Barefoot Doctor trained in Aikido and hands-on healing with Tio Honsai from age 11, later studied psychotherapy with maverick RD Laing, along with yoga, tai chi and Chinese medicine and capped it all by living with the Native Americans in New Mexico for 4 years studying shamanism.
Since 1983 he has been developing innovative ways of teaching this wealth of ancient life-management wisdom in the modern idiom so people with stressful, busy schedules can benefit and gain the most from their lives.