With love for crafting and wellness

Mara Smith is a certified athletic trainer, certified strength and conditioning specialist and award winning fiber artist.  She uses her knowledge of the human body and injury prevention to help people feel and perform their best. During the Covid 19 Pandemic, Mara merged her crafting and athletic training skills to create “Stretches for Stitchers” an online stretching class geared toward crafters and anyone who works with their hands. She also became a virtual instructor for Vogue Knitting Live where she educates her students about common crafting injuries and the importance of proper ergonomics, stretching, and exercises geared specifically toward knitters and crocheters. Mara has also been a guest speaker/lecturer for organizations and fiber studios including Gather Here and Make Something, Knit in the Pit, the Knit for Food Knit-Along and Down Cellar Studio’s Knit a-long events. Her students often comment that her classes are not only engaging and fun but that they should be mandatory for all crafters to help them prevent knitting injuries. Mara is the Senior Athletic Training Liaison at Mass General Brigham Sports Medicine and Off-Ice Coach at Gate City Figure Skating Club. She loves fiber festivals, gardening and is passionate about sharing her knowledge of the human body with other fiber artists.