In this workshop we will explore innovative views of:
- what our senses are and how we can cultivate experiencing sensation more deeply in your life
- learn to support your immune health by being in touch with your senses
- Re-emerge into the post-pandemic world with new self-care skills.
- experience the effects of reclaiming the sensations and functions of your unmasked face, or how to better cope if and when you need to wear one
- the relationship between the brain, the gut, the face, the heart, and health
- perceiving “the field of the senses” in ourselves and in others
- inner resources for resilience, adaptability, and change
- cultivating curiosity as a way of coping with uncertainty
- radically reimagine how you care for yourself
- our interconnectedness with each other and with nature
All “levels” of ability and experience are welcome.
To Register for this workshop visit Kripalu's website.
Bonnie Gintis offers a unique blend of Osteopathic principles and philosophy, scientific and medical information, poetry, and perceptual inquiry, combined with an opportunity to experience it all through Continuum practice. Utilizing breath, sound, movement, meditative open attention, and perceptual inquiry, this workshop provides an opportunity to experience an embodied understanding of the wisdom of the sensations of the living human body.
Megan Bathory-Peeler, Continuum Teacher, life-long lover of movement, consciousness, connection, creativity, and compassionate communication will be collaborating as Bonnie's assistant in this workshop. For more information about Megan, visit Megan's website: https://somanautiko.com
Omega Institute: June 28 – July 4, 2025
2025 Annual Continuum Retreat: The Art of Fluid Movement
at Omega Institute for Holistic Studies
Rhinebeck, New York
Stay tuned - Registration isn't yet open for this event.
Click here to go to Omega's website for general information.
The following is the description of the 2024 Omega workshop. The 2025 workshop description will be posted soon:
Reclaim the pleasure of breathing. Breathing is central to being at ease in relationship with our bodies, our Selves, and the world around us. Continuum gives us elegantly simple, practical, and relevant tools that engage the transformative nature of breathing while exploring fluid movement.
All breath-stopping patterns – screen apnea, news apnea, sleep apnea, and so on – are eventually paralyzing. Continuum dissolves internal restrictions providing ease and comfort in our bodies with cleansing movement practices. Conscious breathing restores equilibrium, without having to understand or fix what is wrong.
Collective engagement grows while practicing and exploring in our workshop sessions together. Our creative exchanges will generate benefits that extend far beyond the workshop. This retreat is for anyone who wishes to sustain themselves from a fluid state of wholeness, well-being, spontaneity, and joy.
This retreat is pertinent to educators, health care practitioners, artists, activists, and anyone – regardless of physical limitations – who wish to sustain themselves from a fluid state of wholeness and well-being.
2025 Faculty:
Elaine Colandrea
Megan Bathory-Peeler
Robin Becker
Ellen Cohen
Melanie Gambino
Bonnie Gintis
Elisabeth Osgood-Campbell
Linda Rabin
