Embracing Your Embryo Heart with Continuum

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Teacher

Cherionna Menzam-Sills

Overview

The first organ to come online in the embryo is the heart. In the third week after conception, the embryo changes its form dramatically, folding in on itself, developing for the first time an inner space to inhabit. In the process, the heart arrives in its central location and begins to beat.

The embryo heart is huge. We are heart-centered beings from the beginning. In the process of meeting conditions of our lives, we may learn to harden, shut down and protect our tender heart, but it continues beating the drum of life.

After years of teaching work I called Living From the Heart, I found my meeting with Emilie Conrad and Continuum shifted my ability to be in and live from my heart more than anything I had ever encountered.

This Continuum class is designed to support us in meeting, sensing, being with and more fully living from our hearts. We will learn a simple sequence of Continuum sounding, breaths and gentle, mindful movement to slow down, settle our over-active nervous system and mind, as we rest, soften and return to the love in our hearts.

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.

This 3-hour class presented via Zoom aired on Sunday, February 14th, 2021: 4 – 7 p.m. GMT (11 a.m. – 2 p.m. EST, 8 – 11 a.m. PST, 17:00 – 20:00 CET). The £35 cost is in GBP paid via PayPal. £25 early bird price available until February 9th is about $31 USD, $42 CAD, 27 euros.

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Course Features

Lectures 2
Quizzes 0
Duration Lifetime access
Skill level All levels
Language English
Students 56
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