ROOT TO RISE

From Survival to Sovereignty


Welcome

What if healing isn't about becoming someone new... What if it's about creating the conditions in which your body feels safe enough to remember who you've always been?

Welcome to Root to Rise™—where modern neuroscience, somatic healing, and ancient wisdom come together to help you move from survival to sovereignty.

Here, you'll discover how to regulate the body, repattern the brain, and remember the soul.

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Choose the journey that calls you.

All are welcome — every age, every experience level, every body.       

                

Find your Path

The Three

Rivers of Transformation™

Root to Rise™

  • REGULATE Your Nervous System.
  • RECONNECT with Your Body.
  • REMEMBER  Who You Really Are.


For over forty years I've helped people move from survival into sovereignty through somatic healing, nervous system regulation, Kundalini Yoga, Core Energetics, Sufi wisdom, SOUND FREQUENCIES, and Q'ero healing traditions.

RIVER  ONE

REGULATE

From Survival to Safety

REGULATE

The Door Mat — learning safety



Your body learns that it no longer has to brace, protect, or simply endure.

Learn to calm the nervous system.

Reconnect to the body.

Restore energy.


Explore Beginner Classes

Accessible, grounding classes designed to help your body slow down, your breath deepen, and your energy realign.

Available as drop-in classes or packages.


Offerings include:


  • Qualities : Sufi Chanting & Heart Frequencies
  • Kundalini Yoga  90-Minute Class w Sound Bowls: Frequency Alignment
  • Kokopelli Inspired Core Movement: Somatic Release
  • Root to Rise Fundamentals


       "Safety is where healing begins."

Ideal if you want to feel calmer, clearer, and more at home in your body, without pressure or intensity.

RIVER TWO

From Safety to AWAKENING

REPATTERN

The Prayer Rug — entering presence



As the nervous system settles, old patterns naturally soften, making room for deeper awareness, healing, and authentic connection.Release old survival patterns.


Reconnect with your authentic self.

Awaken deeper awareness.

As your body begins to feel safe, deeper patterns naturally begin to surface—not to overwhelm you, but to be understood, released, and transformed.


This is where ancient wisdom, somatic psychology, and spiritual practice come together.This is where the teachings of the ancient medicine traditions meet direct experience.


Through guided movement programs, circles, and seasonal intensives, you are supported in releasing long-held patterns, restoring vitality, and reconnecting with your authentic self.


"The body becomes the doorway."


OFFERINGS INCLUDE

  • Root to Rise: 3 Rivers Transformation, 6-Week Program
  • Women’s Frequency Alignment: Monthly Circle
  • Qero Peruvian Shaman Rituals: Calling in the DIrections + Drumming + Fire Ceremonies
  • Seasonal Deep Dives: Solstices & Equinoxes
  • Private 1:1 Support

RIVER THREE

AWAKENING TO SOVEREIGNTY

REMEMBER

The Magic Carpet — living from embodied                                                                                 freedom

When body, heart, and soul come into alignment, life begins to unfold with greater clarity, purpose, trust, and ease.


Live from clarity.

Trust yourself.

Create from alignment.


When the body is regulated and the heart is open, life begins to feel different.

You no longer live from reaction.

You begin living from presence.

This is where clarity replaces confusion.

Where intuition becomes trustworthy.

Where life begins to flow instead of being forced.


Offerings include:Signature Experiences

  •  Private Coaching Journeys
  • Root to Rise Retreats
  • Intensive Immersions


"You don't become someone new. You remember who you've always been."

ALL

ARE WELCOME 

Class Schedule

SUMMER Schedule - 2026 Borrego Springs CA


ALL CLASSES $20 


WEDNESDAY 

12:30-1:30pm

KOKOPELLI INSPIRED CORE MOVEMENTS / SOUND AND CRYSTAL BOWLS MEDITATION 


THURSDAY 

10:30-11:45am

KUNDALINI YOGA CLASS /MEDITATION / SOUND BOWLS 


12:30-1:30pm

QUALITIES  - MANTRA / CHANTING / SOUND BOWLS 


1:1 PRIVATE SESSIONS 

Single or Series available

Available IN-Person + Zoom 

Text 312-925-0468 for pricing + more information

Call for availability and pricing details 312-925-0468 

ROOT to RISE RETREATS Borrego Springs & San Felipe, Baja Mexico 


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Kokopelli-Inspired Core Movement

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Qualities 

Class

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Private Sessions

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Kundalini Yoga Class

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Retreats + Fire Ceremony

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YOUR GUIDE

Cherie SALMA Bianco

Author • Founder of the Root to Rise™ Method™ • Somatic and Nervous System Transformation Expert

For more than five decades, Cherie Salma Bianco has guided people in moving from survival to sovereignty by helping the body rediscover its natural capacity for safety, resilience, and healing.

Creator of the Root to Rise Method™, Cherie integrates nervous system regulation, somatic healing, Kundalini Yoga, Core Energetics, breathwork, sound, and the heart-centered wisdom of Sufi mysticism into a compassionate, body-based approach to transformation.

Her work is grounded in a simple truth:

When the body experiences safety, the soul naturally begins to remember who it has always been.

Whether through her books, private sessions, classes, or immersive retreats, Cherie creates the conditions in which healing unfolds—not by forcing change, but by helping people come home to themselves.

Core Energetics

Somatic grounding, nervous system repair, and body psychotherapy for deep cellular healing.

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Kundalini Yoga & Mantra

Breath, movement, sound, chanting, and frequency activation to awaken your life force energy.

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Q'ero Shamanic Healing

Indigenous earth wisdom, energetic lineage, and spiritual integration rooted in the Q'ero tradition.