Dr. Keith Barbour
Dr. Barbour was born in Toronto and moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan at an early age. After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree, magna cum laude, from Eastern Michigan University, he attended Michigan State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine. Upon graduation, he interned at the Michigan Osteopathic Medical Center in Detroit and then did a residency at the Detroit Rehabilitation Institute. He is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Pain Management.
“With Wholistic Manual Medicine, I can help almost anyone in any condition at any time without needing anything but my mind and my hands,” he says. “I really enjoy the amazement I feel, as well as my patients’ amazement, when the body begins to heal itself and the patient starts to overcome the obstacles that were holding them back in life.”
While Dr. Barbour was routinely able to facilitate healing that had failed to respond to conventional medical treatment, there was a limit to how many patients he could personally treat. To help bring those results to a much wider group, in 1991 he started teaching the Wholistic Manual Medicine Course, training hundreds of other practitioners to apply manual medicine.
“Physical therapists and massage therapists are always looking for something that will make them better at what they do,” he says. “Once they understand the underlying principles, they can get far better results in their own fields.”
Dr. Barbour is a true shaman. By definition a true shaman “tends to the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual needs of the beings in his charge”. Yet, Dr Barbour does not consider himself as a healer. Dr. Barbour orchestrates the coming together of conditions that allow for the release of the root cause of the disease or discomfort. The body then heals itself.
Dr. Barbour simply considers himself a normal human being that has devoted his life to the mastery of his helping profession, osteopathy. He has been pushing the envelope of Osteopathic science and the science of wholistic manual medicine, for over twenty-five years. He optimizes both scientific knowledge with reasoning AND intuitive knowledge with awareness.
He is an innovator and teacher and has created rapid evaluation, treatment and training program for practitioners that allows them to rapidly acquire skills and knowledge in wholistic manual medicine.
His holistic and quantum training of manual medicine students is easily accomplished due to the holistic and quantum nature of the materiel. Students reach greater and greater results at a quantum pace that was previously un-obtainable. Mastering the lowest/easiest level first then prepares the student for the shifts that are on the horizon. Leaping in knowledge* (knowingness!), skills and awareness, all at once, to each successive level. Each new level the student is endowed with one: greater capacity to create greater outcomes with less work, time and energy; and two: the self healing necessary to reach that new level. It is a win win win solution: as the student grows, so do their results and their clients health, and so the advance of natural healing and wholistic Manual Medicine.