Root + Rise is a space for embodied exploration, where rooting down and rising up happen together. Hosted by writer, mentor and consultant, Rohini Walker, this podcast invites you into the nuanced terrain of inner truth, interdependence, and the sacred relationship between land, body, and Self.
Consider this an antidote to a world that wants you in a state of perpetual, unsustainable and disembodied urgency. Through depth, slowness and embodiment, we compost constricting homogeneity, embrace difference, and reclaim alignment with soul through rooting down and rising up.
Find out more about Rohini’s work at: www.rohiniwalker.com (https://www.rohiniwalker.com/)
Rohini is also the co-founder of the print periodical, Luna Arcana: lunaarcana.com
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You're Allowed to Feel Dysregulated / You're Allowed to Have a Human Experience
Everyone is talking about being emotionally regulated. But the ways that this is being talked about has become a culturally imposed version of emotional composure, taking over the vocabulary of body-based healing and turning it into a yardstick for rigid perfectionism and self-judgment. Drawing on what being regulated means from a Somatic Experiencing lens, this episode explores how real balance is a continual movement between settling and activation rather than a fixed state, and trace...
20 Sept 2026
From Extractive Capitalism to Relational Capitalism
Can capitalism be anything other than extractive? This episode makes the case for the potential and possibility of relational capitalism, which would begin with individuals and communities. Join Rohini as she explores the colonial roots of extractivism, the artificial scarcity engineered into our money systems, and how burnout became normalized under an economy designed to deplete. Relational capitalism has the potential to be the antidote: an economic model rooted in reciprocity,...
26 Jul 2026
Interdependent Individuation
Join Rohini for this exploration of 'interdependent individuation' – something that is going to be a defining quality of the emerging new paradigm we're collectively cycling into. Moving beyond the exhausted binary of hyper-individualism vs. hyper-collectivism, this is an invitation into a fertile middle ground where true maturation happens. Drawing on Jungian psychology and the wisdom of interbeing, Rohini distinguishes between toxic individualism and the soul's journey towards wholene...
17 Jun 2026
We Are Not Our Wounds
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 unresolved trauma creates constrictions in our psyche and soma that limit our consciousness and c...
22 Apr 2026
Episode 15: Are You Done with Trauma as Culture?
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 is now open for autumn enrollment until midnight PT, October 1st. Join my Substack new...
18 Mar 2026
Episode 14: Attuning to our Ecological Identity
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, including their potential to expand our sense of Self and belonging – and I share a short...
8 Feb 2026
Episode 13: The Somatics of Holding the Tension of Opposites – And Why Our Evolution Depends On It
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 polarization, this episode invites a radical reorientation: away from pathologizing and projec...
29 Dec 2025
Episode 12: 2026 – The Year of Embodied Imagination
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. Moving from personal reflection into the wider collective field, this episode explores what it ...
21 Dec 2025
Episode 11: Decolonize Your Manifesation Practice
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 thoughts alone, how unprocessed trauma and stress can influence what we’re able to call in, and h...
30 Nov 2025
The Curious Paradox of What We Really Are
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, and the curiosity that unfurls new worlds. The Zero Point Field in physics and mysticism ~ the al...
8 Nov 2025
Reclaim Your Superpower of Neuroception
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 culture, debilitate this spidey sense superpower of neuroception. Through stories from Rohini's home in th...
10 Oct 2025
Non-Linear Causality: The Wiggly Way of Ecosystems, Nature & Interdependence
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 contrast between linear causality, the worldview of Newtonian physics and scientific materialism...
7 Sept 2025
Your Desires Are Not Your Desires
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 moving through us — a current to be stewarded, not owned or controlled. She invites us to start noticing ...
16 Aug 2025
Trauma + Autoimmunity — The Deeper Call
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 tends to them. She shares how physical symptoms became messengers calling her back to her body,...
28 Jul 2025
How Collective Amnesia feeds Colonialism
In this evocative episode of Root + Rise, you're invited into a tender and courageous 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? We trace the lineage of collective amnesia, from the systemic silencing of Earth-honoring cosmologies to the colonization of time itself. Through an invitation ...
11 Jul 2025
Sacred Attention as Reciprocity
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 the idea that attention is not only a sacred resource but also a portal - into connection, aliven...
19 Jun 2025
We Are Living in an Animate World
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 traditions across the globe, but also offers a powerful antidote to the disconnection, fragmentation, an...
19 Jun 2025
Your Values Are A Portal
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 ourselves” — we’re participating in a larger, sacred act of soul reclamation. We begin to heal the ...
19 Jun 2025
The Radical Pause
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, and how this radical act of turning inward becomes the foundation for self-trust, creativity, ner...
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