A Life Shaped by Plants, Teachers, and an Unrelenting Curiosity
At seventeen, I became fascinated with plants and their capacity to heal. That curiosity led me to Vancouver Island and a Mohawk healer named Norma Myers. For nine months I lived in her attic surrounded by baskets of drying herbs, learning the old ways of plant medicine from someone who carried them in her bones.
From there the path kept unfolding. I trained as a massage therapist and Jin Shin practitioner, then studied homeopathic medicine at the British Institute. The Oriental Medical Institute in Hawaii brought acupuncture and Chinese medicine into my work — eventually I traveled to China to deepen that training at its source. EAV testing pointed me next toward Germany: Neural Therapy, Darkfield Microscopy, and the principles of pleomorphism — subjects largely unknown in the English-speaking world that changed everything I understood about the body.
I lived in London for twelve years, building a practice and studying alongside some of Europe's most brilliant clinicians. Since then I've lectured across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Germany — each place, each teacher, each patient adding another layer to what eventually became a whole-systems approach to healing.
Today I bring all of those threads together in my clinical work and my teaching. More than fifty years of practice has taught me that the body is always trying to heal itself. Our job is to listen carefully, remove what is in the way, and provide what is missing.
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