Moving Meditation: A Qigong Workshop with Monica Rudestam

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QIGONG: Moving and Speaking When the sun rises over Sunset Park, the highest point in the borough of Brooklyn, the light is soft, the leaves on the stone path listen, the benches wait, and groups of people practice qigong.  They move in unison, reaching arms out, sweeping, lifting, balancing.  They move slowly like cranes in a gentle walk along a river, like …

A Healthy Lifeline

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Care for your active body starts with a healthy lifeline. Most folks don’t realize how essential chiropractic care is to your overall health. Far too many people still believe that chiropractic care is needed only when one has a severe headache or low back pain.  Truth is, millions of folks get adjusted regularly to improve their health and their body’s …

Healthy Back Clinic with Dr. Herold and Pam Blair

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Back Pain.  We all suffer from it now and then.  We can’t get comfortable in bed at night.  We bend over–something feels wrong.  We stand up–something doesn’t feel right.  And so many of us sit at computers all day typing away.  By lunch time, the muscles in our mid-back are whispering, “ouchbackpain ouchbackpain.”  By 5 ‘o clock, it’s more like …

Dr. Stefan Herold Speaks Out

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HOW LONG COULD YOU DRIVE YOUR CAR OUT OF ALIGNMENT? As a chiropractic physician, my job is to be a doctor for the whole body.  I do not specialize in just one part of our system,  but look at the relationships of all parts witin the whole.  If you’ll indulge me, I have an analogy I’d like to share involving …

Integrity Series with Jay Fields: Mula Bandha

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Botany:  A root anchors a plant into the ground, absorbs water and nutrients from the soil, and sends them to the stem. Math:  A root is a solution.  A square root of a number x, is the number that when multiplied by itself produces x. Music:  A root in a chord is the fundamental note.  It also sounds like this. …

Integrity Series with Jay Fields: Breath and Pranayama Basics

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INSPIRED I often find my self in downward dog, or tree pose, wishing I had a pen and paper, and could somehow make a few notes without losing my balance.  Yoga teachers have a tendency to say beautiful things, and as a writer, I have a tendency to take note of good dialogue and save it for later.  In class …

Flow: Vinyasa Basics Workshop

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FLOW Merriam Webster gives several definitions for Flow.  To circulate, to rise, to abound, “to proceed smoothly and readily.”  One definition, I found to be particularly intriguing: “to deform under stress without cracking or rupturing –used especially of minerals and rocks.” My sister is a geo-biologist.  She’s a geologist and biologist.  I usually explain her work by telling people that …

New Spring | Summer Schedule Starts

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We've added more classes you've requested ( more vinyasa, pilates ) and welcome new teachers to Root: Meghan Bowen, Kate Sanderson, Kim Reis and Nikki Weaver. Click here for a printable copy of the schedule for your wall.

Massage Benefits: First Impressions

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I’ve see people in the halls of Root after a massage. They float, walking slowly, softly, like angles in their white kimono robes. Sometimes their hair is a tiny bit messy, but they don’t seem to mind, and it only adds to their attractiveness, like the loveliness of your children or your partner when they first wake in the morning …