Ouch! Covid bit harder pretty quickly. I quickly moved into a nice villa, but business overseas dropped off quickly and came to a halt.

 I needed to take a good look at my spending and simplify my lifestyle expenditure.

I suddenly found quite a lot of time on my hands and decided to start writing more of my own ideas, but actually felt fortunate that as I writer I could spend time productively, enjoy the process, and have many great memories resurrected.

Thus began my experience of being a 'starving writer'.

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Before Covid bit a popular beach club had wanted to rebrand into a more 'conscious venue', and we did a lot of concept development, but it too had to close. We had developed a set of 'Modalities' to transform it into a Creative Hub that embraced yoga practices,

meditation, ch'i kung, co-working, different menus, events, and an 'exhibition' space for films, talks and seminars.

After it closed, we reframed a lot of the ideas to suit creating a youtube channel. An owner of a beautiful venue said we could have an 'introduction 'event' there to share the concept to attract people 'with something to add', his villas could be a 'pop up venue' as a taster ... it didn't manifest.

As is the way, it did give me much in return in the form of making some great contacts.

I connected with a 'functional healer' who I immediately nicknamed 'The Wizard', whose profound knowledge of the body, the Earth and the Heavens was both sublime and practical. He had cured himself of cancer and was committed to helping cure people'.

He had learnt at the Shaolin temple as a young teenager, had studied healing at a 'quantum' level, not surprisingly had a colorful life as a venue designer, including owning his own very popular and innovative club in Germany. We decided to share a villa.

It became like a 'live in school' for me, I was able to observe his method for resetting the body back to close to our body's original blueprint, understanding the impact of influences and traumas from childhood, both mentally and physically, activating and supplementing our body's own self-healing power. 

I am always learning, often unlearning, taking in the new and discarding that which no longer serves me, putting out any rubbish from my mind and life etc.

After a year or so, we had to leave the villa as the owner wanted to move back from Australia, and gave us little time to organise an alternative.

What was I going to do?

I was looking for and needed a simple inexpensive place to stay while I considered my options. 

Good fortune smiled again.

'The Wizard' worked his magic and introduced a Balinese friend who suggested the boarding house where he was staying. Perfect, a compact bedroom/office combination, bathroom, compact kitchen 'area', good wifi and air conditioning, all for the monthly price of a night or two at an average hotel.

It was not near the beach, which I was quite happy with since travel bans were being lifted and all the beaches were becoming overcrowded and expensive, catering for the sudden influx of tourists breaking free from their confinement. Their being let 'off the leash' approach which i didn't resonate with.

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I was very happy that I had made friends with 'like minds' across a wide range of subjects, and felt fortunate most lived within a short distance. I was introduced into a 'Mens Group'. I had my fair share of 'satsangs', groups that met and discussed their 'spiritual' experiences or progress, but this was much more about every day life where men were able to openly share their situations truthfully and openly, covering a wide variety of topics and themes, both our pain, stresses, breakthroughs, and joys. It has been really insightful for me as I was usually the eldest, but started to think we were all individuals leading the same life, just experiencing it at various stages.

Hearing some of the others' lives, the traumas and abuses they had suffered, physically and emotionally, I appreciated and felt gratitude for my own experiences both good and bad. It also added to my conviction that we are all yearning for connection, essentially to our own selves, our true selves underneath the one that has been constructed by others' opinions, influences or even circumstances and the more we can align with that our lives unfold. Simply we are all on a quest for love, the key being able to love ourselves and appreciate our unique life and share that with the world.

It was also a great opportunity to meet new friends and make positive contacts, many of the group gave their time freely to charities and supporting others, even donations were not asked to keep the group going, but simply seen as a service. 

I had also started doing some voluntary work shooting videos for a charity who looked after severely disabled children and those with mental health issues, especially schizophenia they supported with medication which actually helped them start to leave a much more 'normalised' life with their families, this illness is little understood in Bali and often these poor people were kept virtually locked in tiny darkrooms or even chained up and 'out of sight.' The charity reached out to the far reaches and often isolated parts of the island , taking food packages and medicines...along with healthy doses of compassion and love. Exhausted and emotionally drained after just being in their company even for just a day, I was filled with admiration for these workers who gave so generously day after day of their time and themselves, it was very confronting to see the disabilities these beautiful children were living with and how they 'lit up' with joy when they saw these 'angels' and how grateful the families of those suffering from schizophenia were to have them become fully integrated family members and begin to live 'normal family lives'.

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Staying in 'Bali suburbia', where no tourists dare to venture outside their instagram tours, I enjoy immersing in that aspect of Balinese culture.

From this peace-full space, I am continually discovering everything I need in a nice walking distance, which along the way, I enjoy greeting the beautiful children and families, from local food markets, warungs to an amazing skin doctor, laundry, and even where I can have samples made of clothing and jewelry I am thinking of making.

Not too much space to walk barefoot, but the beach etc is only about 10 minutes away where I can 'earth' in the sand, grass or jump back into my favorite of being sun dried after a bit of body surfing, but only early morning or late afternoon when the sun has lost much of it's potency it's and it is easy to absorb it's energy. 

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This is the longest I have lived by myself and had to sit with and facing self, reviewing my good fortune and bad times, forgiving any who I may have considered 'trespassed' against me, and my self for any harm or pain I have created for others. Feeling gratitude for this opportunity to in many ways put what I have learnt to the test in terms of seeing just how established I was n my "Self", being guided by my intuition and actually feeling more love and just a little bit wiser than when I was more immersed in the outside world.

I'm very happy to share that I am very happy!, with very few distractions, but excited on what the next steps on my  journey are.

I feel drawn , or even pushed to offer my learnings and experiences to those who may be interested in reframing or enhancing their lives and covering most things that can build a simple, uncomplicated protocol that may help you discover the 'greatness' you have within, the healing power of your body and mind ,and the peace of mind that is waiting for you to be uncovered.

If you've been with me  this far you may see if I have anything to offer you and could help you on your own journey. To see my what I see I actually may have to offer the next page may help you consider this and we could have a chat.