Root + Rise

This episode is an invitation for sensitive, creative, neurodivergent souls – the worldbuilders and paradigm-shifters – to explore the liberating truth that we are not our wounds and traumas, and how the somatic integration of that allows your sensitivity to become the gift and the superpower that it is.  Drawing from her own healing journey and her work in trauma repair, Rohini examines how unres...

Unresolved trauma in our bodies and nervous systems go on to become systemic, creating our culture.  This is an invitation to look at how this plays out through inter-generational and dominant culture core wounds and trauma patterns that live in us – and why it doesn’t have to be this way , which becomes the doorway into practical pathways towards liberation. Root + Rise – the membership space – i...

Join me for this dive into ecosomatics – an emerging field of research and practice that explores the living relationship between our bodies and the wider ecological world.  I talk about how ecosomatics reframes the body as Nature, expressing locally through us, and how this perspective can heal the existential alienation caused by modern life.  Some key principles of ecosomatics are discussed, in...

Holding the tension of opposites and calling forth the transcendent function, as coined by C G Jung, are core principles of healing and integration. Drawing on the somatics of this traditionally psychological process, this conversation moves beyond concepts into the direct, somatic experience of holding polarity – conscious and unconscious, good and bad, ego and Self.  In these times of extreme po...

As we arrive at the end of 2025, this episode of Root + Rise is an invitation to take stock of all that this year has asked of us – personally, collectively. I reflect on 2025 – the year of the Wood Snake in the Chinese calendar – as a year of profound shedding, completion and a time when old systems, identities, and ways of being have been chiselled away to reveal something more essential beneath...

This episode is an exploration of manifestation through a decolonial, Nature-aligned, trauma-informed lens. Moving beyond the hyper-individualistic, transactional narrative, this is a call towards a more relational understanding of co-creation – one rooted in ecosomatics, nervous system capacity, embodiment, and interdependence with the more-than-human world. I talk about why we don’t create from...

In this 10th episode of Root + Rise, we wander through some of my favorite terriain: the dance of opposites, the numinous space of both/and, and the wildly generative consciousness that lives at the Zero Point Field ~ the realm of The Fool, Beginner’s Mind, and radically creative evolution. Join me as we explore: The archetype of The Fool and the number 0 ~ the cosmic reset, the soul’s new cycle,...

Join Rohini for this exploration of neuroception — the nervous system's instinctive, pre-verbal sense of safety and truth that lives beneath conscious awareness. This conversation invites you into deeper attunement with your nervous system's wild, holistic intelligence, which is also the physiological root of intuition. We dive into how trauma, including the traumas of our dominant cultu...

Join Rohini for this exploration of one of the most humbling truths of the living world: that life does not move in straight lines. Non-linear causality is the way of Nature, of ecosystems, of healing and relationship. It’s the spiral rhythm through which life self-organizes, regenerates, and evolves — not through control or prediction, but through interdependence and emergence. Rohini unpacks the...

Tune into this exploration of the deeper nature of desire — not the fleeting and distracting cravings that we're bombarded with in our culture, but the soul-aligned, values-rooted desires that stir something deeper in us. Drawing on the body’s wisdom, the poetry of Kahlil Gibran, Vedic philosophy, and nervous system resilience, Rohini re-frames desire as Nature’s evolutionary intelligence mov...

In this deeply personal episode, Rohini shares her transformative journey of resolving childhood trauma and related autoimmune conditions through following inner guidance rather than conventional medical approaches.  Rohini explores the crucial distinction between disassociation and dis-identification, emphasizing that we are not our wounds but rather the compassionate witnessing presence that ten...

Dive into an exploration of collective memory, and the ways in which its erasure feeds the roots of colonialism. What does it mean to forget as a collective? And what might it mean to remember, not just with the mind, but through the body, the land, and ancestry? You’re invited to trace the lineage of collective amnesia, from the systemic silencing of Earth-honoring cosmologies to the colonization...

Join host Rohini Walker into an exploration of sacred attention as a valuable resource and life-affirming offering. In a world consumed by distraction and speed, our attention has become commodified, fragmented, and pulled in countless directions. What happens when we reclaim it? When we slow down enough to offer our presence as an act of devotion, of relationship, of reciprocity? Rohini explores...

In this episode of Root + Rise, we explore animism — not as an abstract concept, but as a living, embodied worldview rooted in relationship. Animism teaches that all life, all phenomena, are ensouled and conscious — from planets and plants to our organs, emotions, and symptoms. Rohini Walker shares how this ancient, earth-honoring perspective is not only central to Indigenous and ancestral traditi...

In this episode of Root + Rise, host Rohini Walker explores the liberating power of aligning with your authentic, soul-rooted values — the kind that often ask you to step beyond cultural conditioning, familial expectations, and the comfort of approval. Our true values, like everything in Nature, are alive and evolving. When we choose to live in alignment with them, we’re not just “being true to ou...

Welcome to the very first episode of Root + Rise — a space to slow down, root into your inner knowing, and rise into soulful alignment with life. In this opening episode, host Rohini Walker invites you into a sacred pause: an intentional return to the body, to breath, and to the deeper voice of your inner or True Self. We explore what it means to reclaim stillness in a culture of overstimulation,...