Acupuncture meets Yoga!
Thursday, March 9th at 7PM with Jay & Ginger
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Do you love yoga or acupuncture and want to see how they can compliment one another?
This unique class will begin with a grounding and centering opening followed by the exploration of deep calming breath paired with multiple yoga poses in an intelligent, gentle, therapeutic flow.
This program will stretch and soothe every space in the physical body.
Class will conclude with an extended savasana and guided meditation. Afterwards a community style acupuncture treatment on your mat is included for each of the participants. Simple treatment options will include a choice of:
- Four Gates Treatment - Helps with calming and quieting the mind, strengthening and nourishing all the muscles and tendons.
- Back In Action Treatment - Targeting the spinal column and muscles of the back and neck.
- Reset and Renew - This treatment option can help reset digestive complaints and work on fatigue and overall energy and metabolism.
- Joint of Choice - Do you have a specific joint that could use a little TLC? This treatment will combine local points and mirror points to direct stagnant energy away from your problem joint and ease pain.
Jay Guanci, Lic. Ac. has been practicing acupuncture in Reading since 2007. He holds a Master’s degree in acupuncture from the New England School of Acupuncture, the country’s oldest college of Oriental Medicine. Jay is trained in both Chinese and Japanese styles of acupuncture, as well as Dr. Tan's balance style. He is experienced in treating all types of health issues. He's been practicing yoga regularly for 5 years and is very intrigued by the similarities in these two disciplines.
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Ayurveda A Deep Dive Part Two
Sunday, March 12th AT 6:15PM with Nicole
A deep dive into the science that started intermittent fasting and why we suggest this and other certain habits. This is for anyone who is curious about how Ayurveda works and for those who know some about this but want to know more. After each session students will have a habit or practice to build to support their wellness.
Part 2. The Doshas: Learning about each Dosha. A deep dive into the physical, mental spiritual influences. Balances and unbalances in each, and how to recognize them and begin to shift in a healthier direction.
Part 3. Self-care: Discussion and suggestions from the Doshas and the Koshas.
The energy layers of the mind body and spirit and how blockages affect our view success and feelings. We will talk about specific ways to work on blockages in these layers to get out of our own way and find peace with our real dharma (purpose).
Part 4. Dhatus: The layers of the body. We will discuss and explore signs of blockages, common manifestations, how pain or imbalance becomes disease and possibly chronic issues and how to begin to reverse and prevent issues that manifest in tissues. Including, discussion about pulse diagnosis.
(Students who commit to all 4 sessions will receive a free tongue and pulse reading.)
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St. Patricks Ashtanga Inspired Celebration Flow
Thursday, March 16th 7-8:15PM with April
Sláinte: A Toast to the Emerald Isle.
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Join us for a playful ashtanga-inspired flow set to traditional Irish music which is guaranteed to lift your spirits mere hours before the St Patrick's Day holiday.
Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga is a style of yoga as exercise popularised by K. Pattabhi Jois during the 20th century, often promoted as a modern-day form of yoga. He claimed to have learnt the system from his teacher, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya. The style is energetic, synchronising breath with movements.
Those donning green, white or shamrock attire or accessories will call upon the luck of the Irish to win various St Patrick's Day inspired prizes.
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Release & Renew with Yin
Thursday, March 23rd at 7PM with Bridgitte
Yin Yoga allows us to work into the connective tissues of our bodies; the ligaments, joints, & fascia. Yin Yoga restores and maintains mobility while enhancing the body's energetic flow and emotional balance. Yin prioritizes stability and stillness over movement, allowing us to go deeper both mentally and physically. With its emphasis on non-muscular mobility, Yin is a great way to enhance your vinyasa (or Yang) practice.
This will be amazing, and an all levels, practice where Bridgitte will guide us to provide a time of inner reflection, meditation, and peace.
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Yoga and Sound for the Mind & Body
Focusing on the Hips & Hamstrings
Thursday, March 30th 7:00-8:15PM
with Jodi and Ginger
If you’ve been hibernating this winter or feel disconnected with your practice, this class will assist you in a mental reset and reconnection to your body.
A beautiful combination of calming breath work, sound bath instruments, and gentle movements that will focus on the hamstrings and the hip compartments to clear, move, and rinse away stuck or stagnant sediment in our physical, mental and emotional body.
Ginger will guide you through a series of deep hip and hamstring openers that will focus on creating space and length in these areas that tend to tighten and cause discomfort over the long cold months. Jodi will bathe us with her sound instruments while we breathe into and hold our poses.
Sound bath instruments influence brainwaves and trigger alignment and balance within the body, resetting our mental, emotional and physical state via vibration. At the end of the class, Jodi will go around with tuning forks to ground and refresh.
Don’t miss this special evening that is sure to bring awareness to your body
through yoga, gentle movement, and sound!
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RYT 200 Teacher Training Information Session
Saturday, March 25th at 11AM with this years current trainees
Come learn more in person and ask all your questions.
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Please join us at our studio for an information session on our next training which kicks off in September. You will have an opportunity to meet and direct questions to our current teachers in training that are set to graduate this June!
Details of our training program:
Participants will learn the fundamentals of a comprehensive Hatha yoga practice including alignment-based asana; vinyasa; pranayama; meditation; mindfulness; anatomy and physiology specific to yoga; a study of the Chakras; Ayurveda (the sister science of yoga); and yogic history; and philosophy as described in the Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali.
Emphasis will also be placed on the techniques of teaching, including use of voice and body language; learning to observe bodies, modify poses and sequence classes with ample time allotted to “practice teaching” with a focus on dynamic sequencing and transitioning throughout the program. Even if teaching is not the ultimate goal, learning to articulate the principles just studied is a powerful learning tool.
Participants interested in teaching will emerge from our 10 month training confident and ready to start teaching after graduation with at least two learned, practiced and memorized classes to allow for a seamless transition from class to field/from student to instructor. Graduates will be well-trained professionals ready to teach a variety of yoga classes with confidence and skill.
Roots' Yoga Teacher Training faculty will be comprised of our current staff of instructors and well known guest leaders and instructors with years of experience leading RYT200 hour teacher trainings in and around Boston and the North Shore.
Training includes 10-weekends between September and June where we will meet on
Friday evenings and Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
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NEW STUDENT SPECIAL!
2 Weeks of Unlimited Yoga for $35
Send this incredible offer to your friends and family so they too can meet our amazing community of supportive
students and teachers!
So many classes to choose from as well as beginner and specialty workshops every month!
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NEW 4:30 Class on Wednesdays!
Revitalize and Reset- Springtime Yoga with Liz Daneau
Join us for this mid-week, mid-day slump buster!
Prepare to enjoy a spring cleaning from the inside out with a fresh series of poses to help revitalize your body and reset your mind.
Sun Salutations, along with standing and balancing poses facilitate stress reduction and general well-being.
This is an all levels class and we hope this new time slot works for you!
Class launches on March 8th.
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Full Moon Flow
Tuesday, March 7th at 7PM with Ashley & Ginger
The name of the March 2023 full moon is the Full Worm Moon. This full moon name is inspired by the time of the year when the earthworms start to reappear as the grown thaws at the end of the winter. The birds start to come back as spring approaches, with the Spring Equinox that happens each year towards the end of March. Ginger has a nice fluid all levels flow class planned where we will work toward revolved half moon as our fun peak pose and Ashley will guide us with her music, soundbowls, meditation and magical moon messages!
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First Day of Spring Celebration Flow Class
Tuesday, March 21st at 7PM with Ashley & Ginger
Come plant your springtime seeds of intention with us in this beautiful flow class, which includes sound bowls and guided meditation that is focused on renewal and unearthing your potential.
This heated class will include lots of twisting and cleansing postures and flow to help peel back our crusty layers from winter so we can prepare to spring forth with the spring season ahead.
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Press play above to see how much fun it will be to join our Roots Yoga Team for
YOGA REACHES OUT 2023
At Gillette Stadium!
Sunday, April 23rd
Roots is participating in Yoga Reaches Out Yogathon, because we are passionate about helping kids and families at Boston Children's Hospital.
On April 23, we'll join a community of more than 1,400 at Gillette Stadium for an inspirational day of yoga, music, and fundraising - all to bring lifesaving answers and hope to the sickest children from around the world.
Every dollar we raise funds breakthrough research, family supports, and vital services not covered by insurance through the hospital's Every Child Fund. Your gift will:
- give children battling the most complex diseases treatments they can't find anywhere else;
- help children in your town and those across the world get a second chance;
- fuel 3,000+ researchers working to find cures;
- help patient-families in crisis with urgent needs, including housing, food and clothing;
- bring crucial care to families through not 1, but 4 outpatient psychiatry clinics;
- provide reiki, yoga and a safe place to simply exhale for families facing the stress of caring for a critically-ill child;
- and so much more.
Click the button below to come with us!
So many big hearts all in one place for all the right reasons!
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