I grew up in a home that valued spirituality, a Baptist home. And though I learned so much about love from my family of origin, I have also sought out spiritual knowledge from many sources... the beautiful rituals of the Episcopal Church, the silence of the Quaker Community, the vibrancy of Earth based spirituality, and the power of acceptance found in Buddhist meditation. I have found my spiritual home in the teachings of the Hetakas of Peru, a  spirituality that allows me to keep all the truths I’ve learned from all these precious teachings with clarity of intent and clearness of thought.

Our true quest is to know who we really are. In the Hetaka tradition the truth about ourselves is held in the feeling (not the ideas) of excitement, delight, joy, and exuberance. And in these feelings are held the knowledge of the gifts we were born with, the path that we came to walk, the true desire and will of our spirits and the knowledge of how to connect with other people, all of life and to ourselves as part of creator. Our power comes from our ability to choose where our attention is... choosing moment by moment to feel the sensation of our Song. By choosing to live from our our Song, our passion for life, we can set our intentions with clarity of thought, emotion and action creating a vibration that aligns us with Spirit and generates a flow of energy manifesting the desires of our hearts.



My wish for myself and for all those who find these words is that we help one another to more and more trust the power of our song, aligning ourselves with Spirit so that we may heal ourselves and our planet. I look forward to spending time with you.

Barbara’s Professional Training & Experience

Barbara has a BA in Psychology and a MA in Economics. In the late 1980s Barbara began her training in emotional healing through the Co-Counseling Community. The Co-Counseling Philosophy held that emotional recovery from early hurts was possible through a peer process of deep listening that allowed emotions to surface and heal. For four or five years Barbara participated in the co-counseling community, practicing with other co-counselors, going to trainings, on class, race, gender, sexuality, parenting, and eventually by leading an incest survivor support group. In 1990 she began her career as a body worker. During the first three years as a body worker she spent a portion of her time working with Triangle Hospice, massaging the patients and care givers and teaching touch workshops to staff. Her work with people who were dying led her to seek out and to do intensive self study of the Mindfulness Meditation teachings of Stephen Levine and the guided visualization work of Margo Adair. In 1993 she began teaching guided visualization classes and in 1994 Mindfulness Meditation.

From 1995-2005 she also taught Mindfulness Meditation and lifestyle change classes and workshops at the Duke University Diet and Fitness center. Her interests and experience in working with people emotionally, mentally, and spiritually as well as physically led her to study two energy-based healing systems - Polarity (which combines East Indian and quantum physics theories) and the Hetaka tradition (a shamanic tradition out of Peru). By 1997 she was also giving individual energy healing sessions at the DFC as she had been doing in her private practice for the previous two years. 

Since 1994 Barbara has studied with Kay Cordell Whitaker the ways of the Hetaka people, an ancient spiritual tradition out of the Eastern Andes. The tradition is a matriarchal tradition, a non-warring tradition that makes sure all its children are cherished and held as precious. The philosophy of this community it centered on the sacredness and the continuance of life. In 2005 Barbara received her certification as a Ka Ta See (Balance) Healing Practitioner. She is currently studying to be a teacher of the Ka Ta See tradition and to learn the ancient divination technique “the Throwing of the Bones,” as taught by Kay Cordell Whitaker.

In response to discovering a significant accumulation of  heavy metals and toxins in her own body that presented as loss of energy, cognitive abilities and the beginning of muscle deterioration, she began an alternative approach to recovering her health that has led her among other things to a certification as a Lymphatic Decongestive Therapist in 2009.

Some conditions reported to have benefited from this lymphatic therapy include sciatica, breast conditions, inflammation, lymphedema, allergy and sinus symptoms, digestive and bowel problems, hormone imbalance, PMS, migraines and other types of headaches, arthritis, post-dental procedures, recovery form injury, fibromyalgia, toxicity, chronic pain, Lyme Disease, chronic edema, enlargement of the prostrate, chronic illness and chronic fatigue. To find out more about Barbara’s work with the Lymph System go to her website www.lymphatichealthnc.com.

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Part of Barbara’s spiritual path has been to learn to listen deeply and lovingly to her own inner criticizing voices-- deep enough to hear the fear and hurt they old. Her deep compassion comes from her own healing and keeps aflame her love for techniques such as