My Offerings
Weekly Classes ~ Private Sessions ~ Private Group Classes
A sense of steadiness, warmth, and connection re-emerges as the heart feels supported from the inside.
Many of us are living in a constant state of doing, moving quickly, taking in more than we can process, and carrying tension we don’t always recognize. Over time, this can show up in the body as tightness through the chest, restricted breath, and a subtle sense of emotional contraction or fatigue.
The heart is far more than a mechanical pump. Modern research has revealed that the heart possesses its own complex neural network and is in constant communication with the brain through the nervous system. As a sensing organ, the heart responds not only to physical demands but also to emotional states, relationships, and our inner experience of the world. Its rhythms influence breath, circulation, perception, and overall well-being. When we slow down and listen deeply, the heart can become a source of profound wisdom, offering insight, coherence, and a felt sense of connection. In our time together we explore ways to cultivate a deeper relationship with the intelligence of the heart and discover its capacity to guide us toward greater balance, resilience, and aliveness.
In our spacious time together we explore ways of unwinding the heart.
Through slow Continuum explorations, we bring attention to the structures that support the heart—the chest, diaphragm, spine, and connective tissues. As these areas begin to soften and regain mobility, breath becomes more available and the nervous system has space to settle.
From here, something can shift.
These explorations meet the reality of modern life by offering a way to come out of constant activity, back into a more regulated, responsive state where the heart finds integration and love...
August 1 2026
10am–3pm PST / 1–6pm EST
Live on Zoom
“Form is designed to dissolve and reconstitute in a perpetual act of renewal.”
— Emilie Conrad
To Register:
Please respond to this email and let us know you want to join
Send your payment of $125
Venmo:Roberta-Ellis-4 Zelle: persada@aol.com
Once you register, we will send further guidance for participation.
It is recommended to be in the workshop in real time, however a recording will be provided after our time together for your review
We hope to be with you on August 1st!
Love,
Bobbie & Robert
What You’ll Explore
• Embodied awareness practices that cultivate presence and inner safety
• The anatomy of renewal—how fluids, fascia, and breath restore balance
• Continuum sound and movement sequences for releasing tension and reclaim flow and fluidity
• Ways to “listen through” the body to the wisdom that guides healing and resilience
• Living anatomy explorations supported by imagery to deepen the felt experience of structure and function
Why This Matters Now
In chaotic times, the nervous system seeks refuge. When we slow down and attune to the body’s rhythms, we rediscover an inner steadiness that nourishes both personal and collective healing. Renewal is not only personal—it is relational, ecological, and creative. The more deeply we inhabit our bodies, the more fully we can participate in life.
Come as you are. Leave more spacious, more connected, and more at home in yourself.
Facilitators
Bobbie Ellis
Continuum teacher, somatic yoga guide, and insight meditation practitioner.
Author of 101 Ways to Bring Meaning to Everyday Life.
Robert Litman
Continuum & Buteyko breathing educator.
Author of The Breathable Body.
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Summer Continuum
Pop ups!
What if your body were less like a machine
and more like a river?
ONLINE
July 23rd 7-9pm
and/or
IN PERSON & Live Stream
August 8th 1-4pm
Unitarian Universalist Society
176 Tices Lane
East Brunswick NJ
Fluid Body Inquiry
Continuum is an invitation to return to the body's original language—the language of breath, fluid movement, vibration, sensation, and curiosity.,,
Developed by Emilie Conrad, Continuum invites us to move beyond habitual patterns and rediscover ourselves as living, dynamic expressions of nature. Our bodies are composed largely of water, continually adapting, responding, and reshaping themselves in relationship to the world around us. Yet modern life often asks us to become fixed, to move quickly, ignore subtle signals, and override the body's innate wisdom. Over time, we can lose touch with our natural fluidity, creativity, and resilience.
Through breath, sound, movement, and periods of deep listening, Continuum gently awakens the body's capacity to reorganize itself from within. As we slow down, we enter into an unfolding conversation with sensation. We become explorers, allowing the body to reveal pathways of possible ease and vitality.
Each exploration becomes an opportunity to slow down and notice what is alive beneath habit. Tiny, seemingly simple movements can ripple through the entire body, softening long-held tension, restoring fluid movement, and calming the nervous system. As the body begins to move more organically, many people experience a profound sense of spaciousness, emotional ease, creativity, and renewed connection to themselves.
Continuum is about cultivating presence. It asks us to become curious, receptive, and responsive. In this spacious way of being, movement becomes meditation, breath becomes nourishment, and sensation becomes a trusted guide.
I welcome people of all ages and abilities to explore the extraordinary intelligence that lives within the body. My teaching weaves together decades of experience in somatic movement, yoga, Continuum, embodied mindfulness, and creative exploration, offering practices that invite both profound rest playful resourcing and unexpected discovery.
Continuum is a way of inhabiting life with curiosity, adaptability, and wonder.
An invitation to move as water moves, to breathe as life breathes, and to remember that beneath the stories we tell about ourselves, we are living, evolving expressions of nature...
Always capable of renewal.
Participants often leave feeling more grounded, more fluid, more spacious, and more deeply connected to themselves. They discover an innate capacity that emerges when we create the conditions for the body to remember its own wisdom.
Registration
Please respond to this email and let me know you will be joining!
online $30
in person $55
both $75
Venmo: Roberta-Ellis-4 Zelle: persada@aol.com
Once registered you will get further participation instructions close to the date.
Movement &
the Creative Process
Movement ~ Imagery ~ Drawing ~ Writing
for personal & global transformation
Global Body explorations can be done privately,
please contact Bobbie for a consultation.
somawithbobbie@gmail.com or 732-266-1468 text/call
Continuum
Continuum is an approach to exploring how we live in, and move through, our bodies. It is a portal to a deeper awareness of, and connection to, embodiment, movement, learning, growth, well-being, and creativity. Attention to internal experience through breath, sound, meditative awareness, and fluid movement expands our experience of embodiment and opens us to new possibilities of inhabiting our bodies and expressing ourselves through them.
Emergent ideas, potent images, and interesting themes set the ground for movement exploration. Different movements are combined with breath and sound to encourage embodied, mindful exploration of the idea, image or theme. We often change our relationship to gravity to invite new internal feedback and information. The pace of this series will be at times very quiet, slow, and meditative, with participants exploring nearly invisible micro-movements. We will also explore fast and lively movements in large wave-like, spiraling motions. This way of being helps us to move well.
Private sessions, small group classes available upon request