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Root Whole Body healing + injury prevention, increasing energy, keeping flexible, pain-free living

As the days get brighter and our damp, rain-soaked bodies unfurl hungrily towards the sun, it’s no wonder we’re obsessed about our posture and backs this month – a strong, flexible spine is the foundation that supports you for all your outdoor activities: biking, hiking, tennis, boating, swimming, sports, running and going long for that frisbee! If you missed our …

Moving Meditation: A Qigong Workshop with Monica Rudestam

Root Whole Body healing + injury prevention, increasing energy, keeping flexible, pain-free living, reducing stress

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

Root Whole Body healing + injury prevention, increasing energy, keeping flexible, pain-free living

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

Root Whole Body healing + injury prevention, increasing energy, keeping flexible, pain-free living, reducing stress

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

Root Whole Body healing + injury prevention, increasing energy, keeping flexible, managing hormones, pain-free living

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

Root Whole Body healing + injury prevention, increasing energy, keeping flexible

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

Root Whole Body healing + injury prevention, increasing energy, keeping flexible

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 …

Mountains, Muscle, Surrender: A Tadasana Lesson with Jay Fields

Root Whole Body healing + injury prevention, increasing energy, keeping flexible

Sunday was living up to its name for once, sending afternoon light softly through the window to golden the faces and shoulders of the students gathering there, forming a semi-circle with their mats, gathering blocks and straps from the closet, speaking quietly amongst themselves.  We came to learn about Tadasana, Mountain pose, standing.  We stand and walk every day, and …

Qi Gong with Monica Rudestam

Root Whole Body Events, healing + injury prevention, increasing energy, keeping flexible, managing hormones, pain-free living, reducing stress

I’ve been learning about slow.  I left New York City, the fastest place on Earth, to take a few deep breaths and maybe a long stroll or two that no one would interrupt with an elbow, briefcase, or soggy umbrella in my side.  I’ve been enjoying the space, even if it means if I drop something on the street, there might …

Good Vibrations: Yoga + Vibes! February 23rd at 7:30pm

Root Whole Body Events, healing + injury prevention, increasing energy, keeping flexible, reducing stress

Are you a vibration-craving, yoga-loving, singing in the showering, whistling while you’re working blog peruser who has no plans Thursday night? Never fear!  Yoga Vibes is here! Check out what Daniel has to say below, then make your way to Root Whole Body Thursday night!  See you there! Learn more about Daniel here.

The Qi Workout with Daniel Espiritu LAc

Root Whole Body Events, healing + injury prevention, increasing energy, keeping flexible, managing hormones, pain-free living

Remember my post about Sunset Park? Well, I’m finally learning tai chi and qi gong, and maybe someday I’ll go back to that high hill in Brooklyn and practice in the early morning like I always wished I could. For now, I’ll just practice at Root. We have three classes in which you can move your qi, get in touch …