Biographical Sketch - Dr. DruAn Kindred

Chiropractic Physician, Acupuncturist & Bodymind Therapist

Here is a brief autobiography of my personal and professional background. I appreciate the opportunity to work with you and I want to share a little about me with you.

Before I became involved in natural medical care, I grew up in Iowa. I enjoyed nature and training in outdoor survival skills and camp counseling at Midwestern summer camps. Some of these rigorous programs were run by graduates of early Outward Bound courses. In 1976, I entered Iowa State University and majored in nutrition. I spent summers working as a camp counselor for the Girl and Boy Scouts and I loved working outdoors so much I decided to move to Alaska to finish college and go to trade school. In 1981, I graduated from the residential carpentry Trade School program in Fairbanks. In 1982, I received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from UAF. I enjoyed building custom homes in rural Fairbanks for several years and still miss the outdoor settings of that Arctic woodlands work environment. Prior to and while I was earning my natural medical degrees, I trained and worked as a massage therapist and specialized in three bodymind therapies. The first, Raja Yoga is a healing system from India that emphasizes cultivating the ability to sense mental and emotional knots in the chakras that lock up vitality in both the psyche and the body. Identifying these knots allows one to untangle them using breathing and visualization exercises. The second bodymind therapy in which I trained has a Western origin and was called Rebirthing. It uses breathing exercises to break through past psychological traumas, as far back as one's birth trauma. Jin Shin Do is the third bodymind system I became certified in. It is a synthesis of Eastern philosophy and Western Jungian psychology.

In 1991, I received my Masters of Acupuncture degree from The Traditional Acupuncture Institute in Columbia, Maryland. In 1994, I graduated cum laude from Western States Chiropractic College in Portland, Oregon. I lived and worked just outside of Washington D.C., prior to returning to Alaska.

I have been operating a holistic clinic in Ketchikan since April 1995. In October of 1998, I studied and performed hospital rounds in Seoul, Korea. I spent time in 1999 and 2000 and again in 2011 updating my studies in Western nutrition as well as learning new methods for allergy desensitization and detoxifying environmental pollutants. This recent training also included identifying and treating chlorine overload and iodine deficiency. Currently I am studying Western science based training programs in Brain Regeneration, Saliva testing for food allergens, adrenal depletion and hormone imbalances as well as the safe use of Bioidentical hormones.

Other in-depth studies in Oriental Medicine:

1. 2001: I began studying with Kiiko Matsumoto. She collated the main lines of Japanese Master teachers into a unified system that is effective in remarkably new ways. Her final work for this was published in 2010. It is a magnificent book. In 2012 she became the first woman to have a style of acupuncture named after her.


2. 2002-2003: I completed a Bob Flaws program on "Complicated" disorders like autoimmune diseases and skin disorders.


3. 2010: I completed programs on Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Resistant Weight loss and Type 2 diabetes.

Simple problems generally need one to three treatments while disease patterns need closer to 8 in-depth treatment sessions to dismantle the entrenched problem patterns. I also recommend quarterly follow-up sessions for a year. This enhances and stabilizes the corrections over the cycle of seasonal energy changes that the body and organs go through.

2019 continues to be an exciting time in natural, holistic healing. Many talented practitioners are synthesizing independent specialties, making it possible to provide deeper, more powerful treatments. This allows patients to get more out of each treatment session and have more consistent results. Natural therapies are now better able to compete with medicated approaches to symptom relief while healing underlying causes and avoiding negative side effects.

Continuing education aside, I feel fortunate to have found a career that continually enchants me with edifying insights about the nature of being human as I strive to provide enhanced restorative results.