Jess Root
Jess Root is living her bliss, co-directing and instructing at Bodhisattva Yoga in Park Slope, Brooklyn -- and writing about wellness and travel. Her personal experience on the yoga mat and meditation cushion has taught her that true self-sustainability, simplicity, and slowing down are key ingredients for cooking up a successful global sustainability movement.
When Jess isn't running shop in Brooklyn, she's organizing and co-leading semi-annual domestic and international yoga retreats. You can find her and her crew on an organic farm in upstate New York or experiencing a little slice of paradise at a mom and pop hotel in the Caribbean. Anywhere nature prevails.
Jess has appeared in Budget Travel, E, the Environmental Magazine, MSN, and USA Today, and has presented talks at the Tibet Center and the Rubin Museum of Art.
Latest Stories from Jess Root
-
Make a Date with Mom at Connecticut's Saybrook Point Inn & Spa
As mom and I swam in the saline pool, enjoyed a meal of local, sweet scallops, and blissed out with deep tissue massages, the inn's sustainable touches made everything taste and feel a little more like home.
-
Vegan No-Bake Chocolate Coconut Macaroons are Easy Buttery Treat
These chocolatey pillows are little powerhouses of energy but are more blissful than a bland protein bar; coco-nutty, butter-y, with a strong cocoa kick in the pants.
-
Charity: Water Birthdays Can Change the World
Pledge your birthday for safe, clean drinking water, worldwide.
-
I AM. Yoga Mat Bag Weaves Function, Style and Social Change
I love any yoga accessory that positively integrates the law of karma.
-
Jack in the Box's Bacon Shake is Vegetarian...Not Healthy
This newest fast food frenzy froths with so many problems, it's enough to make me fully vegan.
-
Take a Tech Detox on the National Day of Unplugging, March 23rd-24th
While a tech detox doesn't require a recognized day, busy professionals and Facebook/TV/Smartphone addicts might find the National Day helpful, let alone, a good excuse to enjoy life's little luxuries!
-
A Teaspoon of Sugar Might Make the Medicine Abound
Without sugar-coating, the white stuff we inhaled as kids, in excess, takes a toll far more toxic than cavities.
-
Inspired Trail Mix Recipe
How to make trail mix less crunchy-granola and more crave-worthy. Hint: dark chocolate chips!
-
How Yoga Can Harmonize the Body & Planet
While the NYT article offers an exaggerated cautionary tale, its alarm-ism can lead many to throw the beautiful practice of yoga asanas (postures) out with the bathwater.
-
Quote of the Day: Pico Iyer on the Joy of Quiet
Quiet, as Iyer sums up in his beautifully serene New York Times editorial, is a commodity gaining greater ground in this LinkedIn age of Facebook, Twitter and smart phones.
-
3 Lifestyle Shifts for a Simpler, Sweeter, Healthier Holiday
I haven't mastered the art of holiday stress less-ness but I can say every year gets a little bit easier.
-
Adivasi Body: Delicious on Skin, Nose and Globe
The bath and body goodies hail from my hometown in Connecticut, handmade in small batches making it a pretty local treat for anyone in the NYC metro-area.
-
Kitchari: A Clean, One Pot Vegetarian Meal
Kitchari is like a vegetarian, Indian version of American chili. Unlike chili, it's cleansing, easy-to-digest and provides a complete protein, entirely plant-based.
-
Conscious Box: The Monthly Subscription Service Delivering Healthy Snacks and Skin Products to Your Door
Assorted goodies from ethical suppliers range from Glee Gum to Almond-Coconut Kind Bars, Honest Tea, and Pharmacopia body lotion.
-
Use Etsy to Find Local and Handcrafted Holiday Yoga Treats
My flame for the small-business and artisan supporting marketplace was re-kindled surfing the 263 items -- from mat bags, to hand-knit yoga socks, calming wall art and more -- made locally in Brooklyn alone.
-
Traveling Off the Beaten Path in New Orleans, Eco-Style
Steer clear of the plastic beads on Bourbon Street to experience a more local NOLA (New Orleans, Lousiana).
-
Yoga: A Bad Back's Best Friend
I was just one of countless Americans, "spending $50 billion a year on medications, physical therapy and related costs" for back pain alone as the New York Times' Well Blog reports. That's until I met yoga. A recent study shows why.
-
Meatless Make-Ahead Meal: Warmed Greek Quinoa Salad
My ongoing mission to make quick n' easy meals more interesting and nutrient-rich than a post-yoga protein bar continues. But with the weather cooling down and my body craving warming comfort foods, my favorite Quinoa Salad spiked with
