Laura earned a 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. She studied many years with JR Worsley, who brought an ancient root of Chinese medicine to the West from China in the 1960’s. This is a living tradition of medicine, still handed directly from teacher to student through time. Unlike in the West, the sacred root of the tradition has not been cut in thousands of years of practice. 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 with a Master Acupuncturist from 1992-2006. Fueled by her devotion to find cause and treatment for illness in her patients, this apprenticeship pointed her upstream, back and in to the ancient protocols of Taoist Medicine. In time, these alchemical protocols returned her, in the presence of her spiritual teacher in 2011, to this esoteric tradition of light, the Songs of Creation, and the transmission from teacher to teacher.

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.

In 2012 The Unseen Hand: Medicine from Antiquity was formed and Laura began teaching full time. The school houses a living esoteric tradition that watches over life through the sacred ‘Songs of Creation’ in service to our Source. The school was built in response to a direct request to Laura in 2011 from her teacher, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Sufi teacher in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Order, to bring a very particular body of mystical teachings alive in this time.

The mystical feminine mends the weave of life in an individual, a group, and in the Earth herself. It is Her mercy, Her beauty, Her forgiveness, that hold the key to the work of redemption so needed now. This tradition works directly in the magic of creation, weaving love into the hearts of people, love into the story of life. The school has been carefully built to collect and to offer these teachings for many years to come.

Laura is the first President and Program Director of The Unseen Hand: Medicine from Antiquity. The Unseen Hand is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. She currently lives in Maine with her family, devoting their work to the golden thread of teachers that return this medicine to our time. She is a guest instructor on Satsangam’s Vedic Threads membership-based online course.