About Wayne Nash

Since you clicked on this link I presume you want to know a little bit more about me. Instead of the short cursory introductions most blogs give I am going to give you a full yet concise version of who I am and where I came from, where I am, and where I intend to go.

First of all, I was born in a small fishing village on Vancouver Island on the West Coast of British Columbia in Canada. I can still smell the sea breeze, the aroma of cedar, and the musty odour of mothballs from my grandmother’s closet. I can still remember rolling around the back of a Morris Minor woody van as a 3 year old, having a ball.  I have nothing but fond memories of these early years by the sea, sleeping in a swinging hammock between two huge fir trees.

My father was a Merchant Mariner since he was about 14 and had travelled all over the world before meeting my mother in a bar in Montreal. In order to ‘save’ her from the other boys he took her under his wing and the rest is family history.

But, the romance only lasted about 5 years during which I was born. My father ended up in Australia and my mother in Vancouver. Both remarried and started new lives. That means I have family in Australia and Canada. How lucky I am!

During the first 10 years of my life I traveled all over Canada and the US with my family as my step father’s work required him to travel a lot. Finally, we settled in the suburbs of Vancouver, BC on a 5 acre farm and I enjoyed a fun filled youth playing with my dog ‘Fang’ and riding horses on 20 acre open fields and through the bushes without a saddle or a bridle.

By the age of 16 I was bored to death in high school and decided to go to work instead of study a very boring curriculum. It was the right decision for me. I went to work for 8 years and did everything from sales to driving taxi and owning my own construction company.

However, I tired of all that very quickly. It was not stimulating enough for me, and although I had quit high school to work, I loved reading books which lead me to want to return to school at age 24.

First I went to a performance oriented music school for a year after teaching myself flute for 6 months. A good friend and I were up to a challenge and both loved music. So, we got down to practicing our flutes and went to the music college of our choice for an audition. Of course we did terrible and could hardly read the music they put in front of us. However, when they heard us IMPROVISE by ear they thought we might have a chance! Amazingly, they let us both in to the school likely wondering if we would last a month with our classmates, many who had been playing music since they were 3 years old.

After this initial year of academic studies I managed to get accepted at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

After spending 5 years in university getting two degrees, one in Political Science/International Relations and the other in Linguistics I taught English at my university for a summer before heading off to Japan for what I had planned to be about a year of teaching English. Well, that was in 1985 and I am still here!

I realized that an education was a good foundation but not a definite requirement for learning the secrets of becoming financially independent and literate. In fact, with just a Political Science degree I was highly qualified to drive taxi and was not looking forward to that. Hence, the second degree which at least got me a job in the market to pay off my student loan!

I agree wholeheartedly with Robert Kiyosaki that school is not the place to learn about financial independence, freedom, health, and happiness. He even has a book entitled “If You Want to Be Rich & Happy Don't Go to School: Ensuring Lifetime Security for Yourself and Your Children".

So, after landing in Japan I spent a couple of months in Kyoto before landing a good teaching job with a prestigious English language school in Kobe. This was a great learning experience and I lived by the seaside on the Setonai Sea for two years living quite an independent life teaching.

Since I was a student of Tai Chi and Qigong since I was 19 and had started studying Aikido, a Japanese martial art, during university, I was very interested in learning more about these arts and began studying Aikido in Kobe. However, the amount of practice was not enough and I wanted more. Luckily I met an American practitioner at a reggae beach party in Kobe and he pointed me in the direction of a 10th degree black belt living in teaching in a remote part of Japan call Kumano. After one visit to the area and the dojo I knew I had to move to Kumano and practice more intensively with a very traditional teacher.

However, after about a year I brought my Qigong teacher from Shanghai to Kumano and we did workshops for two months together. The local people loved the practice so much they asked me to teach after my teacher returned to China. That was the beginning of the Kumano Tai Chi Qigong Club. I have students in Kumano who have been studying with me over 20 years. This make a huge difference in the depth of understanding they have in the practice. Even then they feel they are not ready to teach anyone! In Canada, I did a weekend workshop and people were ready to teach! Quite a different mentality indeed!

After many years of teaching English and Qigong in Japan I realized one important thing: if I stopped working, even if I loved my work, the income stopped coming in! Surprise! I was happily engaged but not financially independent at age 40. This led me to begin to study the one subject I had ignored for my first 40 years- Money Manifestation and Management!

This brought me to seek new learning from mentors like Robert Kiyosaki, Jay Abraham, Harv Eker, and many more.

It is clear that my interests are wide and diverse.

This makes life interesting.

I hope that you can learn something from this blog and from the experiences and information I will share with you.

Be forewarned. I examine and look at all points of view. Some of these viewpoints you may not agree with. Some I don’t agree with! However, I do believe that the more aware we are of how OTHERS think, not just what we believe, the closer we can get to understanding something about what is REALLY going on in this world, in the seen world and in the unseen world.