Movement has always been a core part of Huang's life.
As a junior, he competed in karate at the national level - winning multiple medals over the years, competing in age groups above his own. Rugby followed, and so did roller hockey and ice hockey throughout his latter teens and university. The body in motion was simply where he lived.
Then came the years of work. A decade in private equity across Europe and Asia, followed by seven years and two startups co-founded in Singapore. The kind of life that fills every hour and quietly empties everything else. Movement stopped - not as a conscious decision, but one he allowed to simply fall away.
Then a snowboarding accident in Niseko changed everything.
An ordinary morning on the slopes with his wife. A final run before lunch, alone. A fresh line through the trees, a patch of powder, and then a tree at pace. He came to in the snow - blood on the white, more arriving. A fractured jaw in multiple places. A broken wrist. A fracture behind the cheekbone, bleeding inward. Bruised ribs. He had purchased a new helmet just days before - a decision made for a reason he couldn't quite name. The helmet took the impact. The jaw bears witness to what that impact was. Without it, the outcome would have been different.
What followed was a year of enforced stillness. Surgery. A wired jaw. Liquid for a month. A wrist in a cast, then months of rehabilitation. No physical activity. Nowhere to go but inward.
CrossFit brought movement back - not gently. It reminded him what consistent, challenging movement actually does. Not the kind that merely feels nice, but the kind that asks something of you and gives something real in return.
Yoga asked more. It asked him to slow down, to pay attention, to be present in a body he had spent years ignoring. And then it asked the harder question: who are you, underneath all of this?
The years in finance and startups had brought achievement widely recognised by the world. They had also brought experiences he would not have chosen - betrayal, hollowness, the particular disorientation of succeeding at something that turns out not to matter. Breathwork and meditation became the tools through which he began to find his way back to himself. Not a dramatic return. A quiet, incremental one.
He now teaches yoga, breathwork, and meditation - and holds a specialisation in Empowerment Yoga, a methodology created by Byron de Marsé, built on self-inquiry, inner guidance, and the yogic philosophies of Jnana, Satya, the koshas and the chakras. It is designed to take people beneath the surface. To meet them where they actually are, not where they think they should be.
Huang teaches from OneEarth Yoga in Mont Kiara, and is available for private sessions at the studio, your home, or office across Kuala Lumpur.
This is not a pivot. It is not a reinvention story.
It is what happens when someone who has moved through enough of life - achievement, loss, confusion, and the slow work of coming home to themselves - decides that the most useful thing they can do is hold space for others doing the same.
The people who find their way here so often carry more than they let on. They are intelligent, capable, and quietly exhausted. They have built things. They have delivered. And somewhere along the way, they have lost the thread back to themselves.
This work is for them. Not to fix them. Not to transform them. To meet them in the interval - the space between where they have been, and wherever they are going next.
Huang's personal practice is not fixed. It moves with him.
Most mornings begin with breath and meditation - woven into the routine rather than held apart from it. Some mornings that is five minutes. Some mornings it is thirty. Most mornings, somewhere around fifteen. The consistency matters more than the duration.
He practises yoga five to six times a week outside of teaching: power, Iyengar, vinyasa, Hatha - whatever the body is asking for that day.
Four times a week, approximately, he moves through Qigong - fifteen to twenty minutes of deliberate, quiet movement.
He boxes once or twice a week. He lifts weights to maintain a base level of strength. He tries to walk every day.
RYT200, Yoga Alliance
Empowerment Yoga Teacher, trained by the methodology's founder, Byron de Marsé
Life Awareness™ Breathwork Instructor
Meditation facilitator
Currently completing RYT300, Bali - September to October 2026.
