Dr Linda Kingsbury

Dr. Linda Kingsbury teacher, consultant and author teaches you to build your health naturally. Focusing on nervous system support, emotional self-regulation techniques, and spiritual health for highly sensitive and empathic people. Her medicine basket has been filled with a variety of holistic health skills over the years living in California, Oregon and Idaho.

Her education achievements includes a B.A. in Human Studies from Marylhurst University in 1994, focusing on expressive arts therapies and addiction prevention. She earned a M.S. and Ph.D. in Holistic Nutrition with her doctoral dissertation on Phytochemicals for Menopausal Women in 2004. She has worked in the field of Holistic Nutrition since 1979 when she was a trained as a Nutrition Assistant at Jack LaLane’s Health Club in Upland, California. She comes from a lineage of women gardeners and had her first 4-H garden when she was 10 years old. 

For over 40 years she formulated premium herbal products with herbs she grew organically and gathered wild locally in Idaho and the Pacific Northwest. She won a new product award at the International Herb Festival in 2000. She is trained in European, Chinese and Ayurvedic modalities. She studied with the California School of Herbal Studies and Planetary School of Herbology. She created Idaho Herbs and Spirit Herbs product lines. While she no longer sells herbal tinctures online or interstate, she does teach Herbal Medicine Making classes. She is writing an Herbal Education Series that will include recipes and wisdom gained from growing, gathering, and preparing herbs for wellbeing over the past 40 years. 

She was a guest speaker on Seattle’s KIRO radio and Kona Hawaii’s KUOI, Dr. Kingsbury hosted “Ask the Herbalist” radio program on Moscow, Idaho station KRFP. She has published herbal articles in local, regional, and national publications including Shape Magazine; Body, Mind, Spirit Magazine; and Planetary Citizen Magazine. Her  Empath Wellness Workbook I Holistic Skills for Highly Sensitive People is available for sale on Amazon.com.

Her popular Herbal Wisdom Classes were held in the summer in her gardens and nearby wild spaces in the Pacific Northwest. She has taught at St Gertrude Monastery in Cottonwood, Idaho about the Herbal Medicine of Saint Hildegard of Bingen. She has been a guest teacher for the Plants & People class at Washington State University, YWCA, University of Idaho community enrichment, and Latah County employee wellness programs. Dr. Kingsbury has been a guest speaker at Health Fairs nationwide in the USA including Teton Wellness Festival, Sun Valley Wellness Festival, Portland Mind Body Expo, Albuquerque Whole Life Expo, Los Angeles Whole Life Expo, and Oregon Holistic Festivals since 1990.

Her Sound Therapy Skills were gained from completing Professional Bioacoustics Sounding Healing Training with Tom Kenyon's in Seattle, Washington and Gong Avatar Academy in Newport Beach California in 2018. To compliment her Conscious Breathwork training with Leonard Orr she completed Kundalini Yoga Vitality & Stress training in Seattle Washington and 21 Stages of Meditation training in Malibu California. She holds a white belt in the NIA somatic movement for the mind, body, and soul tradition teaching at the University of Idaho and local fitness centers over the years. Her popular Kundalini Yoga & 5 Rhythms Ecstatic  Dance Fusion events end with a Gong Sound Bath and a cup of relaxing organic herbal tea from her gardens.

She spoke at a Horticultural Therapy Society National Convention in New York about her projects with the Nez Perce Tribe Drug and Alcohol program gardens. For three summers she led Equine Facilitated Learning Horse Therapy for Nez Perce at risk youth and as aftercare for addiction services in coordination with the Tribal Youth Program and NMPH Behavioral Health under a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Meth and Suicide Prevention grant.

As Dr Kingsbury returns to New England, she will share her multicultural interfaith holistic health skills with the community through individual consultations and educational events. Call or text to be notified of upcoming in person and online events.

For more information call or text: 208-883-9933