Embracing the Dark with Continuum

Teacher

Cherionna Menzam-Sills

Overview

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26th

In the northern hemisphere November is a time of gradually entering into the darkness of winter. Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum, valued practicing Continuum in the dark as a way to dampen the ever-present effects of time on our bodies. Longer Continuum retreats often involve covering windows and darkening the room in support of being able to listen deeply to ourselves without distraction. This time of year naturally supports this kind of deep listening.

One intention in Continuum is to soften the inhibitors to our natural fluid motion. The speed of everyday life, electronics, repetitive bodily actions and unresolved trauma can all create density in our tissues and rigidity in our relationships not only to other people but also to the stresses life presents. As we engage in the breaths, sounding and mindful movement of Continuum, we begin to slow down, listen and melt. We return to our natural fluidity, enabling us to meet life with greater flexibility, ease, resilience and love.

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.

WHEN: This 3-hour class presented via Zoom aired on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26th, 2021: 4 – 7 p.m. UK time (11 a.m. – 1 p.m. East Coast, 8 – 11 a.m. Pacific, 17:00 – 20:00 CET).

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Course Features

Lectures 2
Quizzes 0
Duration Lifetime access
Skill level All levels
Students 12
Certificate No
Assessments Yes

Curriculum

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.

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 forthcoming Birth as Shadow: Shining Light on Prenatal and Birth Experiences