She is also Director of the Centre for Communication and Ethics in International Business at Anglia Ruskin University, member of the Western Buddhist Order, and has a psychotherapy practice in Cambridge, UK. She conducts retreats and workshops in the UK, Hungary, and in Thailand, and is also a published author.

She is the editor of Interconnections, a journal published by Anglia Ruskin University which is a journal of international management practice.



1. When did you arrive in Hungary and what brought you here?
I first arrived 11 years ago, to carry out research into managerial practices, and I bought the house that has become the East West Sanctuary in 2005.

2. Have you ever been an expatriate elsewhere?
France and the Netherlands

3. What surprised you most about Hungary?
Its passion and heart.

4. Friends are in Budapest for a weekend - what must they absolutely see and do?
The East West Sanctuary first, then a trip to the baths.

5. What is your favourite Hungarian food?
Being a vegetarian, that?s not an easy question. Actually the soup served by Maman at the yoga studio which is part of EWS

6. What is never missing from your refrigerator?
Butter

7. What is your favourite Hungarian word?
Persze

8. What do you miss the most from home?
The rolling green hills

9. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?
I have so many different careers, and strands, but I suppose I would like to have been a musician

10. What's a job you would definitely never want?
Butcher

11. Where did you spend your last vacation?
Vacation?

12. Where do you hope to spend your next one?
Greece

13. What was your favourite band, film, or hobby as a teen?
Sport and Pink Floyd

14. What can't you resist?
A nice cup of tea

15. Red wine or white?
Both

16. Book or movie?
Book

17. Morning person or night person?
Depends on conditions

18. Dog person or cat person?
Both

19. Buda side or Pest side?
Both

20. What would you say is your personal motto?
Plunge into life in its depths and heights.