A Root Awakening

A ROOT Awakening: Superfoods To Super Size Your Health And Healing It is no surprise that food plays a role in how we feel and how we heal. The food we eat can contribute to increased inflammation, anxiety and stress which in turn can lead to pain and disease. For...

This week's blog post features our very first entry of our "ROOT hero" series. Each month, we'll feature everyday heroes harnessing the spirit of yoga therapy in new and unexpected ways. Remember, yoga therapy isn't just about what happens on the mat, but also how you...

A ROOT Awakening #9: Unexpected Ways To Regain Balance Life is a balancing act and most of us are shortchanging our mental wellbeing in order to “maximize” our days. But what are we maximizing? Sure, we may be more productive at work in the short-term, but what are we...

A ROOT Awakening #8: Healing your hips In honor of women’s health week, we are digging deep into our hips to understand and acknowledge just how important they are. In life, most women have several roles - mother, wife, employee, boss, friend, caregiver, and so on....

A Root Awakening #7: Harness the Power of Prevention Did you know that in 2012 the Center for Disease Control reported about half of all adults (117 million people) had one or more chronic health conditions? Chronic conditions run the gamut from diabetes, arthritis...

A ROOT Awakening #6: The "Inflexible" Yogi! By: Jasmine Rausch True or false – physical flexibility is a prerequisite for yoga? False -  although I completely understand why the myth exists. Each time you do an online search of the term “yoga,” you are bombarded with...

A ROOT Awakening #5: Three Ways Stress Impacts Inflammation and Three Ways Yoga Can Help Show of hands - who is feeling inflamed? Inflammation is such a great word because it literally means exactly how it sounds – that something in or on your body is hot, reddened or...

A ROOT Awakening #4: Yoga Therapy and Chronic Conditions 101 (minus the freshman lecture hall) By: Jasmine Rausch What the difference is between yoga and yoga therapy? Most people that seek me out as a yoga therapist are generally not coming for the physical exercise...

A ROOT Awakening #3: Get To Know Your Nose!  By: Jasmine Rausch Happy Friday ROOT Tribe! I am constantly getting questions from students asking me about the differences between nostril breathing and mouth breathing. Why is nostril breathing encouraged in most yogic...

A ROOT Awakening #2: Yoga Therapy: A Guide Through Grief By: Jasmine Rausch Today, I got a question from one of our readers asking if yoga therapy can help with grief. This reader just lost one of her childhood friends to drugs; a heartbreaking story I hear all too...