Root to Soul

hi ✌🏻I’m karalee - creator of root to soul. I wanted to share a bit about me & the status on RTS 🤓
▫️root to soul is a passion project of mine to create a space for healing through movement, meditation, service, expression, etc. it is in its early stages & i plan to launch online classes, IRL Chattanooga classes, & workshops ~ 2022! one day… an immersive center for healing & coming together as a community
▫️I am a 200hr registered yoga teacher with a trauma-informed certification.
▫️we’ve all been through some sh*t - but yet we continued on. This resilience of the soul, body, & mind fascinates me. I believe we can rise up as a collective to support others on their journey to healing.
▫️I also have a full-time ‘sales’ job. walking dichotomy ? Sure! But the hustle now will bring root to soul to its true form!
▫️I would love to collaborate with other teachers, meditation guides, energy healers, service workers, creators, & more to help our collective heal.
▫️if you are interested, drop me a line, DM, visit my website & join my newsletter!
▫️with patience & hard work, root to soul will soon be more than just a vision with occasional classes ✨

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SUP, 🐶 this sh*t ain’t easy! who’s willing to practice on the river with me?

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open your heart :: allow your eyes to close :: soak in the warmth ☀️

HOW TO - high lunge w chest opener:
🌿 Start standing tall, feet hips’ distance.
🌿Step your left foot back about a legs’ distance.
🌿 Align your front and back toes towards the front of your mat.
🌿 Bend the right knee in line with your right ankle.
🌿 Lift your back heel up, bending the left knee.
🌿 Lift the hips up and level your hip points.
🌿Bring your hands behind you. OPTION: clasp your fingers or make fists with your hands towards one another.
🌿Broaden the collarbone.
🌿Breathe deeply allowing the opening across your heart center through your left hip flexor.
🌿Hold for 5-8 breaths, then gently step the left foot up to meet the right.

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🔺 • trikonasana • 🔺
HOW TO:
✨Start in Tadasana (standing tall).
✨Step your right foot back about a leg distance behind you.
✨Bring your hands to your hips.
✨Move your right foot to about a 45 degree angle. Ground through the outer edge of your right foot.
✨Keep the left toes pointed forward.
✨Microbend the front left knee with slightly more weight in the big toe.
✨Shift your hips back, using your hands, guide your hip points towards in line with one another.
✨Release the left hip back behind you.
✨Lower the left fingertips towards the earth or your shin.
✨Reach through the right arm, finding space across the chest.
✨Breathe & feel the strength in your foundation & core.
✨Slowly resend the front knee to safely come out of the pose. Hands on hips, step your feet together

women are warriors 👩‍⚕️👩🏻‍🎨👩🏽‍🔬👩🏾‍💼👩🏿‍🏫
Mother’s Day was yesterday, but every day is a day to celebrate the strength & resilience of women.

Wild thang, you make my heart (and hips) sing. 😁 Wild thing ~ done mindfully ~ is a great back bend to open up the hips.

HOW TO:
✨Start by opening up the shoulders. Start in plank. On an exhale, release the hips back into downward facing dog.
✨Inhale, shift forward into plank. Exhale, into downward facing dog. Repeat 5x.
✨From downward facing dog, shift forward towards plank. Plug the right arm into the shoulder.
✨Lift your right leg up & bend the knee.
✨Release the right toes onto the mat, as you lift the hips up towards the ceiling.
✨Ground down through the right palm, releasing the left arm up and overhead.
✨Inhale, lift the hips up. Exhale, draw the navel in towards the spine.
✨Hold for five breaths.
✨Slowly come back into plank. ✨Exhale, shift the hips back into downward facing dog.

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Who else loves a yummy side stretch? A seated side stretch is a great asana to end your flow practice or to wind down after a long day.
HOW TO:
✨Find a comfortable seat (maybe on a block). Notice your sitting bones on the mat or ground .
✨Extend the right & left legs out with toes pointed towards the sky. Bending the knees, as needed.
✨Take a round of breath here.
✨Inhale the arms up overhead.
✨Exhale bring your right forearm towards your right shin.
✨Inhale bring the left arm up by your ear or over towards the right side.
✨OPTION to bring the left hand to clasp the right.
✨Take five rounds of breath, feeling the nice stretch across the left side ribs & right outer hip; while opening up the groin muscles.
✨Inhale & gently release the arms up, then the torso.
✨Bring your hands behind your thighs to guide your knees in - finding a comfortable seat.

Did you know our 🙃✨When we open up our hips, it’s an emotional release. Our hips hold many old emotions.
✨When we are anxious, stressed, or go through a traumatic experience (small or big), we instinctually tense up. * Think of curling up into a ball and the tension held in the hips as you do that. *
✨As you open the hips, allow those various emotions to arise. It’s ok to feel.
✨Can you find an area in the face to relax as you feel? 😊

Tonight, the full supermoon is in Scorpio. 🌝
🌀 If you are interested in learning a bit about what you can do to harness today’s supermoon, swipe for a summary from ’s workbook!
🌀 I’ve found so much power in harnessing the energy of the lunar cycles through journaling & self reflection. 🙏🏻

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