Returning to studio teaching
Dear Ones,
I'll be teaching live studio classes starting April 8.
AND my online classes will not change.
MOST IMPORTANT. MOST BELOVED.
My 40 day seasonal online classes will continue.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 8-9am via zoom
These are the real work of my heart. I love showing up for this close community and working our way through the energies that surround us, support us, and change as we are changed.
Right now we are savoring the last days of the winter season and preparing for the spring energy return on the spring equinox, March 19.
The next sequence starts March 19 - April 27
Register here.
AND now to Tribe...
It's been since March 16, 2020 that I've had a regular studio position. I feel trepidation and excitement to be creating classes and sequences and thinking of workshops to share.
Tribe will be located in the old Charm City / YogaWorks midtown building. There will be studio classes every day with the addition of a cold plunge, an infrared sauna, and people with the wisdom to guide you through their use.
Starting Monday April 8 my studio schedule will be
Monday noon - 1pm radiant body kundalini
Tuesday 5-6:15 vinyasa yoga flow
Tuesday 5-6:15 vinyasa yoga flow
Wednesday noon - 1pm radiant body kundalini
Thursday 5-6:15 vinyasa yoga flow
Thursday 6:15 - 7:30 radiant body kundalini
For the Tribe opening we each wrote about our teaching.
Here's what I said,
Welcome. Here we are, you and me, both in these miraculous bodies. All my life I’ve been enthralled to be in my body. At eight when it rained I would strip down and run naked around the house to feel the cold on my skin. I was the youngest on the gymnastics team, basketball, field hockey, soccer. But I also had decades of an eating disorder, deep postpartum depression twice, and as much as my body could do I felt ashamed and could never see it as beautiful like others around me. I walked out of my first yoga class and felt momentarily completely at peace, completely at home. All the competition, all the injuries, all the comparison had momentarily fallen away. Here. Here I am. That’s how it felt. For me, this is yoga. It isn’t something I do, it is something I remember, something I become, something available to us all.
Through 30+ years of personal practice and 500+ hours of teacher training yoga is the temple I revere and explore. This is the philosophy I study and teach. This is the center that holds the spinning threads of my life. I have been a corporate trainer for Fortune 500 companies. I have been an academic at major institutions. I have been a homeschool mama for a decade. I have dared and faltered, risen and failed like all of us. And through all of it, I have made sense of my life through my yoga practice.
I weave music, movement, kriya, breath, and stillness so that you can feel you as the light that you are. I will use blessing and ceremony, candles and petals, to show you your magnificence. This is my passion, my joy, and my constant inquiry. I offer an invitation to access the Self that you are beyond all that you know.
Discoveries and integrations to support this vessel that carries us all through life. TRIBE is a portal into that shared vessel, a place where we can learn about each other through ourselves and through new ways of being in motion and stillness, heat and cold, function and freedom. Join the TIRBE and find new ways into your body’s intelligence and wellbeing.
I bring to the TRIBE community practices for self-authority, elevation, and instruction on creating ceremonies to keep our lives intimate and blessed.
Want a free preview?
I'll teach at R House Garage on 29th street March 17, 10-11:30am. All levels, Martha-style flow into kriya, a meditation and a Yoga Nidra to let it all out of your system and leave you shining and bright. Register at TribeBaltimore.com
Come get a big Sunday hug from me. Such a pleasure to see you in person!
So that's where you can find me - online MWF or in the studio starting April 8.
All love, Martha
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"Beware the imagined toxicity of disagreement."
- Stephen Jenkinson