Joyce B. Perkins is a Professor of Nursing at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, MN. U.S.A. In her forty plus year career as a holistic nurse, she has trained academically with noted scholars and theorists Newman, M., Smith, M., Watson, J. and Reed, F. She has designed holistic curriculum and taught professionally at two universities, spanning baccalaureate to doctoral programs (BSN-DNP), encompassing energy healing modalities, transcultural nursing, a holistically endorsed BSN curriculum (AHNCC), and cultural perspectives. In that process a Unitary Human Caring Science was articulated and complexity dynamics embraced as the language of holistic nursing. Her expertise includes complementary/alternative or integrative therapies, meditation, psychiatric/mental health nursing, group fitness, and transformational nursing leadership. Her research focus is transcendental meditation and caring efficacy. Dr. Perkins worked as a psychiatric nurse from 1999-2012 at St. Mary’s Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. She is certified in many healing modalities including: Healing Touch (CHTP), Reiki (RMP-T), and Qigong. Dr. Perkins is an Advanced Practice Holistic Nurse (AHN-BC) and has studied the healing practices of shamans and healers among Native American Indian tribes, and the Q’ero Indians of Peru. Dr. Perkins has a 40-year teaching career in the health, exercise and fitness arena.