About Barbara St. Dennis

Barbara St. Dennis, MA,  is a Holistic Energy Medicine Therapist and Educator, a Master Herbalist, Plant Spirit Medicine Practitioner, Licensed Massage Therapist with over 25 years of hands-on experience, and has a Master’s degree in Consciousness Studies. 

Barbara can meet the needs of prospective clients and students in North Idaho, Eastern Washington, Western Montana and Southern B.C. by traveling to teach an EFT course, an Eden Energy Medicine course, or a workshop in Northwest Herbalism.

My Philosophy of Healing

Physical and mental distress often comes from negative emotions which are energized by guilt.  Those negative emotions and guilt are usually the result of some trauma, large or small, or series of traumas, that cause us to block the expression of our true destiny, our soul's path.  As a result of those traumas and emotions, we come to believe the world operates in certain ways and our happiness is dependent on controlling or fixing or avoiding those aspects of the world.  These trauma-based beliefs are usually not true.

Deep healing comes from owning our negative feelings, experiences and beliefs within the radical context of our essential innocence, and then getting back to our soul's destiny.  We were often programmed and accepted that programming in ignorance of the truth.  The tapping modalities, like EFT, combine a deep treatment of body, mind and emotions with a reconfiguration of our experiences and their negative results.  The new context is one of self-acceptance and love, giving us freedom to express ourselves more fully.  This is our heart's desire, our soul's destiny.

Self healing is the willingness to love and forgive ourselves, to look at our vulnerability and call it our humanness.  It is the capacity to love our own humanness for its weaknesses, errors, love and valor in order to see that within this humanness, as mistaken as it might be, there is an intrinsic innocence and holiness.  This info is from Dr. David Hawkins.

Our happiness does not come from outside ourselves; it is not dependent on an outside source.  We, of ourselves are the source of our happiness, by our own decisions, integrity and intentions, and by the way we see ourselves and our relationships with the people and events of our lives.  The self-help techniques of energy medicine and energy psychology can help us to reclaim the power to clear and initiate our life programs and rewrite healthy and satisfying true contexts for ourselves.  

Combined with lifestyle choices that suit our individual bodies and personality types, a program of meditation can help us achieve our dreams of a happy, fulfilled life.  I use and recommend the Heartmath meditation, as it is so simple and effective. I believe that true holistic healing includes working in an integrated way on body, mind and soul levels, and I work with others and myself in these ways.
 

EFT Practitioner

Barbara holds an Advanced Certificate of study in Emotional Freedom Technique, and is a full-time, professional EFT Practitioner. While she is able to work with anyone as a remote EFT Practitioner, clients in Spokane, WA and other parts of Eastern Washington, in North Idaho, in Western Montana and in Southern B.C. can see Barbara in her office near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Besides teaching an introductory EFT course, Barbara also offers an EFT course: Success and Abundance with EFT.

Certified Eden Energy Medicine Practitioner

Barbara has completed a two-year certification course with Donna Eden and her staff. Her classes in energy medicine are very popular and well-attended.  See her listings under Classes and Workshops. 

In the past six years she has studied and certified in Energy Medicine and Energy Psychology with Donna Eden, David Feinstein and Gary Craig. 

You can access the listing and credentials at Innersource.net, the website for Donna Eden’s programs and offerings in Energy Medicine. While Barbara is qualified to work with clients remotely, clients in Spokane, WA and in North Idaho can see her in her office near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
 

Master Herbalist


Barbara has been studying and practicing herbalism since 1969.  Her specialty is wildcrafting and growing Northwest herbs and making the medicines from them. Her practice in herbalism is characterized by using local herbs, making simple medicines and using them conservatively after testing with kinesiology. Her classes and year-long studies in Plant Spirit Medicine have been offered in North Idaho since 1994. 
 

Licensed Massage Therapist

For over 25 years, Barbara has been practicing and teaching massage therapy.  She uses Energy Medicine, Therapeutic Touch and acupressure, and really enjoys the wonderful response of the body to her treatments.  Clients have found her work in North Idaho effective for 15 years, and it is the compassionate, interactive touch of massage that she enjoys as much as the client.

Wisewoman tradition, a learning path

The multi-dimensional path of healing known as Holistic is particularly part and parcel of the Wisewoman tradtion as well.  The village herbalist, the local midwife, the wisewoman counselor, the grandmothers and aunties, all know about the many ways to evoke the healing response from the bodymind.  These include warm baths and healing touches, herbal soups and subtle energetic movements and fresh oils simmering in the slow cooker. These positively turn the life force on.  An ecological connection to the plant world and a sense of the support of the Life Force energies can strengthen that response.  We can learn it!  Holistic healing is learning to pay attention to how very many aspects we contain and addressing compassionately as many as seem possible, something the wise women know all over the world, and something we can all learn.  This is my ongoing path, and one I would love to share with you, in classes or in session.

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