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Here's what's happening up at Third Root!
New Herbal Education classes coming up!
Check out the details here!
Blissful Boo: Partner Yoga
Saturday, February 11, 12.30-2.30pm
With Jacoby Ballard and Lezlie Frye
This workshop is specifically designed for pairs—partners, friends, buddies, siblings, or sweethearts—who want to explore new ways of practicing together.
This workshop will involve grounding yourself, and then turning toward your partner. Lezlie and Jacoby with guide you in a series of postures that will help cultivate receptivity and mutual support between you. We will practice meditations, postures, and flow together, as well as giving each other gentle massage and adjustments. Both partners will have an opportunity to give and receive during the session, and will be guided through the sequence step-by-step.
No prior yoga experience is necessary. Comfortable clothes recommended. Bring your partner, boyfriend, girlfriend, or a dear friend.
Fee: $35 per pair
To Sign Up: Please call Third Root at 718-940-9343, sign up at the desk, or email jacoby@thirdroot.org. Space is limited, so call now!
Support for the Childbearing Year
Local Resources for Pregnancy and Birth
Sunday, February 12th 2:30-5:00 pm
What does pregnancy and labor support look like? What services can you access at Third Root to support you in the Childbearing Year? Join local birth professionals, including doulas, a yoga teacher, a massage therapist, an acupuncturist, and a midwife to discuss resources currently available in our community – and tell us what you'd like to see offered!
We will practice labor support, brainstorm community needs, and give you a chance to ask questions.
Free Snacks and a Raffle for Free/Discounted Third Root Services!
Workshop fee: free or by donation
Reserve your spot by emailing rsvp@thirdroot.org or calling us at 718.940.9343
QUEER & TRANS YOGA JAM
It's Yoga. It's Queer. It's Lovingkindness.
Saturday, February 18th, 7pm – 10pm
(yoga practice 7:30pm – 9pm)
by Alesia Exum
WHAT?
This quarterly event includes live music and collaborative yoga instruction to expand Third Root's programming for the queer and trans community. Join us for a Valentine's inspired practice on Lovingkindness in connection.
WHY?
Love is hard work, and we have to be in it for the long haul, with ourselves, with partners, in community. It's not all roses and lavender, and we shouldn't strive for an attachment to pleasure as a stand in for love. Come to this class to explore your own relationship to the words LOVE and KINDNESS, in this present moment.
WHO?
Led by Doreen Kramer, Jacoby Ballard, Emily Kramer, & Kate Johnson.
Live music by
Jules Gimbrone (www.julesgimbrone.com)
Julia Read (www.myspace.com/juliavlietread)
Workshop Fee: $20 pre-register; $25 same day
Space is limited! Register: jacoby@thirdroot.org
Third Root Featured in Neighborhood Beat on BCAT TV!
BRIC Community Media / Brooklyn Independent TV featured Third Root as a part of their latest episode of Neighborhood Beat, which covers the neighborhood of Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Watch the whole episode at BRIC Community Media: Neighborhood Beat: Flatbush. Episode 8.
Learn more about BRIC Community Media and Brooklyn Independent Television
How to Make Herbal Concentrates
with Stephen Rye Switzer
Saturday, January 28th, 4pm - 6pm
Herbal medicine is the medicine of the people. It is cheap, easy, effective and safe. In this workshop, you will learn how to make tinctures, syrups and salves.
Bring a few small (2 oz or smaller) jars to make your own tincture, syrups, and salves to take home.
Stephen Rye Switzer is an herbalist and massage therapist at Third Root Community Health Center.
Workshop fee: free or by donation
Materials fee: sliding scale $10-15
Reserve your spot by emailing rsvp@thirdroot.org or calling us at 718.940.9343
Walk-ins are welcome if space is available
New Yoga Class at Third Root!
Intermediate Core & Restore
Monday mornings at 9am
The core, extending from the pelvic floor to the top of the brain, is the source of centered stability and expansive creativity. Through intelligent, targeted, and fun, core focused asanas and exercises, we will build abdominal strength, relieve low back pain, massage our internal organs, and learn to connect and move from a deep internal support that can be applied to your yoga practice and all active living. Longer held restorative poses, guided meditation, and pranayama (breath work) cultivate the much needed resources of relaxation and calm. Half hour of this 90 minute class is dedicated to allowing practitioners to release from everyday physical and emotional stressors in a serene, safe environment. Great for postnatal students as well!"
Third Root's Treasure Chest Surgery Kit
Available for $40-50
Contact jacoby [at] thirdroot.org or call 718-940-9343.
Third Root's Community Supported Herbalism Program Featured in American Botanical Council's HerbalEGram
Read the full article.
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 href="herbaleducation.html">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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