Spotlight: The Healing Trust Tutors – Michelle Bernard

I love offering the Healing Trust training to students. It is a real joy seeing students progress through the course, being inspired by everything they are learning and experiencing, and growing in confidence in their healing abilities.

I offer the training over ten months, one day per month, giving students plenty of time to practise and absorb the teachings between classes, and then come back and share their experiences, as they progress through the course. My style of teaching is informal, interpersonal, and student-centred, and I focus on experiential practice and exercises during the classes, and lots of discussion and sharing.

I am also trained in meditation, crystal healing, and various types of psychic work, including spirit releasement work and the tarot, and incorporate aspects of my other modalities into the training as appropriate. I run a monthly healers’ support group, psychic development group, spirit releasement support group, and co-organize an annual meditation retreat.

My background in teaching, before the Healing Trust, was in GCSE English Language and Literature, A level English Literature, and English as a Foreign Language. I have taught in the UK, Hong Kong and Mexico. I currently offer a training in psychic spirit releasement work, and I hope to begin offering a training in crystal healing soon. I also have a long professional career in book publishing, and work as a managing editor for a small book publisher/charity.

What led me to becoming a healer and tutor?

Since I was a child, I have always seen the light around living things, like trees, and been able to feel energies within me and around me. I had unexplained experiences of timelessness that felt as if the universe was opening up in front of and around me. When I visited ancient sites I would suddenly find myself travelling back in time and space and ‘seeing’ what had happened there.

As I got older I realized all of these were spiritual experiences. In 1989 I learned meditation, which became a lifelong path. When I meditated, I wondered what the heat was that radiated out of my hands. One summer I took part in a dowsing workshop and the pendulum swung wildly over my hands.

I asked the workshop tutor, why is it doing this? And she said, ‘Have you ever thought about practising healing?’ I realized the heat coming out of my hands was healing energy.

In 2004 I trained with the Healing Trust as a spiritual healer. I loved it and realized I’d found my vocation. It was a joy to be able to talk openly to likeminded people, and especially to my tutor, about my experiences with energy and psychic phenomena, and no longer feel ‘weird’, different, or be judged as ‘mad’. She was able to reassure me that all of this was normal for me, and that she had experienced these things herself.

During my healing journey, clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience ‘unlocked’, opening up the psychic world to me further. I found I could ‘see’ the coloured auras around people and animals, ‘hear’ messages for myself and others through the help of my guides, experience past life visions, and distant and internal viewing. Alongside my healing practice, I developed my mediumship abilities, bringing messages through for others, which I then combined with my love of reading the tarot, and have been offering tarot readings with psychic guidance since that time.

After I qualified as a healer I started treating people privately, while also volunteering at the local healing centre in Cambridge: the Andreasen Holistic Healing Centre, and also at Cambridge Cancer Help. From time to time, when requested, I would give healing to people in Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge.

In 2005 I trained in spirit/energy releasement work, which enabled me to help remove unwanted attachments from people and properties. I continue to offer this and now train people in this work. I have always loved crystals, and their energies, and in 2007 I trained in crystal healing, which I still practise. I am hoping to start training people in crystal healing soon.

My Healing Trust (or at that time NFSH) tutor, Chris Langford, who I became good friends with, and who some of you will remember, encouraged me to become a tutor for the Healing Trust. When Chris got ill and I went to give her healing in hospital, one of the last things she said to me before she died was ‘Promise me you’ll teach.’ And I said ‘I will’. After training to become a tutor, I qualified in 2011.

For details of my current and upcoming Healing Trust training courses, please see: https://thehealingtrust.org.uk/events/the-healing-trust-training-part-2-held-in-person-with-tutor-michelle-bernard-a35b2/

https://thehealingtrust.org.uk/events/part-3-in-person-healer-training-with-tutor-michelle-bernard/

https://thehealingtrust.org.uk/events/part-4-in-person-healer-training-with-tutor-michelle-bernard/

For information about me, please see:

https://thehealingtrust.org.uk/find-a-healer/michelle-bernard/

https://wildeye.co.uk/michelle/