The teacher, François, a French citizen by birth, gave up mundane life in 2005 to dedicate his life fully to the study of the Path.
A martial artist since age eleven, he became interested in Qigong and the internal martial art of Taichi Chuan at that time. After studying with various teachers he travelled to China in 2011, where he met his Taichi mentor.
Within seven years he spent four full years practicing all day, being taught as an in-door student, receiving transmission in the traditional Taichi and Taoist way of daily private one-on-one classes.
His initial interest being meditation and healing techniques, he spent the last twenty years in Asia, travelling through India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, China, Japan and Sri Lanka — studying Buddhist meditation (Theravada, Zen and Tibetan), Hatha Yoga, Thai massage, Taoist abdominal massage and various healing modalities.
When the teacher became autonomous and self-sufficient in his Taichi practice, he travelled to Myanmar to go on retreat under his meditation teacher. He was a fully ordained monk (Bhikkhu) and went through a four-year meditation retreat.
In total, he has spent more than five years in silent meditation.