Cherionna Menzam-Sills's Blog

Thank you for reading my blog for all these years. I have decided to move to a different platform for my writing. You are warmly invited to explore my new Substack publication, called Birthing out of the Shadows. It includes not only blog articles like those you would read here but also my artwork, poetry, […]

It seems that everything I engage in these days draws me to orient to the space between. It comes up in classes I teach, somatic practice, supervision and client sessions. I can see such a need in our world today to develop tolerance for and skill in relationship to the space between. Our modern world […]

We all know that these are challenging times. Resilience seems to be the word of the decade. How do we meet our challenges and not only survive but thrive? Did you know that you have already done this repeatedly as an embryo? Life in the Womb People often think of life in the womb as […]

On the eve of the winter solstice this year, I joined a few other Continuum teachers for a Continuum dive to acknowledge the shift this moment in the year signifies. As I allowed my body tissues to melt and deepened into the embryonic fluid potential that we all have within us, a thought came to […]

In these times of stress and so much suffering on our planet, and even for the planet, how can we remember and augment our sense of health? From Craniosacral Biodynamics I learned the basic osteopathic principle that inherent health is always present. This health is expressed in each of us through our potency, an embodied […]

Today is Earth Day, April 22nd. I am reminded of how our relationship with Mother Earth may echo our first relationship with mother in the womb and the time of birth. Today, in 2023, we are as a species in dire need for more conscious connection with our planet. I ask myself, as perhaps you […]

Every baby needs and wants to be welcomed. This need continues throughout our lives, particularly if it hasn’t been well met in the beginning. To really understand this, we need to consider when “the beginning” is. Most babies are welcomed once they are born unless they are abandoned or given up for adoption or fostering, […]

You may have heard that babies are our teachers. They arrive still fresh with the aura of that mysterious source from which our beings emerge into a new life and return to at death. In the presence of that energy, we remember. We have the potential to learn. How can that translate into our lives? […]

These days I feel even more grateful than usual for my supportive practices of Continuum (mindful movement), meditation, and the ability to remind myself of my current age and resources (to help me not feel like a little one being easily overwhelmed). I look around my home and feel grateful to have one, as well […]

When you ask yourself, “Who am I?,” do you acknowledge the love that you are? As little ones, even before birth, we are carriers of love, emissaries with a mysterious message humans are uniquely designed to communicate. We can be reminded by other mammals, also possessing a social engagement nervous system, and we as humans […]