By Kim Votry, special to My Edmonds News

Edmonds author and healer Robbie Holz will speak at EPIC Group Writers in the Edmonds Library, Monday at 11 a.m. Author Kim Votry provided this bio on the speaker.

In 1983, Gary Holz, an award-winning physicist, was diagnosed with chronic progressive multiple sclerosis. By 1988 he was a quadriplegic and, in 1994, his doctors said he had two years to live. Desperate and depressed, he followed a synchronistic suggestion and went to Australia to live with a remote Australian tribe. Arriving in a wheelchair, alone, with almost no feeling left from the neck down, Gary embarked on a remarkable healing transformation of body, mind, and spirit and discovered his own gift for healing others. Using the same principles, Gary’s wife, Robbie Holz, healed herself of hepatitis C and fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. Since her husband’s death, Robbie continues to teach the techniques in her writing, teaching and speaking.

Robbie’s speaking engagements expose her to audiences around the world. As more people become aware of their innate abilities to heal, the demand for her teaching grows. Robbie realized that an online course would be one way for her to deliver the information to many people world-wide. She contacted Daily Om because she was aware of their high-quality courses and popular teachers and speakers. The website offers free daily inspiration as well as sliding-scale classes and workshops. Now, for the first time ever, her eight-week course, “Use Aboriginal Secrets for Self Healing,” is available to people in the comfort of their own homes, to access at their convenience.

Through the online course, materials are presented in a multi-media format, including written text, videos of Robbie speaking and telling her stories, and guided meditations. “People can access the course at any time of day or night, they can repeat lessons, or they can practice the guided mediation daily — it gives them free reign to the material to use as they need,” says Holz. “There are also practical exercises for integrating the healing principles into your life.” The course is not just about healing, however; the principles of the course will help manifest anything: relationships, fulfilling careers, finances, and soul’s purpose. “This is ancient wisdom from the Outback Aboriginals that science is only now beginning to understand, and that more and more people are beginning to use in their daily lives,” Holz says. Here is a link to Robbie’s information for the course.

The course itself was developed by three Edmonds residents who have been members of the same writing group for nearly four years. In addition to their interest in writing fiction and non-fiction, between them they have skills in programming, technical writing, videography, photography and marketing. “We brought all our skills together in a team of three and it worked really well,” Holz commented. The original material for the course was developed by Robbie Holz, the author of multiple award-winning “Secrets of Aboriginal Healing.” Christiann Howard wrote the text, formatted the course, and programmed the HTML to produce an easy-to-read presentation. I (Kim Votry) combined lectures, photographs, and music to produce videos that capture the dynamic speaking presence of Robbie’s workshops and create powerful guided meditations.

“Secrets of Aboriginal Healing” is available at the Edmonds Bookshop, and more information on Robbie Holz can be found on her website. Info on EPIC Group writers is here.