Happy Valentines Day to ME
Open Level Yoga to Cultivate Self Care and Self Love
Sunday February 14, 2010, 3:00-5:00 PM
For a lot of us, it's easy to practice loving kindness and non-judgment with all the people in our lives, but how often do we take the time to practice these with ourselves? This Valentines Day carve out a loving space for yourself by joining us for this extended class that will use flow, restorative poses, breathing, and loving kindness meditation to release tension and revive the body and spirit. Remember, loving kindness starts with the self.
Taught by Christina Baal
Fee: $15 (includes mat rental)
Christina Baal is a Third Root Yoga teacher, social worker, and immigrant rights activist that is constantly finding and redefining the balance between work and life. Christina firmly believes that the lessons she learns on her yoga mat make her more present and effective in all the roles she plays in her everyday life. Over the last several years she has taught workshops on stress management and self care to marginalized communities, service providers, and activists.
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
Please Note: Our Monday yoga class at 9am and Yoga for Youth class on Tuesdays at 4pm are permanently cancelled. Please check our calendar for our latest class schedule.
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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