I would definitely say that being a Musician and a Healer have been the two strongest influences throughout my life. Art was a big interest also. I went to Art School at 17, and later worked in various care establishments, using art therapeutically. I have also sold paintings of mine from time to time, but much as I loved it, art has never really prevailed in my life to the same extent that music and healing have.

I always felt that Sound and Healing made for the perfect marriage.

On one level, music can be used as background to induce relaxation and can be deeply soothing. Whilst on another level, music and percussion can be used therapeutically as an aid towards recovery for people in hospitals, children's homes, prisons, and those undergoing psychiatric care, etc.

I was a Music Therapist for some years and found it to be very rewarding.

However, I'd never realised then, that music could be used directly as healing within itself. This was something I came to understand later.

Meanwhile I had always been a healer in one form or another throughout my life, and in 1983 I became a healer member of the National Federation of Spiritual Healers.(N.F.S.H.) and a trainer of healers. I also prescribed combinations of Bach Flower Remedies which I administered to patients and, happily, I was seeing some good results. However, this method, whilst effective, wasn't as quick and as permanent as I would've liked, and sometimes people were having to come for longer than I'd hoped.

However all this was about to change when in the early 90's, I met Jill Purce, Britain's foremost teacher of Overtone Chanting. I went on various courses of Jill's to learn this wonderful technique.

At first I used the chanting just for my own pleasure of deepening my consciousness, Then, I had the idea to try Overtone Chanting whilst I was mentally sending people 'Absent Healing'. I focussed healing thoughts on them from a distance and simultaneously chanted Overtones. I visualized the high-pitched Overtone, acting as a kind of laser, piercing the unhealthy areas of their bodies and obliterating all signs of the diseased tissue. The results were amazing! Receivers of this treatment rang me and said how all their pain had suddenly disappeared! So, I devised a way that I could give the 'laser-experience' to people who actually came to see me.

I began Overtone Chanting down a tube, directly on the painful areas of the body. The first thing I noticed, was that the sound, together with the correct intent, literally 'blasted' away the pain, and in many cases, it never returned!

I was delighted and yet not surprised by any of this. I began studying the wealth of information available, on the healing effects of sound on the body and started to understand why the chanting was having such a wonderful effect.

Then I began investigating the use of Tuning Forks as instruments of healing. I discovered that the Overtone Chanting has much in common with the way the Forks work. (Please see Simon Heather's description of 'Entrainment' plus the other information on Tuning Forks and Overtone Chanting, as described on this site.) So I incorporated using specific Tuning Forks and Overtone Chanting, combined with my own form of hands-on healing, and this became: 'BodyTuning'

So Music and Healing finally came together for me in these wonderful ways.

Also,throughout my life, I have been a singer, from the age of 16. Sometimes a professional songwriter and performer for a while, sometimes allowing it to fall into the background whilst getting on with other things. However, thorough all these years of singing many different kinds of music, I developed a system of Voicework Practice designed to transform 'Little voices' into BIG voices. It is a holistic style of singing teaching called: 'Singing for Joy & Health'. Here again, music and healing co-operate together in perfect harmony!

Finally, after reading a book called 'Catalyst of Power' about the human Assemblage Point by Dr. Jon Whale P.h.d., and also the website of Dr. Angela Blaen , I became fascinated and deeply impressed by the results they were having, with people who had undergone the treatment. This was something that 'clicked' with me, so I went down to Devon, to be trained as an Assemblage Point Shifter, by Dr.Angela Blaen. Since, receiving the treatment myself, my own life has changed so fundamentally for the better, that I am now delighted to be able to offer this service to others.

I am deeply grateful to be able to practice and offer these different methods of assisting people, on their journey towards mental and physical health. I am wonderfully rewarded every time I see someone glowing with health and joy as a result of these treatments, which is why I carry on doing what I'm doing!