Practitioners & Instructors

Susie Shapiro-Laidlaw

Founder

Susie has spent her life following her passions.  She is a serial entrepreneur and a wellness and spiritual arts junkie. At age 16, she had launched three fun and successful businesses; a rather eclectic mix of modalities (sailing, hot fudge and floor art). After graduating from college with an art history and art administration degree, and uninspired by the corporate world, she went on to grow a successful farm-to-table catering company.  While catering high-end weddings, she juggled three seasonal lobster shacks on Maine harbors.  After 14 years in the food industry, she closed the doors abruptly after realizing the health impacts of ongoing stress.  The Maine epicurean world continues to be a passion, but on a different level; the pleasure of enjoying food around a table or fire pit with family and friends has brought the balance she was searching for.

After learning the importance of pacing herself, slowing down, being present, realigning priorities, and connection to self, she was able to wholeheartedly focus her energy on her family.  With time, she found alternative, naturopathic and spiritual medicine to guide her to improved mind-body health.

She feels that her journey has brought her to redirect her entrepreneurial spirit once again. Unfold is a manifested dream that she imagines and hopes will be a life changing experience for others.

Dr. Candida Schwartz

Dr. Candida Schwartz is a board-certified Naturopathic Doctor, Intuitive Healer, and Craniosacral Therapist. She graduated from the first accredited naturopathic medical school in the United States, the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. She feels that the body has an innate desire to heal and our cells want a healthy rejuvenation. Finding the root of imbalance/illness in the body, mind and spirit is integral to bringing harmony back to the patient. Dr. Schwartz has also been an intuitive healer since 2001. She trained with the Reverend Liliana Barzola in Portland, Oregon, and has been giving readings in conjunction with the Craniosacral work since. She offers it to any patient who is interested in those deeper aspects of themselves. She finds it is a powerful tool when exploring a patient’s disorder. Illness on any level and of all kinds can often heal from doing this personal work. 

OFFERINGS:

Dr. Candida has been offering Intuitive Health New and Full Moon Meditation Clearings since 2014. She will guide this celebration of the Autumnal Equinox and New Moon in Libra. a sign of peace, relationships, harmony, balance, beauty and decisiveness.  This is a powerful opportunity to reconnect with yourself, set intentions, let go and manifest! The New Moon is a great time to plant seeds of intention and gather information on how to nurture these seeds (and yourself) to blossom.

She will also be offering private 30-minute readings to anyone interested.

Christina Montano

Christina Montano is a Healing Arts Therapist in Blue Hill, Maine. She provides support and wellness on the journey to your most authentic self. Offering bodywork, energy medicine, classes, retreats, and Cacao Ceremonies, Christina's guidance will allow you to be held and supported while you awaken to knowing your true gifts and feeling the magic and abundance as you manifest the life that is calling.

OFFERING:
Cacao Ceremonies are a celebratory ritual that opens the heart through the use of brewed cacao. Cacao is a sacred plant medicine that is offered in celebration of the goddess Ixcacao. By attending a ceremony we open our hearts to the guidance, support, and radiant love which can be felt through the rituals, music, and clarity that penetrate as we receive this ancient wisdom.
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Abdominal Massage- Abdominal Massage is a holistic approach to healthy living. Many emotions, old trauma and fears find their way to, and remain stuck in the belly. Through the gently yet deep touch of abdominal massage currents of energy which may feel like old heaviness can be released. Allowing a new lightness to be felt which allows for clear decision making, moving through life with more ease, and peace.

Alle Weil

Alle Weil is a Women’s Holistic Health Practitioner, Reiki Master, Holistic Skincare Alchemist and Expert and founder of Flora ex Machina. Her integrated approach to health incorporates traditional healing modalities and culinary practices combined with modern science, flower remedies and energy work to create a truly holistic and sustainable approach to health and healing from the inside out and outside in.

Alle works one on one to create personalized systems and solutions to unresolved chronic symptoms, helping to guide women to restore their hormones and cycles naturally, and provide drugless and holistic therapies to bring emotional balance. She offers online programs, workshops and communities to further guide women to be their most empowered selves. 
She has a line of Holistic Skincare products developed with flower essences and decadent ghee and honey-based superfood spreads, Royal Ghee- blended with adaptogenic and superfood herbs. Alle will be offering a workshop on Holistic Health and Natural Beauty Rituals. True radiance radiates from the inside out. Learn about deeply nourishing and restorative holistic self-care rituals and natural beauty therapies that cultivate and sustain cellular skin health. She’ll guide us through how emotions and symptoms of the body are displayed in facial mapping and instruct a self-structural facial massage, essential for lymphatic drainage and supporting muscular tone and lift to the face and body. 
Alle will be offering personalized Bach Flower Essence Remedies. Flower essences are the perfect compliment to your health and wellness journey. Whether you are attempting to address and resolve mood-related symptoms, chronic illness, hormones or skin health, flower essences work in a subtle yet incredibly effective way to ease symptoms of the body through an emotional lens. Alle will work 1:1 with clients and create personalized flower remedies to support your health goals. Each tincture is created with flower essences and in a base of brandy or glycerin. Flower remedies are safe for people of all ages, pets and during pregnancy. There are no side effects and can be taken with medications. Alle’s skincare and Royal Ghee products will be available for purchase. 

Rachel Felson

Rachel specializes in Rolfing Structural Integration and utilizes Nerve Manipulation (locates and resolves irritable or restricted nerves that are often the source of inflexibility, aches, pulling, tingling or numbness), BioMechanics (identifies and corrects asymmetries) and Craniosacral therapy (optimizes the craniosacral system which includes the 22 bones that make up the head, the vertebra and sacrum, as well as the brain, central nervous system, the cerebrospinal fluid and the system of membranes inside the cranium and spinal column).

Rachel's unique skill to fuse an analytical style with deeply intuitive understanding demonstrates her fascination with the biopsychosocial model.

Rachel loves to freestyle dance, hike/ski/canoe/kayak, travel, experiment with new flavors in the kitchen, and play with her newborn daughter.

She is a graduate of the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration, Boulder, CO, 2009.

Offering:
She will be offering 30 min consultations & bodywork.

Lucy Spalding

Lucy is a passionate advocate for yoga as a path to profound personal growth and self-discovery. Initially drawn to the practice in 2011 as a way to increase strength and flexibility, she quickly realized that the healing benefits of yoga went far beyond the physical. As someone with an active mind, yoga provided a welcome space to cope with daily stresses, stay grounded in the present moment and look inward. By cultivating a regular yoga practice, Lucy began to notice many shifts in her life, not just on a physical level but on a mental, emotional and spiritual level as well. Because of this experience, Lucy was inspired to share the gift of yoga with others and completed her 200 hour teacher training with Jivani Yoga in 2016. After teaching for a couple of years, she felt called to go deeper and in 2018 completed a 300 hour training, also with Jivani Yoga.

Lucy is trained in the Heart of Yoga lineage, which aims to make yoga accessible to all by adapting the practice to the individual. It is a breath-led practice, rooted in intimacy with body and breath. Lucy’s classes reflect her own personal style, balancing strong asana and dynamic movements with restorative poses and breath awareness. She encourages her students to explore what feels good in their unique bodies and provides options for modifications.

Lucy is deeply committed to the practice of self-study. She values the opportunity for introspection and self-inquiry that the practice of yoga provides and strives to take the many insights off the mat and into her daily life. She believes that yoga is a powerful tool for developing intimacy with oneself, cultivating self-love and compassion, and finding joy in both movement and stillness.

Offering: Lucy will be leading daily yoga, special details TBD, stay tuned!