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Rooted Wellness and Pilates

Wellness is more than the absence of illness. It is you, living your most vibrant, happy, embodied life. Striving for wellness in your life?

Create a foundation of clean eating, nourishing and restorative movement, and somatic practices to support you in feeling your best in your body. We will work together, a partnership to listen to your body to support what you need.

07/19/2025

Ok Virgina. Your summer heat and humidity is too much for me. See you in a couple of weeks. ✌🏻

Schedule is open for early August. www.vagaro.com/rootedwellnessandpilates

07/16/2025

4 years ago today I opened the doors to Rooted Wellness & Pilates! I’m so grateful for each of you that walk through the door, for your love or Pilates and somatic nervous system work.

As I reflect on 4 years of business ownership and 19 years (😳) teaching Pilates I’m feeling a lot of gratitude for this movement practice that I love, for how it helped me heal my chronic back pain and has supported and complimented my other activities and workouts throughout the years. I’m grateful I’ve been able to help so many others over the years and it’s fun to reflect on how my teaching has changed and how much Somatic Experiencing has changed my life and my approach to teaching.

Here’s to more strength, flexibility, mobility, kindness, curiosity and nervous system regulation!

07/08/2025

It’s summertime and hot and humid here in Virginia. 🥵 I want to like summer and while I do like the longer days the heat and humidity are hard on my body- lower energy, less motivation and not wanting the push my body as much. So while in the past I pushed through, now I listen. Walk and exercise early in the morning, rest when I need, get out to the mountains for slightly cooler temperatures for hiking and hydrate hydrate hydrate! Pilates is the perfect, restorative movement practice that I enjoy in the heat of summer.

06/10/2025

R E S T

This has been coming up alot in sessions. Bodies ask for rest & we override and push through. We think we have to earn or deserve rest. Even when our bodies call and cry for rest we ignore because there’s more to do or we feel like resting is a weakness. But when we do rest it feels so good. Restorative. Nurturing.

What if listening to your body and honoring what it’s asking you became your super power? What if resting allowed integration of what your nervous learns and time for your muscles to feel rejuvenated?

If you need permission, here it is. Let your body rest.

06/05/2025

Summer days… more movement, different movement, more time being social and being outdoors. Make sure you’re making time for restorative movement, stretching and caring for your nervous system.

05/19/2025

Someone told me today that she wants to be as zen as I am and how she can’t imagine me being stressed out… I had a few thoughts about this. The first was, I’m not zen, I get stressed all the time… And then another thought was that I recognize that I’m actually WAY more regulated in my nervous system than I ever used to be and that means I handle stress in a much different way than I ever used to.

Learning about my nervous system and learning to become more regulated has been the best thing I’ve ever done for myself. Somatic Experiencing has changed my life. And it can change yours too.

Also, we aren’t supposed to be zen or relaxed all the time, we want resilient and responsive nervous systems that can respond to stress and then settle.

02/19/2025

Using acupressure balls (or a tennis ball) is one of my favorite ways to get into tight areas to create more openness, more more ease and relaxation and less pain. I use these in 1:1 sessions regularly and for my own body.

Join me next week Tuesday 2/25 at 4:30 for a virtual 50 minute workshop using acupressure balls to explore and release tight muscles. I promise you’ll feel better in your body after class! You’ll receive the recording after class. Sign up even if you can’t come in real time and watch the recording later. Info in my bio or DM to book.

02/13/2025

It is so common to feel overwhelmed. For many, life feels like that a lot of the time, which is hard on our bodies and nervous systems. Feeling overwhelmed often can easily put us in what I call “a state of overwhelm.”

What is the feeling in your body when you feel overwhelmed? Anxiety? Restlessness? Difficulty concentrating? Racing thoughts? Worries about the future? Wanting to act but not being sure how? Feeling frozen and stuck? Overwhelm can show in our bodies in various ways, and we each have our own patterns.

Overwhelm happens when we get stuck in a fight or flight stress response. While our stress response is a good thing (we’re designed to be able to respond appropriately to threats), constant and low level stress pushes our nervous systems beyond the capacity of what we can handle, and in comes the overwhelm.

Our nervous system likes space, slowness and time to integrate changes. So often in our modern world, we are not given that opportunity, which can lead to the opposite experience that our nervous systems ideally want. Before we reach a state of overwhelm, something or many things push us to that point where our nervous system says, “I can’t do this right now.”

02/04/2025

Trauma is anything that is too much, too fast or too soon for our nervous system. Our nervous system thrives and moves into a parasympathetic state with time, space and gentleness. What is one thing you can do today to support your nervous system? A deep breath, a hand on your heart or your belly, gentle stretching are all things you could try.

01/23/2025

Finding GLIMMERS. A glimmer is the opposite of a trigger. A glimmer can be anything that gives you a moment of more wellness and regulation in your nervous system. When we notice these moments we allow our body to be nourished by the power of our parasympathetic nervous system. Noticing ease, joy, and a better feeling the body, even for a moment is healing. This practice doesn’t mean we ignore what’s triggering but it allows us to build the capacity to be more in our bodies for all of life’s experiences. What glimmers can you notice today?

12/24/2024

Happy Holidays! ❄️🌲

12/16/2024

I’m so glad that the work I’ve done with my own nervous system and training I’ve done so that I can provide trauma informed care that supports clients in feeling safe is felt in sessions. 😊

Recently I’ve been working Somatic Experiencing into Pilates sessions. This has been a goal since becoming SE trained but truly amazing to see it naturally unfold in sessions and how beneficial that has been for folks.

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Charlottesville, VA

Telephone

+14348065999

Website

https://www.rootedwellnessandpilates.com/

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