Good Gums

A health crisis leads Isabelle to open one of the first health food stores in New York state. Over the years she studies under and collaborates with a number of professionals in the fields of natural medicine and nutrition. In Florida 1974, Isabelle opens her own healing school, the Sarasota School of Natural Healing Arts. She creates a technique called Conversations With the Body and later adds Oriental medicine to the curriculum. Isabelle Dunkeson had always dreamed of being a painter, so ‘health’ was never on her radar. Some time in the 60s, Isabelle started to develop severe allergies and was told by her doctor that unless she continued to take her allergy shots she’d be dead.