Lenore Anderson, M.A. Educator, Holistic Health Practioner, Licensed Massage Therapist, Clinical Herbalist, Acupressurist and Energyworker.
Lenore has over 20 years professional experience as an educator, counselor, and practioner in the healing arts. Her life and profession is a continuous journey of seeking clarity, wisdom, and truth to address her own health and vitality as well as becoming skillful in educating and supporting others to achieve and maintaining their own. Lenore believes in the power of our Spirit-Bodies to seek balance and harmony intuitively and naturally.
In 2000 Lenore created Natural Vitality as a pathway for providing holistic health care, natural healing classes and retreats. Her many years of experience in leadership, counseling, and experiential education has been a training ground to becoming an empowering and inspiring facilitator, teacher, and presenter.
Lenore's work involves "hands on healing" — she is a Licensed Massage Therapist and graduate of The Massage School in Easthampton, MA specializing in deep tissue massage and neuromuscular therapies. Her earlier bodywork training and certifications include Shiatsu and Five Element Acupressure (through individual teachers and private organizations). She's also completed Level 2 training in Craniosacral Therapy,
Lenore graduated with 600 hours of training in Clinical Herbalism through The Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies in Boulder, Colorado in 1996. She's also had the pleasure of studying and completing several certification courses with "Master Herbalists" in the United States including Christopher Hobbs, Michael and Leslie Tierra, Mathew Woods, Susan Weed and Rosemary Gladstar.
In 1992 Lenore began and subsequently completed a four year apprenticeship in the Journey to Wholeness, Spiritual Shamanic Journey Process through The Center for Spiritual Shamanic Exploration in Boulder, Colorado. This apprenticeship included the knowledge and practice of Lakota spiritual traditions, shamanic journeying and the use of shamanic tools and aromatherapy in journeywork. Read more about our Journeywork ...
Lenore's inspiration for teaching about the acid-alkaline balance in the body came from Dr. Robert O. Young who is a Microbiologist, Author, Educator and a Holistic Health Practioner. Dr. Young remains her mentor in understanding internal pH balance and how it creates a foundation for health and vitality. Through his educational conferences and publications,Lenore's learned about the importance of an acid alkaline diet and drinking alkaline water. In her own healing process, she discovered that the acid alkaline diet and consistency of drinking alkaline water was a critical factor after many years of battling candidia yeast overgrowth.
As a Clinical Herbalist and Holistic Health Practioner Lenore has researched and developed effective programs providing education and skills for a detox cleanse and for maintaining an acid alkaline diet.
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Lenore is certified
in raw food preparation through the Living Light Culinary Art Institute and Rawbert's
Organic Cafe. Both of these organizations not only provided
her with knowledge of the raw food diet but also how to facilitate
classes and trainings in raw food preparation and how to integrate
into the practice of holistic health care and detox cleanse programs.
For more info, please visit our Classes and Retreats page. In 1991 Lenore completed her Masters Degree in Experiential Education from the University of Colorado. In 1981 she completed a Bachelors Degree in Environmental Education and Human Development. It's always been her nature to integrate modalities — combining human nature with actual nature has seemed her calling in life! Lenore's work with The Colorado Outward Bound School as a Wilderness Leader and Environmental Director spanned over fourteen years from 1985-1999. In 1996, she began facilitating her own wilderness retreats and nature quests in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Vermont, and Massachusetts. As a child Lenore felt a strong connection with wild plants and loved being in nature. Homesteading in the woodlands of New England and working as a wilderness educator and guide for many organizations has taught her the most about living in harmony with the natural environment. She's deeply grateful for the abundance of life force and healing that the natural world offers. Today, Lenore presents herself not only as a Holistic Health Practioner with a lifetime of training, certifications, and licenses but primarily offers her wisdom and blessing as an experienced woman, mother, educator, healer, and guide... contact Lenore today! |