I’m Luke

As they say in the Greek medical traditions “exercise for the body, education for the mind, music for the soul”. I now regularly employ sound and vibrational therapy in my massage and vagus nerve stimulation sessions to increase my clients healing outcomes. During my mid twenties I was fortunate enough to visit the jungles of Borneo where I had what I can only describe as a “telepathic heart to heart experience” with a wild orangutan. During this moment it was strongly communicated to me that I needed to help these animals and their environment, so upon returning home I started fundraising on behalf of an animal welfare charity in between touring and recording my music. I went on to work on behalf of many wildlife, environmental, animal welfare and human rights charities, raising approximately $20 million dollars during my tenure and eventually operated my own fundraising company for a short period of time before focusing full time on Naturopathy.

I truly believe our environment, the creatures we share the planet with, and our own health are intimately connected, and to help ourselves we need to help our planet and its non-human inhabitants. I’ve been lucky enough to travel to much of the natural world including Africa, South America, Egypt, South East Asia, the Pacific Islands, Galapagos Islands, the Amazon Jungle, the Kimberley and many other wild places whilst taking in some of the medicine traditions along the way. A big turning point was my time in the Amazon with the Shipibo Shaman in Peru, this is where it became clear I needed to reconnect with medicine and start my path as a Naturopath (Doctor without the blood).

I immediately enrolled into studies upon my return and at around this point my future wife and co-creator of Little Earth Health fell sick with “mystery illness”. At the onset I was due to travel to Mongolia on a mountain trek to visit various other Shaman, and then travel onto Europe together, of course we cancelled the trip BUT a few years later we flew out the same Mongolian Shaman who came to live with us and help with her healing, this is where we learned certain aspects about our energy body and the power of meditation and prayer. From the onset and over the first 3 years we spent over $150,000 seeking answers and help from every mainstream and alternative health modality you could think of (I would list them, but it is literally over 40 modalities).

Through this ordeal we learned many things about these health modalities including when and how to use them, but we also learned what it is like to walk out of an appointment with $700 worth of supplements and no real answers. We also learned what it was like to get your hopes up after finding “the next modality” only to be disappointed again. We also learned what it was like to wake up at 3am, fly interstate, hire a car and go to an appointment for an hour then head straight back to the airport and fly home in the same day without having “cured” the symptoms every month for years. We also learned what it is like to be spoken down to by careless and egocentric health practitioners. We also learned what it is like to fall asleep at a computer desk at 4am researching and looking for answers and understanding to this mystery illness.

We also learned what it is like scraping together money to afford another treatment in hope “this one could be the one that works”. We also learned what it is like to cry tears of desperation at times and want to give up. Our training as natural health practitioners was not purely academic, it was an initiation, an ordeal, a real awakening had happened which led to the birth of Little Earth Health and the birth of two new health practitioners dedicated to supporting their clients on their own healing path. When you think you are alone and nobody understands what it is you are going through, just know we have been there, we have felt it, we have gone through it, we have transmuted it, and we stand here today with open hearts offering our wisdom to you.