With 5 planets in Virgo, I love to learn. Virgo is Virgin nature, my teacher. I loved to climb and find my seat on the huge fig tree in our garden. I became tree. I melted into the sea waves crashing with pebbles and sand. I became waves.
My parents left me alone, in the good and bad sense. They transmitted their love for nature. I am grateful for all they gave me.
Thessaloniki, my home town was a crossing port on the journey to the East. As soon as I could I joined the magic bus to India.
In those 6 months of travel, I saw human beings living in nature, and I lived this way. I saw a field of possibilities, an unknown earth.
Coming back to Thessaloniki, I immersed myself in the study of ancient traditions. Continuing my dialogue with HU: Holographic Universe, what I had as a child. There was much available in the city bookshop:
I found the I Ching, the Taoist book of changes. The Secret of the Golden Flower. I started to meditate.
Bardo Todol: the Tibetan book of Death,
books of Carlos Castaneda,
I traveled around Europe and took the opportunity my parents were offering me, to go wherever I liked, and study whatever I liked. They had fought hard to win the freedom they gave me.I chose England and went to art school in London. That is where I was summoned by acupuncture.
My teacher J.R. Worsley had travelled to the Orient, studied with Taoist teachers, and founded Leamington College of 5 Element Acupuncture.
His words: “You have to love your patients.”
We did not have books, and the study was not via intellect, but via sensing, seeing, listening, feeling the pulse, the emotion. I had arrived home!
John and Angela Hicks were my clinical teachers in the 5-element school. They led the integration of 5 elements with TCM that became the Reading College https://citcm.com/.
I was lucky to study with them for many years,
diagnostic skills courses in 1984 and completing the
TCM theory and clinical skills course in 1995. They inspired me to study
NLP and
ki aikido,
Tai Chi and
Qi Gong, I love movement, dance, physicality. In London it was raining self-development skills:
I worked in Waterloo acupuncture center. (1984-1990) With more than twenty 5 element practitioners from all countries, it was bubbling with inspiration and discovery. I still miss it.
I studied Geomancy at Feng Shui Network International from 1993-98.
I was teaching Feng Shui in Astroon in Athens. That led me to Asclepeia in Hellas. My relationship with the sacred sites of Hellas became stronger.
I worked in such an ancient healing place in Eftalou yoga, in Lesvos for a few years. That is where I received the vision of free earth, of human beings giving earth back to her universal home, the solar system.
Living with the seasons started happening to me then. A way of being in the rhythm of natural spirit, true nature.
I lived in Holland. (2000 to 2020)
I studied Chinese herbs and medical diet with Yifan Yang, at Zheng Shu University in Amsterdam (2003-2006).
I studied Western medicine in 2003 and 2015. That inspired me to study functional medicine and integrate the holistic approach.
Yair Maimon, is integrating Western oncology with oriental medicine. With him I studied trauma healing, spirit acupuncture, collective and ancestral trauma.
From 2003 till now I am on the path of the Diamond approach with AH. Almaas. Presence, meditation, inquiry: the art of not knowing
That orientation leads me to the collective healing movement. Since 2020 I have been studying and working with collective healing.
As collective eye and heart opens, collective action is possible.
What about you? Are you in the same boat? Is it a rescue boat, or sinking Titanic ? Or sunk long ago, the orchestra still playing in a virtual world?
Are you struggling to make it alone? Or are you trying to do it for others?
Are you feeling blessed to live in such interesting times?
Taking your place in biodiversity, and allowing all beings to thrive, is the medicine we need. Turn off your computer, and your mobile, get off your meditation cushion, and enter loving earth. Join millions of people who know that the human disease is not human. It is earth, forest that suffers from it, and we can be what we were made for, all beneficent reciprocal, grateful. Give all we have.