After leaving school Kirsten worked in Edinburgh with teenagers suffering from substance abuse. During this time she visited a meditation centre, which she subsequently joined as a resident for 2 years; teaching weaving, pottery, and meditation, and learning massage and T’ai Chi. The path to healing was opened and eventually focussed on acupuncture, which revealed a system of medicine explaining the origin of disease clearly, simply and beautifully. Besides having a great passion for using acupuncture to increase a person’s well-being, Kirsten also has a keen interest in using foods to heal external or internal complaints. Diet plays a great part in addressing a person’s imbalance in both 5-Elements and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and a course in Nutritional Therapy at the Nutritional Healing Foundation in 2004 deepened Kirsten’s understanding of the effect food can have on a person’s health.
