Recent trip to Sri Lanka

by | Oct 4, 2013 | Travel

On a recent trip to Sri Lanka  in July Houng donated needles to a non profit acupuncture clinic in Colombo and was garlanded. Medicina Alternativa.The Anton Jayasuriya Memorial Free Clinic Is attended by 200-300 patients daily. His International teaching programme...

Seminar in San Francisco with Masakazu Ikeda Sensei March 2013

by | Apr 11, 2013 | Travel

Only a few short months had passed since my last visit to Ikeda sensei’s clinic in Japan. I was very excited to attend his upcoming seminar in San Francisco and eager to learn what he had to teach.   It was wonderful to meet all the practitioners that attended...

Japan Study Trip November 2012

by | Dec 23, 2012 | Travel

My Japan Odyssey… After two years of waiting patiently, the trip has finally arrived! The odyssey began when I arrived into Imabari from a long bus trip. Imabari is a country town famous for manufacturing towels, where the 4 day workshop was held and it is here Sensei...

Lessons of an Alaskan Summer

by | Oct 18, 2012 | Travel

We’re driving around the Cook Inlet, just days after my arrival in Anchorage.  As we round a bend in the road, my friend Cassandra points to the mud flats just coming into view. “See those mud flats out there?  Never walk on them.  They’re quicksand!  A few years ago,...

88 Temple walk in Shikoku Island Japan

by | Jul 22, 2012 | Travel

This spring I travelled to the island of Shikoku to undertake an old buddhist pilgrimage initiated by the monk Kukai in the 8th century. The pilgrimage is walked in a clockwise direction, paying respect to the 88 temples scattered around the circumference of the...