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Pre- and Perinatal Somatics

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presented by professionals from the Castellino Training Community 
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2nd Thursday of each month
10-11:30 am, Pacific Time
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Monday, May 5, 2025

The Prenatal Shadow

An Introduction to the Book and Its Concepts

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Cherionna Menzam Sills
with assistants
Free Talk: The Prenatal Shadow - An Introduction to the Book and Its Concepts
Cherionna will guide you in understanding and exploring how our prenatal and birth experience becomes an unconscious shadow, using concepts and information from her most recent book
Miniseries: The Prenatal Shadow ~ Healing Early Wounds Through Awareness
The shadow, a term coined by Carl Jung, refers to aspects of ourselves that we believe or experience as being unaccepted.

Because awareness of prenatal and birth experience from the baby's perspective is so uncommon, it does not tend to be acknowledged or addressed. As a result children quickly learn that it is not “real,” and these early experiences get pushed into the unconscious. These unconscious, implicit memories then seek attention, emerging as somatic and emotional feelings.

This series explores how these memories develop and how we can address them for healing.
About the presenter: Cherionna Menzam-Sills, PhD
Compassionate Somatic Prenatal and Birth Therapist

Cherionna began teaching Embodied Embryology through somatic movement in 1997 as part of her doctoral studies in Pre- & Perinatal Psychology, which led to her teaching at Naropa University and the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. She has taught and facilitated Pre- and Perinatal Psychology/Therapy, Continuum (a mindful movement practice), and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy internationally, often with her husband, Biodynamics pioneer Franklyn Sills.

She offers post-graduate training for practitioners to enhance their skill in recognizing and meeting prenatal and birth material arising in session work, as well as small womb surround process workshops, for which she is an approved facilitator through Castellino Trainings. Her background includes extensive study with Pre- and Perinatal Psychology pioneers William Emerson and Ray Castellino, and Continuum founder, Emilie Conrad, who authorized her to teach Continuum in 2007.

Cherionna has authored three books,
  • The Breath of Life: An Introduction Craniosacral
  • Biodynamics,
  • Spirit into Form: Exploring Embryological Potential and Prenatal Psychology,
  • and The Prenatal Shadow: Healing the Traumas Experienced before and at Birth.


Cherionna is committed in her work & life to embodied presence.

You can learn more about Cherionna and her work at:
www.birthingyourlife.org – Cherionna’s website
www.resourcingyourlife.org – online school of Cherionna and Franklyn Sills
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MARCH, 2024

The Days and Works of Ray Castellino

Prenatal and Perinatal Sciences Hall of Honor Inductee, 2023

* A special series , The Teachings of Ray Castellino, 2,  starts April 2 2024.
For more information, click here.
Ray Castellino
8 February, 2024

Becoming Secure

Supporting Secure Attachment in Our Adult Lives

* A mini-series , Creating a Secure Self with the Circle of Security starts March 19 2024.
For more information, click here.
Lynn Korst
11 January, 2024

The Power of Stillness and Movement

Trusting What Emerges

* A mini-series , of the same name starts February 6 2024.
For more information, click here.
Carme Renalias
9 November, 2023

Waiting for a Child

The Challenging Way with Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART)

* A mini-series , of the same name starts November 27, 2023.
For more information, click here.
Klaus Käppeli
14 September, 2023

Deepening Connections

The Importance of Starting with Oneself

* A mini-series , Rediscovering our Sensing Self that explores this topic of Sensory Awareness starts December 5, 2023.
For more information, click here.
Judyth Weaver
13 July, 2023

Open House

What is the Foundation Training and Why Join It?

Find out more information about the Foundation Training here.
Tara Blasco
Mary Jackson
8 June, 2023

Introduction to The Power of Your Face

To Shift Deep Levels of Trauma and Enhance Bonding, Connection, and Rejuvenation

* A special offer , The Power of Your Face that explores this topic more in depth starts July 12, 2023. 18 CEUs offered for certain organizations.
For more information, click here.

Susan Lange
11 May, 2023

Embodying Embryo Folding

 ... Discovery and Welcome

* A mini-series , Embodying Embryo Folding, Discover, and Welcome that explores this topic of embryonic development and the experiences of discovery and how we are welcomed starts June 13, 2023.
For more information, click here.

Cherionna Menzam-Sills
13 April, 2023

Womb Continuum:

Moving Health

Frank Carbone
9 March, 2023

From Relinquishment, Through Separation, To Adoption:

Understanding the Layers of Experience and Complexity Involved in the Journey

Kristin Sipley
9 February, 2023

Prematurity:

Beginning Life in the Hospital

* A mini-series , Prematurity: Different Perspectives of the Premature Birth Experience that explores this topic of Prematurity further is also available
For more information, click here.

Fabiola Cortés-Funes de Urquijo
12 January, 2023

Living the Principles in Everyday Life

Regina Bücher
Klaus Käppeli
8 December, 2022

Ways to Meet Teenagers in Their Power:

How Creative Opposition with Toddlers Makes a Difference for Teenagers

* A mini-series , Ways to Meet Teenagers in Their Power: Meeting Babies, Toddlers, and Teenagers as Full Beings that explores this topic of Teenagers further is also available
For more information, click here.

Claudia Köhler
10 November, 2022

Learning Your Baby's Love Language

* A mini-series of the same name that explores this topic further is also available
For more information, click here.

Eileen Sendrey
13 October, 2022

Working with Babies and Children Following the BEBA (Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment) Clinic Model: 

How to Support Families to Thrive When Birth (or another early event) is Traumatic

* A mini-series of the same name that explores this topic further, with presentations, exercises, and client videos is also available
For more information, click here.

Tara Blasco
8 September, 2022

The Dance of the Embryo: 

Connecting to the Original Movements and Gestures of Life

* A mini-series exploring this journey further with Kristin Sipley will be coming in 2023.
Kristin Sipley
11 August, 2022

The Leading Edge: An Essential Pre- and Perinatal Somatic Skill



* A mini-series with Kate White and Eileen Sendrey, "Transforming the Trauma Tree" also is available ...
For more information, click here.

Kate White
Eileen Sendrey
14 July, 2022

The Formative Principle and Formative Intelligence

* A mini-series, "An Exploration of and an Inquiry into Formative Intelligence" also is available ...
For more information, click here.

Jim Feil
9 June, 2022

Meet the World, Receive What Is, and Discover What's Next:

Applying Aikido Principles to working in the Pre- & Perinatal Somatics Field and in Life

* A mini-series, "Pre- and Perinatal Trauma Work, Somatics, and the Natural World" also is available ...
For more information, click here.

Scott Engler
12 May, 2022

Where Your Attention Goes, Energy Flows:

How Intention Guides Your Day-to-Day Experiences


Charisse Basquin
10 March, 2022

The Rainbow Bridge Continuum:

Birth, Life, and Death through the Pre- and Perinatal Perspective

* A mini-series of the same title also is available ...
For more information, click here.

Moriah Melin
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10 February, 2022

The Pre- and Perinatal Continuum:

The Soul's Journey, Embodiment, and Imprinting

* A mini-series, "Listening to Little Ones" w/ Karen Melton also is available ...
For more information, click here.

Karen Melton
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13 January, 2022

The Somatic Blueprint:

Connecting to Our Essence

Anna Chitty
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