Stepping into the clean, open expanse of Nuts ‘n Berries’ newest offering, The Living Room Wellness Lounge, imbues your body and mind with a nervous system reset. Accents of sage green and lilac blend beautifully with white shades and neutral wood tones for an instantly serene experience. This sacred classroom is here to offer calm amidst the world’s chaos.
We all experience stress, from managing our daily lives and familial obligations to the broader environmental stressors that surround us. Creating a toolbox for self-regulation is crucial to finding your center, regardless of the outer circumstances. Mari Geier, co-owner of Brookhaven’s Nuts ‘n Berries, taps into her past as a personal trainer to bring in the best holistic teachers of their respective fields, creating a space for communal connectivity and spiritual centering.
The Living Room Wellness Lounge serves the community not only with classes, but also educational workshops and events. The space’s emanation is inspired by one of Mari’s friends, who is a phenomenal shaman and Reiki master.
Mari realized the Brookhaven/Chamblee area lacks the energetically infused spiritual offerings that she loves. The available classes are broad in scope yet aligned in mission. Offerings include manifestation visualization meditation to bring your dreams to reality, breathing techniques to connect with your body and enter a parasympathetic state, and mind-body fitness classes. Restorative yoga, intuitive flow, Pilates, and alignment-based strength training are all on the menu.
“The goal is to teach people that you have control over your own energy and you can calm that energy with very simple techniques,” Mari explains. “The more that we can teach people that, the better off everybody in the world is going to be.”
The most popular offering is on Wednesday nights - a master class on breathwork and sound healing. Deep breathing can activate and move energy, while sound healing cultivates blissful calmness. Monday nights it's guided visualizations, which includes transportive meditations that teach participants to reactivate their imaginations (a vital tool amidst technological advances). An ever-growing set of workshops is available, from full moon ceremonies focused on integrating a sense of reset alongside shifting seasons to Nervous System 101 led by a local chiropractor and personal trainer.
Many of these teachers have added value to Mari’s life on her own healing journey, and she’s intent on gathering the best of the best and granting access to them for her Nuts ‘n Berries community. These teachers often have their own businesses, and the Living Room Wellness Lounge is an extension of their already impactful platforms.
Mari, pivoting from personal training, found taking on a Nuts 'n Berries branch to be an empowering form of service. The store offers non-GMO and dye-free food products. A proponent of local and regenerative foods, Mari continuously cultivates relationships with farmers leading by the same mission. Her partnerships with local farms provide affordable and ethical wares such as regenerative organic ground beef. Farm-provided raw milk, beef, chicken, and eggs connect the city community to foods that support a thriving microbiome. Supplements are also available to fill the gaps when food isn’t enough - a symptom of our current food system is soil that no longer provides certain vitamins and minerals.
Mari’s number one suggestion for supplementation is magnesium. Even while eating an organic diet, we are not able to absorb the magnesium we need from the soil. Nuts ‘n Berries offers a multi-magnesium product from BIOptimizers. With seven forms of magnesium present, it addresses muscle aches, sleep, recovery, and your overall mental state. “If there’s one thing people took, it would be magnesium,” Mari says. “If there were two things, I would say a multi-mushroom and magnesium.” Multi-mushroom products strengthen the immune system to a highly impactful degree, much more so than the more commonly used echinacea, and it’s a great addition to your regimen at the start of the year.
Nuts ‘n Berries proclaims, “true health is possible,” and Mari takes that mission seriously, dedicating herself to staying abreast of the executive orders, laws, and historical factors that impact our food system. She's intent on providing the cleanest, most nutritionally-dense food to customers through continual education and conversations with the organic and regenerative community.
Nuts ‘n Berries sources products from over 159 local vendors, makers, and farmers. Unlike big corporate stores, they can quickly pivot and bring in offerings that best support the health of the communities they serve.
To support Nuts ‘n Berries and their health movement, buy your groceries here and the team will continue to provide the fairest prices. Ultimately, Mari works tirelessly to create hope in the world for her young daughter. “When you shop with us, you’re not just buying food—you’re helping shape the kind of world our kids will inherit," she says. "I want our community to feel that power every time they walk through our doors.”
The goal is to teach people that you have control over your own energy and you can calm that energy with very simple techniques. The more that we can teach people that, the better off everybody in the world’s going to be.