Gratefully Rooted

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature." - Joseph Campbell

My Living Rhythm Mentorship is my new favorite offering. We sit together, one-on-one, ground in, practice, & refine trajectories for your evolution in the life that you are living now.

So far, humans in the mentorship & I have explored things like meditation, yoga asana, dance, self-care practices, somatic exercises, plant medicines & herbal allies, seasonal living & cooking, rewilding, & creating art...this mentorship gets to shape itself as we come together in real time.

My job is to call forth what may be hidden beneath your surface and to honor the conversation between what you want for your life and what life wants of you. My intention is to ask really beautiful questions & openly listen to your words, your body, the space & the silence.

I have a few open spaces for this month. Purchase the intro package under the Living Rhythm Mentorship tab on my website to sign up. The intake paperwork is worth the time you give it. 🌀✨🌀✨

It's all virtual unless you want to come to my home studio in Berkeley Springs. I'm down to have you!

Photo by the radiant Phoebe Rust Photography
Graphic by my new brilliant social media LOVE Alyssa Cajbon

There was a young woman from Finland in my first yoga teacher training…Freddie, I believe.

I remember her telling me that every Sunday her entire family, age 5 to 95, went to the sauna together.

I remember idealizing that space - like how freaking cool - to be that connected, that intimate, that at home with your extended family & to all be committed to an ongoing WEEKLY sauna date.

What a gorgeous ritual to naturalize into your rhythm of living.

🌀 the intentional nourishment & tending of your individual body within the collective family body

🌀 normalizing a variety of bodies in different ages & phases of life

🌀 baring ourselves, naked, held by the safety those that have loved us since before we were even born

While I know it’s not for everyone, it has become a weekly (sometimes multiple times per week) practice for me…and sometimes Tommy, sometimes my man or friends…it’s a space to steep in slow time & bare ourselves.

Water nourishes, revitalizes, & amplifies communication within our own bodies & between bodies.

Truths flow.

Connections awaken.

We remember our belonging.

I feel as though I am woven again into the family of living things…

and it seems to do the same for Tommy.

Rewilding Retreat for Women ✨💃🏽🌀🌳🥾

June 3-7, 2024 in Great Cacapon, WV

A ritual space for those who want it, a nourishing break for those who need it, and an enlivening space for those who long for more presence in the rhythms of their wild!

Join us for a week of fundamental human nourishment - movement, art, expression, local food, selfcare, interpersonal connection, nature immersion, intention, daydreaming, & rest.

You will have one day devoted to hiking & river romping, one devoted to massage & self-care, and one devoted to your wild photoshoot with hair & makeup.

Only 3 spots left!!! Fill out our questionnaire at gratefullyrooted.com or DM me for details!

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The spirit of this kid lights me up.

He woke up & put his pj pants on his head when I was downstairs making coffee at Nanny’s house.

He fell back asleep before he could reap the rewards of his efforts. Over an hour later when the sun came up I finally noticed something on his head…😂

I love his big heart so much. 🥰 Laughter is a love language for both of us.

In the middle of a tense & tricky week for me, it was the sweetest gesture. ☺️🙏✨

“Honesty is the outer diagnostic of our ability to come to ground in reality, the hardest attainable ground of all, the place where we actually dwell.”

Being honest is a virtuous path that doesn’t promise to make you feel good. It’s a hard path and one that typically requires great discomfort.

Being truthful with ourselves & each other means learning that everything has a place. It means learning to love, re-embody, & better understand the aspects of ourselves & our lives that feel unlovable.

“There’s no liberation without actually leaning forward and looking at the things that we habitually run away from, in order to see things as they really are, not as we have imagined them.”

Come practice satya, truthfulness, this month 🔥

Vinyasa Wednesdays 6pm & Thursdays 9:30am & some Sundays 10am

Restorative Wednesdays 7:30pm

Prenatal some Thursdays 6pm

Grab your favorite wild women & come bunk up in a sweet riverfront tent cottage at our Rewilding Retreat! 💃🏽🔥🖤✨

June 3-7, 2024 in Great Cacapon, WV!

THESE ARE OUR LAST 3 SPOTS!

Yoga & hiking.

Bodywork & herbal self care.

Art & the wild woman photoshoot of your dreams.

Rest & rejuvenate immersed in nature.

Return to your nature.

$1777 each. Come solo & make new friends or come together & widen your circle!

Pictured are two of MY favorite wild women in a lengthy list of women I adore. 💃🏽🌀🖤🔥✨

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On Meditating, Sort Of – Mary Oliver

Meditation, so I’ve heard, is best accomplished
if you entertain a certain strict posture.
Frankly, I prefer just to lounge under a tree.
So why should I think I could ever be successful?

Some days I fall asleep, or land in that
even better place — half-asleep — where the world,
spring, summer, autumn, winter —
flies through my mind in its
hardy ascent and its uncompromising descent.

So I just lie like that, while distance and time
reveal their true attitudes: they never
heard of me, and never will, or ever need to.

Of course I wake up finally
thinking, how wonderful to be who I am,
made out of earth and water,
my own thoughts, my own fingerprints —
all that glorious, temporary stuff.

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My Living Rhythm Mentorship is about doing just that.

There is a part of you that is deeply tired of searching.

Return to simplicity in the moments you remember.

Receive your breath, your heartbeat. Be present to the life vibrating in your fingertips.

Lay down all effort, all inquiry from outside of you, all searching, all needing - just for a short while.

Soften into the present experience of all you have been given.

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I have space for 3 virtual clients this month. The intro package is $150 for 3 sessions to be completed within 4 weeks.

Fill out your intake paperwork under the Living Rhythm Mentorship tab on my website gratefullyrooted.com 🌀✨

Just beyond halfway between the spring equinox & the summer solstice, we gather to celebrate & bless this season of expansion with FLOWERS!!! 🌼

Imagine dancing around a maypole, weaving flower crowns, & infusing wildly loving intentions into flower essences to take home.

We will also do all the usual Garden Party things like practice yoga, journal, & share a beautiful meal.

Join us for an intimate & joyful day retreat at my home in Berkeley Springs.

ALL Garden Parties are on SALE through the spring equinox. Reserve your spot(s)! 🌼

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Take a peek at our Rewilding Retreat schedule!
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Our 3 full days together will be split up into your day to hike, your day of bodywork & self-care, & your day of hair, makeup & photoshoot!

Your bodywork is a 75 minute appointment with .campbell.kid & your hair, makeup, & shoot will take approximately 2-2.5 hours.

There will be so much space to steep in the river, linger in slow time, & savor the sounds of unobstructed nature.

Invitations to tend your body will be peppered throughout the retreat. Think foot soaks, herbal facials, yoni steams, body oiling, & cold plunges in the river!

Art & inspiration will also weave the spacious time together. Think tents of art supplies, journaling prompts, heartfelt conversation starters, tarot & oracle decks, poetry books, & more!

This week retreat keeps pulsing more and more alive. We have 3 spots left in dorm accommodations. Bring 2 friends and let’s do this!

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We are opening 5 “bring your own tent” spots! Everything except the bodywork & hair, makeup & photoshoot for $650. It’s going to be a robustly nourishing week for us ALL!!!

I Am Not I

I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
whom at times I manage to visit,
and whom at other times I forget;
the one who remains silent while I talk,
the one who forgives, sweet, when I hate,
the one who takes a walk when I am indoors,
the one who will remain standing when I die.

- Juan Ramon Jimenez (translated by Robert Bly)

YOGA this month is woven around the practice of Satya, truthfulness.

From the root “Sat” meaning true essence, what is pure, and unchanging.

The you of you that has been you through every evolution, every cycle, every death & every renewal.

The loving presence, that your outer personality forgets exists behind your busyness, beneath your hustle, and in, around, and through the tiny moments of meaning waiting to awaken you.

It’s time to pause - strengthen your feet into the earth & lengthen your spine, soften your eyes & your knees, lift & drop your heels to a beat for a minute. Let your arms swing, bounce, or shake.

Reverberate.

Locate your bones. Soften your skin.

Breathe.

YOU are here. I am here. WE are here. 🖤🌀✨

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Classes
Vinyasa Wednesday 6pm & Thursday 9:30am
Restorative Wednesday 7:30pm

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📸: from & day retreat last year 🙏✨💚🌀

Our first Garden Party Day Retreat of the year…

In collaboration with my friend Iris to bring you a day of tending our bodies, hearts, minds, & our own sourdough loaves! 🥖🌱🌀

Come savor a day of nourishment, learning, & connection at my home studio.

5 SPOTS LEFT 🥖✨🥖✨🥖

We will practice yoga together & write on some journaling prompts that will inform & inspire the conversations over our slow seasonally crafted lunch.

We will demystify the very human art of fermentation & discuss the fact of biodiversity.

You will learn to make your own sourdough & you will take home your loaf & a starter to continue the adventure & spread the love.

Sign up at gratefullyrooted.com 💚🙏

Spring is coming! Let’s emerge together!

In our productivity-driven modern lives, may we all be reminded that girl-mossing has a place.

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I was describing the evolution of my work to a friend this morning & it’s really all woven around creating opportunities for & amplifying our experience of fundamental human nourishment.

Nourishments we have strayed from in the race of days & the demands of modernity.

Nourishments that resource our capacity, vitality, fluidity, kindness, & consciousness so we can contribute more of our whole, multidimensional-selves to all our relations.

Nourishments that invite us to restore what it means to be human & humane as a part of the living earth.

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Laying my body on the earth, moving intentionally slow, cooking foods all day, living in rhythm with the seasons, meditating, dancing, making art, lingering in conversations & hugs, steeping teas, etc. feel like radical acts these days.

Radical meaning deeply rooted or of origin. That’s the etomology of the word - check it out. I’ll see if I can find the newsletter I wrote on the word “radical” years ago & share the link later.

So maybe the evolution & revolution is called “radical nourishment”. I’m ready to help catalyze & steward that chapter for our species & planet. Who’s with me?!

Come to a retreat, a garden party, workshop, or a class, work with me via my living rhythm mentorship, or let’s collaborate & co-create. I’m here for it.

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The path & perils of ahimsa 💚

Okay WOMEN!!! We have 3 SPOTS LEFT for our Rewilding Retreat!!! What a dream!

The remaining accommodations are dorm-style. You would share a large riverside tent cottage with 2 other women vetted by me!

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I’ve decided to open 5 bring your own tent spots (no bodywork or photography) - yoga, hiking, all meals, art, & group festivities for $650!

Come steep in slow time, immersed in nature, wildly held by a magnificent group of women!

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Garden Parties are LIVE & on SALE through the Spring Equinox!

Come for 1, some, or purchase all 8 of these intimate & playful gatherings. Your animal body & wild heart will be deeply nourished.

4/20 - Sourdough with

5/4 - May Day Flower Celebration

6/22 - Summer Solstice

7/27 - Ice Dying with

8/10 - Star Harvest (astrologer collab to be announced)

9/21 - Autumn Equinox

10/19 - Herbal Oiling & Self-Massage with .campbell.kid

11/2 - Samhain New Moon Lunacy

I am so excited for this second season of nourishing the often overlooked fundamentals of being human.

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Rewilding Retreat for Women is almost FULL!!!

We have this entire dorm-style tent accommodation still available! I’m limiting it to 3 women unless you and 4 of your friends want to come together!

If you’re coming solo and are interested in being 1 of 3 women in this riverside tent cottage your total retreat price would be $1,777.

If you & your crew were to reserve the whole thing, we would work out a lower price for 4 or 5 of you.

Reach out to me here or visit gratefullyrooted.com for more info!

Stay tuned, I’m going to be announcing SUPER AFFORDABLE camping options this week! 🏕️

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We are REWILDING in West Virginia THIS SPRING!!! 🌱🔥💃🏽✨

Just a few spots left - June 3-7, 2024

Join us.

Traditionally, the mid-winter fire celebration of Imbolc ends tonight 🔥 Imbolc meaning “in the belly of the mother”

It marks the cross quarter time between the beginning of winter & the beginning of spring so the dates can be fluid & felt in relationship to the climate where you live.

Ground your bare feet to the earth, breathe, feel the stirrings beneath the surface & the sparks of inspiration lighting up your body.

This time of year is about hope & preparation. After the rest & recuperation of deep winter, we tip toward longer days and bring our insights & wonderings into the light.

Light a candle or a fire & oil your body with my Activate & Flow Herbal Body Oil. Gather your journal & a cup of tea…

Writing prompts for this preparatory awakening from the slumber of winter…

What feels most alive within me in this moment?

How do I hold the thread of who I am in the tension between things ending & new beginnings?

What is the earth asking of me?

How do I prevent myself from fully engaging in my place in the web of life?
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Finish these sentences…

The foundations that support my existence are…

I feel open to connection, collaboration, & exploration when…

From my belly to yours 😘

Our first Garden Party day retreat is April 20 at my home in Berkeley Springs, WV!

I’m partnering with my dear friend Iris & her fermentation prowess to deliver you a nourishing day of kitchen witch love!

We will build our dough, tend our vital bellies in practice beside our sourdough babes, & ritually knead throughout the day.

Lunch will be flatbreads & stewp (soupy stew) with ferments galore!

As always you will have quiet solo time to contemplate & write on the provided journaling prompts, & time to steep in wholehearted conversation & joyful connection.

You will take home your baked bread, a sourdough starter, a packet of information & a deeply nourished heart & belly.

I’m already working on the playlists!

7 spots left!

Purchase yours at www.gratefullyrooted.com 💚 (ticket prices increase on the spring equinox)

There’s a $25 materials fee included in the price - we are sourcing wonderful flour from wonderful humans & you’ll learn about that too!

⬅️ follow Iris & buy her plant potions - she makes really wise & effective tinctures that I rely on in my home

*if finances are holding you back & you feel called to join, please reach out directly to me - I’m always down for a barter*

March 20 Awaken to Spring with me 🌱 $35

For one night, we are replacing my regular Wednesday evening classes with a spring equinox celebration - open to ALL!!!

Come, mark this moment in our seasonal cycles, & begin the process of reemerging together!

We will open with tea & journaling followed by a playful somatic mirroring exercise to animate what we love about this seasonal threshold.

I will lead a short asana practice grounded in flow & balance followed by long holds of nourishing restorative postures, & a spring equinox inspired guided meditation.

It will be a time to gather & commemorate this moment in the cycle of seasons by intentionally drawing nourishment from our dark & damp roots to emerge again into the co-creative energy of spring!

aaaaaand I’m back from my 40 day social media release - it was part of a multi-layered invitational wintering for my body, heart, & business.

I’m re-emerging in rhythm with the earth.

February 1 marks the midpoint between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, celebrated by a traditional Gaelic festival known as Imbolc, meaning “in the belly”.

There is so much in my belly! 💚

My Etsy store is softly reopened. You can purchase my ebook for $1 & Activate & Flow Ayurvedic Herbal Body Oil, the oil for this seasonal threshold, for $45. (link in stories)

A threshold is an opening between worlds, spaces, bodies, seasons, or levels of consciousness. The medicine of these liminal spaces is amplified by how we engage with & integrate the crossing.

Seasonally, we are in the belly of winter. The earth is pregnant, gestating, readying the life within for rebirth.

Herbal oil rituals tend the threshold of our skin & nourish the life within. Activate & Flow is replenishing & gently animating. It’s a bright & sustaining companion for this time of year.

Warm the oil gently over a flame or double boiler, light a candle, & oil your skin (pre or post bath) from head to toe. Savor the warmth of your own touch & the medicine of being attuned to your whole self.

Organic Ingredients: apricot, sunflower, & safflower oils, ginger root, calendula flowers, rosemary, peppermint leaf, nettle leaf, yarrow leaf & flower, tulsi, & red clover blossoms, & bergamot, grapefruit, & clove essential oils

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Evergreen Medicine 🌲 - https://mailchi.mp/5c50b6a939d5/evergreen-medicine

I’ll never take living here & soaking in these healing waters for granted.

Welcome winter ❄️ I adore these deep dark days.

Wintering is a time of endurance. Not in energy output, but in staying power. It asks us to courageously be with ourselves, to nurture our most essential needs, & to weave our intimate relations with more care & sturdiness.

The cold also enhances our focus & activates our clarity.

I’m taking a 2-3 week social media pause to steep in hushed & slower time.

I will continue to teach my regular classes & there will be a newsletter in the next few days inviting you to the medicine of evergreens. (Sign up - link in my stories)…but that’s it.

Exhale…

I’m pausing my Etsy store & my Apothecary CSA until spring when my newly envisioned Garden Party Day Retreats (with some cool collaborations) reemerge from winter hibernation too.

If you need me, I’ll be sleeping, dreaming, practicing, mothering, bone brothing, oiling, hydrating, baking, frolicking, writing, & loving. ❄️✨🌲

Contact me via gratefullyrooted.com.

Grateful to these platforms. Very ready to peace out for a bit. ✌️

Gosh. How blessed are we?!

Cradled by the warmth of my home & body while…

Sufjan Stevens’s Songs for Christmas plays

Wrapping wholehearted gifts signed “Mum & Greg or Dad & Aly” 🥹

Sipping tea alongside the enchanting aroma of roasting potatoes & onions in fresh thyme & rosemary

Planning our homemade cookies, ornaments, & a pretzel log cabin

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With all the sorrows & the well of grief I feel for the life suffering globally, I’m grateful for the solace of close in goodness & the ability to savor all the beauty.

Sending you & yours blessings of peace, warmth, & joy. 🙏

Hello Human Hearts -

Hello Human Hearts

Retreat.

Unplug.

Slow down.

Bathe in nature…and maybe a cold river.

Remember yourSelf.

Connect with yourSelf.

Empower her. Uplift her. Express her.

Gather with a group of women dancing around a fire, woven & held together by the intention to rewild.

You ARE a human animal. There are instincts beneath the surface of your busyness.

Slow down & we will call to the wild radiance & primal energy living within your body & heart.

Slow down.

Listen.

Rewilding Retreat, in Great Cacapon WV
6/3 - 6/7, 2024

Message me for details.

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