Personal Exploration

Prior to discovering the field of PPN, Cecily was ushered into a realm of personal exploration through various meditation, esoteric, shamanic, energy, sound, music, movement, and dance healing and therapeutic modalities. Several movement-based certifications, such as, prenatal yoga, yoga for kids, DansKinetics: Spirit in Motion™, and Pilates mat, came about during that initial awakening.

Most importantly, was the realization that sounding, chanting, and dancing can serve as gateways to the Self and provide refuge from the busy-ness of life, and liberation from the suffering generated by the mind. This is vital to maintaining optimal pregnancy conditions, particularly, the sound services, baby-welcoming activities, and Spirit in Motion™, which has now expanded to Prenatal Spirit in Motion™.

A Written Meditation on The Embryo

(Published in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Volume Three By Michael J. Shea, PhD. North Atlantic Books, 2010.)

The Perpetual Embryo I Go

By Cecily Miller

I know I am whole.

The Invitation

Mother and father,
In stillpoint prayer
I am invited

I know I am whole. I morph.

Conscious Conception

In the grace of divine, human union
Egg chooses sperm
Sperm and egg fuse
I am sentient

24-Hour Stillpoint

I know I am whole. I morph.

My Biological Imperative

To help my mother survive so that I can survive
I co-metabolize with my mother
I metabolize her joy; I metabolize her stress
My shape and symmetry are metabolically influenced
What happens during and after birth will determine if my
stress impacted cells get activated, or not
(Week One)

The Perpetual Embryo I Go

I cleave into two un-identical cells
Twinship:
I will seek to create an image of my twin; myself
Compression and heat create potency
I cleave into 4 cells
The median plane will be my midline
Compression and heat create potency
I become denser; I am morula
Stem cell line: trophoblast, my peripheral body
Stem cell line: embryoblast, my central body

The Perpetual Embryo I Go

From outside in
Radial symmetry I am
My internal reality is becoming
My membrane surround develops
My fluids contain all adult function imprints
Metabolism of autonomy and relationship begins
I know self-regulation metabolically, first

(Week two)

I know I am whole. I morph.

The Perpetual Embryo I Go

From inside out, middle to outer
(My functions precede structures)
Potency builds
I hatch
I attach in uterus
I orient to the stillpoints in my environment and myself
Blood develops in periphery
Islands of stillness are between my blood and my mother’s blood
We attach blood to blood through the occurrence of stillness

(Week three)

The Perpetual Embryo I Go

In toward my midline
Axial symmetry now
I come to my heart
My choices are to contract or withdraw
I use resistance to build potency
I become human by way of condensation
My fluids gel and solidify and I become denser
Vascular system begins to develop
“Finger of God” is my orienting axis
Somites will become my vertebra
Aortic bridal forms

(Week four)

I know I am whole. I morph.

The Perpetual Embryo I Go

My embryonic heart imprints
Embodied divinity I am
Hands on my heart
Day twent-two my heart starts to beat
My heart will turn inside out and right side up
My life journey:
I will pendulate between heart of sadness and heart of excited-joy
I know the pains and joys of becoming and dying
Completing and growing

The Perpetual Embryo I Go

To connect with my egg-ness is to connect with my wholeness