About The Author and Guide

Cherie Salma Bianco

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

Cherie Salma Bianco is an internationally trained somatic therapist and coach, Kundalini Yoga guide, Shamanic Q'ero practitioner, and pioneer in the integration of nervous system healing with Sufi spiritual transformation. For more than four decades, she has guided thousands of people in moving beyond survival patterns into lives rooted in safety, vitality, and authentic self-expression.

She is the author of Root to Rise: From Survival to Sovereignty in a Dysregulated World—How Safety in the Body Allows the Soul to Remember and 365 Daily Return: 365 Days of Somatic Wisdom, a year-long collection of daily reflections that gently guide readers back to the wisdom of the body, one day at a time.

Cherie is the creator of the Root to Rise™ Method, an integrative approach that weaves together the wisdom of Core Energetics Body Psychotherapy, Kundalini Yoga, Q'ero Peruvian Shamanic Healing, Sufi mysticism, sound healing, and modern nervous system regulation. Her work is founded on a simple but profound truth:

When the body experiences safety, the soul naturally remembers who it is.

Rather than teaching people how to become someone new, Cherie's work helps them remove what has covered over their true nature. Through movement, breath, sound, energetic practices, and deep somatic awareness, clients release stored survival patterns and rediscover the coherence, wisdom, and vitality that have always lived within them.

She often describes her work as "Feng Shui for the human system." Just as a home flourishes when clutter is cleared and energy flows freely, the human body naturally reorganizes when old emotional burdens, trauma patterns, limiting beliefs, and energetic imprints are gently released. Healing is not forced—it unfolds when the right conditions are created.

This philosophy is inspired by nature itself. The desert never forces a flower to bloom. Rain, sunlight, fertile soil, and time simply create the conditions in which life remembers how to emerge. In the same way, Cherie's work creates the internal conditions for people to return to their own innate wholeness.

Cherie's diverse training reflects a lifelong commitment to understanding the whole human experience. She studied Core Energetics directly with the late John Pierrakos M.D., learning how emotional armor is held within the body and released through breath, movement, expression, and compassionate awareness.

She later trained with Alberto Villoldo in the ancient Q'ero healing traditions of Peru, where she learned to work with the luminous energy field, clear energetic imprints, and support profound life transitions. Her Kundalini Yoga studies with Guru Singh, Brett Larkin and Mukta Kaur Khalsa deepened her understanding of sacred sound, mantra, addiction recovery, and nervous system renewal through the SuperHealth model.

For almost three decades, Cherie also studied the path of Sufi mysticism under the guidance of the late Sidi al Jamal, from Jerusalam, whose teachings on presence, remembrance (dhikr), unconditional love, and direct communion with the Divine profoundly influenced the heart-centered foundation of her work. This lineage continues to inform her understanding that healing is not about becoming someone different, but about remembering the luminous essence that has always been present beneath fear, conditioning, and survival.

Drawing upon these traditions, along with decades of clinical experience, massage therapy, intuitive guidance, and her Human Design  5/1 Splenic decision-making process, Cherie offers a uniquely integrative approach that honors the body, mind, emotions, energy, and spirit as one interconnected living system. Today she offers private mentoring, transformational retreats, classes, and immersive programs that invite participants into a new relationship with themselves—not through striving or fixing, but through remembering.

Her work is ultimately an invitation home.

Not to become more...

but to uncover what has always been waiting beneath survival.

Root. Rise. Remember.