Fluid Beginnings: Birthing a New Year with Continuum

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 22nd, 2023

“The fluid in our cells is our birthplace, our memory of the creative matrix in which all life is summoned.” – Emilie Conrad

As we begin a new year, we also have a chance to re-visit how we do birth. Each new beginning (of 2023) and every ending (of 2022) engages the dynamics of our own birth into this life. Where this has been challenging, we may tend to find transitions difficult or that they always happen in predictable ways. For instance, we may distract ourselves to avoid intense feelings. We may dissociate from body sensations as we did at birth due to anaesthesia or overwhelming experiences. Birth trauma may hold our tissues in patterned density.

Whatever our style of transition is, our pre-birth embryo potential remains available to us to recover. The gentle breaths, sounding, and mindful movement of Continuum support us in dissolving old patterns and returning to our original embryo potential. Here we find renewed resilience, creativity, flexibility, and often pleasure.

This 3-hour Continuum class intends to support you in melting patterned tissue density, and re-visiting birth forces in a friendly, creative, and satisfying way., guided by cellular intelligence. You can embody again the natural fluidic power, intention, and potential of birth available in any transition, including the birth of this new year.

In this 3-hour class we slow down, rest, dissolve habitual density, and return our original fluid potential.

Please note that THE ZOOM LINK AS WELL AS THE VIDEO RECORDING after the class airs WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE COURSE PAGE AFTER YOU HAVE PURCHASED THE CLASS. You can find it by logging into the website and choosing the course from My Courses, then scrolling down the course page to Curriculum, where you will see access to the Zoom link and, later, the recording.

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, JANUARY 22nd, 2023: 4 – 7 p.m. UK time (11 a.m. – 2 p.m. East Coast, 8 – 11 a.m. Pacific, 17:00 – 20:00 CET)

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COST: The £35 cost is in GBP paid via PayPal. £25 early bird price available until January 19th is about $30 USD, $41 CAD, 29 euros.

This price INCLUDES LIFETIME ACCESS TO THE VIDEO RECORDING THAT WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THIS COURSE PAGE after the event airs, as soon as it has finished processing.

Course Features

Lectures 2
Quiz 0
Duration Lifetime access
Skill level All levels
Language English
Students 33
Certificate No
Assessments Yes

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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.

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