My background as a professional singer and stage actor gave me a strong foundation in vocal and somatic technique, an understanding of the body as an instrument, not just a vessel. Several decades as a yoga practitioner, almost 25 years as a Kundalini teacher, and fifteen years as a retreat director on Salt Spring Island in the Salish Sea, deepened that work in ways I couldn't have anticipated.

I hold a Bachelor of Science in Natural Health and have studied self-healing since I was about 13. My approach leans toward Eastern and preventative traditions, Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Indigenous healing practices that have sustained humanity for millennia. Traditions endure because they work.

To be clear: modern Western medicine is unparalleled in emergencies, critical care, and surgery. Acute intervention. Where it has historically fallen short is prevention. That's the gap I want to help fill.

As access to family doctors continues to shrink, learning to understand and respond to our own health ideally before a crisis isn't anti-medicine. It's taking responsibility for the care no one else can take on for us.

My intention is simply to share what has proven True for me: apart from the occasional minor injury, I've stayed out of hospitals and doctors' offices for decades. Perhaps the same can be Tru4U.