About Me

Child Prodigy
I was a feral child.
I used to whine about how hard it was but it wasn’t – it was wild. Totally free range – wouldn’t swap it for all the central heating in the ocean. It was the well that a life of lateral thinking and free form living sprang from.

Saturn Return 1.
Around 1998 I was diagnosed with what at the time was called clinical depression. I couldn’t see it. I’d been living with it all my life and so I had no comparison. I thought it was weird to be ok in this world – something completely nuts about anyone not depressed.

T’ai Chi Ch’uan
Fast forward to 2010 and I was dragged kicking and screaming into a tai chi class ‘no no no no no no no not gonna do that hippy stuff don’t wanna wear bells on my feet noooooooo!’ and I got a right sharp slap in the face from ghosts of tai chi past; a wake up call to something that I still cannot define.

I was hooked and I studied hard.

Functional Movement Therapy
And within six months I felt a shift emotionally and a realisation that the despair of depression is not a normal reaction to an abnormal world. It is a damaged reaction to an abnormal world.

Lo Cost Therapy
I had been in private therapy for 12 years and had taken studies and training in various therapeutic courses and I was primarily interested in chair based therapy.  Six months of daily tai chi, qigong, meditation and martial arts proved an essential medicine to be integrated into daily life.  I figured I wanted to integrate the skills of chair-based therapy with the wonders of exercise to create an affordable therapy available to all, invisible, unspoken and compulsive to continue outside of the session.

Which brings me to commitments and where I am at now.

Saturn Return 2
I’m at another turning point in life and currently working in community projects that consume time.  And so I’m teaching casual magic hat classes of a mixed curriculumn for varying levels and needs. It’s open to all – see class timetable for current sessions.