My Experiences
Roving Personal Fitness Trainer
Singapore./New Zealand
BodyTrainer and Boot Camp Instructor
Les Mills Extreme, Wellington
Basic Military Training Instructor
Singapore Armed Forces
Roving Personal Fitness Trainer
Singapore./New Zealand
BodyTrainer and Boot Camp Instructor
Les Mills Extreme, Wellington
Basic Military Training Instructor
Singapore Armed Forces
I will share a little about myself. I studied Architecture in Melbourne and graduated from Victoria University majoring in Psychology, but my development in academia brought me no closer to any truth I really cared about. Actually, I graduated feeling even more dispirited than before - thrust into a world compelling me to 'earn a living' and 'make something of myself.' The impetus of self-discovery impeded by the messages of a culture forcing upon me a lifetime of vocational drudgery. Surely there had to be more to life than this!
Being an introvert in a culture that glorifies extroversion and doing, I found it difficult to fit into society's niches. That annoying inner critic always lurking in the background reminding me that something was inherently wrong (with me?). Maybe it was karma that had led me to a moment in the Landmark Forum where a shift in perspective gave me my first taste of real liberation. So perplexed I was from this experience that it intensified my search for further revelations and 'truth.' What were other 'blind spots' that I was unaware of? I started reading voraciously, dedicated significant portions of time traveling, and explored the deeper recesses of my mind through silent meditation retreats.
I am fortunate to share my life with someone who values a slower, and more contemplative way of life away from the hustle and bustle of consumerism and the rat race. My wife and I quit our jobs to travel with the clears purposes of exploring other cultures, each other, and ourselves. Amber became pregnant when we were living in Singapore and agreed to create a lifestyle close to nature and in alignment of our personal truths. In 2012, we found Wonderhouse, started growing our own vegetables, and were joined by little Sofie who came into this world via natural water birth at home. What a gift!
Living the gift.
At the heart of humanity's current worldview is a deep assumption of the nature of reality. That everything can be quantifiable. But we reduce and impoverish our experience of the world through our labeling and numbering of it (Time is money!). Just as the conversion of the world to money makes less of the world, so does the conversion of life to money makes less of life.
Consumer-capitalism is based on separation and competition. This is a false belief that humanity has been playing out since Newton (mechanistic laws based on separation that govern the earth) and Darwin (only the fittest survive) - beliefs manifested through the concept of money. We have a deeper science now that says that we are not separate, but interconnected (quantum physics). This mindset is completely reverse from everything our current economic paradigm tells us. "Self sufficiency" is an illusion. We are by nature collaborative. When we see intrinsic value in each others gifts and do away with artificial and shallow values like "This is worth $100," it would be ludicrous to demand paper money.
Being an introvert in a culture that glorifies extroversion and doing, I found it difficult to fit into society's niches. That annoying inner critic always lurking in the background reminding me that something was inherently wrong (with me?). Maybe it was karma that had led me to a moment in the Landmark Forum where a shift in perspective gave me my first taste of real liberation. So perplexed I was from this experience that it intensified my search for further revelations and 'truth.' What were other 'blind spots' that I was unaware of? I started reading voraciously, dedicated significant portions of time traveling, and explored the deeper recesses of my mind through silent meditation retreats.
I am fortunate to share my life with someone who values a slower, and more contemplative way of life away from the hustle and bustle of consumerism and the rat race. My wife and I quit our jobs to travel with the clears purposes of exploring other cultures, each other, and ourselves. Amber became pregnant when we were living in Singapore and agreed to create a lifestyle close to nature and in alignment of our personal truths. In 2012, we found Wonderhouse, started growing our own vegetables, and were joined by little Sofie who came into this world via natural water birth at home. What a gift!
Living the gift.
At the heart of humanity's current worldview is a deep assumption of the nature of reality. That everything can be quantifiable. But we reduce and impoverish our experience of the world through our labeling and numbering of it (Time is money!). Just as the conversion of the world to money makes less of the world, so does the conversion of life to money makes less of life.
Consumer-capitalism is based on separation and competition. This is a false belief that humanity has been playing out since Newton (mechanistic laws based on separation that govern the earth) and Darwin (only the fittest survive) - beliefs manifested through the concept of money. We have a deeper science now that says that we are not separate, but interconnected (quantum physics). This mindset is completely reverse from everything our current economic paradigm tells us. "Self sufficiency" is an illusion. We are by nature collaborative. When we see intrinsic value in each others gifts and do away with artificial and shallow values like "This is worth $100," it would be ludicrous to demand paper money.
Freely giving, freely receiving.
My Qualifications
Ayurveda Yoga Massage
Raso Vai, Goa, India
Personal Training Certification
New Zealand Institute of Sport
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology
University of Victoria, Wellington
Ayurveda Yoga Massage
Raso Vai, Goa, India
Personal Training Certification
New Zealand Institute of Sport
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology
University of Victoria, Wellington
Yoga massage, Porse childcare, Bed and Breakfast and a Holiday home
Wonderhouse
Wonderhouse recognizes our inherent sacredness before mathematics: Purpose, meaning, love, emotions and ideas versus the quantifiable and limiting elements based on capitalism. Charging a fee for what's sacred feels like sacrilege. To reduce the earth to money makes a greater into a lesser, it turns the sacred into the profane, the infinite into the quantified. I can think of no better definition of sacrilege than that.
The mentality of scarcity that impels us to keep and hoard is contrary to the mentality of the gift, which relaxes the boundaries of self and ties us together. Modern man lives in the spirit of usury, which is the spirit of boundaries and divisions. A cardinal feature of an authentic gift is that we give it unconditionally. We may expect to be gifted in return, whether by the recipient or another member of the community, but we do not impose conditions on a true gift.
YogaMassage
AirBnB
PorseChildcare
WonderPlace
Snowdon
