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. 

“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. 

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