For Intermediate—Advanced Energy Work Practitioners
Classes, & Apprenticeships
Barbara Clearbridge’s workshops, lectures and classes have taken place in a wide variety of settings, from professional to casual, from hospitals to living rooms, from the tip of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State to New York, Canada and New Zealand. Participants have ranged, so far, from 6 to 88 years old.
Barbara’s 14 classes include overviews or training in a variety of health care and health maintenance methods variously called natural, holistic, complementary, and alternative. Survey and treatment classes discuss techniques as widely diverse as medicinal herbs, massage, homeopathy, laying-on-of-hands, diet, t’ai chi, Brain Gym, energy medicine, yoga, aromatherapy, music, exercise, and prayer. Techniques fully taught are those with which Barbara has personal experience, extensive training, and professional expertise.
Barbara’s specialty is energy work. It is used for:
♦ healing of body, mind, emotions and spirit
♦ pain relief
♦ deep relaxation and stress relief
♦ trauma recovery
♦ maintenance of good health
♦ regeneration of self-worth and sense of purpose
♦ support for the process of dying
Children and adults of all ages have become energy workers. People in nearly 100 cultures around the world are using their hands to bring healing and balance.
Workshop participants can apply their new skills and knowledge immediately to address current problems, to make lifestyle changes towards greater health, and to help maintain good health throughout their lives. They will also be able to help others. Classes nearly always can be oriented to the goals and abilities of each particular group of participants.
Note: Energy work as taught by Barbara Clearbridge is not part of any religion or belief system. It works easily and well with all other healing methods, including conventional medicine.
For more information about energy work, see About Energy Work.
I feel that the empowerment and healing of individuals is crucial to action in the world—the stronger and more resilient we are, and the less reliant on costly medicines and complex or debilitating treatments, the freer and more able we will be to think and to act. Towards this end, I offer my programs to schools, health care facilities, retirement living campuses, and organizations.
Barbara’s programs for beginners range from a single, 1.5-hour interactive presentation, to a 30+-hour integrated curriculum spread over several weeks or months, to a full program extending over a quarter or semester. Follow-up classes are available after participants have had time to practice and master skills. Depending on location, periodic practice sessions may also be available. Arrangement of classes is flexible; you can mix and match according to your interests and needs. For those with continuing interest, more advanced techniques for deeper healing are taught in additional workshops.
A well-balanced program will combine general information classes with in-depth training in one or more specific techniques.
Some examples of class combinations are:
Introductory Series
Natural First Aid & Health Maintenance 3 hours
Intro to Holistic Healing 2 hours
Intro to Hands-On Healing 1.5 hours
Toolbox Series
Natural First Aid & Health Maintenance 3 hours
Energy Work for Daily Living Six 2-hour classes
Relief for Stress & Insomnia Four 2-hour classes
Energy Work Series for Beginners
Intro to Hands-On Healing 1.5 hours
Therapeutic Touch 4 hrs with optional second class for certification
Heal With Your Hands, Level 1 12 hours over two or three days
Come To Your Senses! Two 3-hour classes
For Intermediate—Advanced Energy Work Practitioners
Most of the classes and workshops are appropriate for all levels of practitioners. Workshops requiring intermediate–level energy work skills or beyond are: Heal With Your Hands, Level 3, Third Degree Reiki, and How To Heal the Energy Field. Also, see Apprentice Opportunities below.
Learn to be an Energy Work practitioner or teacher. Complete professional training includes in-depth study, research, clinical practice and optional teaching practice. Full program takes three years of part-time study.
Many of these workshops were developed by request. Feel free to ask for a new or modified class to fit your needs and interests.
Natural First Aid & Health Maintenance
Discover natural, simple, holistic methods to help you cope with daily health needs and emergencies, including colds and flu, stomach upsets, broken bones, overtaxed muscles, stress, headaches, trauma, constipation, minor depression, and insomnia. Learn sound principles for ongoing good health—some of which may surprise you!
One 3-hour class
Intro. to Holistic Healing
A brief look at many “complementary” and “alternative” therapies, including why they work, what to use them for, what a treatment consists of, and how to find a qualified practitioner.
1 ½-hour interactive talk
Intro. to Hands-On Healing
How can you use your hands to apply healing energies? What is Energy Work? How can it help injuries, illness and emotional problems?
1 ½-hour workshop
Therapeutic Touch
Learn a simple energy work technique developed by nurses. Use it at home to treat minor injuries, common illnesses, headaches, digestive upsets, pain, depression, insomnia, the effects of stress, and much more. It is used in hospitals for pain relief, wound healing, emergency care, and post-operative and trauma care.
4-hour class with optional second class for certification
Relief for Stress & Insomnia
Learn simple, effective ways to relieve stress and calm your mind and body, including breathwork, energy flow, music, meditation, herbs, aromatherapy, laughter, physical movements, and many other techniques to help you cope.
Four 2-hour classes
Heal With Your Hands — Level 1
In two fascinating days of training, learn to bring energy into your hands to heal yourself and others. The class includes principles of energy work, basic skills, Earth Energy techniques, and First Degree Reiki.
12 hours of training over 2 or 3 days
Heal With Your Hands — Level 2
Amplify your ability to heal with energy, learn to do distant healing, and learn techniques for mental and emotional balance and health. The class includes Second Degree Reiki and exercises to expand your ability to perceive.
12 hours of training
Heal With Your Hands — Level 3: Intermediate Energy Work
Learn a powerful, Earth Energy and ki/ch’i technique for treating others, adapted from the Bruyere/Brennan “chelation” technique. Prior energy work experience is required.
6 hours of training
Reiki
First and Second Degree Reiki are taught in the Heal With Your Hands classes (see above). Third Degree Reiki (Master level) includes increasing your power to heal, learning to teach Reiki and empower others, professional practice issues, and other topics and techniques by request.
Come To Your Senses!
Expand your senses and intuitive abilities. Open inner eyes, inner ears, inner knowing. Practice exercises and meditations to help you learn to perceive energy fields, look inside the physical body, develop the range of your senses, and go outside space and time. It’s easier than you think!
Two 3-hour classes
How to Heal the Energy Field
Learn to perceive and heal the energy field (aura) of your clients. This class is designed for people with Intermediate Level skills or above.
One 3-hour class
Energy Work for Daily Living
Learn to use your energy system to manage everyday needs and stresses. The class includes how to cope with emotional turbulence, quickly ease physical and emotional pain, and align your will, power and life purpose. Make new habits to maintain your health and help you have the life you want.
Six 2-hour classes
Guides & Inner Wisdom
Guides and inner wisdom can be explained in psychological, scientific, or spiritual ways. You have a rich resource for times of healing, crisis, and daily challenges. This workshop includes exercises, games and meditations from a variety of approaches, to help you make contact.
Two 3-hour classes
Finding God
Based on the book Finding God: Prayers & Practices from Many Traditions, by Rev. Clearbridge. Each person will develop a prayer practice. We will pray for ourselves and others, explore spirituality, and support each other in finding or strengthening our connection to the divine.
Minimum of 6 sessions
Note: Many of these workshops were developed by request. Feel free to ask for a new or modified class to fit your needs and interests.
All classes for private individuals are on a love offering basis (you determine your payment). The cost of programs for organizations and institutions vary. Apprenticeships are by special arrangement.
For upcoming class dates or further information, see Teaching & Travel Schedule and Late-breaking News. Registrations are not taken by email. Contact Barbara for cost and registration information.
For More Information
For further information of any kind, contact Barbara.