An Introduction to The Prenatal Shadow: Being with the Book

Online Course with Cherionna Menzam-Sills

This introductory course will introduce the book and review the book’s introduction, as well as a brief, guided meditative exploration, and some time for questions.

The Prenatal Shadow: Healing the Traumas Experienced Before and at Birth.

“Cherionna has written a kind, personable, and knowledgeable book that

brings together a great deal of information and references from leaders in the

field. At the same time, she is able to reassure concerned parents and others

and help them understand the importance of this knowledge and how to use it

to benefit, teach, and heal.”

-Judyth O. Weaver, Ph.D., somatic and

pre- and perinatal psychotherapist

ABOUT THE BOOK

THE PRENATAL SHADOW  EXPLORES LIFELONG EFFECTS OF PRENATAL AND BIRTH EXPERIENCES

• Explains how babies remember their experiences from the womb and birth as implicit memory, impressions that are held in emotions, images, and the body

• Examines scientific evidence of how preverbal memory works and how prenates are highly responsive to their mother’s perceptions

• Looks at how to become aware of and acknowledge implicit memory from the womb as well as how to heal and prevent birth trauma

As somatic prenatal therapist Cherionna Menzam-Sills, Ph.D., reveals, in a world where it is believed that babies are unable to remember before they can speak, prenatal and birth experiences can easily become unconscious shadow, infiltrating the psyche and affecting personality, relationships, behavior, and perceptions throughout life.

Drawing on scientific evidence of how preverbal memory works, the author shows how babies, even before birth, are exquisitely sensitive with remarkable potential that may be forgotten or eclipsed by traumatic prenatal and perinatal experience. She explains how babies remember the intensely formative experiences from this primal period as implicit memory, impressions that are held in emotions, images, and the body. She looks at how prenates are deeply influenced by their mother’s perception of safety or threat, including during labor and birth, which affects their developing nervous systems.

Examining the healing and integration of the prenatal shadow, the author explores how to acknowledge and prevent birth trauma as well as shares meditative practices for sensing the little one within and offering them what they need.

By acknowledging and integrating the prenatal and perinatal shadow hidden just beyond conscious awareness, we can heal our relationships with ourselves and our loved ones as well as reconnect with our original potential.

Please try to log in to the class at least a few minutes before it starts to ensure you have access and we can begin on time together.

TUITION: FREE FOR THE INTRODUCTION