Over the years, I also expanded my martial arts practice to include taijiquan and other internal martial arts, classical Japanese martial arts, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and submission grappling. I have been in private practice in Renton since then. Not wanting to waste my first year of grad school, I spent one more year finishing an MA in Japanese Literature, and then enrolled in the Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Seattle, WA, graduating with a Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine (MTCM) degree in 2001. Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine were the obvious choice - they would allow me to help people, using all of the physical and academic skills and talents I had cultivated my entire life.
After a year there, I realized I wanted to *do* things, instead of reading about things that others had done. From the age of about 13, I was convinced that I wanted to be an East Asian Studies scholar.Īfter receiving a BA in East Asian Studies from UNC - Chapel Hill, I decided to go to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin and work towards a PhD in Buddhist Studies. I began practicing Aikido as a middle school student in 1983, which led to a lifelong study of Chinese and Japanese language, religion, martial arts and medicine.
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