As an aspiring clinician, I felt pressured to become familiar with the field’s foundational concepts, and to be a skilled follower of its basic tenets. Much like converting to a new religion, physiotherapy calls us to ‘abandon a corrupt set of beliefs … and then with the force of revelatory discovery, to be moved into the the light of truth’ ¹ We are stripped naked and baptised in the presuppositions of our profession, becoming One with those who came before us, knowing what they know so that we…

Rattling bones and symbols in a bag.
Throw them and see where they fall.
Throaty chants.
A crooked post draped by patchy cultural canvas.
A crimson and purple tent dimly lit.
A ceremony, a ritual, a healing.
The Shaman has their ways, but gives nothing away.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it — Albert Einstein