Sadly, my good friend and colleague Esther Joy van der Werf passed away in March 2025 from cancer. I recorded a podcast called “Remembering Esther” where I share this news and reflect on some of the amazing work we got to do together as well as the fun times we got to share over the years.

To accompany this audio episode, I also wanted to post some pictures here, so scroll down for a walk through memory lane.

For even more, I also re-released my Naked Eye Podcast interview with Esther from 2018 about Reversing Astigmatism so you can keep benefitting from her amazing teachings.

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Let’s look back at some of the times I got to share with Esther Joy van der Werf…

From the first time I met Esther at the 2015 AVE Conference in Pacific Palisades, California.

Less than a year later I got to see her again at the 2016 AVE Conference in Boulder, Colorado.

Esther helped me a lot with the organization of the 2018 AVE Conference in Portland, Oregon.

After the 2018 Conference, Esther hosted a Teacher Training Gathering for a small group of natural vision educators.

Then in 2019 she and I represented the AVE at the International Holistic Vision Conference in Frankfurt, Germany.

The last time we got to see each other in person was in February 2020 at the Conference in Argentina. Here are some more pictures from that conference and our adventures in Argentina.

Esther’s book Optimal Eyesight is by far one of the best out there on the subject.

My interview with Esther from 2018 is one of my most viewed YouTube videos, with over 50,000 views and counting!

I will miss you so much Esther! <3

Here is the original episode from 2018 where Esther and I talk about reversing astigmatism naturally.