Acupuncture has been an important practice for healing and maintaining good health for thousands of years. Scientific studies to determine exactly how acupuncture works are ongoing and becoming more common. Recently, The Royal College of General Practitioners reported that two studies in the British Journal of General Practice have shown that patients, “perceived a wide range of positive effects and …
Using Acupuncture for Stress Relief
Pain relief and acupuncture are known to go hand in hand, but stress relief closely follows in the list of benefits with acupuncture. Acupuncture is often used as a means of stress relief because it is painless, relaxing and alleviates many other symptoms of stress including things like headaches, backaches and neck pain. But how does acupuncture-an alternative and physical …
Practice vs. Performance On and Off the Yoga Mat
I came across a beautiful blog today on Everyday Yogini. Nona writes about “staying on your mat.” Like Nona, I’ve sometimes let my mind wander to what other students are doing, how they are doing in comparison to myself. I think we’ve all probably stepped uninvited onto the yoga mats of others. Perhaps it’s our competitive nature, or a learned …
Preserving One’s Energy Through Acupuncture
Those who only know a little about acupuncture often think of it as a way to get pain relief and that’s true. However, what acupuncture is at its core is a method of manipulating and preserving energy, also known as the Chi of a person. The main goal of acupuncture is actually preserving energy and through this, pain relief and …
NEW Yoga Fundamentals with Sarah Robinette!
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” Vincent van Gogh Getting started is always the most difficult part. It is for me anyway. I know I like being up early, strolling to the pool for a swim, watching the pink of morning sun play on the edges of clouds, but it’s still hard to get …
Consistent Yoga Practice: Flavor for Life
I used to think yoga was stretching. But I also used to think mayonnaise was animal fat in a jar. I had much to learn. Merriam-Webster defines Yoga with a capitol Y as “a Hindu theistic philosophy teaching the suppression of all activity of body, mind, and will in order that the self may realize its distinction from them and …
Daily Downward Dogs Can Make Me 60% More Creative?
As if it wasn’t enough that regular exercise keeps your heart happy and body strong, Fast Company resurrects the ancient hypothesis guided by the great scholars, writers, thinkers of Grecian times that physical exercise and the consistent discipline of it actually plays a key role as ‘muse’ for creators, artists and inventors of all kinds. The key take from the …
Acupuncture: Get Out of Your Medicine Cabinet and into Chinese Medicine
Chinese medicine has had a long and difficult history. As early as the 6th century BC, Ye He was making diagnoses based on yin, yang, wind, rain, night, and day. It’s incredible that a methodology and practice that has healed for thousands of years is not more widely used and accepted today. What’s not as surprising is that it is …
Music Resounds in Root Studio
One Thursday each month, a rhythmic drumming can be heard coming from the studio at Root Whole Body as students move through vinyasa. This month we are blessed with two musical Thursdays! Last week, the Yoga Vibes Band made its debut with Yoga Vibes, a yoga and voice workshop with Daniel Flynn. The musicians and students were quiet as they …
Moving Meditation: A Qigong Workshop with Monica Rudestam
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 …
Returned Lock Makes Root Staff Very Happy
It was an ordinary day at Root Whole Body. The yoga students’ oms could be heard resounding in the front hall, the massage clients were shuffling out, rosy and smiling, a fresh tray of cookies from Blossoming Lotus had been delivered and sat huddled together awaiting their fate. Then, the mail came. I love mail. Who doesn’t? Our mail woman …
Healthy Back Clinic with Dr. Herold and Pam Blair
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 …