I am currently looking at the calendar to set up dates for the Front and Back of the Head courses as well as the TMJ course. I will hopefully have dates for 2013 set soon.
Friday, 7 December 2012
Embodying Embryology, A Continuum Movement Exploration
Last week end I attended a three day workshop titled: Embodying Embryology, A Continuum Movement Exploration. It came at a great time as I have been studying embryology in greater detail.
It was taught by Cherionna Menzam-Sills. She is a Contiuum instructor and also a Biodynamic craniosacral therapist and teacher. For those of you who have started looking further into the cranial field she is married to Franklyn Sills, a noted instructor and author of Cranialsacral Biodynamics Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. I should point out at this point that Continuum was developed by Emilie Conrad.
I first heard about Continuum in the book by Bonnie Gintis, Engaging the Movement of Life: Exploring Heath and Embodiment through Through Osteopathy and Continuum. It stimulated my imagination and I wanted to find out a little bit more. I recommend you visit some of the links to find out more for yourself.
It was a very interesting three days. Actually difficult to explain. Basically we are trying to get our bodies to move in a much more fluid way. Instead of using our normal patterned movements we are listening to our bodies with "open attention" and moving how the tissues are wanting to at the time. When you work out in the gym, or do other patterned movements you start to densify your tissues. This method works to reverse that densification. You feel much lighter afterward. We used several sounds while sitting or laying on the ground then would allow our bodies to move. It is similar feeling to a whole body unwinding. I must say it was very meditative, relaxing and freeing. The depth reached was surprising and beautiful.
Each day we would start out feeling our bodies and taking a baseline of how we were feeling. I was definitely feeling much more fluid and mobile at the end of the days. The last day I started with a bad headache but postponed taking any painkillers as a test to the techniques. I was pleasantly surprised at the outcome. Neck, back and headache felt much better during and following the movements. I will be continuing Continuum as a home practice along with my meditation practice.
It was taught by Cherionna Menzam-Sills. She is a Contiuum instructor and also a Biodynamic craniosacral therapist and teacher. For those of you who have started looking further into the cranial field she is married to Franklyn Sills, a noted instructor and author of Cranialsacral Biodynamics Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. I should point out at this point that Continuum was developed by Emilie Conrad.
I first heard about Continuum in the book by Bonnie Gintis, Engaging the Movement of Life: Exploring Heath and Embodiment through Through Osteopathy and Continuum. It stimulated my imagination and I wanted to find out a little bit more. I recommend you visit some of the links to find out more for yourself.
It was a very interesting three days. Actually difficult to explain. Basically we are trying to get our bodies to move in a much more fluid way. Instead of using our normal patterned movements we are listening to our bodies with "open attention" and moving how the tissues are wanting to at the time. When you work out in the gym, or do other patterned movements you start to densify your tissues. This method works to reverse that densification. You feel much lighter afterward. We used several sounds while sitting or laying on the ground then would allow our bodies to move. It is similar feeling to a whole body unwinding. I must say it was very meditative, relaxing and freeing. The depth reached was surprising and beautiful.
Each day we would start out feeling our bodies and taking a baseline of how we were feeling. I was definitely feeling much more fluid and mobile at the end of the days. The last day I started with a bad headache but postponed taking any painkillers as a test to the techniques. I was pleasantly surprised at the outcome. Neck, back and headache felt much better during and following the movements. I will be continuing Continuum as a home practice along with my meditation practice.
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