About Fully Alive

Fully Alive began as a place to practise and share the Shaolin Arts, as taught to me by my teacher, Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit. At that time, the intention was clear: to train, preserve, and pass on these teachings with care and integrity, keeping the lineage alive and accessible.

That work has been done. The teachings remain available through recorded classes and courses, and the legacy continues.

What has changed over time is not the foundation, but the orientation.

One of my teacher’s consistent reminders was that the actual work is not in collecting forms or techniques, but in becoming a living embodiment of the art. Not something performed, but something expressed naturally through how one lives, relates, and meets life.

As my own life and work have unfolded, the centre of Fully Alive has gradually shifted towards that understanding.

Less towards teaching systems, and more towards the lens through which life is experienced.

Many influences have shaped that lens — the Shaolin Arts, Qigong and meditation, Zen and yoga, person-centred counselling, Zero Balancing, therapeutic work, and lived experience. Beneath their different languages, they point to something simple: the place we come from matters.

Fully Alive is now centred on that place.

Much of the work here supports people in noticing where they are meeting life from — whether that place feels tight or defended, open or grounded — and how that orientation quietly shapes experience. Anxiety, effort, and the sense of “not quite enough” often live less in what is happening, and more in how we are relating.

This work shows up in different ways. For some, it is through conversation and therapeutic support. For others, through breath, movement, stillness, or reflective writing. These are not techniques to master or identities to adopt, but simple ways of returning to a relationship with oneself.

The Shaolin lineage remains a foundation practice for me, and something I continue to teach for those drawn to that particular path. Others may never engage in formal Qigong, meditation, or martial practice, yet still benefit from the essence of these arts — the qualities of presence, balance, and embodied awareness they cultivate.

In that sense, Fully Alive is no longer primarily about learning something new.

It is about remembering what has always been here, and allowing it to be lived.

Background and experience

My work has been shaped over many years through embodied practice, therapeutic training, and lived experience.

I trained for many years in the Shaolin Arts under my teacher, Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit, including Qigong, meditation, and internal training. These teachings remain a foundation of my life and work, and I continue to offer them for those drawn to that particular path.

I have also been a Zero Balancing practitioner for nearly three decades. This work deeply informs how I understand the relationship between body, awareness, and change, with an emphasis on meeting the person at the point of tension, and allowing things to settle through presence rather than force.

Over time, my focus has moved towards understanding how people experience themselves from the inside, particularly around anxiety, effort, and the sense of needing to be “enough”. I am currently in my final year of training in Integrative Counselling, which now informs much of the way I work.

My background also includes HypnoCBT, mindfulness meditation, and Zen Yoga. While these approaches differ in form, they share a common orientation: supporting awareness, easing unnecessary effort, and helping people come back into relationship with themselves.

Rather than applying techniques or following a fixed method, my work is guided by attentiveness to the person in front of me, and to the place they are meeting life from.