about Maquel
Maquel (also Kel: she/her) is a massage therapist, a community collaborator, a poet and definitely a mama. She delights in holding space for other mothers (& grandmothers), caretakers, leaders, teachers, change makers, therapists, instructors and healers.
Maquel completed 700 hours of massage training in 2009. She is celebrating 15 years as a massage therapist. Her practice transformed after living on the cliffs of Big Sur, California at the Esalen Institute where she studied Esalen massage, Craniosacral therapy and gestalt therapy. She studied an additional 500 hours during her 6 years here, as well as co-lead the Inclusion and Diversity Committee. When it comes to your body, Maquel believes in listening to you to find solutions, and she does that from a place where the edges of the nervous system are smoothed, allowing you to settle into the deeper layers of your being and comfort.
Maquel is intuitive and caring, present and strong, listening and soothing.
Maquel tends 5 acres of farm land beside the Kaw river. The region of this land was tended by the indigenous people of the Osage, the Kaw & the Shawnee. Kel considers herself the keeper of 5 acres and the eye for a thousand. She lives amongst the agricultural wastelands of monoculture, secured by a handful of oaks, 150 mulberry trees, and a hedge of young oak, maple and hedgeapple, anchored by 6 maturing cottonwoods. The land provides elderberry, black berry, black raspberry, strawberries, mullein, milkweed, goldenrod and garlic aplenty, amongst many other native and invasive flora & fauna. Kel keeps four goats, a brood of hens, baba yaga rooster mama and bunnies with the help of her guard dog Keeper and herding, fierce-feminine Lila dog. The land is visited by an abundance of migratory birds by air, coyotes slip in through the gate, turtle shells line the river beds, possums and pack rats rustle.. Her house is often a rotating place of other, helping to cocreate family and tending. With company, Kel builds hugelkultur mounds to rehabilitate the depleted soil. She is actively interested in life cycles.
