Read my story
My path into natural health began with a curiosity about the body and the many influences that shape how we feel, function and live. That curiosity has remained with me through more than four decades of practice, teaching and exploration.
My professional background includes naturopathy, Western herbal medicine, nutritional therapy, remedial massage and bodywork. I have also taught and explored approaches concerned with movement, awareness and habitual patterns. Across these fields, I have been drawn to the relationships between different aspects of a person's life.
In 1985, I founded the Wholistic School of Healing Arts, which became the Australian College of Vital Health in 1992. Through practitioner education and community learning, I have shared this work with more than a thousand students. Teaching has also been a continuing education for me: an invitation to listen, question and find clearer ways to make complex ideas useful.
Life at Crystal Waters Permaculture EcoVillage has deepened my understanding of health as ecological. Food, soil, water, daily rhythms and community are part of the conditions in which our lives unfold. This perspective informs Wholistic Ecology and the way I approach writing, education and wellbeing.
Vital Health Roots brings many of these threads together. It is part of a wider intention to leave a useful legacy: practical knowledge that others can question, adapt and carry into their own lives. I continue to write, develop educational resources and support projects that connect personal wellbeing with care for the living world.
