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Cherionna Menzam-Sills

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Sarnia, Canada

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Cherionna Menzam-Sills draws on her extensive background in prenatal and perinatal psychology, embryology, bodywork, Continuum Movement, and other somatic therapies, as well as years of working with her husband, Biodynamics pioneer Franklyn Sills, to enhance her writing, teaching and clinical practice.

She is certified as a teacher of Craniosacral Biodynamics with the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America (BCTA/NA), and as a supervisor by the Craniosacral Association of the UK. Authorized in 2007 as a Continuum Movement Teacher by Continuum founder, Emilie Conrad, she integrates Continuum into her work, to enhance embodied understanding and experiential exploration of important concepts. Continuum is a mindful movement Cherionna Menzam-Sills draws on her extensive background in prenatal and perinatal psychology, embryology, bodywork, Continuum Movement, and other somatic therapies, as well as years of working with her husband, Biodynamics pioneer Franklyn Sills, to enhance her writing, teaching and clinical practice.

She is certified as a teacher of Craniosacral Biodynamics with the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America (BCTA/NA), and as a supervisor by the Craniosacral Association of the UK. Authorized in 2007 as a Continuum Movement Teacher by Continuum founder, Emilie Conrad, she integrates Continuum into her work, to enhance embodied understanding and experiential exploration of important concepts. Continuum is a mindful movement practice involving perceptual shifts and healing potential similar to those of Biodynamics.

Incorporating many years experience teaching and practicing various therapies since the late 70s, including mindfulness practices, somatic movement, bodywork, occupational therapy, psychotherapy and prenatal and birth psychology, Cherionna has taught students of somatic and dance/movement psychotherapy, as well as prenatal and perinatal psychology at graduate and under-graduate levels at Naropa University and the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.

Cherionna’s doctoral work led her to develop a uniquely embodied approach to teaching embryology, which she has continued to develop since the mid-90s, incorporating it into her teaching and writing. Her somatic understanding of embryology enhances her sense of our fluid nature and universal Biodynamic forces guiding our formation both in the womb and in Biodynamic session work.

Cherionna has taught Biodynamics and Continuum across North America and Europe, often with her husband, Biodynamics pioneer, Franklyn Sills. Before becoming a senior tutor at Karuna Institute, teaching alongside its co-founder, Franklyn Sills, she taught her own Biodynamic trainings in Canada and the U.S., as well as guest teaching at the Craniosacral Therapy Educational Trust in London, UK.

Cherionna has contributed three chapters to Franklyn’s pivotal texts, Foundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics, Volumes 1 and 2, as well as having helped edit them. Through her relationship with Franklyn, Cherionna has accessed new levels of clarity in her understanding and ability to articulate this powerful work. Teaching and discussing Biodynamics with Franklyn have enabled her to embrace an updated, more purely Biodynamic approach to Craniosacral Therapy. She has been immersed in the Biodynamic community through being on the Board of Directors of the BCTA/NA and extensive mentoring with Anna Chitty, a major teacher of Biodynamics in Boulder, CO. She also has presented at Biodynamic conferences in the U.S., UK and Spain, integrating her somatic creativity to engage her audience in the profound mysteries of this beautiful work.
Originally from Canada, Cherionna lives with her husband in Devon, UK, where she has a private practice, currently emphasizing online supervision and mentoring.
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	Foundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics, Volume Two: The Sentient Embryo, Tissue Intelligence, and Trauma Resolution by Franklyn Sills, Dominique Degranges (Illustrator), Cherionna Menzam-Sills (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Breath of Life: An Introduction to Craniosacral Biodynamics by Cherionna Menzam-Sills (Goodreads Author), Franklyn Sills (Foreword) 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spirit into Form: Exploring Embryological Potential and Prenatal Psychology 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Secret of Resilience: Healing Personal and Planetary Trauma through Morphogenesis by Stephanie Mines, Cherionna Menzam-Sills (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Our job (as practitioners) is to settle under our own individual ego self needs and to allow ourselves to be guided by a mysterious intelligence beyond our ability to fully define, describe or direct. When we learn to surrender to this profound force, we not only become a vehicle for the Breath of Life, but we also become available to receive its gifts directly. We may find our hearts opening with a sense of love pouring through us as we sit in awe of the healing process we, and our clients, witness together. We may also find we begin to live our lives differently.”
― Cherionna Menzam-Sills, The breath of life: An introduction to Craniosacral Biodynamics

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“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
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“Hallo, Pooh,” said Rabbit.
“Hallo, Rabbit,” said Pooh dreamily.
“Did you make that song up?”
“Well, I sort of made it up,” said Pooh. “It isn’t Brain,” he went on humbly, “because You Know Why, Rabbit; but it comes to me sometimes.”
“Ah!” said Rabbit, who never let things come to him, but always went and fetched them.”
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Oct 13, 2013 11:01AM

Hi Sharon,

Thanks for your message. I don't know much about Goodreads, but I know I love your book! I have it on my iPad and really enjoyed reading it and recommending it to others. I hope it has gone well for you.
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Hi Cherionna!
I still don't know too much about how to work goodreads, but I'm glad we are friends. Check out my book when you have the chance. Donny and Ursula Save the World. It's a laugh riot with a strong message. Hope you are well. Love, Sharon

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