MaryGold McNutt

MaryGold is a gifted healer and talented artist, great cook and world traveler.

For the past 10 years she has settled into Deadwood, Oregon with her husband Mark S. McNutt, developing Aerious and the YewWood Forest Retreat Center.

Since 1975 Mary has kept herself healthy through diet, herbs, exercise, Shiatsu Massage and an occasional acupuncture treatment.

While living in Spain she began learning yoga from a beginners book and became a vegetarian, healing her life-long bronchitis.

In 1985 she returned to her family in Australia and begun studying Shiatsu Massage. She taught yoga in the local ashram she frequented. She took some Indian cooking classes and developed her cooking career, catering for various workshops, weddings and growth work retreats, as well as for the Transcendental Meditation Center.

In 1990 she enrolled in a two year study program at the Aiki Institute in Ki-Shiatsu, Macrobiotic Counseling, and Shin Ki (the inner development of energy). Since then she has practiced and taught classes in these areas.

Personal growthwork has played an important role in Mary's life. In 1986 she took an enlightenment Intensive, a three day retreat of deep self inquiry. She immediately became involved and for the next three years co-ordinated this work in the Sydney area.

In 1998 Mary took an interest in Permaculture and began managing the garden and grounds of YewWood in this manner. In 2001 she took the Permaculture Design Intensive and in 2002 the Permaculture Teachers Training Program.

In her teenage years Mary went to art school and has always enjoyed drawing, painting, sewing, ceramics and many more craft modalities.

Mary loves to share her accumulated knowledge with others so that the earth and all people may flourish in bountiful harmony, wellness and joy, for the highest good of all.