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Sylvain Horwood

Graham Horwood’s son

Sylvain Horwood is the son of Master Graham Horwood, who founded the Taoist Group in 1976 and taught Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan for over 35 years. Sylvain looks after taoistgroup.com today, keeping his father’s teaching, books and videos available to everyone.

Raised on an organic, macrobiotic diet in 1980s London, Sylvain moved to Zürich in 2015. Struggling to find truly natural products in Switzerland, he began crafting his own, which led to the founding of PURU, the 100% natural Swiss sun care brand, in 2018, along with Captain PURU, a cuddly Pudgy Penguins character. Captain PURU is the mascot of the PURU Transgascogne sailing race and a central figure in PURU’s mission to promote natural health and sustainability to children and adults.

With a background in enterprise software engineering and institutional finance, Sylvain is also the founder of Goldcote, and his brands include PURU, Pureternia and Lake Safe. He writes on natural health, well-being and the sun, and for children.

Wellness books

The Frequency Diet book cover

The Frequency Diet

Elevate Your Energetic Vibrational Frequency & Way of Lifestyle, More Frequently

A modern guide and framework to health, vitality and balance that incorporates the principles of energetic vibrational frequency: not only what you eat, but how you live.

THE SUN book cover

THE SUN

The Energy, The Light, The Frequency

Modern sun science, misinformation, and the forgotten ancient wisdom about our greatest source of life and energy: the Sun.

The Adventures of Captain PURU

A picture-book series for children: Captain PURU and his Pudgy Penguins crew — Ben, Piplup and Daily — sail in search of treasure, courage, friendship and what truly matters.

Graham Horwood’s books · About Graham Horwood

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