Living Well Inside Your Body

a slower, more grounded approach to wellness

Welcome — I’m so glad you’re here.

Slow Moves Rox is a space for exploring movement, mindfulness, nervous system healing, midlife wellness, and the realities of living inside a human body in modern life.

Over the years, my relationship with wellness has shifted away from perfection, punishment, and optimization and toward something gentler, steadier, and more sustainable. Around here, I’m interested in movement that supports the nervous system, realistic wellness practices that fit real life, and creating rhythms that help us feel more grounded, connected, and alive inside ourselves.

Whether through mindful movement, nervous system support, reflective writing, or everyday rituals, my hope is that this space helps you feel a little more at home in your body and your life.

How I Teach

My approach to teaching blends together many influences and practices that have shaped me over the years:

Barre fitness — functional strength, rhythm, resilience, and playful challenge
Mindful movement — breath, embodied awareness, nervous system support, and presence
Yoga & mobility — alignment, ease, recovery, and sustainable movement
Outdoor movement — hiking, nature, perspective, and connection to something larger than ourselves
Whether teaching a class, leading a workshop, or sharing reflections through writing, I’m less interested in perfection and performance and more interested in helping people feel grounded, capable, connected, and alive inside their bodies.
I want movement to feel supportive, intelligent, realistic, and human — something that helps us build strength for everyday life rather than another thing to optimize or “get right.”

What You’ll Find Here

Here you’ll find reflections, practices, and conversations around:

• Mindful movement — strength, mobility, nervous system support, and movement for real life
• Nervous system healing — regulation, sensory support, rhythm, and sustainable wellness
• Midlife & everyday wellness — realistic approaches to energy, resilience, nourishment, and living inside a changing body
• Mindfulness & slowing down — breath, presence, nature, perspective, and small daily rituals that help us reconnect
• Real human life — motherhood, healing, growth, identity shifts, and finding steadier ways to move through modern life

I don’t believe wellness has to be perfect, performative, or all-consuming to matter. Sometimes healing begins with creating a life that feels a little more supportive, connected, and sustainable one small rhythm at a time.

Whether you’re here for movement, reflection, nervous system support, or simply a softer way of approaching wellness, I’m glad you’re here. 💗

Who I Am

I’m Roxy Borger — writer, movement teacher, and wellness guide based in San Luis Obispo, California. Through Slow Moves Rox, I explore mindful movement, nervous system healing, sustainable wellness, and what it means to build a life that feels supportive to live inside.

I’ve been teaching classes, workshops, and movement experiences since 2000 — from barre and yoga to hiking, meditation, strength training, and mindful practices. Over the years, my approach to wellness has shifted away from perfection and intensity and toward movement that feels grounding, energizing, connective, and deeply human.

I believe movement can be more than exercise. It can be a way to reconnect with ourselves, regulate the nervous system, process life, build resilience, and show up more fully in our relationships and everyday experiences.

My teaching style is thoughtful, down-to-earth, playful, and imperfect — with equal parts deep breathing, strength work, nervous system support, and spontaneous karaoke moments.

My Story

Movement has been part of my life for as long as I can remember — from neighborhood adventures and cheerleading to yoga, barre, hiking, strength training, and long walks that helped me process life along the way.

Over more than two decades of teaching, my understanding of wellness has evolved significantly. I’ve learned that movement is most supportive when it meets us where we are instead of demanding we become someone else first. The older I get, the more interested I become in movement that supports the nervous system, builds resilience, creates steadier energy, and helps us feel more connected to ourselves and our lives.

Along the way, I’ve studied and taught many styles of movement and spent years working behind the scenes in the wellness and fitness industry supporting teachers, studios, and businesses through coaching, operations, strategy, and leadership. That blend of lived experience, teaching, and real-world perspective continues to shape the grounded, thoughtful approach I bring to Slow Moves Rox today.

Past Lives

Over the years, I’ve studied across multiple movement and mindfulness lineages including Iyengar Yoga, Power Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, barre fitness, mindfulness hiking, Gestalt-based practices, and a wide range of teachers and modalities that continue to shape how I move, teach, and think today.

I’ve spent more than two decades immersed in the wellness world — teaching thousands of hours of yoga, barre, movement classes, workshops, retreats, and teacher trainings throughout San Luis Obispo and beyond. Along the way, I also found myself increasingly drawn to the behind-the-scenes work of building sustainable wellness communities and businesses.

From owning Smiling Dog Yoga & Wellness to working at MINDBODY and later consulting with studios and teachers through FitBizRox, I’ve spent years exploring both the human and operational sides of the wellness industry. Those experiences deepened my appreciation for thoughtful leadership, nervous system-aware teaching, community-building, and creating wellness practices that can actually support real life over the long term.

These days, I’m most interested in grounded, presence-based experiences that blend movement, mindfulness, nature, strength, music, practical intelligence, and meaningful connection — with a continued soft spot for spreadsheets, long hikes, and good conversation.

Roxy’s Favorite Things

A podcast series based on buddhist teachings aimed at helping us to transcend our fear and anger

What People Are Saying

“I love your barre + yoga classes but my favorite class included the mimosas at our ladies weekend! I appreciate the way you make me feel safe and talk about real life bodies, ailments and all.”

— KRISTIN E.

“Roxy’s flow yoga classes were strong and deliberately paced. They were a great stretch and workout. In tone, not as frilly, feminine, or spiritual as many yoga classes (to their benefit). The tone was honest, tough, and honestly inspiring.”

— STEVE M.

“My strong glutes thank you!”

— SARAH

“Your yoga classes have greatly helped my pain and mobility in my shoulder - which has been a chronic issue for me. Thank you!”

— JOY

Movement Modalities I specialize In:

Yoga

Barre

Circuit Training

Hiking

Mindfulness & Meditation

Teacher Trainings