Biography

Wendie Colter, MCWC, CMIP
Founder/CEO, The Practical Path®, Inc.
President, National Organization for Medical Intuition (NOMI)
Medical Intuitive, Educator, Award Winning Author, Speaker

Wendie Colter is a Certified Medical Intuitive Practitioner, a Master Certified Wellness Coach, and founder/CEO of The Practical Path, Inc., presenting intuitive development programs for wellness professionals and the public.

She is a contributing educator and presenter at premier integrative health and education organizations (see list below). She is President of the National Organization for Medical Intuition (NOMI), and serves on the Bioenergy & Health Committee of the Integrative Health Policy Consortium (IHPC), Washington, DC, and the Consciousness and Healing Initiative (CHI) Healing Practitioners Council.

Wendie’s comprehensive, accredited certification program, The Practical Path® Medical Intuitive Training™, has been pivotal in helping integrative, functional and holistic healthcare professionals develop and optimize their innate intuitive abilities. She has successfully trained doctors, nurses and health and wellness practitioners from every discipline. Wendie’s trailblazing research in Medical Intuition has been published in peer-reviewed journals Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine, and Global Advances in Health and Medicine.

The Practical Path programs are accredited for continuing education by the California Board of Registered Nursing, the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA), the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaching (NBHWC), and more.

Wendie’s groundbreaking award-winning book, Essentials of Medical Intuition: A Visionary Path to Wellness, (Watkins Publishing/Penguin-Random House, 2022) has been endorsed by Dr. Bernie Siegel, Dr. Kenneth Pelletier, Dr. Larry Dossey, Dr. Shamini Jain, and more. It has won the prestigious Nautilus Silver Award in Body-Mind-Spirit Practices, the International Book Awards and the American Book Fest Best Book Award winner in Health-Alternative Medicine category.

She curates and writes for the Medical Intuition Resource Center for Today's Practitioner, an information resource for the integrative healthcare industry since 2013.

Wendie has been in private practice for more than twenty years and has been teaching intuitive development and energy medicine professionally for fifteen years. Her commitment to a deeper awareness and understanding of the balance between mind, body and spirit is evident in her caring and insightful consultations, and her transformative programs and workshops.

Actively involved in spiritual studies from a young age, an early job at the Bodhi Tree, Los Angeles' seminal "new age" bookstore, gave her access to the many classics of metaphysical thought. She participated in Louise Hay's renowned, intimate living-room healing sessions supporting the Los Angeles HIV/AIDS community. This experience led her to intensive study in a variety of biofield-based modalities, including Usui Reiki, Transcendental Meditation, NLP, and others.

An engaging and informative speaker, she has presented at prominent integrative health organizations including:

• Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado Denver

• University of California Los Angeles, Center for East-West Medicine

• University of California San Diego, Centers for Integrative Health Grand Rounds

• USC Institute for Integrative Health, University of Southern California

• Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona

• Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health

• Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine (AIHM)

• Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM)

• Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)

• Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP)

• Science and NonDuality (SAND)

• American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA)

• California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)

• Consciousness & Healing Initiative (CHI)

• Guarneri Integrative Health, Inc. at Pacific Pearl La Jolla

• Cardiac Treatment Center, Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla

• Canadian Association for Integrative & Energy Therapies (CAIET)

• California Institute for Human Science (CIHS)

• Healing Beyond Borders

• Healing Touch California (HTCA)

• International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM)

• Holistic Chamber of Commerce (HCC)

Wendie has been a regular and featured guest on GAIA TV, The Shift Network, The Aware Show, Coast to Coast AM, and many more.

Also an accomplished composer, musician and songwriter, Wendie spent many years in the high pressure corporate world of the music industry as an executive music producer for television and film, and continues to compose music in her spare time.

Wendie is available for speaking engagements, workshops, conferences and retreats. Please Contact us for media kit and information.

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