Taking a Potent Pause wth Continuum

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Overview

How fast or slowly is your life moving just now? For some, the intense speed of life in the 21st century continues without relief. For others, the current pandemic has slowed things down to an unbearable pause. Still others enjoy being able to spend more time at home with themselves or family. For all of us, pausing in our lives holds potential.

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Founder of Continuum, Emilie Conrad, spoke of our need to be “hibernative,” as if we are hibernating. In our speedy 21st century lives, we rarely slow down enough to experience this. Our sympathetic fight flight nervous system is constantly activated by the speed of electronics, mobile phones, multi-tasking and more. We are not designed for this level of speed and we suffer consequences in our health and well-being. A certain amount of stress is useful in our lives but too much going on for too long prevents the natural repair and rejuvenation we are capable of. Taking a pause provides that possibility.

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In Continuum, we use different breaths, sounding and mindful movement to slow ourselves down and listen deeply, allowing an inherent fluid wisdom to arise. We find this kind of pause very potent in supporting our health, creativity, relationships, and sense of well-being.

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In this online class offered via Zoom, we take a potent pause to meet, ground, breathe, and discover the delicious natural fluidity of our bodies. We will particularly attend to the space between our breaths, sounds and movement to enter more deeply into the life energy we find there, guided by the mysterious bio-intelligence that formed us in the womb and continues to in-form us throughout life.

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If you are new to Continuum, please click here to read Cherionna’s short ebook What is Continuum before the webinar. 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.

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This 3-hour class aired on Friday, September 18th, 2020 4 – 7 p.m. GMT

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This class aired on September 18th, 2020. You can access the video recording via the button below.

Please set up a mat, blanket, sheepskin, etc. for yourself before the webinar begins so you can be comfortable lying down for long periods of time and still see/hear the webinar.

Course Features

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Duration Lifetime access
Skill level All levels
Language English
Students 27
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. She has also studied trauma therapies with pioneers such as Janina Fisher and Bonnie Badenoch.

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 Prenatal Shadow: Healing the Traumas Experienced Before Birth