Solihin Thom obtained his diploma in osteopathy from the British School of Osteopathy in 1980. He further studied acupuncture at the Institute of Acupuncture under the tutelage of Dr Anton Jayasuriya of Medicina Alternativa in Columbo, Sri Lanka, in 1982.
Clinical education of kinesiology and manual muscle testing with Dr Bandy, and Dr Alan Beardall et al, throughout the mid-eighties, as well as perfecting Cranial osteopathic studies under the annual tutelage of the Cranial Academy and the Sutherland Teaching Foundation in the UK and various American luminaries in the osteopathic world.
Solihin practised in London primarily as a cranial osteopath in his multidisciplinary Fulham Clinic until 1991, when he emigrated to the US and started teaching an ontological alternative model of health. He has taught over the last thirty-five years in the US, Canada, New Zealand, UK, Russia, and Austria. During those years, he occasionally presented at the annual Cranial Academy conferences and other Alternative Health Forums.
This work has informed him over the years, and he is still teaching, albeit sporadically, in Austria, Türkiye and the US.
The work looks at the inner state of humans and our often vain attempts to mirror this hierarchical arrangement of the inner selves. When disorganised, the whole of the organism – constitutional, physiological, behavioural and mental as well as spiritual, becomes dysfunctional, pathophysiological, pathological and psychotic states, and ultimately sick.
Solihin Thom's work is distinguished by its use of over 1500 mudras and other symbolic modalities as a language. This unique approach, mediated through a specific ontological approach in kinesiology, serves as a feedback tool to elicit the narrative(s) carried by clients. By activating the narrative within the person, the dynamics of the organism are changed, leading it back to well-being and health or preparing the human, ultimately, for death.
