2026 Live Holiday Events
Vidya Sessions Saturday Nov. 14, 9-3pm
We will meet at Oella Mill for tea and a kriya, then a walk, a sit, and maybe a dip along the Patapsco River watershed. When we go inside we have time to write and reflect, catching the ideas from the outside and bringing them in. Donation-based. Register with Patti erin.patti@gmail.com
Thanksgiving class, Thursday Nov. 26, 9:30-11am
All-levels class of vinyasa flow into a meditation and quick writing exercise to honor the day and send you home ready to host and gather. Register at SOMA
Winter Solstice, Sunday Nov. 20, 5-7pm
We prepare to cross the threshold into the wonder of the dark, leaving the year and all its activities behind. Expect a short vinyasa flow to build a seat and a potent kundalini kriya to clear out what has been, and rest in a soundbath in the empty space that follows. Register at SOMA
Kundalini by Candlelight, Friday Jan 1 2027, 5-7pm
Our annual class to chart the year ahead. Register at SOMA
You're Invited
There is something meaningful about gathering together.
Our events are created to offer space—to learn, reflect, create, and connect with others who share a desire to live with purpose and intention. Whether it's your first time joining us or you're returning to continue the journey, we hope you'll find inspiration, encouragement, and a sense of belonging.
Take a look at what's coming up. We'd be honored to have you join us.
Choose Nurture:
Elder care and end-of-life doula course
Next session starts January 2027
There is guidance available on this inevitable path
Join Sierra Campbell and Martha McAlpine to help you navigate elder-hood, prepare for the inevitable, and make a plan for end-of-life with compassion, clarity, and support. You will have lectures from Sierra and other experts on grief, ritual, hospice care, and elderhood every other week, and you will work with Martha in a small group format on alternate Wednesdays to personalize and integrate your learning.
Curious? Watch Sierra’s TEDx talk: A talk for anyone who plans to die
Or see Sierra teach Alessandro of WellQuest how to die
Course details /registration at choosenurture.com
Are you ready to care for your loved ones as they age?
Are you comfortable having conversations that can be difficult yet necessary to end life well?
Are your own wishes clear to you so your loves know how to provide for you if anything should happen?
These are the questions we consider in Choose Nurture.
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.
Reclaiming the Dark
Fall 2027
at Kroka Expeditions, Marlow, NH
To register email liz.jordan@kroka.org
This experience of darkness will provide:
A new vision of the nature of time, seasons, cycles, and creativity; how women are physiologically and hormonally built for fluctuation but have lived in a linear timeframes.
The dark as a means to to process or integrate all that is in the ‘daylight’ of our days.
Women-specific teachings on the nervous system and hormonal rhythms of the solar and lunar aspects of our days.
Personal practices to fortify our ability to witness ourselves more fully, to feel more without being overwhelmed.
Support within a community of women interested in direct experience of the fullness of the day, the season, the self
Expect able-hearted guides familiar with the terrain of darkness that will teach through gathering, singing, fires, blindfolds, breath, and movement.
daily schedule:
+ Morning yoga and kundalini practices
+ Breakfast + solo time / journal / walk
+.Morning studies + group activity
+ Lunch / yoga nidra / siesta / rest
+ Afternoon outing / adventure
+Evening yin / gentle stretch
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.
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.
Masterclass: The Nervous System
July 26, 2025 12 - 2pm at TRIBE Baltimore - FREE
Our nervous system serves to keep us aware of the circumstances around us and within us. Primarily the nervous system serves to keep us safe by alerting us to what is unfamiliar or known to be dangerous. And that’s the kicker - how do we tell the difference?
Growth means stepping into the unknown.
When we can begin to retrain / rewire our response to the NEW so that it trips an option of POSSIBILITY instead of FEAR, then we can begin to make real change.
In this masterclass you will learn and practice:
The origin and role of the nervous system
The difference between the spinal plexi / gatherings of nervous tissue that some out from between the vertebrae and the interior pathways of the vagus nerve
Why knowing the difference of axial inputs from vagal inputs matters to your choice-making
What our “normal” setting is and how it can be expanded and how the expansion requires practice
How our beliefs interact with our thoughts, emotions, and actions, and why just repeating positive phrases won’t move the dial
The connection between our posture, our hormones, and our thoughts and how to take charge of our decisions by expanding our bodies (I bet you stood taller when you read that)
FREE and available to all levels
REGISTER at TRIBE Baltimore
take OWNERSHIP
OWNERSHIP : STRATEGY
Feb 7, 8, 9 and Feb 15, 16 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:
Managing time as a means to enact our personal values
Building a personal practice and addressing resistance
Deep work, deep reading, myelin and their implications on our brains
Remembering our innate capacity to make miracles
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?
We will learn, we will move, we will rest, we will reflect. This will be our strategy.
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.