My journey with natural alignment began over thirty years ago, when Jean Couch introduced me to the groundbreaking work of her mentor, Noelle Perez of Paris. I was a yoga teacher and massage therapist at the time and had battled chronic pain for years. With Jean's guidance, I finally found enduring relief! I'm forever grateful to Jean and Noelle (now deceased) for opening my eyes to how I could guide my own healing, while igniting a passion in me for developing these alignment principles which have shaped my life since. 

This sparked the journey of a lifetime, which I embarked upon after my children had also embarked upon lives of their own. My travels took me around the world, where I had the opportunity to study people who had never lost their innate body wisdom. These included women and children who effortlessly carried heavy loads on their heads as if out for a stroll, and elders who moved with a flowing grace rarely seen in modern Western cultures.

In 2003, having been a longtime student of Buddhist vipassana meditation, I sat in retreat for two months with Sayadaw U Pandita at Panditarama forest monastery in Myanmar (Burma). My association with meditation has greatly enhanced my personal  alignment practice, along with developing effective ways for learning and teaching this. 

I've shared these concepts of natural alignment through the books I've written, the classes, workshops, and private lessons I've taught, and now, my online courses. What began as my personal path to healing became a mission to help others rediscover their body's natural blueprint for pain-free movement.

Now that I'm 78, I am among an ever-shrinking number of older people in the world who serve as living proof that aging doesn’t require loss of mobility. Nor does carrying heavy loads require strength training or flexibility require stretching.

Role models of natural human alignment, once abundant in traditional cultures, remain thoroughly unstudied by medical and fitness researchers. Meanwhile, this innate body wisdom is vanishing rapidly as technology reaches the world's most remote corners, changing, at almost rocket speed, how young people inhabit their bodies.

I am determined to bring this critical information to light while there's still time. What I teach isn't a branded "method" or a named "technique"—it's simply natural alignment or natural posture—which defines the way our human bodies align with gravity. These core principles are observable both in traditional cultures and in healthy toddlers worldwide, yet they remain largely unstudied by the scientific community.

We urgently need evidence-based research comparing skeletal alignment across different populations: traditional societies versus modern cultures, from toddlers to elders.

Traditional societies hold the key to pain-free movement and graceful aging. This precious human wisdom is vanishing rapidly—taking with it our blueprint for how to live comfortably and move efficiently as human bodies.

We will have re-discovered and preserved what humans before us have understood since the dawn of human movement—before it vanishes entirely.

I am also committed to making this information available to anyone, anywhere in the world who wants to learn this.