Hi, I’m Maura. I love mountains, big sky, water and micro-ecosystems we can’t see.

I live in the N’dakinna northern range, Nulhegan Abenaki territory, Northeast Kingdom with my dog Dandelion and fabulous chickens. My deep pleasures are dancing, hiking, gardening, making puppet shows, laughing with kids, delicious food & reading science and farming journals.

For 20 years I traveled as a dancer and puppeteer—teaching, researching and performing—near and far—working within communities all around this beautiful planet toward the common goal of social justice and love justice. Pushing physical, mental, emotional and creative limits with hard work and unpredictable situations was part of my identity and way of life…but in 2019 everything changed.

I got sick. Real sick.

Without warning I went from hiking mountains, splitting fire-wood and performing on stages to waking up in bed, paralyzed, only able to move my eyes.

Like a sci-fi novel, an “unidentifiable disease” slowly took over my body and mind ; causing severe bone pain, extreme memory loss, brain fog, tingling limbs, air hunger, night sweats, heart problems, rashes, seizures, speech and writing difficulties, vision problems, emotional deregulation, insomnia, depression and debilitating fatigue. Over the course of a few months I became a ‘shadow’ of myself—still alive, but wishing I weren’t. After dozens of tests and consulting many doctors, I was diagnosed with Lyme disease. Four years passed struggling with conventional medicine, antibiotics, teams of allopathic specialists and alternative therapies—finally Dr. Alexis Chesney recommended Joan Randall’s LYME MAGNETIC PROTOCOL℠. Game changer. After just a few treatments I started to feel ‘a little better’. Within a year of treatments —I got my life back. 

I made a promise if I could heal, I would change my life to help others with a similar struggle. So here we are. I am now a Biomagnetic Pair practitioner certified in the LYME MAGNETIC PROTOCOL℠ and Post-Covid MAGNETIC PROTOCOL℠. Researching the movement of pathogenic micro-organisms within our internal landscapes is a new passion. I’m here to assist your body’s natural design to heal itself. And yes—you can get better. And yes—joy and love will come back to your life. You are not alone.

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Related Certifications and Trainings

• Biomagnetic Pair Practitioner certified in Joan Randall’s LYME MAGNETIC PROTOCOL℠ Levels 1 &2 and Post-Covid MAGNETIC PROTOCOL℠

• Transformational Healing Energy Techniques and Kineseology with Dr. Miriam Wolf.

• Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism- Herbal Roots Apprenticeship

• Body-Mind Centering© with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

• Material for the Spine with Steve Paxton

• Dynamic Neural Retraining System, Annie Hopper

• Emergency Medical Technician Training, Wilderness First-Responder certified, CPR

• MFA Teaching Fellow, Dance, Bennington College (2022)— focus on “Art, Agriculture and Politics of the Rural,” and “Movement patterns of microorganisms within our internal landscapes and their effects on the body/mind connection”.

• BFA Dance with minors in Art & Theater (2006)—Honors Tutorial College Ohio University—including training in Pilates, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Laban Movement Analysis, Embodied Anatomy, & Applied Kinesiology.

• Eco-somatic researcher, practitioner of Tai Chi, Chi Gong, Yoga, and Dance Improvisation.

• Provisional Teaching License in Dance, Performing Arts Educator in public school K-8, Children’s creative dance instructor.