The Benefits Of Personal Yoga Instruction

While yoga classes are great to attend in that they build a sense of community and offer you the opportunity to learn from and with others, it can be difficult to address your specific needs while practicing within a large group of students. Private yoga sessions offer the ability to work one-on-one with an experienced teacher, who can focus every minute of the class on you and your desires for your yoga practice. A one-on-one yoga session can help you quickly get to the next level in your practice. In a group setting, the teacher has to keep an eye on and correct the entire class, which can be a LOT of people for one person to look after! During [more]

Summertime Activity List

Checklist to Stay Health This Summer Summertime can be a time which inspires you to be your most active, your most healthy – or it can turn into the time when you hole up in air conditioning, skip your yoga classes, and live off of a diet of ice cream and mojitos (hey, that mint in there has to count as some sort of green, no?). The following are some easy ways to help keep you on track, so that when autumn rolls around, you are healthier, more vibrant, and with more mental and emotional clarity than ever before! Monthly or bi-monthly Chiropractic Do not underestimate the power of chiropractic work. A chiropractic session for your body is like getting [more]

TOUCH: The Power Of Touch Simply Makes You Healthier

Modern medicine recognizes that the power of touch simply makes you healthier. Consistent bodywork reduces stress, boosts our immune system and has a profound effect in our ability to stay connected to our ‘self’ and our fellow humans. And in our high tech culture, we may have to work harder to honor our innate human need for touch. + pause and connect + give someone a hug today + release with a therapeutic massage + take a break from text and email for a day + connect with your toes in your yoga practice + peel away the layers of chronic pain + explore your skin for anything unusual + examine your body in the shower + truly connect with [more]

Benefits Of Consistent Massage

The healing benefits of massage go far beyond just alleviating sore muscles. As humans, we thrive on positive touch. We have all heard of prematurely born babies who begin thriving with a loving massage. When did we think that we outgrew that need for touch? Unfortunately, in the modern world with advances in technology, we experience less and less physical human contact. In many other cultures, people still greet each other with big hugs and kisses on the cheek – but in our society, it seems much more common to send friends a quick text or chat message saying hello. Combine this with a mentality of fear regarding germs, assault, and with many people not being comfortable with their [more]

Pause And Question What’s Going On In Your Body

If only we would take the time to stop and listen to our body, really listen with non-judgment and love, it would tell us most everything we need to know on to keep it in good health. When our body reaches the point of disease or we feel a lot of anxiety or depression, it is usually because we ignored gentle warning signs for days, months, or unfortunately even years. We allowed the situation to escalate to something much more dramatic than what it started out as, and the entire time we had countless opportunities to nip small problems in the bud. It can be as simple as checking in with yourself once a day. Make a routine to [more]

Kauai Is Calling. Join Us This Fall For A Yoga + Wellness Retreat.

- Time for a dose of some ‘me’ time? Here’s a week-long opportunity to put your life on pause, explore numerous opportunities for self-care, listen to your internal wisdom and refine your life’s purpose, and lose yourself in the beauty of Hawaii’s oldest and most spiritual island, Kauai. Join Pat Johnson, founder of Root Whole Body, for a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to pause and deepen your relationship with yourself in the sacred and beautiful land from which she was born and raised, Hawaii. She’ll be joined by teachers and healers in yoga, massage, acupuncture and organic food from the Root community and special guests Victoria Trabosh, executive life coach who will conduct sessions on deconstructing old patterns and behaviors, remembering [more]

Leap Day Today, Once Every Four Years

Perhaps, just once, we might: Forgive, forget, pause, relax, care, find your voice, create, make a decision, take a moment to play, give credit, smile, speak your truth and refuse to compromise with yourself. In one small way. Pick just one or two and start there? And, you’re certainly welcome to join our “love letter to self” movement that started on V-Day. You’re certainly welcome to forward us your letter at any time – but all letters received today, the last day of the month, will be given a complimentary 30-minute upgrade on your next service at Root to be used within the next 3 months. Join us in pausing today and remembering the beauty that is you. Hopefully, it becomes [more]

Love Your Brain

CNN.com’s look at dementia, “How to Cut Your Risk of Memory Loss” gets to the heart of the importance of preventative care. In order to prevent your brain from losing mass and memory from failing, it’s important to keep blood flowing in the brain. This can be achieved through exercise, a healthy diet, social activity and mental work. In other words, in order to keep the brain healthy, one must keep the body and spirit healthy as well. Dr. Majid Fotuhi of John Hopkins suggests dancing as the best brain health exercise because it’s also a social activity and requires learning and memorization of steps. In between dance lessons, you can come in to Root Whole Body to relax [more]

Some Surprising Benefits Of Yoga

Ok, so you know that yoga will help you improve your flexibility and your body strength and will help you get in touch with your inner self. ‘You should do yoga to improve your flexibility.’ ‘It will help you breathe better.’ There’s nothing wrong with this. Yoga does do these things and there is certainly nothing wrong with wanting to do things for yourself. But this frame of thought overlooks some of the surprising benefits of yoga that we might not think about due to their sweet subtlety. Inner peace brings outer peace. When you are more at peace with who you are, what you are and where you are going, you are able to be more at peace with [more]

How Yoga Can Enhance Sports And Recreation

Yoga is best used in conjunction with other things you like to do, such as soccer, hockey, running or swimming. Yoga is ideally suited to enhance and supplement other activities in a number of ways, and that is why, if you are an avid sportsman or just starting out, yoga is worth adding to your day. What do all sports and activities like it have it common? They require you to be flexible, strong and have good endurance in order to enjoy them. No matter what physical activity you choose to enjoy, you will need to be flexible, sturdy and relatively strong in order to succeed. Yoga can help you get there faster. Furthermore, yoga helps in the after-effects [more]

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