In the late 70’s as a teenager, my interest in health and natural healing began after reading the Essene Gospel of Peace, a 2000+ year old health and lifestyle manual. Soon, I travelled from Australia to Costa Rica to meet the book’s author, Edmond Bordeaux Szekely. He wrote many books on health, ancient civilizations and the Essenes. I read every one of his books and was excited to meet him at his home in the Orosi Valley near San Jose. After arriving though, I soon discovered from his wife Norma, that Edmond had recently passed away. 

In 1980 I met another inspiring living foods author, Victoras Kulvinskas. He and Ann Wigmore founded the Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston, USA. I travelled to Boston to complete Ann's ‘learn-by-doing, living foods lifestyle program’ and then stayed on as staff, to live and work with Ann, while assisting her guests with transitioning to the Hippocrates Health program.

In the late 80’s my girlfriend Wendy and I opened the Seaside Health Retreat on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The retreat provided a live in, learn-by-doing, health and fitness program based on:

• Essene teachings and philosophy
• Hippocrates Living Food Lifestyle Program
• Supervised Fasting
• Detoxification

Wendy and I married in New Zealand, and after an 18 month honeymoon travelling, we ended up in Burnett, Texas to visit Natural Hygiene educator and author TC Fry. I came to know TC from completing his ‘Life Science Health Program’. Wendy and I worked with TC at his retreat assisting him with various guests who were completing water fasts and transitioning to raw/living food diets. 

In the early 90’s Wendy, new son Benjamin and I travelled to Fiji to develop an abandoned 98 acre beach resort. A new vision for the resort was for a health retreat, permaculture training centre and eco/adventure getaway. With a name change to Gaia Fiji and getting the resort operational with new facilities, we left for New Zealand. The resort was later sold and became the Wellesley Resort.

In December 1994, I lost his wife Wendy in a car accident in New Zealand. With 3 year old son Benjamin and 9 month old daughter Jasmine to care for, I started an internet based health business to be able to work from home. 

We moved from NZ to Australia then in 2001, moved to a small mountain community in Nelson, BC, Canada.

After high school graduation, the kids and I all moved back to Australia. Soon with Ben and Jasmine living independently, I moved to Phuket, Thailand. Currently, I’m setting up a health retreat/getaway program while writing a book on health and healing.