In primary school we once wrote an essay: “What I would like to be when I grow up”. The tender mind of my childhood could guess that astronaut was out of the question. Never mind! I could also become a journalist – I thought to myself, for a long time.

After discovering the wisdom of Chinese self-cultivation practices for myself as a young adult, I followed their call in my life. And then it went in a different direction after all.

The strength I drew from daily practice also awakened my intellectual feelers. So the childhood dream turned into an academic career that took me from undergraduate studies in sociology in New Zealand to a Masters in medical anthropology at Oxford University and finally to a PhD in the modern history of the development of Chinese Qigong practices at the University of Hong Kong.

Today, I am a Senior Research Fellow on Spiritual Care and hospital chaplaincy at the University of Zurich. Through Shiatsu I combine my academic perspective with insights from my Qigong practice and the beautiful, up-close art of Shiatsu.

I look forward to meeting you!