Maggie has worked in education for over 25 years. She’s taught 1st to 7th graders in classroom, small group and one-on-one settings, coached teachers and worked closely with learning specialists and other therapists to support student’s individual needs. She brings extensive knowledge of working side-by-side with parents and teachers as a coach to problem solve behavioral or learning challenges, looking at each individual situation through many lenses. She’s worked with Occupational Therapists and other specialists to create classroom and educational experiences that best support students who are struggling.
Experienced Educator
Health and Nutrition Coach
Maggie is a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and Epidemic Answers Health Coach. A student of holistic health since she was 20, she has been constantly researching and working with practitioners to heal her and her family’s auto-immune issues.
A dancer from a young age, Maggie intimately understands the connection between mind and body. She has practiced yoga for almost 30 years, is a certified 500hr yoga instructor and mindfulness instructor. She is also a Reiki III practitioner and has completed trainings in EFT, Quantum Touch and Eden’s Energy Medicine. One of her favorite activities is teaching children yoga, mindfulness, guided meditation and breathing exercises.
Mind and Body Practitioner
What brought me to this work…
My sophmore year of college, my body fell apart. A dance major with classes and rehearsals around the clock, I suddenly found myself in constant pain, unable to walk more than a block and chronically fatigued. Not only my body, but my brain - cognitively and socially - was affected. I felt there was a film between me and the world. Language and memory which had always felt so dependable was slippery at times. I began flipping words, unable to follow a conversation and found it easier to read backwards(!) than forwards. I sought help from doctors around the country but to no avail, and became all too familiar with gaslighting. It was only when living in Spain that I found relief for the first time from an acupuncturist. This was my entry into the alternative and integrative world of medicine which helped me over the next decade address my imbalances and rebuilt my health - my body and brain. With various health interventions, these issues resolved but also led me into a lifetime of research and education to better understand how the health of our bodies impacts learning.
