It's been three weeks since I fell off a chair and broke my wrist (radius). Even with my previous and ongoing experience of the profound healing effects of Continuum Movement, I have been amazed by how quickly the bone has been healing using Continuum. Each time I do my practice, I feel fluid waves, spirals and pulsations moving through the injured area, clearly dissolving the remaining density that served to protect during and after the fall. At three weeks, the bone feels essentially healed, although I'm still working with the soft tissue damage. This video demonstrates one the ways I have been using Continuum on this healing journey. The sound I use is called the "Jaques." We use it in Continuum to support bone and joint health. I hope this video benefits you, even if you don't have injuries! please feel free to leave your comments below.
Living From the Heart: A Heart Centered Practice with Cherionna Menzam-Sills
This short (15 minutes) video introduces a practice I have been supported by and developing since the 80s, when I called my work "Living from the Heart," and taught workshops by that name. While the name of my work has changed to "Birthing Your Life," I see this as a continuation of the same work. At this point, the emphasis is on developing awareness of and addressing aspects of our history, or habitual ways of being, that may interfere with our ability to live from the heart.
I hope this video supports you at this time of transition into a new year, a time when many of us are making resolutions or setting goals. May these emerge from your heart's desire. May your choices be in accordance with what makes your heart sing! For more on this topic of transition into the new year, and how it may be affected by our birth experience, please see my written blog.
Please leave your comments and questions below and I will do my best to respond to them in future videos.
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
