Welcome to The Healing Root Blog

My name is Maria Praeg and I started this blog as a medium dedicated to delving deeper into exploring all the facets of health and wellbeing from nutritious plant-focused recipes to exploring the connection between the mind & body, to the energetic & healing qualities of food & preparation techniques, yoga, Ayurveda, Macrobiotics, Raw & Living Foods and more. You can head over to the "About" page in the panel above to read more about my journey, interests and inspirations that have gone into the creation of this space. 

I hope you can find something among the recipes, tips, tricks, experiences & lessons I've learnt and shared here that can make healthy living & conscious living more available & accessible to you in your every day life. The health movement, as well as the movement towards simply living a more care-filled life, is like a ripple effect. And each splash that any one person makes, makes a difference and plants the seeds of consciousness, care & compassion into the minds of the people we surround ourselves with. I am a firm believer that once we fill our own tanks with mindful presence and attentive love we can extend that outwards to all of those around us and bring an immense amount of healing to the world. It starts by going within, and then taking those lessons of healing outward into the world through our own idiosyncratic gifts and ways.

I truly believe that: “you can only meet others to the degree that you have met yourself”. This alone can be motivation enough to encourage a deepening of internal awareness and a strengthening of commitment to your inward journey of understanding & healing your relationship to your present self as well as your past selves. The journey of mind-body integration, which takes us back to the remembrance of our own wholeness, begins by including every part of ourselves: every difficult phase and season of our lives , every challenging characteristic and certainly every shadow aspect of our psyche (both past & present). When we learn to create a more inclusive internal environment, we offer ourselves a beautiful gift: the gift of more space for the reality of our lived experience as it is in this life, in this body, in this mind, in this moment.

Having said that, let’s go deeper into the exploration of health and aliveness together. Learning from and through the sharing of our lived experiences: making sharing an offering of healing itself. This is what creates the ripple effect reach far and wide so that we can heal ourselves and, by extension, the planet and all of the beings living on her awe-some vastness. Let’s support each other on the intricate journey towards balance. 

Namaste, 

Yours in healing, Maria Praeg