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Age: 47

I was born in Flanders, Belgium.  Growing up in Europe, I was exposed to many cultures, lifestyles and mentalities.  This began my insatiable interest and study in human nature.  Since my youth, I have always loved to perform and early on, was active in the theater of life; my first performance was at age five with an accordion!   I soon turned to a love of music.  At the age of twelve, I started Solfege (a French music teaching method) and developed a good ear for music and pitch, which has helped with the perfect pronunciation of five languages. 

Studying piano, I became well versed in classical music at a young age. (I also started tuning my own piano!)  Early in my twenties, I added saxophone to this repertoire and have since performed in several bands playing piano, saxophone, marimba, accordion, percussion or voice.

My dad was a mechanic-wannabe and we had lots of tools in the garage that I learned to use at a very early age. As a result, I now have a great collection of many different tools myself. I went to a technical school and earned a diploma for high-voltage electrician (line-man). By the time I was eighteen, I had already wired three houses and done numerous side-jobs. Out of school I worked wiring houses, apprenticed plumbing, worked for the telephone company for a year and an elevator company for six months. The economy in Belgium, trouble with a girl friend and the relationship with my parents was enough to make the radical decision to move to the USA in 1981. I spoke no English. I ended up in Brooklyn, NY and my life transformed to a continuing adventure to this date. Also in the early eighties, I was hired by a Belgian company to be part of a team of engineers to erect three small hospitals in Algeria.

Since then, I have been able to always rely on my electrical and plumbing skills to help me out when needed. I came back to the USA, to New York and studied anatomy and Shiatsu.  I then ventured out west to Vail, Colorado where I worked as a massage-therapist and waiter in the busy ski-resort town. I worked in Colorado on-and-off for about three years combining and using all of my hands-on skills. From there I moved to Santa Fe, NM. Upon arriving there, I realized that there was so much competition in the healing arts and decided to start a catering truck selling Belgian-style fast food. I converted a big step-van, built a kitchen in it and eight months later I opened “Belgian-style fries etc.”, something new to the US. Now you find them all over New York City! Santa Feans enjoyed my good cooking for more than a year, when I left the food industry to open a general store in rural New Mexico.

 Change of events relocated me to Santa Fe a year later and I took a job at the SF airport working the “line”: i.e.,fueling and storing planes.  Six months later, I got my electrical contractors license and have, since then, wired houses, done commercial jobs and lots of repairs from repairing elevators and high-powered lasers to lamps. I opened and operated a lamp-repair shop, which filled a great need in Santa Fe having a lamp fixed or a chandlelier re-wired. It doubled as my gallery where I displayed my custom lamps and neon-art.

 I sold the business and I did some import-export with Belgium as well as extras work on a TV series and pretty soon I was working as an electrician on film-productions in

New Mexico and Los Angeles. I took classes at the “ film school” at the College of Santa Fe and became a mentor for numerous shool projects and advanced classes while studying cinematography and production, as well as acting and directing. My technical know-how and dexterity in my hands pulled me to the camera department and I have worked as camera assistant, camera operator and Director of Photography, as well as gaffer and best-boy electric. I am also a certified steadicam-operator. The film industry in New Mexico is very unpredictable  so I ended up in the sound and video department and have recorded sound as a boom-operator and video as video assist on major motion pictures in Hollywood and New Mexico.

I am very competent and capable in any of my skills and talents and have a great sense of responsibility.

I also have a commercial drivers license and play a mean game of ping-pong.

Since my involvement with the healing arts in the early eighties, I keep improving my “healing touch” and knowledge of the body and maritial arts.

I try to lead a spiritual and flexible life, more often than not, still practicing chi-gung and tai chi and stretching on a regular basis.

I would love to talk to you about my past adventures and elaborate on any if you wish.

Sincerely,

Lieven Van Hulle