tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433130667692129973.post5581680506849788746..comments2022-10-24T04:10:15.471-07:00Comments on Cherionna's Blog: A New Year, A New BirthCherionna Menzam-Sillshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12428636173288437580noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433130667692129973.post-85024146688418461782016-05-26T02:08:02.974-07:002016-05-26T02:08:02.974-07:00Sheila, Thank you for your candid comment! I'm...Sheila, Thank you for your candid comment! I'm sorry I have just seen it now, some months after the fact! What a journey each moment can be and so powerful to understand each step in terms of the birth journey. Bowing your head reminds me of a prenatal phase of folding (what Jaap van der Wal speaks of as bowing) in the fourth week, bringing heart to heart center as the nervous system grows. Welcome!Cherionna Menzam-Sillshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12428636173288437580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433130667692129973.post-79331095693521939532016-01-03T08:37:41.564-08:002016-01-03T08:37:41.564-08:00Thank you Cherionna for your new beginnings blog. ...Thank you Cherionna for your new beginnings blog. Sheila Spremulli here. Having a working (but in park) website, for the past several years, I am able to fully relate to entering the cyber world slowly. The slow pace, partly due to knowing, only dimly, what my next professional unfolding steps would be, is picking up as I completed APPPAH PPNE certification program in August and my training with the Haden Institute for Spiritual Direction will be finished in April this year. An unexpected turn, in being performed by my life/plan, was being trained as a Veriditas labyrinth facilitator. I am able to relate to your descriptions of the possible hallmarks of birth interventions. I deepened into living my birth pattern during my APPPAH's congress presentation in December of 2015. I was prepared for things speeding up as I got closer to presenting. In setting goals for new beginnings in 2016 I am again considering submitting a proposal to present at the BCST/NA conference in September, Rooted in Wholeness, Branching out in Possibility. In my APPPAH presentation I explored the 4 embryonic developmental crisis (defined by van der Wal) by delineating four copyrighted patterns (derived from the Chartres Labyrinth template) I discovered while preparing for the APPPAH conference. I also assigned a cardinal movements of birth to each of the petals on the rose at the center of the Chartres Labyrinth. In being performed, like a "Spirit Embryo" (Klocek), by this year's 'resolutions' or heart goals, I am feeling the pull of my birth pattern of waiting as my mother labored till the last minute while entertaining friends before they all four rushed in the car to the hospital where I was born 45 minutes later. <br />Yes,wanting to slow down this rushed at the last minute birth pattern shows up, at times, for me. As I think about submitting my BCST/NA proposal, however, what I am working with, or rather what is working on me now, are the cardinal movements of birth patterns: descent, flexion, engagement, internal rotation, external rotation and birth. I am descending into the possibilities of what the work wants, how it might relate to the BCST process, practice, and practitioner. There is a certain flexion needed. For me, as a spiritual director in training, that means a kind of bowing of head (prayerfully) to discern the way forward. Writing a proposal means a deeper engagement into my own lived or and lack of experience of BSCT, my ideas of blending BSCT with labyrinth practice and whether that may hold meaning for conference goers. I have already, in considering whether to even submit a proposal, rotated 180ยบ and turned myself inside out (van der Wal's fourth embryonic crisis). Now as I get closer to actually writing a proposal, I have to align my head and my heart toward moving forward authentically ( i.e. internal and external rotation). I thank you again for this little bit of blog space to unfold my proposal intentions as each creative beginning is a birthing of life. Many blessings on you and your work. It's gratifying to know of others being performed as the birth their lives. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08681415592257198531noreply@blogger.com