Barbara is a certified Integrative/Holistic/Functional Medicine Practitioner specializing in chronic degenerative disease, PTSD, women’s health, age management, pediatric neurological organization and development, and orthomolecular medicine with the goal of optimal wellness for each of us. Her practice also includes a focus on performance and recovery for professional and amateur athletes.
Along with her consultation practice, Ms. Montgomery also teaches seminars on wellness and preventive care internationally
to allopathic and world medical tradition health professionals. She assists health professionals in integrating wellness protocols and education into their practices to support the best in healthcare for their patients. She also conducts webinars and in-person seminars for
community and corporate groups desiring lifestyle healthcare and preventive practices.
She is a President Emeritus and a Senior Teacher and Board Member of The Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia for over 30 years,
with direct instruction from Venerable Losang Samten and His Holiness the Dalai Lama along with many other revered teachers.
She is also an ordained minister in the Universal Life Ministries, whose guiding principle is simple and based on compassion for all:
individuals are free to live their spiritual truth however they see fit, so as long as their beliefs and practices do not infringe upon the freedoms or rights of others.
As a Buddhist practitioner for over 50 years, she incorporates various methods of meditation practice in her stress response
and management protocols, teaching individuals the effects that our mental/psychological/emotional states have on our physiology.
When we understand the unity of mind, body and spirit, we can understand the loop for “ease” or “dis-ease” that is created when we are not in balance.
For over 40 years she has developed programs for brain-injured and well children based on the understanding of neurological growth and development based on her training and clinical work at The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential.
Ms. Montgomery has been Music Director for fitness icon Richard Simmons since 1988, producing the music for all of his projects
(videos, television programs, audio recordings), with music ranging from oldies to disco to Broadway to Latin music, and working in studios from New York to Los Angeles with hundreds of world class studio musicians. She has also provided music production and supervision services for programs for Jackie Chan, Jane Fonda, Cher, John Tesch, Connie Sellecca, Angela Lansbury, among many others.
She is deeply involved in gun violence prevention and conflict resolution, stemming from the years she was in South Vietnam during the war. The murder-suicide in January 2002 the family of five that included her daughter's dear friend, 14-year-old Alexandra Wake, brought this tragedy home. She became the President of The Pennsylvania Million Mom March Chapters of the Brady Campaign (a non-profit) and held that position for ten years.
Since that time she has hosted town meetings to address the dilemma of gun accessibility, has spoken at press conferences state wide,
and has lobbied often in the Pennsylvania state capitol and in Congress in Washington, D.C. She has presented conflict resolution and
gun violence prevention workshops to youth in middle schools, high schools, community organizations, and colleges, produced
a state-wide assault weapons ban conference in the spring of 2004, and has testified in front of and advised
the City Council of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania State Senate on sensible firearms legislation.
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