Dr Linda Kingsbury

Herbalist and Holistic Health Practitioner: 

Dr. Linda Kingsbury focuses on natural ways to support you in building your health naturally. She earned a Ph.D. in Holistic Nutrition focusing on Phytochemicals for Menopausal Women. 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. Now she practices her herbal health skills by formulating premium products with herbs she grows organically and gathers 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. Her sound therapy skills includes completing Professional Sounding Healing Training with Tom Kenyon in Seattle, Washington. She attended Gong Avatar Academy in Newport Beach California in 2018 to compliment her Kundalini Yoga Vitality & Stress and 21 Stages of Meditation training with elders in Seattle Washington and Malibu California.

As well as being a guest speaker on Seattle’s KIRO radio and Kona Hawaii’s KUOI, Dr. Kingsbury hosted “Ask the Herbalist” radio program on local Moscow 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 is currently completing her manuscripts on an Herbal Medicine book and Empath Wellness Workbooks. Her popular herbal wisdom classes are held in the summer in her gardens and nearby wild spaces primarily in North Idaho. 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, local YWCA, community enrichment, and county employee wellness programs.. 

Dr. Kingsbury has taught 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, Holistic Festivals, and Angel Expos. She spoke at a Horticultural Therapy Society National Convention at the New York Botanical Gardens about her projects with the Nez Perce Tribe Drug and Alcohol program gardens. For three summers she led 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 SAMHSA Meth and Suicide Prevention grant.

She is the author of Empath Wellness Workbook I and Empath Wellness Workbook II which will be available for purchase in 2023. Over the past 40 years she has filled her medicine basket with a variety of natural health modalities. Contact her for more details on her education, talents and gifts. She enjoys her organic gardens, swimming with wild dolphins, devotional dance, and being outside in wide open spaces.

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