For the past 25 years, my journey has been one of exploration - through movement, awareness, and healing - which ultimately led me to acupuncture. But I didn’t come to this through textbooks; I learned the hard way, through my own struggles with illness. Looking back, I see how disconnected I was from my body and how long it took - years - to shift from trying to fix myself to truly listening. The more I fought my symptoms, the louder they became. Real healing began when I stopped overriding and started paying attention.
That experience shaped how I work. My foundation was first built in yoga, qi gong, meditation, breath work, and natural movement - practices that taught me to listen to the body rather than impose upon it. Acupuncture became a natural extension of this - an approach rooted in presence rather than rigid diagnostics, working with the body’s intelligence in real time.
We are taught to trust the mind over the body, to suppress symptoms rather than understand them. Western medicine numbs and overrides, while even Eastern medicine has, at times, become lost in theory. But the body is always speaking; the question is whether we are listening.
My background as an artist, entrepreneur, and educator has shaped my approach to acupuncture. Artistry - whether in healing, movement, or creative work - is about responsiveness, about knowing when to guide and when to let something unfold. I meet each person as they are, allowing treatment to develop intuitively in response to what is present.
Symptoms are not problems to solve; they are messages pointing toward the deeper movements within us. When we stop overriding, the nervous system softens, and the body recalibrates. Healing isn’t about returning to an idealised state but about attuning to what is here now, allowing for deeper balance to emerge.
Each treatment is a conversation - a way to restore coherence between body, mind, and the wider rhythms of life. True healing is not about forcing change but about creating the conditions in which the body naturally reorganises itself. It is a process of remembering - of coming home to the intelligence that has always been there, just beneath the noise of modern life.
