What's the background?

The Staying Alive Health Project (SAHP) has developed from Kevin Baker’s 40 years of interest in issues that relate to our overall health and welfare. Kevin originally studied medicine at King’s College Cambridge and St George's Hospital Medical School in London and his interest in holistic and Oriental cultural perspectives has complemented his initial Biomedical training and experience over the last 25 years. Kym Murden/Baker is a Medical Herbalist trained in the UK and together they ran the Cottage Clinic for Integrative Health in Lewes, Sussex over many years. They also initiated the Transition Town Health Project in Lewes, founded within the very successful Lewes Transition Town project set up in 2007.

In March 2010 Kevin and Kym emigrated to NZ with their young children, Conor and Caitlin. They are settling on the Kapiti Coast where Kevin is working as an Integrative Medicine Physician in General Medical Practice and Kym is setting up her Herbal Practice.

 

This project draws together several threads within Kym and Kevin’s health interest and is being promoted in our time of transition. With environmental, ecological, climatic, financial and other resource issues prominent in the world media on a daily basis we are invited to reevaluate and reposition ourselves against this backdrop. The SAHP uses our health as a focus for this repositioning and reminds us that ultimately our health rests in our own hands.