Retreats & Events

Rachel has been leading workshops and retreats since 2017 and will be increasing her offerings again this year!

Upcoming Events:

Strength & Softness Memorial Day Weekend Retreat

Blue Mountain Retreat Center, Knoxville, MD • May 22nd @ 5pm - May 25th, @ 1pm, 2026

Join me Memorial Day Weekend for a 3 night yoga retreat to rebalance strength & softness in our lives! During this weekend in the woods, we will create a sacred space to nourish and embrace our whole selves through yoga, meditation, journaling, time in nature, and community building.

The retreat, located at The Blue Mountain Retreat Center: 1032 Hoffmaster Rd, Knoxville, MD 21758 will begin Friday at 5pm and conclude by 1pm on Monday.

The Retreat will include the following:

4 Full Asana Practices
Meditation
Additional nourishing/restorative practices/sessions TBA
Free time for hiking or exploring other nearby attractions
Saturday night bonfire
Accommodation (shared rooms, roommate requests welcome)
Homemade organic & vegan meals made by our amazing host, Beth
Massages Available with Beth at $90 per hour

Past Events:

Healing, Hope, & Resilience Summer Yoga Retreat

Knoxville, MD • August 2025

During this retreat, we spent the weekend journaling, hiking, and practicing yoga and meditation. We created a sacred space to nourish our capacity for healing, explored the practice of hope without attaching to expectations, and cultivated our belief in our own strength through resilience.

A Season of Becoming Spring Yoga Retreat

Knoxville, MD • May 2024

This Memorial Day Weekend 3 night yoga retreat created sacred space to nourish and embrace our whole selves through an exploration of what it means to be constantly evolving and becoming more and more authentic. Yoga, meditation, journaling, time in nature, and community building paved the way towards balancing acceptance and growth, embodying our life’s path, and cultivating patience with change, uncertainty, and paradox.

Happy Hips Workshop

Past Tense • June 2023

This workshop explored all 6 functions of the hip joint: flexion and extension, internal and external rotation, and adduction and abduction. We played with ways to make our hips happier through mobility, stability and strength practices.

Embracing Surrender Fall Yoga Retreat

Paris, VA • Sep 2019

Exploring the path of surrender, this weekend of yoga, meditation, and time in nature opened participants to express their most authentic selves. Through journaling and practice, students carefully crafted intentions for following their life’s truth path and prepared to then send those intentions into the gentle hands of the universe.

Embracing Connection Spring Yoga Retreat

Paris, VA • Mar 2019

This weekend retreat explored how connection enriches our lives. Yoga, meditation, and time in nature paved the way to embody connection to self, to loved ones, to breath, and to the universe at large.

Embracing Abundance Fall Yoga Retreat

Paris, VA • Oct 2018

This weekend in the woods created a sacred space to nourish and embrace our abundant whole selves with yoga, meditation, and nature.

Additional Workshops

Immersion Series: Hamstrings

Past Tense Yoga Studio • Feb 2019 & Jan 2020

Verbal Articulation and Teaching Off the Mat

Past Tense Yoga Studio YTT • Nov 2018 & 2019

Immersion Series: Hips

Past Tense Yoga Studio • Jan 2018

Better Balance

Past Tense Yoga Studio • Feb 2018

Hip Mobility, Stability, and Strength

VIDA Fitness City Vista • Jun 2018

Yoga in the Park with Mindful Movement DC

Outdoor Yoga group with Mindful Movement DC

“I jumped at the chance to go on a retreat with Rachel. I am picky about where to spend my yoga time and money, but I didn't hesitate to sign up because Rachel is a non-judgmental, size and ability inclusive instructor. The retreat was low pressure, with time to be alone or with the group as I chose (and some mandatory alone time, which was great). The classes were varied and well paced and the activities Rachel chose to complement the yoga rounded out the weekend perfectly. By the end, I felt refreshed in body and spirit. I attended the last retreat before the pandemic and can't wait until the next one!”