Why Brain Roots?
Working in a conventional gym, I was asked many times: "What are you training?" Chest day or leg day never captured it. I could have said “hand stand” , “spinal waves” or “hand eye coordination”. But this doesn’t capture it completely. After sitting with it I came up with the answer: I am training my brain and nervous system.
This led to the name Brain Roots: a metaphor for the network running from your brain down through the spine into your toes and fingertips. A shift in what physical training is for. Away from fat loss or aesthetics, towards feeling and being safer and more capable in your body.
Modern life leaves the nervous system unregulated. Prolonged sitting, screen time, repetitive movement patterns, chronic stress and related over breathing. Bringing variety and novelty into how you “exercise”, combined with learning and improving breathing patterns, gives your nervous system and brain what they need to thrive.
It as attempt to live closer to our biological reality and to reduce the evolutionary mismatch. Or at least to find more effective answers to it.
About me.
I'm Silas. Born 1994 in rural South-West Germany where I grew until the age of 19. For many years I tried to solve everything analytically, through thinking. I studied in three countries, hold a master of science in innovation, worked as a lecturer/researcher as well as in corporate roles. But at some point I realized: thinking alone doesn't solve what matters.
I shifted towards a physical lifestyle. And I saw something clearly: we're culturally cut off from our bodies. From childhood onwards, many learn to override bodily sensation to fit in and function. We forget how to perceive and sense what is going on inside of us. Screens and sedentary lifestyle re-enforce this dynamic.
I'm a sensitive and empathic person. I know what it's like to grow up in a system that fails to teach what it actually means to have a body. But I also discovered a way to work on the relationship between mind and body through movement and breath.
With my work, I hope to create the opportunity to open the door towards re-establishing and nurturing a relationship with our bodies, it’s sensation and capabilities that we maybe almost forgot we had.
