From when I was born, I was already introduced to holistic therapies and started learning about the human body and nutrition. This was due to two influences, and who else would it be at that age but mum and dad:

My mum was a highly skilled acupuncturist and taught at an acupuncture college. Her work (as well as looking after her three sons) was her life. She constantly spoke of her work at home and one of my brothers ended up training as an acupuncturist (the other became an osteopath). Growing up, I was surrounded by family friends who were all acupuncturists, osteopaths, homeopaths, bodytalk therapists, etc…

I was a very active kid and growing up had many falls and injuries. My parents would take me to an osteopath. My first experience iwth holistic healing was being taken to a craniosacral osteopath as a baby. Then I was exposed to and tried many different healing modalities all through my childhood.

I first experienced alternative therapy as a baby going to a craniosacral therapist, and I was taken to regular sessions with an osteopath

My father had cancer for most of my life and was constantly trying different therapies and diets on his quest to heal.he died when I was 11, my mum, who was a senior acupuncture teacher, never allowed processed foods over the threshold. We ate organic always and shopped at nearby local farms. While this did cause me to develop a health neurosis that it’s taking me some time to shake off! It did ground me in holistic health and wellbeing.

(Due to my upbringing of holistic health and wellbeing), I was resistant to anything I felt was mechanical in relation to the body. This resistance, along with my predisposed difficulty with rib mobility, meant that I never vibed with classical singing technique, or most others I found which have a conventional framework of how the ribcage and breathing work for singing.