This latest video is inspired by a client asking recently with some astonishment, "I feel so calm after doing this Continuum sound. How does that work?"
The video includes a brief guided exploration with a Continuum sound.
Please leave your comments and questions below, or submit them to me at cherionna@cherionna.com. I will do my best to respond to your questions in future videoblog posts.
This video was inspired by questions asked by students of Craniosacral Biodynamics, where we practice shifting out of our usual, everyday modes of perception in order to sense and support subtle formative forces in healing processes. Cherionna Menzam-Sills discusses perception and how to shift it, as well as the value of being able to view in different ways in any therapy and in all our relationships.
The video was recorded in July, 2015 during a post-graduate seminar in Craniosacral Biodynamics at Karuna Institute, Devon, England.
For more information on Karuna Institute: http://www.karuna-institute.co.uk/
More on Cherionna Menzam-Sills, PhD and the therapies she offers at www.cherionna.com
Please feel free to post your comments or questions on this blog or by email to cherionna@cherionna.com. Your questions plant seeds for future videos in this blog!
Thank you for watching. May this video support your perceptual fluidity in all spheres of your life!
Rather than responding to questions this time, I am responding to the requests of many of my Continuum Movement students to provide a recording of the kind of guided settling I tend to lead the group in at the beginning of Continuum classes and workshops.
This 30-minute exploration of cellular awareness guides you in subtle sensing within your body of tissues, cells, breath, movement and support. This meditation was recorded during a Continuum Movement workshop, Fluid Development, in Stroud, UK in May 2015. It was the beginning of an extended Continuum inquiry and you can use it either as the beginning of a Continuum dive, if you are familiar with Continuum, or as a restful meditation. If you are just using it as a meditation on its own, make sure you take your time to gently open your eyes and come back into the room you are in at the end. It is ideally done lying down on your back.
May this meditation support you in deepening into restful, peaceful presence and aliveness within your own body.
Within the context of the Fluid Development workshop, cellular breathing or respiration may be considered our original developmental movement pattern, as identified by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, founder of Body-Mind Centering (BMC). I studied BMC extensively with Susan Aposhyan as part of my MA in Dance/Movement Psychotherapy, as well as a two year training with her in Body-Mind Psychotherapy (BMP). BMP applies the principles and practice of BMC to psychotherapy. I have found this work one of the major influences both in my own journey of embodiment and in how I work with clients. This Fluid Development workshop series involves Continuum Movement inquiry inspired by important developmental movement patterns from conception through the first year after birth, enriched by awareness of prenatal and birth psychology. Part 3, exploring movement in the first year of life after birth, when we learn to navigate in relationship to gravity, as well as moving within the relational field of our family, happens in Stroud, UK July 10th - 13th. For more information and to register, click here.
For more information on Continuum Movement and Cherionna Menzam-Sills, please visit my website at www.birthingyourlife.org.
Please feel free to submit your comments and questions below or by sending me an email at cherionna@cherionna.com
In this video Cherionna Menzam-Sills, PhD, authorized Continuum Movement instructor and practitioner, discusses recognizing and working with trauma or other unresolved history in Continuum Movement as it manifests as denser or less inhabited areas with less movement, sensation or vibration. Please leave comments or questions below.
More information available at www.cherionna.com and www.continuummovement.com
You may also enjoy my written blog at cherionnablog.blogspot.co.uk
This video is an introduction and demonstration of the luna breath, a breath we use in Continuum Movement to help with slowing down, softening, calming and soothing.
Please enjoy and continue to submit your questions to be responded to in future videos. Also, feel free to leave comments below about how you experience the luna breath as you practice with this video.
For more about Continuum Movement, as well as related topics, please view my written blog at cherionna.blogspot.co.uk
More on Continuum Movement at www.continuummovement.com and on my website at www.cherionna.com
Here are some thoughts in response to a question posted in relation to my video introducing Prenatal and Birth Therapy and Psychology. The question from Howard Davis (thank you!) was:
"I have a question for you with regard to bodily held traumatic memory. If memory exists at a cellular level, how far do you go when you work with clients given the probability of there being multifaceted, interlinking layers of directly and indirectly held experiences in each of us? I have a felt sense that traumatic experience has potentially deep, deep roots that can take us beyond the perinatal and prenatal."
There are so many layers and perspectives possible to explore in relation to this question. Please stay tuned for more to come soon, including more on cellular memory and learning, and human consciousness beyond the physical. In the meantime, I welcome your comments and questions, to generate topics for future videos.
Here is my first response video in this blog, responding to questions and comments submitted by the viewers. This video explores the meanings, modern and ancient, of the word "weird" in relation to Continuum Movement. In the process, some fascinating and important aspects of Continuum are discussed.
Please respond to the video with your own questions and comments, either by submitting them below or by sending an email to me at cherionna@cherionna.com. I will respond to them in future videos.
Here is the third of my introductory videos. This one is on Prenatal and Birth Therapy. Please enjoy this video and post your comments and questions below. If you prefer privacy, feel free to email me. Future posts on this blog will be videos responding to your questions and comments. I look forward to hearing from you soon!
For more information on Prenatal and Birth Therapy please visit my website at www.cherionna.com and the website of APPPAH - the Association for Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Health at www.birthpsychology.com
Here is the second of my series of 3 introductory videos to start off this blog. This one on Continuum Movement includes a description as well as a short Continuum exploration.
Please post your questions and comments below or send them to me at cherionna@cherionna.com, and I will respond in future videos. Learn more about Continuum Movement and available classes or individual appointments at: www.cherionna.com www.continuummovement.com
This first video is an introduction to Craniosacral Biodynamics, also known as Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, based on the work developed by Franklyn Sills and the teaching staff at the Karuna Institute in Devon, England.
Please submit your questions and comments by posting them below or feel free to send me an email at cherionna@cherionna.com, particularly if you prefer to have them addressed anonymously. In future videos, I will respond to questions submitted. I look forward to entering into dialogue with you in this way.
Learn more about Craniosacral Biodynamics at:
Website of Franklyn Sills on Biodynamics: http://www.craniosacral-biodynamics.org
Karuna Institute where Franklyn and I teach: http://www.karuna-institute.co.uk
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America: https://www.craniosacraltherapy.org
The books by Franklyn Sills, Foundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics are the basic texts used in our trainings.
This video blog is about the modalities I use at Birthing Your Life: Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (also known as Craniosacral Biodynamics), Continuum Movement and Prenatal and Birth Therapy.
Please feel free to respond to the videos either by posting your questions and comments below or by sending me an email at cherionna@cherionna.com.
My wish is that these videos support deepening your journey into being and presence with yourself and others.
You can learn more about me and Birthing Your Life at www.cherionna.com.
We'll begin with a series of 3 introductory videos, the first introducing Craniosacral Biodynamics, the second on Continuum Movement, and the third on Prenatal and Birth Therapy, all to be posted soon. Please stay tuned!
