by Nigel Williamson The Fulcrum, Issue 46 Winter/Spring 2009 I’m in a field. There are thistles, rough grass and nettles around me. I’m about to give a course and I’ve had a momentary loss of confidence about my capacity to make contact with horses. I’ve spent a year being with these horses, working with them. … Continue reading Natural Horsemanship and CST
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Horses, My Teachers
by Sue Newport The Fulcrum, Issue 39 Summer/Autumn 2006 Awareness is the key to developing feel; be in the present; experiment with yourself and the horse; focus on the ‘means whereby’, not the goal. Perry Wood These words from a book called Real Riding, refer to the riding of a horse but they could just … Continue reading Horses, My Teachers
A Cranial Journey
by Candice Marro The Fulcrum, Issue 30 Autumn 2003 First tell me, do you have a quest? Do you want to explore the moving waters of your existence? Do you like to dive deep into the unknown? Do you have in your heart nostalgia for something you can’t name? Then, open your eyes, take a … Continue reading A Cranial Journey
The Concept of Health: Primordial and Personal
by Matthew Appleton The Fulcrum, Issue 27 Autumn 2002 One of the fundamental principles of craniosacral therapy is that ‘Health’ is never lost to us, it is always available. Some practitioners in the cranial field, such as James Jealous, use the term Health, with a capital H, to describe an active force that is at … Continue reading The Concept of Health: Primordial and Personal
Mission Impossible? A Journey Out of Autism
by Denise McCann The Fulcrum, Issue 25 Winter 2002 It’s hard to know where to start talking about Liam. I suppose I should describe the community I live in first and my own situation when I first met him. I live in South Galway, near the Clare border in Ireland. It’s a rural area with … Continue reading Mission Impossible? A Journey Out of Autism
When Mirrors Are Missing
By Sue Harding The Fulcrum, Issue 47 Spring/Summer 2009 In ‘The path taken away’, The Fulcrum 46, I explored the idea of ancestry and the shadow self within the context of adoption. This article examines the role of mirroring in the development of self-awareness. In this context self-awareness is taken to mean a felt and … Continue reading When Mirrors Are Missing
The Path Taken Away – Adoption, Ancestry and the Shadow Self
By Sue Harding The Fulcrum, Issue 46 Winter/Spring 2009 One evening I was sitting with a friend in a café while she perused her new books on numerology. We laughed as she read out her ‘findings’ based on the mathematics of her name. She tried different combinations, with and without her middle name, just to … Continue reading The Path Taken Away – Adoption, Ancestry and the Shadow Self