Third Root will be closed on Friday, September 3rd - Monday, September 6th in observance of Labor Day
If you need to reach us, please email info@thirdroot.org. Our regular schedule resumes Tuesday, September 7th.
Enjoy the holiday!
It's Third Root's 2nd Year Anniversary!
On Tuesday, September 21, we'll be celebrating with bands, DJs, tacos, drink specials and a raffle at Sycamore Bar at 1118 Cortelyou Rd, Brooklyn. So come on out and support your neighborhood community health center!
Suggested contribution: $10 - $25
Acupuncturist and co-founder Green Wayland-Llewellin will be in town and seeing patients at Third Root from September 16 - 25. Book your appointment now at appointments@thirdroot.org!
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Shiatsu Workshop
Sunday August 29, 3-5pm
Learn the principles of this Japanese healing art! This workshop will include Makko-Ho, Meridian partner yoga, and self-shiatsu techniques.
By working on someone else's body, we also gain greater insight into alignment principles, thus influencing our own movement.
Learn some basic Shiatsu techniques you can use on yourself or to treat a friend or partner. They will love you!
Shandoah trained at the Ohashiatsu Institute in NYC. Her extensive practice since 1997, as well as her M.A. in dance, contributes to thorough knowledge of the body and movement.
www.shiatsu.shandoahgoldman.com
Cost: $15/ person or $25/couple.* RSVP to workshops@thirdroot.org
*Workshop recipients will receive a voucher for $20 off a one hour Shiatsu session with Shandoah.
Tango for Absolute Begginers
with Romina
Two Sundays in September
Traditional Argentine tango is a dance for two people that is sensual, exhilarating and just plain fun. Learn tango’s basic alphabet and vocabulary including musicality, the embrace, lead and follow, and improvisation. This class is for absolute beginners—dancers and non-movers alike!
September 19 and September 26, 3 - 5pm at Third Root followed by milonga (dance party) at Sycamore!
Cost: $15 per person, $25 per couple
Romina is a yoga teacher, dancer and Third Root cooperative member. Her teaching style is warm, fun and engaging. Her devotion to tango is genuine and heartfelt.
To RSVP or for more info, email: workshops@thirdroot.org
Cost: $15/person or $25/couple.* RSVP to workshops@thirdroot.org
Third Root Has Healing Presence at 2010 US Social Forum
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Third Root's Herbalist Jacoby Ballard Interviewed in NY Times Article!
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Introductory Level I Herbalism Course Begins September 11!
Saturdays from 12:30 - 3:30pm: September 11 - December 18
Learn more than 30 local medicinal plants that grow through the cracks in our own streets, which body systems they help and how that system works, how to make medicine from these local medicinal herbs, and how to identify them in the wild. We ask that you be committed to the entire 12-week session and bring an open heart.
Cost: $600 (scholarships and payment plans available)
To sign up for our next Herbal Education session, email jacoby@thirdroot.org or submit an application.
Check back often for more workshops over the summer. We are working on getting a Hip/Psoas Release Workshop and Gardening Workshops going. The dates are TBA, but we'll let you know as soon as we do!
Through its health practices, public education and more, Third Root is transforming the role of a community health center into what it should be. Third Root helps create collective safety and health, by engaging with the many aspects of the world that contribute to sickness, and by nurturing life and building community.
— Danielle Feris, community organizer
Third Root is able to further the work of natural medicine for people who would otherwise not know about it...We, at Callen-Lorde refer many of our low-income, Medicaid and uninsured patients to Third Root where they can access top-quality care for radically affordable prices.
— Ronica Mukerjee, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center
Support Third Root!
As the country is embroiled in the healthcare debate, with pharmaceutical companies wrestling care away from communities that need it and state representatives and senators conceding the health and wellbeing of their own community, Third Root continues to offer accessible care. “There’s been a national debate going on about health care; we’ve heard discussions about who should and shouldn’t be included in our nation’s healthcare,” says Christina Baal, a yoga teacher at Third Root and Organizer at Cabrini Immigrant Services. “The success of Third Root is proof that an inclusive model of healthcare that serves people of all backgrounds and income levels can not only exist but can thrive.”
3 Ways You Can Support Third Root
Sustainable Giving
One of the most sustainable ways for many social justice organizations to be supported is by monthly donations, called sustainerships. This allows organizations to rely on a certain amount of income to build programs each month, and allows you to make a sizable donation over the course of a year at a sustainable rate. Third Root is excited to be launching our own new Sustainer Program, and our goal is to have 20 sustainers by the end of the year. We have sustainers at:
- $5 per month,
- $20 per month, and even
- $250 per month, so any amount helps!
Support Third Root, invest in community health, and become a Community Health Sustainer! Email jacoby@thirdroot.org today!
Holiday Gift to Third Root
Happy Kwaanza, Happy New Year! Support Third Root with a Holiday donation, a gift that gives back to your community! Among our goals for 2010 are to get three new yoga programs off the ground:
- Yoga for the Formerly Incarcerated,
- Yoga for Veterans, and
- Yoga for People Living with HIV/AIDS.
In 2010 we also plan to continue to empower the community with health education and our Herbal Education Program, and continue to work with the social justice movement toward sustainable practices. Your donation of $20, $50, $200 is a gift that gives back to you, your family, your community. Please make a donation today.
Gift Certificates
Got gifts to give? Have a hard-to-please relative or friend? What is a better gift than the gift of health? Get a gift certificate at Third Root today — massage, acupuncture, yoga, or a nutritional and herbal consultation!
Reflecting on 2009
As 2009 draws to a close, Third Root has much to be thankful for. We have become a successful business model offering accessible healthcare and supporting ourselves as a worker-owned cooperative, and are receiving messages from all over the country from health practitioners who want to set up something similar! We have met with these practitioners and are building more relationships in Brooklyn with local organizations. We have also given more presentations and are doing more retreats with local organizations in Brooklyn and throughout New York, including the Church Avenue Business and Merchants Association (CAMBA), Asian Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV and AIDS (APICHA), and others! We are also building toward the US Social Forum next summer in Detroit, and hope to bring a variety of community members to both represent us and help us dream even bigger.
We were joined this year by massage therapist, acupuncturist, and herbalist Eulix Vargas, and Community Development Organizer Telesh Lopez (also a Reiki Practitioner and Professional Interpreter), both of whom have put their heart into Third Root in a generous way and help us continue to expand our scope. We have also said goodbye to one of our co-founders, Green Wayland-Llewellin; our survival and success in the last three months without Green proves again to us and you, our community, the importance of a horizontal and cooperative structure.
Remember that we are a worker-owned cooperative business, not a non-profit, so your donations unfortunately are not tax-deductible.
Thank you, and warm wishes to you and your loved ones through the chill of winter!
Angela, Eulix, Jacoby, Ji-Hye, John, Julia, Romina and Telesh
Third Root Community Health Center
Third Root Community Health Center is a worker-owned cooperative business providing accessible, empowering, and collaborative healthcare in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. We want holistic medicine, the oldest form of healthcare, to be available to everyone, as it has been for millenia. Our Center is shaped by our very own clients, community, and students, who inform us about their needs and what would help them feel the most at home at Third Root.
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