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 believe that all healing is self-healing, and I am being guided to self-empower people to embody the highest possible state that they can attain and enjoy.  As a trauma nurse I have had the opportunity to assist idividuals to move through their traumas and shift to a more whole state of balance promoting wellness.

I started my journey with Healing Touch in 2009 and became a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner in 2012.  I love what I do and my purpose is to help.