Born 1970.
Built by Nature.

At 16 I started martial arts. Nobody in my family had ever done anything like this. No friend pushed me toward it. No book inspired it. Something inside simply knew, and I followed it without questioning why.

Martial arts gave me something I did not expect. Yes the body got stronger. But more than that it gave me a relationship with discipline that I have never let go of. When something is hard you do not stop. You breathe. You continue. That lesson never left me.

After three years I moved to resistance training. And in 1991 the jewellery career began. From that first day two lives ran side by side. One professional. One personal. In thirty five years neither one ever waited for the other.

Yoga came in 2001. Something softened. The hard edges of years of physical training found a quieter partner. And with yoga came breath, pranayama, which I slowly began to understand was not just an exercise but a medicine I had been carrying inside me my whole life without knowing it.

In 2005 I went to my first ten day Vipassana retreat. I did not know what to expect. By the fourth day I found myself going back into my childhood, seeing things I had not thought about in years. By the sixth day something shifted in how I related to my own thoughts. On the tenth day when the silence broke and we were allowed to speak again I realised I did not want to. I was enjoying it too much.

When I walked out my father was waiting. We met and I was smiling but I was somewhere else entirely. I don't have a perfect word for what I felt. Everything around me was soothing. I could hear each bird. I could feel the air differently. Every cell in my body felt like it was singing. I was living completely in that moment. Not thinking about yesterday. Not planning tomorrow. Just there. Just present. It was the closest thing to freedom I have ever felt.

In 2013 I went back to Vipassana. Went deeper. And understood that what happened in 2005 was not a moment. It was a direction.

For thirty years I had been learning fitness from here and there. One gym to another. One trainer to another. Always searching for someone who could teach me with real depth and real precision. In Japan I had learned one thing that stayed with me forever. Whatever you do, do it completely or do not do it at all. That standard followed me into the jewellery industry and it followed me into fitness too.

So at 48 I enrolled at K11 School of Fitness Sciences. The average age in my group was twenty seven. Nobody knew how old I was, and I never told them. I trained with them, studied with them, and in the final assessments I was among the best performers in the group. I passed with Distinction in both theory and practical.

That moment confirmed something I had always believed but never had a certificate to prove. Age is a number. What matters is what you have been doing with your body and your mind all along.

More certifications followed. Sports nutrition. Clinical nutrition. CPR. AED. Back health. And in 2025 at 55 I completed an Advanced Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy. The circle that began with a sixteen year old boy doing martial arts in a room with no internet and no guidance was now complete. Body. Breath. Mind. Consciousness. All four understood. All four lived.

In 2026 I launched Arvayu. Not to sell anything. To share everything.