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 am a Practitioner, certified 1998, and an Instructor, certified 2015, by Healing Beyond Borders.

I have an active practice and share my knowlege through classes, as a mentor, and educator to family, friends, and the community.

My background is in nursing and I have taught at Northampton Community College in their nursing department and CPR/Pediatric First Aid to child care providers.

I have been a CHTP since 2013. I am an RN  licensed by the state of Minnesota where I have lived for the past 28 years. I have practiced nursing for 38 years, most recently in the area of Informatics (where technology and nursing science meet). I currently have a small private practice and volunteer for Hospice at my local hospital. Providing HT as a volunteer with Hospice has brought me many experiences that keep me humble and in awe of this wonderful world in which we live. This year I became an Instructor for Course 1 and a mentor for several students of HT. I look forward to continuing to expand my horizons and 'doing the work' and spreading light, love and most of all healing!