Dr. Linda Kingsbury teacher, consultant and author teaches you to build your health naturally. Focusing on nervous system support and holistic medicine skills or highly sensitive and empathic people. Her medicine basket is filled with a variety of natural health skills over 40 years consulting and teaching in California, Oregon and Idaho.
Her education achievements includes a B.A. in Human Studies, 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. As a child she also grew flowers for the local Horticultural Society events.
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 for an "Herbs for the Aura Kit"at the International Herb Festival in 2000. Spirit Herbs Elixirs combined tinctures, flower essences, and gem elixirs that she made for clients and customers worldwide. She had an Etsy store for many years that she closed due to FDA saying she was making medical claims and would be required to meet pharmaceutical standards for her products. She is trained in European, Chinese and Ayurvedic modalities. She created Idaho Herbs and Spirit Herbs product lines. While she no longer manufactures tincture herbal products or Dietary Supplements, she does teach Herbal Medicine Making classes. She is in the process of producing an Herbal Education Series that will include recipes and wisdom gained from growing, gathering, and preparing herbs for wellbeing. Her Ebook, Planning your Medicinal Herb Garden is now available for purchase on the Books for Sale webpage.
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.
She graduated from an Energy Medicine Practitioner Program at Portland (Oregon) Healing and Education Foundation in 1988. She is also trained teacher in Usui, Animal, and Karuna Reiki.
Dr Kingsbury founded Temple of Light Academy in Moscow Idaho in 1997 where she taught Energy Medicine Practitioner Programs and community classes for many years. Her Empath Wellness Workbook I Biofield Awareness & Holistic Skills for Highly Sensitive People and Be the Light: Empath Wellness Workbook II Holistic Skills for Vibrant Living are based on these trainings and are available at local Keene New Hampshire events and for sale on Amazon.com.
Her popular Herbal Wisdom Classes are taught at Monadnock Food Coop and Aloha Keene. She 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 about Herbs for Spiritual Health at events 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. In summer 2024 she will be teaching Edible and Medicinal Plant Identification Walks and other Natural Health courses in New England.
Her Bioacoustic Therapeutic Sound skills were gained from completing Professional Bioacoustics Sounding Healing Training with Tom Kenyon's in Seattle, Washington in 2008 and Gong Avatar Academy in Newport Beach California in 2018. To compliment her Conscious Breathwork training with father of Rebirthing, 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. She facilitates popular Kundalini Yoga & 5 Rhythms Ecstatic Dance Fusion events ending with a Sound Bath.
She has also worked in the Behavioral Health field focusing on Addiction Relapse Prevention. She spoke at a Horticultural Therapy Society National Convention in New York about her projects with the Nez Perce Indian Tribe Drug and Alcohol program herb gardens.
Her hobbies include swimming with wild dolphins in the open ocean near the Big Island of Hawaii, writing songs, and being in wild open places.
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