About Jun

After graduating college, I began studying Zen Buddhism. I thought I was going to go off and become an artist and filmmaker, but in my last year of college I hit an immense personal and life roadblock. I couldn’t move forward with my life, couldn’t make sense of who I was, couldn’t do the things I had been doing up until then. I had been studying philosophy in college, but instead of gaining wisdom it left me yearning for a deeper connection to life.

Zen let me look at life without any conditions surrounding it. I threw myself into the training, the meditation and retreats, practicing without much idea at all of where my life was going. I spent 10 years in this unknown, being weathered by the hours of sitting in silence. In that time I began to discover how energy worked in the body. I studied qi gong and zhan zhuang and other standing practices out of a necessity to process the changes happening.

On one retreat, a mentor of mine did some bodywork on me to help some kidney issues I was having, and the experience was transformative, unlocking deep patterns in my system and giving me a new relationship to my body. For the first time, I thought I could maybe bring my experience to others, and I saw a path with bodywork to help people concretely, directly.

I studied SourcePoint Therapy first and developed some facility for using my internal sense of energy I’d activated in Zen and my qi gong practices for healing. But I also wanted to work with those who had no interest in the energetics, who simply needed help getting out of pain and discomfort. I decided to become a Rolfer, which not only offered a rigorous anatomical and structural foundation for working with the body, but gave me a wealth of skills for dealing with living tissue.

Now, I explore all dimensions of what it means to heal. My goal is to welcome all types of people into my office, to meet them and share with them what they need to move forward in their own journey. The great Rolfer Ray McCall described Rolfing as a “catalyst,” and that is what I hope to be, for whoever walks in my door, for whatever they need.