Laura Barnard Stelmok

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Received her Bachelor's Degree from Bowdoin College '83 in Religion and German. She studied Acupuncture with JR and JB Worsley at the Worsley Institute of Classical Acupuncture in Florida and the College of Traditional Acupuncture in the UK, receiving a Licensure, Advanced Licenciate and Masters Degree in Acupuncture in 1992. From the Worsleys, Laura received the passion and the devotion to this earliest root of medicine. Laura continued her post-graduate clinical training with the Worsleys until 2001.  From the very beginning of her acupuncture training, Laura became an avid student of Claude Larre and Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallee of the Ricci Institute and the body of work they have brought into English from Antiquity.  Her relationship with the Ancient Medical Texts has been essential to her work and is now central in her clinical teaching.

Beginning in 2001 Laura spent 5 intensive years studying Five Element Acupuncture and Rooting Shen with Niki Bilton, Master Practitioner and Teacher. Recently she has participated in several teachings on the 13 Ghost Points with Jeffery Yuen, a Taoist priest, herbalist and acupuncturist.

Laura has been in private clinical practice since 1991. Her practice, Stillpoint, has been in Rockland, Maine since 1996.  She teaches post-graduate 5 Element Theory and Clinical Supervision groups in Maine, Vermont and New York.  These advanced study groups began in 2006 as an informal extension of her passion for the deep transformational nature of the clinical work. The Tradition has come alive in these diverse, highly interactive, and rigorous Clinics.  The groups reach far and wide now. How to become a truer and more potent instrument of the Light of this Tradition. Students now fill these groups from most every tradition of healing, as the disciplines from the Taoists and the Light of the Ancient Alchemical Songs are appllicable to all.

The teaching reaches toward practitioners who are in school or thinking about entering acupuncture school as well as senior practitioners who have been in practice for decades. In addition to the practice of 5 Element Taoist Medicine, Laura collaborates with working artists, the ones called to carry the seeds of what longs to be born, bringing the disciplines of ancient medicine together with the urgent call to the Muses of our Time.

In addition to her studies and practice in 5 Element Acupuncture, Laura, beginning at the age of 24, apprenticed and worked alongside of Alexandra Merrill and Joyce Weir, teachers and guides. The work spanned 20 years in small, highly interactive training groups of women, where the inner individuation work of Self was woven inextricably with the daunting political challenges of our time. 

Laura is President and the first Program Director of The Unseen Hand: Medicine from Antiquity/ A Gathering of Physicians, Artists and Scribes which is currently in the 501(c)(3) application process to become a nonprofit for the Preservation and Teaching of this Tradition. 

She currently lives in Rockland, Maine with her husband and son. They devote their life and labor and breath to the golden thread of Teachers that return this Medicine to Our Time.

Dearest One and All.  

Our deep gratitude to you who sit with us at this Portal of Learning.  

Those who were here before, those who are here now and those yet to come. Blessed Be.

We gather as physician's, as patients, as artists,

as teachers and students, as wayfarer's

Our sense returned.  Our Heart utilized.  Our minds disciplined.

To remember the Ancient Songs of this Tradition.

(They are so very needed here and now.)

To become Teachable to this Living Tradition of Medicine,

that we may become Servants to and for It.

As our disciplines strengthen we are able to extend our Hand to individuals in need with far greater depth and precision.  As individuals and as a group of devoted humans.

 The clinical training remains at the center of our attention for both practitioners and patients.

For this collaboration there is no end to the happiness bestowed.

We encourage you to pass this invitation on to any colleagues, friends, fellow students/travelers in this Classical Tradition that you believe might wish to join us. Please contact either Laura (stillpointacu@gmail.com), Noah (nstelmok@gmail.com) or Meg (chiya@gwi.net) with any questions, comments, requests.

The study group is alive with and for each practitioner who is present.

With deep regard to each of you.   Laura and Noah and Meg

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From the North: (50 minutes from Camden/Rockland) Take Rte 17 going west toward Augusta.  Just after Rte 32 going south to Waldoboro, you will turn left onto 218South.  From this turn it is just over 10 miles to my driveway.  218 South jogs left, right, left, 3 times, in those 10 miles.  Very well marked.  stay on 218 South.  At the 3rd jog, just having crossed the Sheepscot River, you will be turning left.  From here it is 2.3 miles.  Nilsen Lane (small green street sign) on your left IMMEDIATELY before a small used auto lot, called Hardman Auto.  Turn left down drive.  We are the house at the end/bottom of the hill. Park by the house. Phone # there if you need to reach me is 549-7733.

From the South: (one hour from Portland) Maine Turnpike North to Portland.  Take I295 North through Portland.  Take to Brunswick and take Coastal Route 1 North (EXIT 28).  This will take you through Brunswick, then Bath.  The next major town is Wiscasset. Just as you enter downtown Wiscasset, you will turn LEFT, taking 218North out of Wiscasset.  Go for about 10-11 miles.  Landmark is HARDMAN AUTO SALES, a small used car lot on your right.  The driveway is IMMEDIATELY following the car lot.  Small green street sign of NILSEN LANE.  Turn right and follow the driveway to the bottom of the hill. Road ends at the house.  Phone number here if it's confusing is 549-7733.

From the West:  (4 ½ hours from Montpelier) Rte 2 East through Gorham, NH to Bethel, ME. Take 26 S (watch signs!)through Bryant Pond. After Bryant Pond (6.8 mi) Turn left onto 219E through Turner and So. Turner. This road turns quite a lot. Watch signs. Follow til ends. Turn Right toward Wayne on 133. This will take you past Wayne and toward Windsor. LOOK AT A Map. You will get on bigger hwy, just past roads into Windsor, not sure what the rte is, here going to Augusta. (Rte 100 maybe?) It becomes Rte 17 not far down the road toward Augusta. Keep following Rte 17 West, through 2 traffic circles in Augusta. Take approx 13+ miles east of Augusta. Turn Right onto 218 South. From this turn it is just over 10 miles to my driveway.  218 South jogs left, right, left, 3 times, in those 10 miles.  Very well marked.  stay on 218 South.  At the 3rd jog, just having crossed the Sheepscot River, you will be turning left.  From here it is 2.3 miles.  Nilsen Lane (small green street sign) on your left IMMEDIATELY before a small used auto lot, called Hardman Auto.  Turn left down drive.  We are the house at the end/bottom of the hill. Park by the house. Phone # there if you need to reach me is 549-7733.

From the East:  Swim.  Upstream 12+ miles on the Sheepscot River.  2 1/2 miles past headtide, stop at the swimming hole and walk uphill.