Title: Birth: the heroic journey that shapes us for life
Guided and informed by leading baby therapist and educator Karlton Terry, and working with clay, Sylvia Schroer has created sculptural pieces and a poster presentation, exploring and describing the impact of our birth journey. Infants’ experiences of birth have been much overlooked. Vaginal birth has four stages from an infant’s perspective and each stage is associated with tremendous forces and compressions on a prenate’s cranium, the impact of which may shape us for a lifetime. Guided and informed by leading baby therapist and educator Karlton Terry, and working with clay, Sylvia Schroer will create four sculptural pieces, exploring the impact of each stage of birth.
Location: York, UK
Creative Experience
Working under the guidance of my mentor and teacher Karlton Terry, I have created three sculptures to show how the compressive forces of vaginal birth can potentially shape us for life. Planned and unplanned caesarean births also bring challenges and potential trauma imprints. Using the perinate’s perspective of birth stages, each stage of birth leaves a different potential trauma imprint – with deep and long lasting physical and psychological consequences. The sculptures are called No Way Down, Nowhere to Turn and Hitting the Wall.
Biography and links
Dr Sylvia Schroer has worked as a therapist (working with Chinese medicine and craniosacral therapy) for over 30 years, and she holds a PhD in Health Sciences. She qualified as a craniosacral therapist in 2013 and completed a ‘birth mask reveal’ training with Karlton Terry in 2023.
Karlton Terry
Karlton Terry is a world-renowned baby therapist, author, and educator. He is the recipient of the David Chamberlain Award (2022) for the Baby Pioneer Dedicated to the Safety, Health and Wellbeing of the Unborn Child. Location: Los Angeles, USA
https://www.re-connectiontohealth.co.uk