Fluid Transitions: Birthing and Dying with Continuum

Teacher

Overview

“I say all form is temporal. Form is designed to dissolve and reconstitute in a perpetual act of renewal. Form is movement that has become relatively stabilized for a given period of time in order to function efficiently in a specific environment. Whether this form is a marriage or a body or a career, the cycle of dissolution and resolution represents the health of any situation. Stasis and redundancy create barriers to the life-giving forces that are no longer able to communicate with us due to our various entrancements.”

– Emilie Conrad

Ten years ago, April 14th, 2014, Emilie Conrad’s life on land ended. She had taught, intrigued, and awed her students for almost 50 years, as she developed the visionary practice of Continuum.

This 3-hour Continuum class is intended to celebrate the life of this amazing mentor as we apply what she taught to our own bodies, and transitional moments we encounter. We will engage in gentle breaths, sounding, and mindful movement to enquire into our fluid nature.

Where our experience of being born and other major transitions may have been interfered with by well-meaning others, such as medical practitioners, we may remain locked in repetitive stasis, as the body-mind seeks resolution. In this class, we bring our attention to more subtle transitions as movement arises and begins to flow through us, dissolving long-held patterns of density. We emerge renewed, refreshed, perhaps even feeling re-born, ready to engage with life more fully.

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, APRIL 14th, 2024: 4 – 7 p.m.

COST: The £35 cost is in GBP paid via PayPal or card via Stripe.

This price includes lifetime access to the video recording that will be available on the course page after the event airs, as soon as it has finished processing. To access the course page after purchasing the course, log into the website and choose the course from My Courses.

Course Features

Lectures 2
Quiz 0
Duration Lifetime access
Skill level All levels
Language English
Students 36
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