Online Post-Grad Course with Cherionna Menzam-Sills
This course was presented live for six half days July and August 2023
You are welcome to take the course via the videos.
William G. Sutherland, D.O. introduced the concept of ignition as a mysterious spark within the cerebrospinal fluid. Later Randolph Stone, D.O. developed a method for working with it. In this post-graduate seminar over 6 half-days we will explore ignition processes using an approach based on Dr. Stone’s original work and further developed by Franklyn Sills. We will engage in online practice sessions supported by the vast suspensory field of Long Tide. We will use Continuum, a mindful, fluid movement and sound practice, to help us orient to our energetic ignition centres within our own fluid bodies.
In preparation for augmenting heart ignition, we will review the embryology of heart development, particularly relating to embryological folding in the fourth week which culminates in the heart meeting an energetic heart centre and beginning to beat as an ignition occurs. We will acknowledge some difficult conditions which may inhibit full heart ignition. We will also practice sensing and augmenting umbilical ignition, which naturally occurs just after birth when the umbilical cord stops pulsing but can be dampened due to various conditions we will discuss. Finally, we will visit conception ignition, which relates to the third ventricle and, as you might guess, is associated with conception experiences. Again, this ignition may have been compromised by challenging conditions which we will consider and can be augmented and clarified through session work. Working with these ignitions can support fuller embodiment and engagement in one’s life.
In that ignition processes are energetic, they are easily perceived and supported online. The seminar is organised over three Friday-Saturday half-days. Each Friday will introduce the ignition process being explored that week, including a demonstration session Cherionna will facilitate with one of the students. Each Saturday session offers the opportunity to practice these sessions with another student online, following a relevant settling meditation and followed by a discussion time to harvest our experience and address your questions. If you prefer, you can do these practice sessions in person with someone you know during our practice time. The sessions can be done with actual physical contact or with the intention of contact that we find can also be remarkably effective online and sensed by both practitioner and client.
If you are curious about ignition processes, want to deepen your perceptual and presencing skills, or want to learn more about prenatal influences on health and well-being, please join us!
