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.  

Connie Hoffner, BSN, RN, CHTP is a Registered Nurse and Certified Healing Touch Practitioner with over four decades of practice as a holistic nurse healer and educator.  Connie has practiced Healing Touch in a variety of settings with experience throughout the life spectrum.  Her life long  studies include Healing Beyond Surgery and Healing Touch for Babies.  Connie has an open heart and a spirit of love and compassion.  She supports an integrative approach to health and healing.