She has named this combination of contemporary psychological wisdom with ancient Chinese practices of body-and-energy work bodytao. Barbara has been a student of the Ridhwan Spiritual School for eleven years, and has written three books: Qi Gong, the Chinese Art of Working with Energy, was published by Harpercollins in 2001; Looking for Doris was published by The Tenth Bull in 2008, and her latest novel, Han Returns to Earth will be published in autumn 2013.