About Alan Hundley

AUTHOR OF NAKED LISTENING

Alan Hundley grew up in rural Kentucky, the middle of five children. He played basketball at North Hardin High School in Vine Grove, Kentucky. He graduated from the University of Louisville with a BA degree in Psychology. During the last years of college he was introduced to yoga, dance and music. He studied and performed dance with the Louisville Ballet Company and later studied at the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Cincinnati. Alan performed and taught improvisational movement to children and adults, including working with inner city kids in Louisville Summer Scene Programs.

Later he found what was to be his career in massage therapy and became certified in a variety of methods, including Polarity Therapy, The Trager Approach and Watsu Aquatic Bodywork. During his 40-year career Alan worked in spas and salons, but primarily worked in private practice. He also taught massage at SHI School of Medical Massage in Lebanon, Ohio. Alan was also certified as an instructor of Integrative Yoga Therapy and was on the staff at Franciscan Hospital where he was the Stress Management Specialist for the Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease. Later in life Alan entered a 4-year certification program in the Daoist practices of Taiji (Tai Chi) and Qigong (Chi Gung) and taught these methods in community classes until 2016.

A long-time lover of good books, poetry and stories, Alan began taking writing classes at Women Writing for a Change in 2014. Naked Listening is his first book. Alan lives with his wife, Kathleen, and their Maltese Poodle, Luigi, in the Clifton gaslight region of Cincinnati, Ohio. They also have a property near the Red River Gorge in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, called Three Waters Sanctuary.