About
Love Your Vessel International, LLC is a movement to spread empowerment, self-love, and body acceptance through workshops, talks, art shows, and benefit concerts.
About Us
Love Your Vessel International, LLC utilizes the transformative power of the creative arts through workshops and retreats that expose people to a variety of activities that promote empowerment and self-love such as art exhibitions, yoga, mediation, stained glass, glass blowing, paint nights, body empowerment photoshoots, and more. The unifying factor of the multidisciplinary aspects of Love Your Vessel is to create a safe haven for people to start their journey of self-love in a protected environment and celebrate their bodies. Through the last five years, the Love Your Vessel social movement has made monumental leaps in community impact and engagement presented in classrooms and stages discussing eating disorders and self-esteem. Society and media have a crippling impact on how young women grow up and perceive themselves, Love Your Vessel works to combat that through promoting body positivity in multiple different funnels to promote the widespread message. With a primary focus in the DMV area, the educational workshops and activities have the power to ignite change within our communities.
Our Founder
Martina Maya-Callen is the Founder and CEO of Love Your Vessel International, LLC. She is an internationally recognized advocate, activist, and educator working to spread awareness on social issues. Her sculpture and performance art piece, “The Hidden Secrets of Eating Disorders” was listed among the top 13 most inspiring body positive moments of 2017 by Cosmopolitan. Her work has been featured on television, radio shows, and magazines such as Yahoo!, Teen Vogue, and Bustle for breaking the stigma on topics often ignored. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Salisbury University with a B.A. in Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution as well as a B.F.A. in Sculpture. She is now pursuing an MFA in Social Practice from George Washington University. She has been a collaborator with the National Eating Disorder Association for five years working to combat eating disorders through education and workshops. As a Fulbright Scholar in Buenos Aires, Argentina she facilitated lessons and workshops for over 2,500 students. Additionally, she has presented for the United Nations and is the Board President and Director of Victim Services and Support for March Against Revenge Porn (501C3). She also works as a Victim Advocate at an emergency safe house for survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and human trafficking. Martina was a New American Fellow with New American Leaders, and a Run Now Training Fellow with Ignite National. Previously she served as a Congressional Fellow in the office of Congresswoman Jayapal with Running Start (2020), a Trabajadoras Fellow with the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (2018-2019), an Undergraduate Research Fellow with the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities at Salisbury University, and a Gilman Scholar with the U.S. Department of State's Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program (2016).
This movement started from one woman deciding to do the rebellious act of loving herself.
