It had been over fifty years since I graduated from a small teacher’s college in western New York — New York State University at Geneseo. It was 1955 and I was excited. I’d always dreamed of teaching — I’d had lots of practice what with a younger brother, neighborhood friends, dolls and cats, and as a Sunday school helper and camp counselor.

Finally! I now had my first real teaching position in a "neighborhood school" in suburban Rochester, New York. Four years later, as a stay-at-home-mom with two small children I started my own Neighborhood Nursery School in our basement — it was a "natural".

Moving our school-age family from New York to Arizona was an adventure that culminated in the opening of a private kindergarten, Creative Center for Early Education with my husband Warren. The school grew along with our children into a "wholistic" school from pre-school through high school — a first for the Phoenix area. That was before "wholistic" was even in the dictionary.

After our children graduated, the school, now no longer needed, was sold and I had to find a new outlet for my passion for teaching. You know, old teachers never die — they just find something else to teach.

The new challenge turned out to be my health. I had been diagnosed with what the surgeon believed were malignant tumors on the uterus. I opted not to do the surgery and instead boldly told the doctor I would do herbs and juicing, about which I knew only a little, and that because of my mother’s interest over the years, in health.

That was 1984 when I began my training in herbology, iridology and kinesiology and I was one eager learner. With this new information on herbs and juicing I found myself experimenting on myself and my family and found it was true — you can heal yourself! It took just twenty-six days of juice fasting plus five more months of ninety herbs a day for the two huge tumors and hemorrhaging to clear. And I was hooked — something new to teach!

It was 1986 when we developed the Body Chart System to help us keep track of our clients’ programs and progress. Along the way I was noticing that I "knew" things I really didn’t actually "know". When a client brought me a tape by Dr. Carolyn Myss, I was only three minutes into the tape when I heard her say she was a medical intuitive; then the work I was doing must be that of an intuitive of health and healing, I remember thinking. Ever since, as I’ve shared this concept, I’ve been fascinated by the intuitive ability I was picking up in others; I could tell it only needed some "tweaking" to make it usable, so I began teaching the intuitive process.

It wasn't too many years before we discovered the research on structured water and began sending our herbal formulas to be programmed into this unique water-with-a-memory. The "water formulas", we soon learned, were so new to this country that there was no language yet to describe them. Very fortunately, Dr. Richard Gerber’s first book, Vibrational Medicine: New Choices for Healing Ourselves had all the answers I needed. I actually wore out two copies trying to understand what turned out to be quantum physics. My Bachelor of Science in Education had never prepared me for this.

In the next twelve years, the intuition really kicked in and two systems were developed for deep cellular cleansing — an eighteen-week system using the non-toxic, water-based subtle frequency formulas, and a four-week abbreviated form for those with stronger constitutions. Preventive medicine was announced in 2004 — a fast and easy system. Our thought, "why wait to get sick?" The Spa System for Youthing is scheduled to follow in. Who knows what might be next?