About Us
Explore and Restore healing center in Jamestown, California, is dedicated to creating an environment of tranquility, wellness, learning, and accessing the benefits of the natural world in our local area.
Our Mission
The aim is to encourage and lead visitors in healthy adventures surrounding us in the beautiful foothills of the High Sierras and Yosemite National Park and providing a home-base for restoration, comfort and guidance where our guests are given support in finding their wholeness and resilience in each area of life.
We create an intention where all people from every walk of life are loved and accepted with open arms, celebrated while being their authentic selves, and encouraged to recharge and reboot their lives.
Our Staff
Donna Bach
Donna is a descendant of a family heritage of natural healing history lived by her ancestors for five generations. She has been a practitioner of holistic methods as a Traditional Naturopathic Health Practitioner for 50 years. She is dedicated to assisting people with the most effective, powerful methods, techniques and remedies she lives, practices and recommends while using methods proven in decades of clinical experience.
Donna has a current Holistic health practice in Jamestown and has offered private sessions of multiple natural health modalities in the area since 1980. Thousands of clients over her decades of practice have depended on Donna to provide comfort, relief and wellness consultations for their challenges, as well as the comfort provided by her accepting and loving presence. Everyone can trust Donna to come up with personal strategies sourced from dozens of modalities to find solutions which really work in their healing of body, mind, emotions and restoring the spirit.
Ancient methods of deep healing are combined with modern technology in a unique application, using biofeedback and EEG brainwave monitoring neurofeedback equipment for addressing the brain and neuroplasticity enhancement, with the latest in self-regulation coaching sessions by Donna and her partner, Gary Groesbeck.
Gary Groesbeck has a degree in Psychology and has been a certified biofeedback trainer and coach for over 40 years, and together with Donna they have traveled internationally providing seminars for successfully upgrading the brain and nervous system of the participants. They have been presenters at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, and are world travelers and group leaders, having visited 47 countries globally.
Gary and Donna and passionate about leading participants into rich “Inner Journeys” while being hooked up to the “Mind-Mirror” equipment and being guided to their deepest core selves, emerging with a new view of their reality and a bright future where life is just as their visions have portrayed.
Gary Groesbeck
Carole Jeanne Golden
Carole is a life-long healer and a woman who wears many hats, a creative goddess who brings joy into the room when she enters, who spreads sunshine wherever she goes and delights in helping everyone with her intuitive gifts.
The amazing healing arts that she is an expert practitioner of include not only therapeutic massage, Reiki, Ortho-bionomy and advanced bodywork methods, but Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT Tapping), water therapy rebirthing, breathwork, plant medicine journey guidance and couples-massage coaching. She loves introducing people to the healing power of forest bathing, grounding and joyful walks in nature and is an expert tour guide for exploring the wonders of Yosemite National Park which is just an hour’s drive from our Jamestown location.
Carole will assist you in being more comfortable in your own skin and really loving and accepting yourself. You will be affected by Carole anytime you are near her healing presence; she has a calming influence and will raise your spirits with her love of music, singing and dancing, encouraging you to truly live your life of your full potential.
Brian Bourke is an amazing listener and space-holder. He is multi-faceted in his talents and proficiency with many aspects of life. He is excelled in hypnotherapy, EMDR and EFT tapping therapies, as well as hands-on bodywork. He is loving, wise and intelligent with not only people, but with technology and any handywork. He can build anything and he performs all of his gifts with style. Brian is a gentle and loving soul who will help you feel safe and who encourages healing to happen just by being in his presence.
You will love listening to Brian’s voice, whether he is speaking or singing, the effect is calming and peaceful to all who hear him. Brian and Carole are a deeply bonded couple who are committed to helping people be as happy and in love with life as they are. They are both lovers of people and pets, there are many furry friends in their lives, also
Brian Bourke