Who

When Started

Where

Selfing

Self Discovery

Reconnecting Bao & Dai

Mammalian Maternity

L L I

L L II

L L III

Teacher Training

Practical Pricklies

Healing Wounded Healer

Fast Track – Arvigo to GW

AUSTRALIA

VICTORIA

Vanessa Beckitt

2016

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Marie-Claude Asselin

2021

Y

Y

Y

Y

Mychelle Whitewood

2016

Y

Y

Y

April Wood

2019

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

NSW

Tanya Kane

2018

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Sita Tara

2019

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Elke  Langman

2016

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Tracey Livingstone

2021

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Mandy Livingstone

2020

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Vicki Livingstone

2021

QUEENSLAND

Maja Betts

2016

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Melissa Maller

2019

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Julienne Tatkovic

2018

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Yvonne Argent

2016

Y ++++

Y

Y

Y

Y

Caron Spurway

2016

Y ++++

Y

Y

Deborah MacGillivray

2019

Y +

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Rainey Burke

2021

Mashenka Barlag

2021

Robyn Eva McKenzie

2022

Bree

2021

David Moore

2018

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Sylwia Moore

2018

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Ivana

2018

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Jana Zehr

2017

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Lenley Bursle Barrett

2020

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Mashenka Barlag

2021

Y

Zoe Maitland

2018

Y ++++

Y

Y

Y

Y

Dianne Livingstone

2019

Y

Y

Y

Y

Nathalie Mills

2021

Y

Y

Y

Y

Linda Barrow

2021

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Fiona Sidhe

2021

Y

Y

Y

Y

Lee Anne Long

2021

Y

Y

Y

Y

NEW ZEALAND

Keren Donaldson

2017

North Auckland

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Teri Stout

2016

Kataia

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Doreen Pugh

2016

Turiwhati

Y

Y

Y

Y

Jenny Johnson

2018

Auckland

Y

Y

Y

Y

Belinda Falconer

2020

Wellington area

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Hilary Tobeck

2020

Rangiora (CHCH area)

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Caryl Evans

2020

Rangiora (CHCH area)

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Kassandra Angus

2020

Nelson area

Y

Y

Y

Y

Evelyn Stricker

2021

Christchurch

Y

Y

Y

Y

Trudi Collins

2019

Hastings

Y

Y

Robin Kerr

2019

Lyttleton

Y

Paddy McBride

2019

Nelson

Y

Joan Kollman

2019

Hokitika area

Y

Angie Garvan

2019

Auckland

Y

Kelly Heald

2022

Auckland

Y

Ali Mercep

2022

Auckland

Y

FRANCE (3 sessions)

Pia Columbine

2017 – 19

Albi

Y

Y

Y

Aline

2017 – 19

Y

Y

Y

Elyanne

2017 – 19

Y

Y

Y

Stephanie

2017 – 19

Y

Y

Y

USA

Trish D’Tura

2018

N.J.

Y

Y

Y

Megan Assaf

2021

Indiana

Y

Y

Thea

2021

Ohio

Y

Y

Y

Y

Jenna

2021

Calif

Y

Y

Y

–

Quesha

2022

Calif

Y

Y

Y

–

Rhonda

2022

Virginia

Y

Y

Y

Y

THAILAND

Lisa Levine

2021

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

INDONESIA

Ana

BALI

Welcome

We are not in a never ending story.

In finite time
– be there if you can be
– and are called within to do so.

This was written in 2023 when in Iowa, USA for their summer. I am now offering woman led red tenting – small group – apprentices if you wish
The offer now? 2 spots left. Max 6 in the class – and some are not even in the Southern Hemisphere – no one is local to me.

A NOTE BEFORE SIGNING UP FOR MY SHORT CUTS TO HEALING – CHANGE IS NEEDED – ACCELERATED LIVING

Heather’s Gentling Way is not for everyone. . .

The entire focus of my last 45 years has been to undo what is blocking healing – This is the time when everybody’s lives are shaken up. There is rapid change. We all know and feel in our bones that deep shifts will continue We are living in interesting times – the ones the Chinese would have said in the past as a course (‘may you live in interesting times’). What we make of this is our choice – and we all may need to drop pretense and get real.

Heather’s Gentling Way is not a set of moves, but a way of life.

In so doing, the life residue that has been stored for later, may well surface (the Body Remembers Everything That Has Ever Happened To It). As Energy Follows Thought – as as you believe, so it is . . . and these more than anything are what causes STUCK – and ‘trauma’ is born.

What is STUCK causes pain. Any level – converts to all pain

When anyone starts doing this work, they have to move through their own STUCK to do so. Stored for later – ‘put behind me’ – comes up for clearance. That is the attraction – a part of Self knows It Is NOW time. Usually it means they come up to resistances and they do not work with the process of inner clarity evolving – unintended outcomes.

I have noticed whilst teaching from 1981, and from being in clinic helping people work through what has stopped them in their tracks, that their life work gets hurried up. It is as though everything they were to do in a standard lifetime telescopes. It all happens in a couple of years. Acceleration – to get past what I have called ‘patient mode/stasis’ (STUCK). Having accidents, job losses, leaving partners and all sorts of life hiccups – apparently unforeseen. Odd and constant sometimes – one crisis to another Growth? Maybe. Or victimhood /martyrdom. . .CHOICE. The opportunities to drop personality games and start in on what they came here to do gives more choices. . If they were stuck in their lives – (not on a inner growth path) this undoing blockages to healing also undoes the way forwards – CHANGE will happen.

It should not have happened’ is a tale of woe – as people live in a parallel world to what is.
Their LIFE as well as their body is STUCK, their thoughts, emotions, beliefs are stuck. To function correctly, (for a body to heal itself).

Flows Have to Flow. How can a body repair itself as designed to STUCK is there?

The message is pain – on any level – to reflect the STUCK on any level.
Please see the word ‘trauma’ for all times you see STUCK . . . Until we move the blockages to healing on.

We’ve all got no idea what we are called here to do. We may need to transcend rescuing. We do that by turning ‘rescuing’ in on ourselves Self first. . It seems everyone wants to do the technique, and that’s great but it’s going to have unintended consequences if you don’t set up the boundaries. I call them checkers; so you need to know: where you were? Intention – what’s your intention what’s their intention? What needs to move before that can happen? Resolve trauma? STUCK.

NOTE – OURS’ FIRST

And it’s stuck because it’s too hard to move through it. As up till now – you chose not to. Too comfy. (Relative to doing the work). Till it all gets too hard. And it is easier to NOT stay STUCK. Life prompts you along. You get a stroke or shingles in your eye or you hit the floor from the stairs or you get a cancer diagnosis – and you’re not going anywhere until you get everything in the right order. Out of perceived limitations FIRST is the easiest way.You then may see that what you have up until now resisted the most, may be obviously what has held you STUCK. And is first cab off the rank’. The Self Discovery online package (including Gentle Trauma Relief) – after Selfing – is the way in. Undoing the programing we are unaware of (fish do not know that they are in water) is the key. Energy Follows Thought.

THREE PART ASPECT TO ALL MY OFFERINGS – CONTENT, PRACTICE, SUPPORT

START NOW – as the the online self paced is all ready when you are. Forms the CONTENT. A paradigm shift is needed in all departments. Even if you have been a health care professional – even an acupuncturist – the way I have been teaching (from my lived experience) has never been as it is written. My work has had to be women centred. It is based on what works in life. Not theories.

The in-person (or online in small groups as I lead you through – as we had to in the locked down times) is a great beginning – not taking the place of the hands on you and practicing under watchful eyes on the classmates – but did work. From 1981 I have been designing, producing and delivering training material at all levels of acupuncture, and healing. Using the simple addition of touch – moving what is STUCK – we can feel and see the instant changes – in ourselves and in others. Transformative work.

SUPPORT – as an acupuncture graduate, then teacher, I saw that there was no mentoring after the formal training. It was needed. In all extra trainings I have taken – access to the teacher would have allowed me to progress in a less haphazard way. I have designed this as formal education is somewhat soul less. Thus, the third component can be mentoring after-support. Not talking but with demos – and working on YOU . . . We all mastered this in 2020 – 22. Now 2024, we are still all scattered about.

If you wish to be in the ‘actual’ practical (this will vastly undo YOU and YOUR stuck sessions) you must have completed the online components/tutorials – self paced and simple – so you know why we are, This way we can be mostly hands on.

Elephant in room warning

I am too sensitive to what is being released from the bodies of those who have been irreparably altered. I know that is an upsetting line/stance. I did not set this in motion, I have tried to mitigate the backlash on my vehicle and beingness here by taking copious, various and up until now – not effective enough – antidotes. Why?? to hold my sovereignty/bodily autonomy. To NOT be negatively affected. To have to stand back. To watch. Hence the online is extensive and very possible – and I will (as the challenger) say what is unsaid… NOT keep doing what is creating damage to me. I am past sorry – but this is out of my hands. Transmuting the effects is past my abilities – and maybe others can with impunity – I cannot. THUS – if you are on this page, please see this as a massive opportunity for shifting gears you are now HERE with all of us on this ride we are calling life.

Transformative healing starts with SELF

Rather than seeing this site as a gateway into a potential way of healing – for yourself (as a ‘sufferer’ or as a ‘therapist”, and those you love, of those who you may touch in the future, and /or those who wish to learn more) – please see this as a transformational process.
Since I have been working with people in the late ’70’s it has not been as a . . . ist (labeled modality) that I appear in their lives, – but as a soul driven force to initiate change. Everyone’s. This means people seeing me as being ‘mad’ often was the easiest way for them to stay in their lanes’.

As with Don Elijo Panti (Dr Rosita Arvigo’s master) – who was the hy’men (spiritual healer) for the Belizeans lucky enough to be able to be with him – and some stayed with him whilst they healed – for months – as he gave the herbs he had gone of and chopped very day – I know that some show up as that is the last step in their ‘hopelessness’ journey before they ‘see the ‘Light’ – and alter everything as it hurts too much to stay stuck

Do we stand up – or hope it all gets fixed by others?

Most do not see the process as they are in it.
I often stand outside, and do my bit.
This may resonate with you.

If/when I come past your attention – what will you take away?
A bunch of moves, or a way of resetting your own ‘North Star’ and use the paradigm shifts I offer to take stock of where you see yourself?

WE MUST ALWAYS LOOK AFTER OUR SELVES FIRST

Life is experiential. Along the way all tend to pick up life residue and may become somewhat STUCK. This makes us ‘special’. Some of us have been ‘Bonsai’ed’ from the very beginning – and we can’t NOT follow our own path. We have an inner compass. We will NOT be told. We have also embodied our life’s learnings. We may feel the need to assist others. We begin with self mastery. It is an integral part of any working with others.

Learning to love SELF: to put self first.
Not able to give from an empty cup. Not able to listen to your inner knowing when in survival mode. MUST put yourself out of harm’s way.
To become accepting, unconditional takes commitment to your self.
Time and effort.
Possibly self is all you have left. Likely you have been stretched and feel that you may even be on the wrong planet: to be ‘too sensitive’ to be here NOW.

To listen to the higher calling that led you into the healing arts , or inquisitive enough to be reading this – is the first priority. YOU being clearer and aligned with YOUR life purpose is my intention in bringing this work to the world.
Living now is not a dress rehearsal.

Finding a tribe of like minded souls may be why you are here.
We need more with their lights on NOW.

For everyone – here is the starter pack

SELF FIRST – online – anytime starting . . . Gentling Way Beginning Package is here.
Covering Free You – unblocking your scars, The Healing Power of Touch, What Causes Health? Belly Soothing and Peristeaming, this package is the most effective way to look after YOURSELF better. This gives you the online component of the Selfing Intensive, should I be offering this – or if one of my graduates puts on a class you can get yourself to. The online is huge – and is essentially a first year health care professionals ‘cheat sheet’ as all I have worked out and now teach is within the eBooks and demos that is found within.
May I suggest that you also add in – Nourishing YOU – as fueling and repairing is only as good as your gut. Not only what goes in it.

TO GO ON TO BECOME A GW PRACTITIONER
YOU MUST HAVE COMPLETED THE 101 – 102 SECTION (Selfing)
201 IS A STARTER INTRODUCTION that is available to anyone – esp those who are at a distance and wish to go through Heather’ Healing Academy – Transformative Qi Moving (may know this better as Moving Blockages to Healing)

AND/OR
You CAN go straight to the online courses

PAINED? Maybe follow what may hold the keys to lasting easy living – the Selfing online course – help is at hands – YOURS

PREGNANT? CLICK here for easy pregnancy resources – the eBook version of the manual “What Dads (and partners of pregnant women) Can Do”, the 2 videos – Massage and Birthing – WDCD and the 20+ printable easy to follow charts of self help.

PERIODS? A good beginning is understanding how a well woman’s body works – Starter pack here

Foundational Moves is here NOW and the entire Rescue Your Yang Qi/ Reset Your Metabolism – the role of vitality on living well – is coming soon. Start now with Foundational Moves (CLICK)– as this has its bones. You can vastly improve your and other’s lives instantly – PAIN? Begone. . . (Start at Selfing – CLICK to watch and then to sign up to GET STARTED)

It all works. . . across all ages, and stages of anyone’s life

Touchie	Pre requisites	Self paced online	‘Live’ online	Must you be a Practitioner ?
101 – (a) Selfing	None – start now	Y	N	Anyone
(b) Selfing/ Challenge	Continuation of Selfing intensive	–	Y	Anyone
102 – Self Discovery usually online – sometimes facilitated in a group online	Selfing first – is a continuation ASK WHEN I DO IT AGAIN	Both online self paced & led	Could be – 2 versions	Anyone
201 – Free Your Qi	None – Sat 24th Gold Coast	–	N	Anyone
202 – Pelvic Opening	BOTH – Sat 24th /Sun 25th G.C.	–	N	Anyone
203 – Reconnecting	101, 102, 201 + 202 TBA	N	Ideally Y	Y
204 – Scars – Holistic Healing/ C Section	All above PLUS 301, 302	N	Ideally Y	Y
205 – Living Ligaments (L.L.) I	All above PLUS 301, 302, 303	N	Ideally Y	Y
206 – L.L. II (later)	Cumulative PLUS 304	N	Ideally Y	Y
207 – L.L. III Reproduction (much later)	Cumulative PLUS 305	N	Y	Y

Taster for this work here (CLICK to access)
The rest will be added to in sequence as I complete each teaching module for others to use
Reminder:
YOU get to start at SELFING and the SELFING WORKSHOP/CHALLENGE is a deeper journey into what make YOU you.

WDCD (What Dads Can DO is the text book – written in a pregnancy focus
It is for ALL who wish to know what runs their physical body, and how to alter what they have back to easy living

Being Woman	Pre requisites	Self paced online	‘Live’ online	Practitioner
301 – WDCD/ Pelvic Opening /Birthing	101 TBA	Y	N	Anyone
302 – Being Woman	101, 201, 202 TBA	Y	N	Anyone
303 – Painless Pregnancy /Easy Babies	101, 201, 202 302 TBA	Y	Need personal mentoring as well	Anyone
304 – Mammalian Maternity	101, 201, 202 302, 303	Y	N	Anyone
305 – Mammalian Birth Keeping	101, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 302, 303	Lived experience	Need personal mentoring as well	Anyone

Could be you – or your daughter, lover, mother, friend, neighbour. YOU may want to know more about how a well body works.
The electrical dictating the physical – and the spirit that runs us.

If you are involved in helping couples with their baby preparation, or with anyone who experiences issues /challenges in the area of reproduction, urogenital or structural (back/neck/head and all lower body) this is for you.
Everyone needs to awaken what is festering within – it lodges in the pelvis.
Whether we have broken out tailbone long ago,
whether we have a displaced – or missing womb –
whether we are recovering from a past incident of any description, and feel broken,
or from surgical/medical treatments or just know we could feel sex more/ better.
This is all of us.

My passion – Untangling that which holds the structure and thus function hostage.
Assisting others to Wake Up on all levels – that they may also shine their lights on the world they live within.

• After a lifetime of assisting others (having heard their stories of woe, or medical forcing and of that not working, and of all those decades of dispensing care and tending /touching people’s bodies and souls: deeply, the Gentling Way was birthed.
• Always a hands-on worker, I discovered that the more gentle, less pressure, the more profound the result.
• Designing acupuncture colleges and courses post graduate in all hard areas (infertility prior to IVF clinics  – and now after the sperm debacle when almost NONE are fertile), AIDS – prior to medications, cancer – when chemo etc have failed – and difficult/’high risk’ pregnancy and post surgical repairs, I am well versed at being the last in the long line of people who have had maybe one piece of your healing puzzle.
• Let us put ALL the pieces on the  table – right side up.

This is set in a personal format – different from the usual CV

Always seemingly at war/odds with the mainstream . looking back I can see that if everyone did/thought/anything – I automatically went my own way away from this. As a child, I was seen as a threat by the parents of other children/teenagers, as I was inclined to NOT follow the crowd. I thought about everything – having plenty of time on my bike, being alone in nature. Questioning everything may have been seen as being a dissenter. Being me did not lead me into sex, drugs, rock and roll and partying. I had a natural high disregard for altering my own state. Not even trying anything as cigarettes, drugs, alcohol and coffee were offered. I stuck with only drinking water, and milk or orange juice when out with friends at the pub. Not interested in alcohol, caffieneor any ‘party’ tricks.

As a child, I was sent off to walk the few miles to Sunday School most Sundays. Being a responsible eldest daughter, I played along – it gave me respite from my mother – and her me. And I could sing – loved that part. As the years passed, I also went to weekly after-school Bible Study for the first few years. Not sure what my reasoning was, as my childhood interests were diverse and really at odds with their dogma. I saw the work as a combination of fairy tales – for those that needed succour from life – and a vague historical note of anthropological interest. My extensive reading was helped by going along with my dad  as he volunteered to be at the local library alternate Saturday evenings – so I had this and his being the non fiction buyer of the library – thus all the new books to look at, at home.

My interests were always anthropological in nature – what made humans tick?  From fairy stories from other lands, archeology (esp Egyptology) and the very distant past of dinosaurs.  Discovering Erick von Daniken, I went into other explanations of long ago. I choose reading, being in/going to places away from people (on my push bike) and exploring all I could of all that interested me. Knitting (I lived in Christchurch, where house insulation and sensible heating were not so common – at least not in our house), gardening and nature were my friends. Continuing in this vein, at high school, once my father left the family home (fairly unheard of in 1968), with me in tow, we moved to the other side of town. Staying at the same school, the pushbike and I and Chch wind and winters struggled –  I did become exceptionally fit. Outside of school, being away from all, I immersed myself more in cycling to explore the world, knitting, reading and thinking – TV was not my thing.  Being told what to think, an anathema. My singular world – thinking and being Heather.

1972 – By the fifth year at high school, I decided I needed to live in life. I became in my eyes a ‘dropout’ – leaving half way through the year . . gravitating to hitchhiking around the country by spring.  This broadened my horizons. I returned to begin part time uni and full time work to support myself flatting. No parties, alcohol or drugs as my path was now with a dog, my bike, and still trying to work out why/how people were as they were. My choices in tertiary learning were out of interest, not education for a career. The sociology and psychology and then education, as I started a job at a very large institution for ‘retarded’/brain damaged people. I would have done this for free. I had found a job worth doing – heartful and in service.

1975 – I found myself with a one way ticket to Australia – to see my aged paternal grandmother. I stayed after a chance meeting with my first husband. Game changer. A fellow Aquarian, living in a run down banana shed in a cow paddock, we made a home. Growing our own food, eating through bags of brown rice, and living happily/ being totally outside the norm. Soon after – in Brisbane both of us working – and me then accidentally became pregnant.

INTO AUSTRALIA – so began the life long study of life outside the accepted reality. My husband was massively assisted by the local acupuncturist – I had never heard of such a thing – and not having experienced it – I knew I needed to learn how to help my own family – especially to NOT have a child afflicted as his dad had been. Acupuncture and all that passed by me was captured. Western herbs, vibrational medicine, touch therapies and anything that alleviated suffering was my focus.

1979 – Time passed – I became the first woman acupuncturist in Brisbane city, though minus a car, a family and child care. I worked three days a week, supporting alone, my then young son. I quickly discovered that what I was doing in the clinic was at odds with what my colleagues were up to, They started sending me their ‘hard’ cases. How was I different?  Focused. Always seeking more. Any conference, workshop, training – I was there. Money? I made it so I could. Travel to Kangaroo Valley to see overseas stars – no trouble – son’s dad always took our boy – and I got there somehow. Women flocked to me with their pain, their stories of woe – wrapped up in their bodies and their broken hearts and wounded psyches.I listened and worked out answers – across multiple modalities. Not realising that others trained in Qi moving – were following a different drum – I was using whatever worked .Deep intractable pain – as back then – the doctors shook people’s hands and told them to get their affairs in order. Medical bone pointing.

Early clinical practice in Brisbane

There were no laser surgeries, no HRT, no stomach/duodenal ulcer medications, no antidepressants/ anti psychotics, no anti inflammatories, no laparoscopies, no IVF.  As a sensible woman I knew that the body healed itself – and it needed change. I made suggestions – people were so desperate. Dying badly was the next step – they went back to what would have worked in times passed – using time honoured ways of using plants and the different culture’s ways of assisting bodily hrepair. I used lymph drainage and body correction along with advanced needling that I chose over the ‘common garden variety’ that was now being taught.

TCM was easy to learn, and not that practically helpful in a modern Australian setting. People come in with complicated lives to untangle. Stress, life residue, and no way out – when seen through the normal lenses. They were not medical conditions, but heart lament expressed in ways that they are as yet not hearing –  showing up as aches, pains and trials of life.

1980 I was asked to write the curriculum and teach for a new acupuncture college. I asked a fellow student/colleague/friend to come in also – as I knew I was to have more children and needed someone else to share the load. Judy and I wrote and taught the three year part time course, and loved every minute.

1982 – Meeting my second husband, we traveled through Europe and the UK by rail for six weeks. This allowed me to return to teaching with new eyes. Baby born early 1984, still teaching in college.

1985 – After teaching 2nd and 3rd year for a few years, I went into writing post graduate subjects, and put on weekend workshops independently. Whilst pregnant I wrote and taught the advanced work that had been so revolutionary in my city clinic. After the birth of Kathryn, my third child, although my intention that following year was to write ‘Moving Blockages’ (to healing), my life intervened.  ‘Moving Blockages’ was to be my then answer to what acupuncturists needed as their thinking was blocked – what was taught was not what they needed to be successful. What was in the texts and being taught from China – was NOT what happened in MY clinic. We need to be carers and use our heart and hands – and to integrate all we had learned to fit each person who walked in.

1986 – DIVERSION – The advanced teaching continued after my daughter arrived. With a change of pace – she was massively brain injured, not expected to live. My then 3 and 11 year old sons became encased in what some would have called an obsession – Kathryn whole was the programme. Having spent 8 years working in others suffering, I now had an in-home patient.  No medical answers walked in my clinic before then. So now it was my turn to pull up my sleeves and JUST do it. I could NOT see a future in my being the sole carer of such a broken down being. I had worked for a year in a residential setting for those like her, I knew what was ahead. I threw all my efforts into keeping her alive, developing and breastfed – whilst I attended to also being a ‘housewife’ and mum of three. At times I also became my own patient, as illness from exhaustion, distress and lack of support – from those (medically) tasked to help (wait for her to die) and no family assistance.
Life reorganised itself around a full time in house programme – initially to keep her alive (breastfed for 2 1/4 years) and then to have her sleep (not really ever achieved well), to eat and to poo. These are givens for most. In automatic – most bodies – Kathryn  – no – in a fight with me to the death – to escape here. The redevelopment of her injured brain was the next hurdle. The Glenn Doman programme for neurological rehabilitation was my saviour. Three times a year we traveled to Healesville, Vict and received our new directions. She blossomed with the care and attention.  She strenuously did not agree with any of it. The volunteers I found, trained and worked with daily. This got her walking at 13 months – and as the first three were in a coma – we were on track – I thought.

1991 – Terror reigned after her jab – it took a few months –  as I had been attending to all that happened naturally. This took over. She started fitting massively. She got lost, never found. I spent over a year trying to keep her alive – we lost most of the ground we had scrabbled back from the shocking beginning. Her new symptom – fitting into status epileptus began. Psychiatric splits. Screaming unmercilessly. Possession states. No medical assistance besides palliative care, Programe had to stop as she tried to get my hands around her throat to strangle her. Her skin peeled off. She lost most of her hair, she was skin and bone. Seeking a respite centre that would allow her a break from me who had kept her here into this hell, I rang the Buddhists-centre and after being directed to the Tibetan retreat centre at Eudlo to see the medicine monks there, I watched as Pende Hawte walked around and around with her, with the picture of the Dalai Lama over her head, reciting mantra. She recovered – ate and drank for the first time in days and life continued. With the new issue of possession states, battles with satan for her soul. Life looked likely to others as though it continued on the outside as the mum of three – the dad left and I kept going . . Occasionally seeing patients as I was that one who made changes for all who sought my ministrations.

Gradually the boys grew up. I attended births – initially at home then in hospitals as a mother support/natural birth advocate. Having my own (I thought) traumatic experience bathing my first son, I did not want any of my friends going through this – so I appeared to help. And help I did – discovering all I could with the vibrational remedies to undo the head spaces that were holding the opening/initiation into maternity back. Between this and my fingers on points – we traveled far into easy birthing.
I went back to teaching acupuncturists at the college I had written for. I was using moxa, massage (moving STUCK) and as a naturopath who had been a vegan macrobiotic, I had a natural bent for discovering the ways to assist the body to help itself

1992 – I studied the easiest degree for me: Bachelor of Adult and Vocational Learning. I returned to the college to teach 3rd years again.

1993 – At the TCM, Chinese medicine and HIV/AIDS conference in San Francisco, I discovered unity against the common enemy – the virus and its savage onslaught. This was prior to the drug regimes that were so debilitating. As I had had a blood transfusion at the birth of my second son, the same week 5 babies died in Bne of an infected blood donation, I was one of the first in Australia to be tested for AIDS the following year, I had a personal and professional interests – as this was actually easy to change and return the body to normal – as was those coming in with other apparently ‘hopeless’ cases. Using the body to fend off the attack by strengthening it was my thing and I ended up with a third of my patients recovering from this, a third with fertility/pregnancy related issue. Until . . . accidentally pregnant again I left Australia and went back home to NZ. After this few months, I came back to Brisbane, a new single mum at 40.

1995 – Leaving my much loved daughter in NZ and in care, I sent my budding wee man (2nd son) to live with his dad now in Perth. The oldest son as an adult to visit in Brisbane. me attempting to complete the quarter semester of my degree took another 7 years – as this was not an easy ask. My youngest son was now living with his dad, I was a childless mother. The clinic and my passion for knowing more/stretching the boundaries for others (as Kathryn’s mother) saved me – gardening and living at least an hour away in the hills and working alternate days – with nature and myself the rest.

2004 – Finding a weekend retreat in the midst of my Witta (QLD) home and garden renovations became the beginning of a push to return to me delivering experiential workshops. After attending many, I met Duncan. This began a new stage of life. We got Ryan back, we moved to NZ, where I had wrote a different book – What Dads Can Do – as  a manual for the partners of pregnant women.. As I had always trodden my own path, and helped those who wanted more /were different to what was offered – I knew that it was a simple matter of following nature. Hands on, loving touch from the heart and an intact family followed. That was the plan. The book and two DVDs took all of our savings and more. I published in Brisbane and returned back to our home in NZ to find that I needed to rescue my youngest son. Back to Bne, and a new clinic and life started – me flying in and out to see my husband, and son and eventually being a self funded FIFO worker.

2006 onwards – I worked as the problem solver, initially for the ‘high risk’ pregnancies at the local closed Christian sect. When in the country – I was in and out for 15 years till I stopped in 2020 and was there on call. I made huge inroads in supposedly ‘hopeless’ cases. Initially all the hostels had at least one copy of the magic book to transform all pregnancies and births – What Dads Can Do . Teaching their midwives and health workers how to magically do what I did.

2007 – I traveled to the Netherlands to deliver my work, taking along with me the video series that became a hit for all working with women’s health. Being sold in the USA at Pro D’s acupuncture face to face weekend courses, I became internationally known – especially as in all that ‘spare’ time when not working in my clinic or studying for the degree, I studied online and wrote extensively in acupuncture forums – whilst writing/producing workshops.

2012 – Local acupuncture gatherings (giving practical workshops) ceased, as I began the international stage of presenting what works.

2014 – After attending Rothenberg acupuncture conference, I returned to Australia, to NOT become that acupuncture guru – but to deviate into abdominal and structural corrections – back to my roots. (My major acupuncture lecturer had been a chiro who was into womb corrections). Here I was –  back there using my hands and body weight . . . I did the fast track of all I could in this work.

2015 – began presenting initially online then in person in L.A. See more here At the same time, I was taking Self Care classes for those who wanted to go on in Arvigo – and branched into assisting the acupuncturists who desired to do more – to use their hearts and hands.

2016 – Having gone as far as I could in the Maya/Arvigo system, I found Dr Jennifer Mercier’s work and traveled to Chicago to partake. Returning home, I played around with ALL patients – not only the female’ infertile’ ones – and developed my own holistic multi modality, multi lineage, transformative, Qi and body aligning style, Living Ligaments. Heather’s Gentling Way

2017 – onwards – traveled internationally teaching as usual as a practical hands on acupuncturists, PLUS my own work. Starting little pods in the south of France, USA, and in NZ as well as in Australia.

2018 – Traveled allover teaching: sparking interest in this work.

2020 – My 15 years of the in-and-out-of-NZ and back to work in Bne was halted in locked down years. Whilst marooned in NZ, I was on a mission to explore what was happening. ‘Hard’ and ‘hopeless’ having been my life’s work. Past learning and trailing in practice as had been my passion was now replaced by a whirlwind dissembling my life in Bne – long distance, and simplifying NZ life. Gardening lots. Teaching my practical experiential online. . . . . Still working with the desperates – mainly horror pregnancy complications – at the closed community. Where women were expected in their worn out state to keep having babies- at least 12.

2021 – Ducking over to Australia to complete the training for my students: hands-on – but the states gradually shut down. Locked out of NZ. House sale from afar eventually happened. We went from being refugees, and nomads, to house sitters, and eventually home owners again. All the while – seeing occasional people who wanted care, and always teaching online.

2022 – Teaching online and recently in person, I am now collating my life’s work. Having finally gotten my library of all notes and texts back to me, the task ahead is to share with as many as possible how easy living can be.

2023 – 25 – Still teaching, treating as I go around the world, and now collating all into different easy to access resources for all.