Our founder grew up in a house of martial arts with his father being the Grand Master Lawrence Leong of Hapkune-do Chinese Martial Arts Academy.

Culturally and historically, houses of martial arts cultivated alongside houses of healing as the two were like the yin and yang duality that becomes one. As such, home was also a place of healing where patients came for treatment for sprains, fractures and broken bones.

Trained in martial arts, the founder participated at several national and regional wushu championships in his youth. A national champion, he was also a multiple medal winner in many SEA Games events representing his country.

From an early age, the founder trained in healing at the heels of both his father the late Grandmaster Lawrence Leong and mother Grandmaster Seow Foong Thye, who were individually apprenticed under different Grandmasters. Under the tutelage of both parents the founder had hands-on practical experience and firsthand learning. The founder then apprenticed under the late Grandmaster Tan Pak. With a firm grasp of traditional bone setting and healing knowledge and techniques, the founder furthered his knowledge of the human anatomy and mechanics with his study of Biomechanics and Human Movement at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia. Apart from exposure to more Western practices in chiropractic and physiotherapy, over the years, the founder has continued to accumulate knowledge and skills formally and informally in Japanese Shiatsu, Thai Wat Poh, western Kinesiology and Chinese traditional therapies such as cupping, guasha.

Breaking with tradition, the founder is willing to teach outside the strict traditional apprenticeship model. The traditional system is founded on a strict narrow exclusive master apprentice relationship which mainly involved slowly learning from observation, hands-on practical learning as opposed to any formal syllabus with specific wide coverage of all major aspects of knowledge. The Chinese saying goes “Teacher one day, father for life” ( 一日为师终生为夫Yī rì wéi shī, zhōngshēng wèi fū) which implicitly indicates the lifetime length of the training.

With a modern outlook, the founder is keen to pass on his knowledge more openly and broadly, systematically in a shorter time and without the need of any psychological contract or bond. This openness and willingness to break from the restrictive shackles of tradition stems for the founder’s humble belief that no one treatment is the best and that there is always much to learn. Another Chinese saying goes “There are people beyond (this) person, and skies beyond (this) sky” (人外有人，天外有天 rén wài yǒu rén, tiān wài yǒu tiān) meaning that no matter how good you think you are, there is always someone out there that is better.

With a foundation in traditional tit tar layered with multiple skillsets from various alternative therapies, a treatment method can be from a particular therapy or a combination of some, the key being a solution to fit the problem.

From a modern Xray or MRI reading to more traditionally observing the skin colouration to the touch and feel of the muscle tone or tenderness and bone protrusions, the founder makes a careful diagnosis before making the suitable recommendations or applying the appropriate treatment.

Spot treatments of injured areas can be applied whether they be sprains strains or even broken bones. Consideration is also given to referral pain or injuries as in many cases, injuries are not isolated. Over time, the founder has also developed his own general wellness and alignment treatment which is a preventative and health maintenance type of treatment.