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The Bird Physician

Laura C Stelmok, BA, BAc., MAc., Dipl. Ac.(NCCAOM)
Founder and Academic Dean of The Virtue of HeavenEarth
BA (Religion and German) from Bowdoin College '83 and a MA in Acupuncture from the Worsley Institute of Classical Acupuncture (FL) & The College of Traditional Acupuncture (UK) '92.

Laura studied with JR/JB Worsley until 2004. She also apprenticed with a second Master Acupuncturist, from 1992-2006. Fueled by urgency to find cause and treatment for illness in her patients, this apprenticeship pointed her upstream, back and in to the ancient alchemical protocols of Taoist Medicine. She has been in private clinical practice since 1992 and has taught post-graduate 5 Element Theory and Clinical Supervision groups since 2005.

Laura apprenticed and worked with Alexandra Merrill and Joyce Weir for 20 years in training groups of women; the practice of female authority rooted in the forgotten body of the feminine. During these two decades, Laura was also trained to work in the deep currents of dream analysis.

In 2012 The Unseen Hand: Medicine from Antiquity, a 501(c)3 non-profit school was formed and Laura began teaching full time. With her husband Noah, they built a center for the school in Maine. As a place of learning and retreat, it is for those in need of such care. The Virtue of HeavenEarth is an autonomous institute within the larger school, The Unseen Hand: Medicine from Antiquity.