Spirit into Form Book – Therapies for Birthing Your Life

SPIRIT INTO FORM invites you to explore with mindful, embodied awareness your earliest experiences in this life with curiosity, compassion and creativity. It guides you through developmental milestones, starting with pre-conception, through conception, coming into physical form as an embryo, negotiating the birth canal and hopefully being welcomed at birth. Each stage offers details of embryological development in simple, accessible terms with hand-drawn illustrations, elaborating potential challenges and lifelong effects of having met them.

More than a traditional book on embryology, Spirit into Form includes psychological and spiritual aspects and the original embryological potential of this early time.This book is for anyone who wonders about the origins of human life and bodies, as well as personality, relationship and behavioral tendencies. Therapists and practitioners of many types, particularly those with somatic/body-centered or psychological approaches, bodyworkers, movement practitioners, birth practitioners, and also new parents and parents-to-be, can benefit from the gentle, mindful guidance in exploring your earliest beginnings, roots of many issues and strengths, and how to access potential that may have become occluded by challenges and conditions life presents.

“Thank you for putting words to so many experiences I had no words for. Truly thank you.

We’re not moving but we are movement......yes, yes, yes...I so know this and I feel less alone in this knowing. Thank you cherionna.

Your beautiful illustrations touch me.

With each chapter there is such an unwinding within me.....an expansion into the fullness and joy of Being alive!

So many insights & movements emerging...... I’m with you / your book every opportunity that presents! I’m now putting lines through the days in my diary!

So much gratitude.”

-Leila, Derbyshire, Complimentary Health Practitioner

Cherionna Menzam-Sills’s book, Spirit into Form, is based on her long experience as a craniosacral therapist and somatic prenatal and birth therapist. Cherionna takes you on a tour of important developmental stages during gestation. But in addition to that she has much to say about the larger fields of Love, Spirit, and Soul and how they are connected to the body. The scope of the material is wide, broad and encompassing. Cheronna’s message is that when we come to understand our early experiences and how they establish in us lifelong patterns, habits, addictions and tendencies, we can begin to integrate, let go, and make new choices. Her book is a subtle distillation of wisdom, stylistic grace, and excellent advice for pregnant or soon-to-be pregnant persons. Highly recommended.

— Thomas R. Verny MD, DHL (Hon), DPsych, FRCPC, FAPA

Associate Editor, Journal of Pre and Peri-natal Psychology and Health (JOPPPAH), Past President APPPAH,Author of The Secret Life of the Unborn Child with John Kelly and Pre-Parenting with Pamela Weintraub

A masterful interweaving of science and wisdom that unveils the mystical process of embodiment from pre- conception through pregnancy, birth, bonding and beyond. With applications for health professionals, parents, and individuals seeking to prevent and heal chronic illness and other long-term effects of adversity in babyhood. Menzam- Sills’ compassion, gentle pacing, artwork and supportive exercises make this precious resource accessible to lay person and professional alike.

— Veronique Mead, MD, MA

Somatic Trauma Therapist, Former Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Obstetrics,

Founder of Chronic Illness Trauma Studies.com.

This is an absolutely necessary contemporary creation story that is integrative rather than reductionistic. Cherionna writes a narrative that helps us to enter the mystery of conception, birth and death. It is a narrative that points to a solution found in front of us and in us – our body. Marie-Louise Von Franz, a preeminent Jungian analyst says in her book Creation Myths, that any creation story that unfolds in stages is the “best” creation story. Cherionna unfolds our collective story, which is my story, chapter by chapter with her expert guidance. It is an unfoldment of our embryo as humanity and as embodiment. This is a book that inspires self-compassion, love and altruism as the necessary remedy for healing as a body and a body politic in the context of our planet now. She shows us the steps to recover and make meaning of our embryo – our lived perpetual embryo. Contained herein is the most genuine and authentic nature of her embodied experience. Simultaneously, it is a fountain of authoritative knowledge referencing relevant science superseding all such attempts that have come before yet holding perfectly all its predecessor‘s. This beautiful and spellbinding book must be required reading to become a full human being inherently complete from a single celled conceptus through the moment of death.

— Michael J. Shea, PhD

Founder of SheaHeart.com, A Center for the Study of the Human Heart

Author of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Volumes 1-5.

Eloquently written, Spirit Into Form weaves a beautiful spiral of depth concepts, embryology and spirituality connecting Soma and Psyche into an essential Wholeness which can enlarge our human capacity to find meaning, joy and love itself in our living breathing world. Bringing the movement inquiry of Continuum into a complementary relationship with pre and perinatal psychology, Chrerionna orchestrates a journey for us as the reader that, on every page, tells us we are home in our bodies, moment-by- moment and breath-by breath.

— Beth Pettengill Riley, RSME/T, MA, CYT

Co-Author of A Moving Inquiry: The Art of Personal Practice And Guides Continiuum Classes And Retreats Around The World.

With gentleness and knowing empathy, Cherionna boldly traces the contours of our earliest days of existence, as we “merge our mysterious spiritual essence with the shapes we enfold ourselves into.” Yes, she dares use the “S” word, weaving the scientific and spiritual into synthesis. That is natural and right.

Cherionna Menzam-Sills has the gift of calling us to the pluri-potential that is our native birthright, our soul’s stem cells, if you will.

Cherionna is the embryo whisperer. Listen, and explore the possible you.

- Marcy Axness, PhD

Prenatal Development Specialist,

Author of Parenting for Peace: Raising the Next Generation of Peacemakers

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