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Zen Life Retreat at ChoZen
March 13-17, 2025
ChoZen Retreat, Sebastian, Florida
I will meet you in an eco-sanctuary with three other exceptional teachers to provide more daily practices, cold plunges, dharma talks, seaside expeditions. and farm-to-table food than you can take in in our time together.
This is a chance to build our community and immerse ourselves in an incredible natural setting with other like-minded practitioners.
Join me in March 2025 for a few days of rest, laughter, and inner/outer explorations.
The retreat is run by FloYo Wellness.
Check out logistics, details, and registration below.
ChoZen is new generation of retreat space specifically designed to integrate land, community, farming, and retreat space.
Tending the Feminine*
Nov 2, Sat 10-11am HANDS-ON WORKSHOP SoBotanical, Clipper Mill, Baltimore
Gather together to learn about the seasons and cycles of your hormones and how they link to your mindset and effectiveness. Some days you can take on the world, others feel daunting. How can we learn where we are in our cycles so that we are kind on ourselves and put the right tasks at the right place in our schedules.
We will learn an accupoint sequence paired with a custom blend for BALANCE during PMS or times of stress and depletion.
We will learn tools and techniques for better rest and repair, also with a custom blend.
Essential oils can be absolutely medicinal when applied at the right body points in moments of need. Come learn how to utilize their incredible support at all times in your cycle.
* Appropriate and informative to all who identify as women even if post-menopausal.
OWNERSHIP : STRATEGY
Jan 31, Feb1, 2 and Feb 6, 7, 8 2025 at TRIBE
Friday 6-9pm, Saturday 12-3pm, Sunday 12-3pm
An immersion into specific topics and tools to support our choices - daily, weekly, hourly. Each thing we do can move us towards or away from the lives we long for.
Topics for STRATEGY include:
Building a personal practice and addressing resistance
Deep work, deep reading, myelin and their implications on our brains
Managing time as a means to enact our personal values
The importance of dopamine as our inner happiness drug
Living like a tree as the recipe for longevity (electrons, movement, sunlight, flow)
Rest / Nidra as access to the Beyond
BONUS: What’s a eudaemonia machine? And how do I make miracles?
We will learn, we will move, we will rest, we will reflect. This will be our strategy.
take OWNERSHIP
Martha McAlpine, Ed.M, RYT 1000, is a professional experiential curriculum designer. She creates circumstances for direct contact with what is next needed in our lives.
Powerful and playful, she has 30+ years as a yoga practitioner and teacher.
We are all made of light and vibration. Her practices are designed to enable us to feel our own wisdom as directly as possible, to know ourselves capable of potency and peace, and to have the tools to shift form one state to another at our choice;
to be self-sovereign, to be our greatest selves.
Private Retreats
Martha is available for private or small group retreats, and trainings. 2-12 people. 2-5 days. Your choice of location.
Is there something you have always wanted to celebrate? is there a topic you have always wanted to dive into, to study or practice further but couldn’t find what you wanted?
I work with you to make it fit you, perfectly, personally.
Your group. Your interests. Your time.
This is my favorite type of teaching.
We gather with intimacy and purpose and return home refreshed, restored, and ready for our next evolution.
Contact me to set up a conversation.
Past Events
Re-Locating ourselves in Great Nature: An Introduction to the Akashic Records
LECTURE + WRITING. Saturday/Sunday, July 20/21 and 27/28
Tribe School of Embodied Arts 107 E. Preston St. Baltimore.
We have been taught that we are separate from the great forces around us.
What if you could ask the earth herself, how are we related?
What if you could ask the Sun, what do you see of me?
What if we could know firsthand the true nature of Fungi as the bridge between death and life, the engine of the soil and life on Earth? And what of the Ocean, our primordial origin, what would she have us know?
These questions have been placed in the hands of science. But everyday you are in relation to the earth and the sun and the oceans - our weather, our food, the atmosphere we breathe are all provided through these great forces. They are all one thing, one system, and we are a part of it all.
Great Nature can be studied and measured, just as we can study our bodies and cells. But we know from a lived experience we are so much more than the function of our cells. We are rich, curious exchanges of energy with interconnected cycles that provide and protect and change. Knowing ourselves through the dimension of relationship - kinship - is what initiates intimacy and friendship.
What if you could know the sun and earth as friends? What would change? What fears could lift? What separation could be healed at our most basic levels?
Come and learn about the Akashic Records of Great Nature. These lectures and learnings have affected my deepest identity and fears more than any other practice in over 30 years of yoga. Come. Ask questions, be curious, be surprised.
The Akashic Records are the imprint of all that has been or can be. We will listen, take notes, and share reflections on the impact of these teachings.
July 20 Records of the Earth: Becoming ‘engaged earthlings’
July 21 Records of the Oceans: Unceasing flow. ‘This is how I move.’
July 27 Records of the Fungi: Death is the engine of life
July 28 Records of Humanity: ‘We are each other’s home.'
The Rudiments of Kundalini
WORKSHOP. Sunday, May 26, 3-5pm Tribe 107 E. Preston St. Baltimore.
We all navigate constant change.
This constant change enables growth and evolution.
Constant evolution is the force of kundalini energy in our lives and in all living things. It is Divinity expressing and exploring itself through the natural world - and through us!
We require strength for the journey.
Kundalini practice provides order and structure to carry us through the necessary dissolution and chaos our lives. We practice to give our change direction.
We are fortified when we connect to the guidance and light at our heart.
These are profound practices that have seen me through a persistent eating disorder that started in college, severe postpartum depression, the dissolution of my marriage, to a phoenix-like re-imagination of my life today.
Come learn the basics of how your kundalini energy can serve you.
You will leave with:
- Direct experience of a new sensation of light and strength in your body
- A foundational understanding of the energy of your body
- The components of a kundalini practice :warmup ,kriya / actions, mantra/sound
- A chance to ask your own questions on how this relates to your own life
During our shared 2 hours we will learn, move, and converse.
All levels are welcome!
This is a great introduction to those who are new and a great refresher to those who may have tried it out and want to reestablish a new connection to practice.
Knowing these principles will make every class you take more valuable. See you there!
Looking for a daily practice?
I teach live Monday Wednesday Friday 8-9am EST with replay available to please your practice schedule.
Subagh Kriya will be the first sequence of the year and the sequence will run January 1 - February 9.
For those who join the first 40-day seasonal practice of the year, this 2-hour class will be Day 1.
A 1-hour digital version will be available for the 40 day practitioners.
To attend the Jan 1 event, register above. Neither registration includes the other.
