​​​​​My experience practicing and teaching osteopathic medicine has taught me that the body can act as a fulcrum for spiritual wellness and awakening. When people become more aware and in tune with the sacred nature of their body and the world they live in they are better able to notice and experience a more meaningful connection to the Divine cosmos from which we are made. They are better able to achieve a functional balance of spiritual, mental, and physical health in their relationships with self and community. Health and wellness are impossible if the spiritual and mental aspects of reality are ignored.

The Luminous Fulcrum is a learning community focused on body-centered, spiritual wellness that encourages people to develop a better experiential awareness of the body as a mind-matter-spirit functional whole. It aims to inspire and educate people to take notice of the sacred in self and others, tune into embodied wisdom, and experientially recognize and let go of non-harmonious aspects of physical self.

There are many modes of engagement with this community:

Social Media:

https://www.instagram.com/luminousfulcrum/ and  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjjaw5vwMhVGm8a5U3S36OA
Virtual:

classes, activities, and discussions (see calendar)
In-person:

workshops, classes, activities, and discussions (see calendar)

Some activities have a set fee, but many aspects of this community are free or suggest a donation that financially benefits the Mind Matter Spirit Foundation Inc. which is an educational, non-profit. The purpose of Mind Matter Spirit Foundation Inc. is to create and support educational activities that promote mind-matter-spiritual wellness and provide individuals with affordable opportunities to experience themselves as expressions of an interconnected, multi-dimensional, communal, divine universe.

If you are interested in helping yourself or others develop a more perceptual appreciation of the sacred nature of the living world and connect to that which makes us in a more tangible way, please check out our calendar for a list of upcoming events.

Read-on if you want a short synopsis of what led me to form the Luminous Fulcrum Community…

Osteopathic physicians are taught that a person is a unit of body, mind, and spirit, and that disease happens when one or more of these parts is dysfunctional. We are taught that structure and function are related, and the body is capable of self-regulation, self-healing, and health maintenance.

How does the body regulate, heal, and maintain itself? How is this possible? We know it is true. We experience it daily. There is some organizing principle that is beyond human intelligence, and it creates life. In other words, it creates and maintains the structures and functions of all biological beings. So, when I am examining a patient, I am really examining this organizing principle at work.

Sometimes the body’s health-maintenance mechanisms become impaired, and osteopaths are trained to feel for this dysfunction and interact with it in a way that helps restore proper function. We call this impaired or altered function of the body’s framework “somatic dysfunction”.

My experience working with the structure and function of my patients’ bodies has led me to think of the body as matter organized by spirit observed and directed by mind. Spiritual matters and what the mind is focusing on have a huge impact on a person’s body and sense of wellbeing. If there is disease or unease in a person’s body, one must consider spiritual and mental aspects.

A body does not exist in isolation. It is part of a bigger, multi-dimensional whole. There is a structural and functional framework to this whole, and our relationship with self, community, nature, and creation contributes to our health in profound ways. Health is a nurturing relationship of structure and function. To feel well, we need to feel cared for and loved, which results in an ability to feel joy.

My goal as an osteopath is to help people feel well by helping them find health. I can’t make people be healthy. I can’t heal anyone. What I can do is observe and feel for function, notice dysfunction, and try to facilitate a return to healthy function. When I use my hands to guide dysfunctional tissues back to a more functional state it is called osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT). Sometimes a patient only needs OMT, but other times a patient needs practical advice to help them better relate to, understand, and care for their body- mind, matter, and spirit.

While my patients most often come to me with some concern about their physical body there are some who come because they are interested in spiritual and mental wellness. Some would say that the body is a temple or an experiential vehicle that allows communion with the Divine. I have quite a few patients for whom OMT seems to touch them on a spiritual level and the result is a more palpable connection to Divine Love. Osteopathy is my profession, but my calling is to help people feel their Divine nature, to feel the Health, and that is the mission of the Luminous Fulcrum.