We are the threshold of a new paradigm ~ can you sense it?
We’re being called to write brave, new soul-created stories ~ for ourselves and for the world.
It’s time to spiral into new meanings and possibilities, in playful collaboration with our wholeness, with Nature and with our inherent powers of embodied imagination.
And we don’t have to walk these evolutionary new paths into the Mystery of the unknown alone…
Welcome to
Root + Rise is an online group teaching + mentoring space, nourished by decolonial praxis, as a route to radical wholeness and liberation.
Facilitated by trauma-informed mentor, writer, storyteller and somatic guide, Rohini Walker, the intention of Root + Rise is to support you in a transformative journey of re-membering your soul-body, leading to a rich + resonant relationship with the continuum of your larger Self, the Earth + the Cosmos.
Summer enrollment is currently open and closes at midnight PST on June 30th.
Root + Rise is a cyclical journey, weaving stories of our wholeness in a dedicated container and community.
The focus is on inner alchemy through working with somatic experiencing and ecosomatic practices, and being in relationship with the rhythms of Nature ~ within + without.
If colonization is the cutting off of our innate meaning, our indigenous divine-human mythos…
…then the journey towards inner/outer liberation begins with restoring the soul-body to their natural seat of sovereignty within the human ~ and weaving authentic, empowering and valuable stories from this place of wholeness.
Stories are important.
They birth the meanings that pattern our lives and the world.
They carry potent archetypal frequencies around which reality organizes itself.
They propagate down the ages, from generation to generation, through our cellular structures and our DNA.
Stories shape our unconscious realms, conditioning our physicality, our capacity for, and experience of Life.
Usually, we don’t consciously Choose or Create the stories that govern and direct our lives.
We have been tranced into believing that Choosing + Creating are for the privileged few, when in truth they are our birthright.
Usually, we unconsciously assimilate the inherited stories forged in the wounds of our ancestors.
And inevitably we’re made to conform to the stories forced upon us by this dominant, dying culture of harm and ignorance.
But we’re living in unusual times.
Our authentic stories are ripe and ready to be connected with and written through us. We’re moving into an aeon where our onward trajectories get to be charted by the soul, our inner authority.
If you’re one of the ready ones;
if you have been sensing that there are bold, new world-creating stories waiting to emerge through you, stories that do not require a permission slip from what has come before, stories that land fully-formed into your Being when you’re silently feeling and sensing your wholeness through your belonging to the Earth below you and the Sky above you, this cosmic portal-moment is for you.
If you know that your imagination is a sacred gift, and that wielding it with responsibility requires deep collaboration with the body, this is your time to step into your powers of embodied imagination.
If you have been steeped in traumatizing stories, and your body doesn’t feel like a home, consider this an invitation to safely, gently feel your way back to your Self.
If you have been holding back your power, your magic and your innate gifts of co-creating new worlds and realities, this is for you.
The true meaning of to manifest is to make apparent.
In Root + Rise, we make the indwelling essence ~ the True Self ~ apparent. From this place of surrendered embodiment, we can begin to responsibly Choose + Create our stories ~ not as their sole authors, but as devoted co-creators.
We begin to feel safe to get out of our own way.
Together, we allow brave, new stories to weave through us.
We remember that freedom, peace, justice and prosperity for all aren’t just possible ~ they’re the current of our evolutionary trajectory.
These stories belong to Earth + Sky, who have been waiting for us to listen, attune, to become their storytellers through the portal of embodied imagination.
From this place of universality, we step into our most authentic stories ~ stories that serve the whole.
In Root + Rise, we discern and compost.
We trust the guidance of the heart-body.
We keep what is True, and compost what no longer serves.
And from here, we step into our role as storytellers, conduits, and conscious co-creators of a new world.
Root + Rise is a reality creation timeline for you if…
you’re burned out, and want to live in harmony with your own cycles and values ~ which are rooted in Nature’s rhythms ~ and create thriving space and flow in your life
you’re drawn to embody your archetypal essence - your soul signature, your True Self - and live your life from that place
you long to feel safe in your body, so you can trust your felt-sense and surrender into the guidance of embodied imagination
you know intellectually that you’re not separate from Nature, but crave the visceral remembrance of this Truth ~ essential for healing the systemic stories of harm within and without
you sense that new, life-affirming stories want to be born through you ~ but feel isolated, unsure and overwhelmed about where to begin
you’re a visionary, creative, artist or soul-led entrepreneur seeking supportive community to birth authentic work ~ and to compost stubborn creative blocks
you don’t quite identify with any of those things yet, but you feel them stirring in your field, wanting expression
you recognize that the body’s language ~ also the Earth’s language ~ has been neglected, and you’re ready to listen and attune somatically, intuitively and with deep presence
you’re done living by externally imposed scripts and “shoulds,” and ready meet the fears that have kept you small with compassion + courage
you’ve tried to escape the scarcity + unworthiness loop, but feel stuck ~ and you yearn to live in alignment with the abundance of your true nature
you want to create from wholeness, in coherence with your soul’s deepest values
you’re looking for a space where you don’t have shrink to fit in ~ where groupthink and safety in sameness is no longer the currency
you’re ready to heal soul-level wounds, including karmic imprints of persecution, with care and integrity
you’re tired of fearing your own power ~ and are ready to reclaim it
you know that the dismantling of oppression within has real, rippling impact on the collective ~ that the personal is profoundly universal.
And Root + Rise will be a disappointing reality creation timeline for you if:
you’re hyper-logical and left-brained
you’re unwilling to be in a space where there is no groupthink & us vs. them dogma
you’re a committed to the scientific materialism story
you don’t believe in the soul or in reincarnation
you irrefutably believe that this is just the way things are + always will be
you’re not yet ready to release your identifications with your traumas.
What will I participate in?
The Process
All the work we do here in Root + Rise is trauma-informed. From that foundational keynote, we work with:
somatic experiencing, ecosomatics + parts work
decolonial + soul liberation praxis (free from the ideologies of Cultural Marxism)
attunement to our ecological identity, from where we’re also able to attune to the soul or theTrue Self
sacred attention, deep listening, radical self-compassion
working with dreams and archetypes
spiritual ecology and animism
alignment with the elements and rhythms of the seasons, as well as your own natural rhythms
Choosing + Creating our new, evolving stories through embodied imagination and values alignment
living and embodying new stories from a place of integration, and playing with reality + timeline creation
The Structure
Root + Rise opens for enrollment at the beginning of each season, and we work-play with the elemental energies of the season in our story co-creation practice.
Each month, you will receive practices related to rooting down and rising up that are designed to deepen soul integration, and make you increasingly intimate with your powers of embodied imagination as you co-create your authentic, evolving stories.
All our sessions take place online
The community interacts in a private + moderated group on Mighty Networks.
The online space operates within clearly outlined Community Guidelines, which you will receive upon registration.
Each Season’s Monthly Offerings
◐Monthly Practices at the beginning of each month
◑ Monthly Sessions
2 hour online group sessions every two weeks (usually on a weekday at 4pm PST)
deep-dive guidance on the Monthly Practices + co-creating the story that wants to move through you
trauma-informed somatic experiencing + inner alchemical practice
decolonial mentoring
Q&A
replays are sent to members after each session
◐ Alchemy Space
1 hour online group sessions every two weeks (usually on a weekday at 3 or 4pm PST)
trauma-informed space for processing whatever is arising (these sessions are not recorded)
somatic experiencing practice, inquiry, energy work + nervous system tending
supportive group witnessing space
◑ Monthly Medicinal Plant Dieta sessions - this summer, we’re working with the Ayurvedic herb Tulsi or Holy Basil ~
for 1 hour, once a month (usually on a weekday at 4pm PST)
each season, we work with a new medicinal plant or root, with the intention of connecting with, understanding and working with not only its medicinal properties, but also its soul or spirit, its essence
if you prefer not to ingest the plant or root, it’s equally transformative to connect with it on an energetic level, and this will be explored in more depth in our sessions
◑ Extras
The Light Gets In - members receive free registration to this weekly somatic practice + meditation drop-in
Money + Me - members receive free registration to this monthly space to cultivate freedom from wounded money stories
Access to the Archives Library
Access to Rohini’s paid Substack membership, which includes a monthly writing workshop, Writing the Land, Writing the Body, deeper dive essays and the Notes of Attunement series.
“I spent around 6 months in Root + Rise. Lots happened to me during that time, I went through a phase of intense expansion and growth. Our sessions were a great melting pot of the esoteric: myth + practices from Native American and Egyptian culture, inner alchemy, Jung, embodied energetics, and much more. Countless seeds were planted in my psyche by the delicately explored and nourishing ideas Rohini brought. We went deep into the physical body sometimes, other times more in the ethereal and philosophical spaces.
Rohini is really able to hold space at the both the individual and group level. She context switches seamlessly when one person is called or has urgent needs. By facilitating one person in front of the group, everyone relates and heals a part of themselves through the witnessing. Some of my most powerful shadow work happened in this container that allowed me to integrate more of my true Self. The boundaries I thought I previously had were exposed to the light and strengthened after the exposure.
It had felt like I was the one who was so powerful and overcame my challenges, when in reality it’s also Rohini who has an amazing way of holding space as a clear channel and being a mirror.”
Lloyd Xie, Software Engineer, California
What’s the investment?
Membership to Root + Rise is ~
▽ $ 125 a month (cancel anytime)
▽ $450 for four months (cancel prior to next billing cycle)
▽ $1200 for 12 months (cancel prior to next billing cycle)
Root + Rise welcomes all ages, ethnicities, genders and levels of experience.
“The wisdom and support I've noticed developing in me through Rohini's Root + Rise process blows my mind. The process develops at a moderate pace, and I’m highly impressed with how carefully she’s designed it. There's ancient learning from timeless myth, and fresh cutting-edge perspectives.
I feel much more at peace than I did prior to starting the course, and I have found the practices I've learned there to be of great benefit to personal growth. Working personally with Rohini is also something I highly recommend.”
- Doug Wilson, MD, FAAFP, California
“I feel honored to have been in the first group of members of Rohini’s Root + Rise space. I’ve always been drawn to finding connections within and outside myself and with Rohini’s guidance, I’ve been able to connect deep inner knowing I’ve always held but never quite knew what to do with it. In only a few months, I can sense these shifts within my being that I know will stay with me for a lifetime.
Thank you for being such a beautiful example of how these teachings can live through and light up a human being.”
- Carolina Rodriguez, Photographer, California
“My favorite thing about Rohini’s remarkable spaceholding and guidance is that no matter what I bring to our sessions — even the gnarly, taboo stuff — she affirms and encourages its expression and creates a warm safe sandbox to explore it. She gives such deep permission to dig into parts of myself that have never seen the light of day, and recover the glimmering gold that lives there. It’s so clear she’s been on a wild journey herself and she gifts everyone she meets with deep presence from her integrated, compassionate, gleaming-eyed, playful self. I learned so much about the alchemical journey I’m on, and I’m leaving with a new sense of self-connection and ‘being on my own team’ with some of the previously-alienated characters in my psyche. I highly, highly recommend letting her bless you with her presence.”
- Sophia Ciocca, Musician & Writer, Pennsylvania
How much time will the work + practices take?
Root + Rise is designed for you to go at your own pace, allowing you to be as involved as your schedule and lifestyle allow.
To receive benefit and transformation from this work and from your membership, it is recommended that you spend a minimum of one hour a week on Root + Rise.
Whether this is showing up to online sessions, catching up on replays or doing the monthly practices, this is a commitment that you are asked to make to yourself to maintain the integrity of your membership.
What is Root + Rise’s story?
Yamuna, by Kshitidranath Majumdar, 1891 - 1975
Since Root + Rise began, we have journeyed with:
the ancient Egyptian story of Isis, Osiris + Horus
the Lakota tale of White Buffalo Woman
the ancient Greek story of Psyche & Eros
the Hindu myth of Goddess Durga & the Buffalo Demon
the Celtic tale of The Fisher King
the Australian Aborginal creation story of Baiame & Yhi
the Greek Allegory of the Cave by Plato
Goddess Oshun & the Yoruba Creation Story from West Africa
the legend of Selkie from the Indigenous peoples of the colder northern regions
the Vedic myth of Goddess Lakshmi & the Churning of the Ocean from India
the Greek tale of Echo & Narcissus
the Cherokee Legend of the Cedar Tree
the Brothers Grimm faerie tale, The Sleeping Beauty
the Middle-Eastern story of Queen Scheherazade & King Shahryay
Upon registration, you’ll receive access to all of these, and the practices around them in our Archives Library.
Root + Rise is an evolving creation.
It landed in the world on Winter Solstice, 2021. In this form, Root + Rise was a space where, each season, we explored myths and stories from around the world, and engaged in monthly rooting down + rising up practices guided by each season’s myth.
From summer 2025, this organic new direction has presented itself, as we find ourselves on the threshold of a new paradigm: Root + Rise is ready to be reborn as a space where we re-story our own lives.
The rich lineage of its previous incarnation will be the root system that informs and nourishes it going forward.
Details of what you’ll receive
Foundational Practices + Archives
Four Foundational Practices to consistently orient and anchor you into Root + Rise’s frequency
Access to our Archives Library, (which houses all of our myths, Monthly Practices and audio + video replays of Monthly Sessions to date). A valuable resource library to explore at your own pace
Monthly Practices
At the beginning of each month, you’ll receive a pdf of practices related to rooting down + rising up, of dissolving and (re)creating, of death and rebirth
Monthly Online Teaching, Mentoring + Q&A sessions
There are 2 two-hour online Monthly Sessions per month, one at the beginning of the month, after the monthly practices have been sent out, and one two weeks later. Group formats are potent ways of creating empathy, compassion + connection, thereby reducing feelings of alienation + isolation.
These sessions focus on the Monthly Practices, and the process of co-creating our new, soul-created stories
All these sessions are recorded and made available to you after the event in case you couldn’t attend, and for you to refer back to.
Alchemy Space
These bi-weekly/fortnightly 1 hour sessions take place during the weeks we don’t have our Monthly Sessions
Alchemy Space is devoted to being with, holding space for, relating to and allowing transformation for whatever you'd like to tend to in your life
We work intuitively with what arises, calling upon diverse inner alchemical practices that support the process of evolution + integration
These sessions are not recorded
Plant Dieta Sessions
each season, we work with a new medicinal plant or root from Western Herbalism or the Ayurvedic tradition - the sessions are recorded
this season, we’re working with Ayurvedic herb Tulsi or Holy Basil
we meet online for 1 hour once a month to explore the plant’s medicinal properties, as well as connect with its soul and spirit, its essence
if you prefer not to ingest the plant or root, it’s equally as transformative to with it on an energetic level, and this will be explored in more depth in our sessions.
Online Root + Rise Community Forum on Mighty Networks
A private, moderated online community where you can connect + interact with other members of the group. Participation in this group is not mandatory - you can be as engaged with it as you choose.
This online forum has community guidelines in alignment with the intention and vision of Root + Rise.
This is also a place to post questions for Rohini, as well as for other members of the group, so that it’s a place of sharing and exchange of ideas, resources, and support.
Free Access to The Light Gets In
This is a weekly online nervous system regulation + meditation sitting held on Sundays, which Root + Rise members are invited to join free of charge.
Free Access to Money + Me
A monthly space to cultivate embodied liberation from wounded money stories, which Root + Rise members are invited to join free of charge.
The frequency of the space is grounded in decolonizing our relationship with money.
Free Access to Rohini’s paid Substack, The Immateria
This includes a monthly online writing workshop Writing the Land, Writing the Body
You’ll also receive deeper dive essays and the Notes of Attunement series
If you have any other questions about Root + Rise, email Rohini here
“I've noticed an appreciation for the power of myth to offer nuance to what might have otherwise been a dimensionless experience of archetype.
While I naturally have a tendency to look for a deeper meaning behind circumstances and others' actions, my mind hasn't necessarily found it easy to extend to understanding archetypal symbology and metaphor without guidance. My time in Root + Rise has helped me to gain more access to this.
I love the safe, inclusive container Rohini creates and how the energy of the meetings build with a sense of curiosity and creative expression. Rohini is attentive, and supports us in building our understanding through interest and exploration, rather than just laying her understanding onto ours by lecturing. That's a real gift.
She has a way of drawing out a deeper understanding that has been held within us and is only revealed to everyone through this invitation. The pacing of the program seems to be led by the group's needs and our own natural pace, and somehow, it all gets done! I’m always impressed by how she can draw illuminating parallels from our experience with the myth.”
Amara Palmer, Awakening Coach + Founder of Freedom Through Inquiry, California
“Root + Rise has provided a space in my life to be slow which feels radical/counter culture. In the current ruling paradigm there’s a real push towards rushing/striving to grasp knowledge, hone a skill, leave a mark. For me, I believe the first few months of Root + Rise allowed me to question this at a level somewhere in between the conscious and subconscious. It is possible that it led me to take a much needed leave from work. Wintering with Root and Rise over the last 3 months I have benefited from the shift towards being curious, passive, allowing myself to be open to a more osmotic approach to acquiring knowledge. I find it to be at once humbling and emboldening.”
Naureen Siddiqui, Toronto, Canada
This is reality co-creation for the new Earth. And this process will call up the shadows of our wounded parts, the ones we have spent lifetimes avoiding and suppressing.
Together, we compassionately meet, transmute and liberate these shadows into integration.
Together, we meet the distortions of the dominant culture that have colonized our inner + outer systems, our inner + outer stories.
We begin the process of repair, inside + out.
And together, we celebrate the spaciousness that arises for generative new stories rooted in compassion to emerge through us.
The world becomes whole…
when you say yes to your soul.
“I enjoy the dialogue in our sessions and it has brought me an understanding of integrating somatic practices, and understanding what they are in the first place. I have found some insights specifically around the constant need for growth particularly helpful. Working in a fast paced corporate environment, I find that it gives me a dose of much needed perspective from the day to day view of competition, growth and success.”
~ Tara Macpherson, Management Consultant, Toronto Canada
“I want to extend heartfelt gratitude to the indefatigable, enchanting and wise Rohini Walker for her guidance. She led me into understanding the archetypes, narratives and energies present for me in the liminal realm and how they are influencing my physical reality. We journeyed deep into the caverns of my subconscious. What was unearthed was great clarity for questions that have been weighing on my heart, revelations and a reminder of all the divine support within and around us. I feel called to delve deeper into understanding the healing practices of my ancestors and feel empowered to continue on my path as an artist and a healer.”
~ Rachel Helten, Dance Artist/Healer, Vancouver, Canada
About your guide, Rohini Walker
I’m an Indian-born British writer, mentor and consultant, planted in a remote corner of the Mojave high desert in California for the past 10+ years. The escape to this otherworldly desert from the UK, a place that had long become a suffocating prison for my soul, was the result of attuning, listening and co-creating the story that wanted to unfold, a story that my mind could never have written. And my time here in the desert, as well as the creations that emerge, continue to be an evolving, soul-created story, revealing my personal mythos and archetypal signatures, irrevocably connected to the whole.
I’ve been a practitioner and teacher of diverse esoteric traditions of inner alchemy + energy work for 15 years, and continue to learn from my teachers, both human and more-than-human.
I’m also a student, practitioner and teacher of trauma-informed somatic experiencing work, shadow integration, dream and archetypal methodologies.
A Masters in European History + Literature from University College London (UCL) gave me a strong grounding in my lifelong love of mythology, which in my teaching + mentoring, I approach from the holistic lens of the right brain - allowing the art of storytelling to unite seamlessly with the practices I share, specifically through the lens of embodied imagination + integration instead of simply an intellectual understanding.
Ultimately, I’m a student of myriad wisdom traditions that point towards the larger Mystery of what we are. My passion arises from communicating with you at the level of soul, your true Self, and drawing that out as the focal point of from which you create the blooming, biodiverse garden of your Life.
The confluence + interpretation of these traditions through the lens of decoloniality (inner decolonization) arose from some wild + rich adventures with personal trauma caused by inner/outer structures of oppression.
My diverse life experiences continue to move me into and through cycles of re-wholing and re-membering my mythic soul-body, her unbreakable relationship to the World Soul - the Anima Mundi - and always towards answering the irresistible call to thriving, meaning-making adventure.
“I'd like to express sincere gratitude for receiving Rohini's coaching in this area and her ability to track with whatever arose, pulling disparate images together to connect dots for me to see more of the whole. If you have a chance to work with her in this way I heartily recommend it. I enjoyed entering into inner work through this gate and am finding the reclamation of personal myth deeply healing. Rohini, I'm beyond grateful that our paths crossed. Thank you so much for your continual return to your own inner authority, and your beautiful astounding work in this world.”
~ Inger Brown, Somatic practitioner & Herbalist, MI
“I came to Rohini with a very specific ask and was pleasantly surprised by what we accomplished during our sessions together. Rohini was able to guide me to a place within myself that I have not explored before. She showed me how all of my memories are within me and helped me understand and interpret certain signs my body was sending me.
Our time together helped me carve out some much needed introspection and gave me time to slow down after a busy day and hectic schedule.
I've continued to use the tools that I learned and I'm grateful to have memories back from my childhood.
I'm very happy that I gave myself this gift and Rohini's program was the perfect opportunity to reflect.”
~ Janelle Francisco, Financial Consultant, Toronto, Canada
“My work with Rohini occurred just when I needed it. She provided such a warm, caring, and trustworthy space for me to be held in my rawness. We went deep and she beautifully held space for me to unwind the ancestral ties of trauma from my life now. She helped me to tap into my somatic experience and gave me tools to continue connecting with the soft and gentle parts of myself.
It was very nurturing and has set me up to keep stepping more and more into the true essence of who I really am. I highly recommend working with Rohini, she's a real gem.”
~ Chrissie Keynes, Holistic Coach, Counsellor & Medical Intuitive, Brisbane Australia
