Chef Maria Cooper

20/12/2025

The Winter Solstice arrives on Sunday 12/21 🌑✨
The longest night, the sacred turning, the quiet return of the light.

Under the New Moon in Sagittarius 🌚♐️, we step into a powerful portal of renewal, intention, and transformation. A weekend ripe with magic, movement, and becoming.

We’ll gather to awaken our inner light, weaving dance, breath, and community into ceremony 🤍
I have special offerings prepared and can’t wait to share this moment with you.

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Join me on Sunday 12/21 as we dance the Solstice and welcome the light home ✨🕯️

17/12/2025

To celebrate the fresh energy of the new year, I’m offering 25% off my cookbook, Heartful Kitchen, filled with recipes designed to nourish your body with colorful, flavorful, and joyful recipes. Recipes that make you want to be in your kitchen again!

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Whether you’re resetting after the holiday parties or simply wanting meals that support your body this year, Heartful Kitchen offers recipes you’ll return to again and again.

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Use the code below on my website (link in bio) to take 25% off and start your year with nourishment that feels good from the inside out. Sale ends January 15th

✨ 25% OFF CODE: NOURISH ✨

02/12/2025

🌕✨ This week’s Full Moon in Gemini brings bright, curious energy — a lift, a spark, a reminder to express what’s been sitting inside.

Our Full Moon SoulSweat Class on Wednesday 12/3 at 5:20pm will be full of expression. We will move with that airy momentum: shaking off mental clutter, opening the body to new clarity, and letting breath and sweat untangle what words can’t. Gemini invites play, expression, and the freedom to shift.

Come dance under this mercurial moon and let your body release what your mind has been holding. 🌕💫

26/11/2025

🥘 ❄️ Warming Recipes for Cold Weather ❄️ 🥘 As we move toward holiday gatherings and cozy nights in, here are some of my favorite nourishing recipes—warm, grounding, and delicious without sacrificing nutrition.

These are perfect for potlucks, family dinners, or simple weeknight meals (visit the link in my bio to view the full recipes!)

🥘Luscious Indian Chicken

Deeply spiced, savory, and nourishing. This hearty one-pot meal is full of rich goodness and health. A perfect cold-night meal.

🍠Roasted Root Veggies

Did you know you can ground yourselves with root vegetables? The roots of any vegetable are the foundation, the anchor from which they flourish and grow. Let these vegetables be your anchor! This is a great warming seasonal side dish that can be made in large quantities, perfect for holiday get-togethers or meal prepping for the week! Earthy, grounding, nutrient-rich, and oh-so comforting.

🥬Butternut & Arugula Salad

Peppery, bright, and warming. Arugula wilted over sautéed butternut squash and finished with fresh ginger and lime. This salad is the perfect balance of cozy + fresh.

Visit the link in my bio to view the full recipes!

22/11/2025

18/11/2025

🌑🦂 This New Moon in Scorpio is a portal of reflection and renewal. It brings a moment to pause, breathe, and let the inner transformation catch up with you. With the Scorpio energy and multiple planets in retrograde it brings us face-to-face with the raw truth of life.

In class, we’ll move through the shadows we’ve been uncovering, soften into the emotions rising from the depths, and honor the sacred pause before setting new intentions. Sometimes the most potent magic comes from simply being present with what is.

✨ Note: This will be my last class until Sunday, Nov. 30th. Alchemy will open back up on Saturday, Nov. 29th. So come sweat, process, and drop in with me before the break.

Can’t wait to move with you under this powerful, watery new moon. 🌑💧

17/11/2025

Desire, a sultry dance-cardio class on Mondays at 6:30pm at Alchemy of Movement!

Desire For Your…..
❤️‍🔥 Sensual self
❤️‍🔥 Fierce being
❤️‍🔥 Primal nature
❤️‍🔥 Sassy playful heart
❤️‍🔥 Inner flirt
❤️‍🔥 Release of inhibition
❤️‍🔥 True empowerment

We will create safe space together to flow, to dance, to be. 🦋

Feeling safe is the first step in creating a soft landing into your sensual self.

All are welcome.
No dance experience necessary.

09/11/2025

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04/11/2025

🌕 Wednesday’s Ta**us 🌎 Super Moon 🌕

Move. Release. Root.
Join us Wednesday eve for a grounding yet wild full moon class to help you shed what no longer serves and reconnect with your body.

💫 Special astro update from Tawa 💫

🕠 5:20pm • Wed 11/5

📍Alchemy of Movement

💫 Link in bio to sign up 💫

02/11/2025

From a friend ❤️

31/10/2025

I think we can all feel the winter chill setting in 🥶 We’ve officially entered bone broth season! 🍲Keeping the body nourished and satisfied during the colder months is crucial. My favorite way to do this is by making homemade bone broth

Bone broth can be used as a base to elevate soups and sauces or sipped on its own, nourishing your belly and preparing it for meals. If you’ve never made bone broth, I encourage you to give it a try!

Don’t want to make it yourself? I sell bone broth! Reach out to me if you’re interested!

✨Here’s the recipe✨
2-3 lbs of bones from grass-fed beef, lamb, bison or elk; organic chicken; turkey or duck NOTE: Red meat marrow bones are preferred. Purchasing organic rotisserie chickens allows you to immediately use it. Purchase 2 rotisserie chickens for 1 batch. If using rotisserie chickens step 3
2 T apple cider, rice wine or raw coconut vinegar
6 qt cold water
4 c onion, rough-chopped
2 c carrot, rough-chopped
2 c celery, rough-chopped
8 cloves garlic, smashed

1. Preheat oven to 400°. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and place the bones on it if using raw bones.
2. Roast bones for 30 min. Bones with meat or fat on them, may need 10 to 15 min longer depending on the size.
3. Cover the bones in the pot by 3 inches with cold water and vinegar for 1 hr. The acid helps leach out as much mineral content from the bones as possible.
4. After soaking, simmer at high heat, not to a boil. Reduce the heat to the lowest setting, cover the pot, keep it partially ajar so some of the steam can escape.
5. Check back in 30 mins to ensure that the liquid is not boiling. Allow 12-72 hrs for red meat and 6-8 hrs for poultry.
6. You may need to add water to keep the level high. Each time you do this, bring the water temperature back up just below a boil, and then reduce to a simmer.
7. In the final hour of cooking, add the vegetables and garlic.
8. Strain it and if using red meat bones, reserve the marrow-filled bones.

Enjoy your homemade bone broth! This recipe is from my cookbook Heartful Kitchen. If you’re interested in learning more ways to use your fresh batch of bone broth head to my website where you can purchase it (ebook available)

27/10/2025

🛌 Another cozy dinner in bed… sensing a pattern here 😌✨ 

🐟 Cast-Ironed fish with 🔥 extra crispy skin

💫 Whole-grain mustard aïoli

🌿Grilled asparagus

🫒Greek olives

🥑Fresh avocado

Simple, rich, and absolutely decadent.

I’ve been loving meals focused on protein and healthy fats, they digest so well and make me feel satisfied. And I love eating in bed because I’m my coziest there. The Chilean seabass and king salmon that we chose tonight were heavenly. Honestly, I could eat this every night.