Catrien Ross moved to Japan more than twenty-five years ago, embarking on a contemplative life as a mystic, spiritual teacher, and sudden genius artist.

She is the founder of Energy Doorways, a creative and spiritual center at the foot of Mt. Fuji that also serves as the indie publisher of Catrien Ross new books in Japanese and English, as well as her CDs and other productions.

In 2013 Catrien Ross experienced the phenomenon of sudden genius, an abrupt onset of original paintings and music. Yet she had never in her life studied either painting or the piano.

Catrien Ross lives in a centuries-old Japanese kominka in the mountains, where she continues to express life as multicultural, multifaceted, and multidimensional.