Embracing the Unknown with Continuum

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Overview

How is it for you to be living in the midst of a pandemic, not knowing when it will be safe to go to buy groceries without wearing protective gear? Or to meet your friends or loved ones? Or hug them? Or when you will be able to work again? Or? Or? Or?

For many being with such degrees of unknowns is upsetting or even overwhelming. At the very least it is destabilising. We don’t actually know how our world will be once the pandemic has passed. There is so much we don’t know.

In Continuum, we practice being with what we don’t know. We learn to embrace and even delight in the unexpected. While we practice this with mindful presence with our own body movement, it translates into increased readiness, resilience and fluidity in being with what arises in our lives, including what we couldn’t have planned or predicted.

In this 3-hour webinar class, we use the gentle breaths, sounding and mindful movement of Continuum to slow ourselves down, deepen into restful states of presence, where our inherent fluidity can be more fully expressed and witnessed. As movement arises spontaneously, we meet the unknown that leads us to deepening peace, health, creativity and well-being.

If you are new to Continuum, please click here to read Cherionna’s short ebook What is Continuum before the webinar. Also recommended is watching a short introductory YouTube video with Continuum founder Emilie Conrad. If you haven’t already, please also view our introductory page on Continuum, including two videos.

This 3-hour webinar aired on Sunday, May 24th, 2020 4 – 7 p.m. GMT (11 a.m. – 2 p.m. EST, 8 – 11 a.m. PST, 17:00 – 20:00 CET). The cost is in GBP paid via PayPal. £25 early bird price available until May 19th is about $30 USD, $43 CAD, 28 euros.

To purchase the webinar video recording, please make sure you have logged into this website, then click the Buy Now button for this course. If you don’t yet have an account with us, please create an account here and then you can purchase and view the course.

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Please set up a mat, blanket, sheepskin, etc. for yourself before the webinar begins so you can be comfortable lying down for long periods of time and still see/hear the webinar.

Course Features

Lecture 1
Quiz 0
Duration 3 hours
Skill level All levels
Language English
Students 37
Certificate No
Assessments Yes

Curriculum

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1 Lesson
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Instructor

Cherionna Menzam-Sills

Cherionna Menzam-Sills is a prenatal and birth therapist, movement therapist and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist. Drawing on over 45 years experience, her background includes an M.A. in Somatic Psychology (Dance/Movement Therapy) and a Ph.D. in Pre- and Perinatal Psychology, as well as Occupational Therapy, Massage Therapy, intensive study of BMC and Body-Mind Psychotherapy with Susan Aposhyan and 10 years intensive study with prenatal and birth psychotherapy pioneers, William Emerson and Ray Castellino. She worked intensively with founder of Continuum, Emilie Conrad for the last decade of her life. Emilie authorized her to teach Continuum in 2007.

Cherionna has also practiced Craniosacral Therapy since 1991. She began teaching Biodynamic Cranosacral Therapy in 2007 after completing and assisting two-year foundation trainings with John and Anna Chitty, with whom she apprenticed to become a teacher. In 2008 she and Biodynamics pioneer Franklyn Sills began a romantic relationship. Soon after this, Cherionna began assisting Franklyn in teaching foundation trainings and post-graduate seminars.

Marrying Franklyn Sills in 2010 brought Cherionna to the UK from where she began frequently teaching in Europe as well as continuing her trainings and workshops in Canada and the USA. This included becoming a senior tutor at the renounced Karuna Institute in the UK. These years of co-teaching with Franklyn and endless discussions about Biodynamics deepened Cherionna's understanding and practice of this beautiful work, which informed also her practices and teaching of Continuum and Pre- and Perinatal Therapy.

Cherionna's work is further informed by years of intensive Vipassana meditation practice and other mindfulness practices. She has also studied trauma therapies with pioneers such as Janina Fisher and Bonnie Badenoch.

Cherionna has also authored of three books: The Breath of Life: An Introduction to Craniosacral Biodynamics, Spirit into Form: Exploring Embryological Potential and Prenatal Psychology, and The Prenatal Shadow: Healing the Traumas Experienced Before Birth