ABOUT MARK

Growing up on Canada’s rugged west coast provided me ample opportunity to experience the power and force of the natural world.  Since early childhood, my resonance with nature has provided a basis for the values and sense of direction that have emerged throughout the course of my life. 

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My interest in health and wellbeing had manifested by the age of four, when I was determined that I was going to grow up to become a doctor.  My parents, seeing the need to keep my busy mind active, enrolled me in a consuming course of studies through the local Suzuki Violin school, which I stuck with until age 9.  Between the ages of nine and 14, I was fortunate to take private lessons with the violinist, Sydney Humphreys, past Chair of the Royal Academy of London's strings department and a friend and colleague of the famed violinist Yehudi Menuhin.  Just like his virtuoso ability, his teaching was higher level.  We had to bridge the gap between a nine year old and Sydney's enlightened ability. He taught at the level of the subconscious and it was through Sydney that I discovered the incredible gift and potential of what being human means.  Seeing his students as being capable of achieving incredible heights is what made him such a gifted teacher.

 

Years later while working in a homeless shelter on Vancouver Island, I realized I was still putting into practice what I had learned from Sydney.  Humans are an incredible beings.  We deserve to reach our full potentials - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.  We can help people to rise up, but they have to do the work of walking forward.  Being conscious of the vast potential of human beings has enabled me to carry out my life’s work of helping others to help themselves.  Sydney,  I don't know if you knew what a profound and positive influence you had on the lives of so many young musicians. 

 

Later on in the 1990's, I met and did my own healing with the gifted dentist Dr. Dino Paulos DDS, who some call the “grandfather of biological dentistry” in North America.  I was lucky to go on and work with Dino, running his front office and meeting people from all over the world who came to experience this amazing healer.  As well as opening my eyes to the world of nutrition and the need to deal with the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of serious illness, Dino's focus on the physical body system became the primary motivator for me to study Chiropractic.  Dino, even though you departed before the rest of us were ready, the Spirit of your work still lives among us.