The Roots

Owner, Yoga Instructor, Reike Master, Certified Mindfulness Instructor, Thai Massage Therapist and Acupressure Therapist.  Jennie has personal history of perseverance and recovery, and as a survivor of rape, abuse and addiction, brings a uniquely balanced perspective her classes, workshops and sessions.  Through emotional and nervous system regulation, Jennie helps clients release somatized stress and trauma, allowing people to not only feel better, but be better. 

Trauma certified Baptiste instructor, focuses class on experiencing the connection between yoga & trauma.  Explores emotions such as anxiety.  Utilizes breath&movement to overcome distress. 

Colleen is a student of both yoga and spirituality. A 27-year master teacher and life-long learner, she graduated from West Chester University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Elementary Education. Colleen also earned Master's Degrees from Georgian Court University (Education) as well as Rider University (School and Clinical Counseling). Additionally, Colleen received her Certificate in Theology and Ministry from Princeton Theological Seminary.

Colleen perceives yoga as a restorative blend of mind, body and soul. She seeks to teach yoga that is applicable to all learners; differentiated for students with diverse needs, experiences and ability levels.

“Start at the beginning, move in the direction you want to go, never get to the end…it’s about the journey” I started my yoga journey in 1998 at the YMCA in Voorhees.  In 1999, my much beloved teacher, Anne Foley, asked me to place my mat next to hers in the front of the room to help demonstrate poses as she walked about the room.  That began my Kripalu/Iyengar/Hatha apprenticeship from 1999-to 2002. One day she handed me a AAA-I training application, told me to sign up for teacher training! I had never expressed any desire to be a teacher, just a student.  I took the training and she turned over her class to me!!! I completed my Yoga Alliance 200 hour training at Experience Yoga Studios in 2010 under Jill Blumenstock and Bobbi Johnson.  The program was a rich blend of Hatha, Vinyasa and Anusara based yoga.  At the same time I completed a Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga program at Kripalu, a workshop with Amy Ippoliti, yoga and Yoga Nidra classes with Jennifer Reis, and a one day training with Eion Finn.   Continuing my journey, I began my 500 hour Yoga Teacher Training in 2017 with Jill Blumenstock.    I believe yoga happens from the inside out.  When we slow down, pay attention to our bodies, and listen to the message, we expand the possibilities of our mind, body and spirit awakening our own inner teacher.

Kristin Ortiz is a level two reiki practitioner from Haddon Township, NJ. She is currently studying for her master level. Kristin believes that energy healing is a key modality in total body, mind, and spirit wellness. She takes the time to get to know each of her clients and how she can serve them to the highest good. Kristin is available for appointments on weekday nights or weekends. Shanti shanti, peace peace. 

  Mandi Houser-Puschel is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Trauma Sensitive Yoga Teacher. She graduated from Lehigh University with a Master’s Degree in Counseling and Human Services and has a Certificate in Advanced Graduate Studies in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Rowan University. She is also an Approved Clinical Supervisor. Mandi worked in community mental health for many years and currently works in private practice. Her counseling approach is a combination of Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. 

Mandi completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training in 2016 at Dhyana Yoga in Vinyasa and Ashtanga yoga. She is a 200-hour Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance and has completed the following continuing education courses: Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga, Yoga of 12 Step Recovery, Breaking Barriers: Transforming the Samskara of Codependency, Yin Yoga, and Tween and Teen Yoga. 

Mandi combines her knowledge of counseling and yoga in her trauma sensitive classes at local psychiatric and addiction treatment centers. She specializes in working with individuals who have never tried or even considered yoga. She feels that physical movement, like yoga, is important in trauma recovery as it regulates the nervous system and improves emotion regulation. 

Deb is a certified Hatha Yoga Instructor through Yoga Alliance, specializing in Vinyasa Flow, Trauma-Informed Yoga, and Yin Yoga. She enjoys sharing the energy from such practices as Tao Yin and Qi Gong. She is interested in bringing a thoughtful, light-hearted yet precise, and accessible approach that allows my students to feel cared for and encouraged to bring their best to every practice. Her passion and excitement for learning and incorporating many different styles of mindfulness practices creates an enthusiasm that exudes through my teachings. Her instruction aims to nourish the mind, body, and heart through breath awareness, meditation, strong alignment, and philosophy.

Yin/Vin Sunday’s at 11:30 starting November 7th. Yin/Vin yoga is a combination of active and static poses, allowing you to bring the energies of yin/yang into the physical body. By stretching the connective tissue around the joints, you can create more mobility. This is a slow moving, intentional based practice with a theme for each week bringing awareness to life’s possibilities. 

Yin/Vin yoga is a combination of active and static poses, allowing you to bring the energies of yin/yang into the physical body. By stretching the connective tissue around the joints, you can create more mobility. This is a slow moving, intentional based practice with a theme for each week bringing awareness to life’s possibilities.

Rachael has been practicing yoga since 2014 shortly after entering into recovery in 2013. She went through her 200 HR Trauma informed yoga teacher training in 2018 and then went on to become a certified Reiki Practitioner at the Master level in 2019 and a Certified Sound Healer in 2020. Over the past almost 9 years Rachael has participated in a several self-healing practices bringing her to a deeper awareness of the human experience and moving through trauma healing using a number of different tools she has encountered on her journey.

“When you are put in a situation to bear what you think is unbearable if forces a connection to the deeper part of your being where it is all bearable even the unbearable.” Ram Dass

Angelic healer, hypnotist and medium.  Offering Hynosis and workshops.  Hypnosis is a relaxed subconscious state of mind to which the person is still conscious and regulates sensations and emotions.  Hypnosis is great for PTSD, anxiety, stress, smoking cessation, weight loss, addiction, fear, past life regression and more.  

Educator/National Speaker/ Published Author/ Community Outreach Project Developer/ Life Coach/ Master Reiki/Mother/Woman.

We all wear many hats in our daily lives. Mine are all the same style, "advocate" would describe them best. As an urban educator, I advocated for my students and for the empty promise of equal education in our poorest areas. As a National Speaker, I advocated for the first generation college students. When I spent my weekend mornings painting front doors in and replacing locks downtown I advocated for the forgotten parts of the community. Energy work and healing is an act of true altruism as well, an offering of myself and my abilities to help those in need. Coaching allows me the opportunity to help shift my clients’ perspective to gain a new outlook and to live authentic to themselves. Teaching others to trust their intuition and break through the fear, that is the greatest obstacle to us all, is a beautiful process. 

My energy work has been something that entered my life in my thirties while healing from my own personal trauma, but has been a part of me my entire life. I hope that one day energy work and the importance of our energy fields will become mainstreamed so that all can benefit from it. I truly believe everyone has the ability to resonate on a higher plane, and find their inner peace. I welcome the emerging scientific and medical studies that question our traditional two-dimensional health treatments. I’ve learned overtime how lucky I am to possess my intuitive nature. I consider myself to be blessed enough to use it in a way that fits into my life-long mission of helping others.