Denise DeForest Pastoor lives her passion to teach Integrative Health practices of yoga, mindfulness, and meditation.  With 35 years experience as a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist and holistic wellness educator, she teaches powerful skills in self-healing and personal growth.  Through her holistic psychotherapy and integrative health consulting practice, SunStone Wellness, LLC, she is a featured presenter and workshop facilitator at national healthcare conferences, community programs, and business organizations. Denise has published numerous articles on integrative health, created a YouTube video on Healing Touch, and has recorded a 5-star reviewed guided meditation CD, Creating Calm Within.. As a Board-certified Healing Touch practitioner, past secretary on the Board of Directors for Healing Beyond Borders, founder of Ebb & Flow ™ and founder and facilitator of the integrative Health Academy of the National Wellness Institute, Denise blends heart-centered leadership with the neuroscience of contemplative wisdom practices, biofield energy therapies, and sensory movement to promote healing and wholeness in the world.  

I have been an RN for over 30 years and a Family Nurse Practitoner for 15 years. My focus has mainly been wellness, though I spent many years in the ICU and critical settings. My interest in energy medicine began long ago. I have trained in many therapeutic modalities and feel I can blend East and Western approaches to healing with skill. I have been a certified Healing Touch Practioner for over 10 years and am certified in sound therapy. My interests now are detox and healthy lifestyle and assisting people to wellness, either through maintaining health or management of chronic symptoms, using energy medicine and therapeutic use of sound.