BY Franklyn Sills The Fulcrum, Issue 94 January 2025 Birth is one of our most formative experiences, a universal rite of passage that can have significant, lifelong physical and emotional consequences. My own prenatal and birth experiences were intense. As my mother had lost a son before me, she was constantly anxious and fearful of … Continue reading On Meeting Infants – part 1
The Bioenergetic Basis of Health
BY Matthew Appleton The Fulcrum, Issue 93 September 2024 The Pioneering Work of William Garner Sutherland & Wilhelm Reich In the first half of the twentieth century two men from very different disciplines dared to follow their own paths of enquiry that took them into a realm of natural functioning beyond that of the prevailing … Continue reading The Bioenergetic Basis of Health
Beyond the Treatment Room: Developing a Reflective Practice
BY Melanie Langer The Fulcrum, Issue 93 September 2024 There is an alchemy that brings practitioner and client together. Both are teachers, both are students. Each with their own story and path of learning. Discovering the dynamics at play in the relational field is a profoundly therapeutic process for both practitioner and client. Understanding these … Continue reading Beyond the Treatment Room: Developing a Reflective Practice
Measuring the Effectiveness of CST
BY Dr Nicola Brough The Fulcrum, Issue 92 May 2024 I first used complementary and integrative medicine over 20 years ago to support my own ill health. It was reflexology that awoke me to my innate healing ability. I was fascinated by the body-mind results I felt, and responded so well that I decided to … Continue reading Measuring the Effectiveness of CST
Interview with Danny Sandra of the International Cranio Research Congress
The Fulcrum, Issue 92 May 2024 The goal of the Congress is to inspire confidence in the work that we do. Although this therapy is quite young and not always scientifically supported, what we do matters. Our work matters to our clients, to the world, to ourselves, and to our community. With this congress, we … Continue reading Interview with Danny Sandra of the International Cranio Research Congress
The Challenges & Rewards of Working with Neurodiversity
BY Miki Ettore & Kate Stuart The Fulcrum, Issue 91 January 2024 NEURODIVERSITY is a term used to describe naturally occurring variations in the human brain. Neurotypical is defined as ‘normal’ and neurodiverse is a spectrum that varies from person to person and affects how they experience and react to the world around them. It … Continue reading The Challenges & Rewards of Working with Neurodiversity
Supporting Our Communities
BY Carolyn Stevens The Fulcrum, Issue 91 January 2024 Lizette Villaverde and I are the birth mothers of the Craniosacral Collaborative, a space for therapists to share, enrich and empower one another through collaborative practice. Our objective is to empower practitioners and assist the wider community through acts of creative service. Lizette and I met … Continue reading Supporting Our Communities
Adoption & Duality: Navigating a Liminal Space
By Sue Harding The Fulcrum, Issue 89 May 2023 The experience of adoption can sometimes feel like the occupation of a liminal space; a sense of floating between two places, times or selves. It is a before and after separation, two sets of families, (sometimes) two different names, and a sense of a silent self. … Continue reading Adoption & Duality: Navigating a Liminal Space
Breech Births
By Richard Kramer Having worked with babies for many years I am interested to learn more about how a breech birth can affect a baby’s development. Born with their buttocks, feet, or knees emerging first, breech babies are relatively rare, comprising one in 200 births in the UK.¹ Although breech presentation is common in early … Continue reading Breech Births
Watery Worlds
By Ally Stott The Fulcrum, Issue 88 January 2023 I live on a small island in Oxford. The river called me here eight years ago at a time of great change and transformation in my life. Three years ago, I began year-round wild swimming in rivers, oceans and lakes. It is these healing, transformational experiences … Continue reading Watery Worlds