Brought up in Hertfordshire, as a teenager Nigel worked in Switzerland and then Germany. This formative experience gave him a love of travel and foreign tongues. He then trained in international hotel management and tourism and worked in these industries for a while. During a gap year in 1975 he discovered macrobiotics and Buddhism and was led twice to Machupicchu, but it was yoga that took over and for the next 7 years he studied and taught Sivananda Yoga. In the 80’s Nigel went back to catering, running his own veggie restaurant in Essex and teaching vegetarian cooking, while dreaming of his next step, VegiVentures, which he ran full-time for 29 years. Nigel is now semi-retired and lives in the Norfolk village of Castle Acre (near Swaffham). He is passionate about organic food and gardening, sailing, green politics and yoga.
