About Daverick Leggett and Meridian Press

Daverick Leggett began his working life as a farmer and gardener. He subsequently moved into a community with a focus on communal living, sustainable lifestyle and public education. His interest in education then led him to train and work for five years as a teacher in the state comprehensive education system. These early experiences laid the ground for the development of his current work as a teacher and writer.

Qualifying as a Shiatsu practitioner in 1987, Daverick moved on to become a regional director of the European Shiatsu School. During this time he was active as a member of the UK Shiatsu Society management group and later became an editor of its journal. Following a move to Devon in the early 1990's Daverick became a director of the Centre for Oriental Medicine.

The focus of the 90's was the development of his Qigong training with Zhixing Wang and his emergence as a writer, specialising in the field of nutrition and energy medicine. He began teaching Qigong in 1995. His two books were published in 1994 and 1999. Daverick teaches Qigong and Chinese medicine throughout the UK and abroad.

The titles of his two books Helping Ourselves and Recipes for Self-Healing contain the essential intent of his work: finding ways of helping people to help themselves to deeper health and more vibrant living. Daverick lives with his partner and his twelve year old son in Dartington, Devon.

Meridian Press is a small company based in Devon, England, and staffed by real human beings. Our administrator's name is Faith. All feedback about our website and our publications is welcome. You can email us.

We specialise in high quality publications which must satisfy the following criteria:

User friendly (easy to read, clearly written, well designed)
Authoritative (based on reliable sources of information and real experience)
Empowering (enabling people to help themselves)

Our publications and packaging materials are all produced on recycled paper and we have signed the Green Pages Pledge which commits us to ensure the planting of at least as many trees as are used in all stages of production and distribution of our books and charts.