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In this miniseries, 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.

* All of our online courses and workshops will be recorded, and the replays of each class will be available to those who are enrolled.

The Prenatal Shadow

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Healing Early Wounds through Awareness

A 3-part series
with Cherionna Menzam-Sills
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3 Mondays

June 2, June 30, July 21, 2025
10am - 11:30pm PDT
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About this Workshop Series

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.

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June 2nd: 
What is the Prenatal Shadow?

  • We will define the prenatal shadow and discuss how it becomes shadow.


  • We will look at prenatal awareness, intelligence, and original embryological potential as shadow.
June 30th: 
Developing within the collective shadow

  • We will examine the collective shadow of the feminine and Mother Earth


  • We will explore shadow in relation to layers of support
July 21st: 
Welcome or Reject
  • We will look at the developmental milestones and the significance of welcome

  • We will revisit discovery with support and awareness
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  MEET THE FACILITATOR  

Cherionna Menzam-Sills

Compassionate Somatic Prenatal and Birth Therapist

CHERIONNA MENZAM-SILLS, PhD 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 currently 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 Training. 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 and life to embodied presence.

You can learn more about Cherionna and her work at:


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