Our Story
Maya originally began as a center for integrative therapies and research in 2004, with a primary focus on providing educational programs, workshops, and integrative modalities to promote health and wellness and to treat complex chronic disease, at our retreat center located in Isle La Motte Vermont. As integrative modalities became more accepted and mainstream within health care, we began to shift our focus on a core foundation in health care delivery: the relationship between the provider and the patient; and the employee and the leader. What we experienced, observed, and validated within the scientific literature and patient report; is that this relationship is lacking in compassion, empathy, and respect. We found that many patients and health care employees feel they have been treated with disrespect, indifference, and disregard.
Every individual from birth has an innate desire to feel love, to be valued and respected; and every individual has some degree of co-dependence upon another to survive. When illness and complex chronic disease consume an individual, these primary needs are heightened. In the current systems of health care delivery, the interactions and engagements for moments of great compassion, empathy and respect have suffered. The system has evolved into one of a rapid-pace machine who has lost its soul to a contrived outcome of profit. The true soul of health care, its relationships, and its true purpose of “caring” are being lost. We believe there is no greater charge, than to change the landscape of health care delivery to a more compassionate, respectful approach; one person, one encounter, one moment at a time.