Kathleen Barnes

Kathleen Barnes is the author, coauthor, or editor of 17 natural health books. Kathleen had an early career in newspapers and a 10-year stint as a foreign correspondent in Asia and Africa for ABC and CNN before returning to the U.S. to embark on a new career as a health writer, editor and publisher. For six years, Kathleen wrote the weekly natural health column for Woman’s World magazine, and she has been part of the effort to raise public awareness of the subject of natural health for more than thirty years, as a writer, life coach and yoga teacher. Her passion for wellness and sustainable living has its roots in the early days of the natural health movement. She became a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher in the early 1970s at a time when yoga was considered “weird.” She acknowledges that she was on the fringes of the yoga wave, the rising public awareness of healthy living and a variety of formerly ridiculed natural healing modalities that have now been scientifically validated and embraced by mainstream medicine and widely accepted by society. Kathleen and her husband, Joe, live in a very rural and “magically beautiful” cedar home in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Western North Carolina, seven miles from a town of 6,000 people. They are caretakers of one beautiful acre of land, two horses, two dogs and a cantankerous cat. Various grandchildren and other extended family brighten the landscape from time to time, eager helpers with the extensive vegetable and herb gardens. Kathleen and Joe spend their leisure time riding their horses, gardening and in a variety of Earth-related spiritual pursuits.