Embodying Primordial Balance: Exploring Embryo Sacs with Continuum

Teacher

Cherionna Menzam-Sills

Overview

“As embryos, we are primarily a membranous sac filled with fluid, reminiscent of the cell and its oceanic primordial mother.”

-Emilie Conrad

In the second week after conception, the embryo is suspended between two sacs: the yolk sac and the amniotic sac. The yolk sac is a source of nourishment we create and carry with us as an embryo. It can be considered a precursor to the digestive system, and helps us to ground. The amniotic sac is also nutritive and resembles Cerebrospinal fluid, considered the purist fluid in our bodies. Delivering guidance to developing tissues, it can resonate with Cosmos, spirit, the non-physical, depending on your beliefs.

In these times today when we are so extremely out of balance and generally lacking healthy relationship with both Earth and Cosmos, returning to the how the embryo develops within layers of fluidic support from the sacs can be remarkably helpful.

In this 3-hour online Continuum class, Cherionna will introduce you to how the embryo, including its important sacs, develop and guide you in meeting them somatically with the gentle, mindful sounds, breaths, and movement of Continuum.

If you are new to Continuum, please click here to read Cherionna’s short ebook What is Continuum before the class. 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.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22nd, 2026: 4 – 7 p.m. UK time (11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Eastern, 8 – 11 A.m. Pacific, 17:00 – 20:00 CET)

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COST: The £35 cost is in GBP paid via PayPal or card via Stripe. £25 early bird price available until NOVEMBER 16th is about $33 USD, $47 CAD, 29 euros.

If you are new to Continuum, please click here to read Cherionna’s short ebook What is Continuum before the class. 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.

PLEASE NOTE: Once you have purchased the course, it will be available under My Courses when you log into the website. When you choose the course from My Courses, scroll down to Curriculum, where you will find access to the Zoom link and, later, the recording. You will also be sent an email with the Zoom link. Please check your spam/junk inbox if you don’t see it.

Course Features

Lectures 2
Quiz 0
Duration Lifetime access
Skill level All levels
Language English
Students 0
Certificate No
Assessments Yes

Curriculum

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2 Lessons
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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