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 About Barbara Dowdy-Trabke
As a youngster growing up on a farm in Southeast
Missouri, Barbara’s view of life suddenly expanded when she moved to
Fairbanks, Alaska as a young bride. She arrived just in time to
experience the history-making saga of the Alaskan pipeline and while
her husband was away working on the project for months at a time, the
young bride soon became familiar with the hardiness needed to endure
the long, cold, snowy winters. Harsh weather and living conditions
influenced Barbara’s character, self-sufficient life style and
indomitable spirit.
Raising four children, she managed to work and also
continue her education. While the children were growing Barbara
eventually recognized that the health care they were receiving was not
helping them to stay healthy and prevent diseases, merely providing a
pharmaceutical solution after someone was sick. She began studying
herbal medicine and was soon holding weekly meetings so that others
could benefit from the things she was learning. Seeking to learn more,
she pursued her studies, becoming a Certified Master Herbalist,
Iridologist, Reflexologist, MRM Technician and Reiki Master. For more
than a dozen years Barbara has been hosting a healing circle both in
Fairbanks, Alaska, and in Reno, Nevada. These circles are a time of
spiritual learning, sharing and development for all who participate in
them. And, she continues to share what she has learned both with her
community and by traveling around the United States holding seminars
and teaching others.
Barbara began dowsing when in her 20’s and, over
time, dowsing has not only become a way of life for her personally,
but also an opportunity for great learning and sharing of the gifts
she has received. Over the years in Fairbanks, Alaska, Barbara came to
realize that a person was not just a body with a soul, but was more
accurately, a soul with a body. Therefore body, mind and soul were all
of importance. She started building on the knowledge that was sparked
back in the mid-70’s when she held that first forked tree twig and
learned that she could dowse for water. Barbara attended Ozark
Research Institute and became a member of the Fairbanks Dowsing
Society and later a member of the American Society of Dowsers. Barbara
has not only dowsed many water wells but she has taught individuals
and classes in the techniques of dowsing and on pendulum usage.
After the death of her youngest daughter, Heather,
who was killed by a drunk driver, Barbara’s life changed in a myriad
of ways. The connection with the spiritual strengthened. Now remarried
and at home in Reno, Nevada, Barbara continues to offer alternative
health and healing information for those who seek her services. She
has expanded her skill, learning to read Tarot Cards and use Angel
Cards along with using the pendulum (dowsing), to ascertain
information that would not otherwise be available. For more than 10
years Barbara published a quarterly herbal newsletter and now, with
her first book, she has found a new way of helping others who are in
need of this knowledge. Barbara enjoys helping others journey along
their own spiritual paths, and teaches classes on many aspects of
mind/body/spirit healing, as well as giving individual readings.
Artistic, creative, and an avid quilter, Barbara enjoys teaching
quilting classes and making art quilts for sale—often using her own
hand-dyed fabric. Recently, the international quilt scene has been
enriched by several of Barbara’s quilts showing both in Nashville,
TN as well as Paducah, KY.
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