Third Root Community Health Center

Brooklyn, United States

4.8

Closed now

20 reviews

Accepts Credit Cards

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Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Parking
Street
Good for Kids
Yes
By Appointment Only
No
Accepts Insurance
No

Description

Specialties

Yoga, Beginner’s Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Gentle Yoga, Acupuncture, Community Acupuncture, Deep Tissue Massage, Prenatal Massage, Swedish Massage, Tuina (Chinese Medical Massage), Shiatsu, Reflexology, Western and Chinese Herbal Consultations, and Herbal Education

History

Established in 2008.

Third Root’s doors opened in August of 2008, and has been running steady ever since! One of our goals is for everyone who walks through our doors to see their identity reflected in our practitioners. This is a way to enable visitors, patients, and students to feel seen, their experience felt, and their fabulous self celebrated. It can be quite radical to see a black acupuncturist, a queer massage therapist, a Latina herbalist because of the way that these modalities have historically intersected with capitalism and their histories erased, exotified, or vilified. We honor the complex history of the holistic modalities that we practice at Third Root, seeing the cultural context of the modality as vital to our understanding and practice of the healthcare tools and philosophy.

Meet the Business Owner

Third Root R.

Business Owner

Upon our founding, Third Root decided to become a worker-​owned cooperative rather than a non-​profit. The number of owners of Third Root has varied in our history, from 7 to begin with to 12 at one time. Everyone is empowered to make decisions by consensus about the direction of the business, to bring their own ideas and networks into the work of Third Root, and to create their own dream job. We feel that this creates an exciting and welcoming work culture that is consistent with the history of worker-​owned cooperatives.

We also believe that collective ownership is a tool of personal and social change. Working together, we have the opportunity to work on ourselves and develop qualities of patience, kindness, forgiveness, determination, and compassion. Working together, we can bring our own communities and histories into the work, and into the Center.