Root&Rise
is not just a program. It is the way I work.
I do not separate the mind from the body. I do not separate the spiritual from the nervous system. And I do not separate who I am from the work I do.
Everything begins with safety. Not because safety is soft — but because nothing real can shift without it.
And I learned along the way — no two maps are the same.
Who am I
I am Alicia.
Mom. Caretaker. Lover. Guide. Best friend. Alchemist. Mystic. Witness. Builder. Generator. Hermit who loves her people. The one whose North Node in Scorpio basically said — you are going into the deep water whether you like it or not. The one whose Sacral has been right every single time she ignored it. The one with Venus in Sagittarius who loves so freely and so widely it has gotten her into trouble more than once.
The world loves its labels. Those are mine. The ones that actually mean something.
Aquarius Sun. Libra Moon. Capricorn Rising. Vata dominant with a Pitta edge — all air and fire, which means the ideas never stop and the nervous system has had to learn the hard way that it needs grounding more than most.
Certified overthinker in recovery. Perpetually flooded with ideas at 2am. The person who has read every book, taken every course, attended every class — and still had to learn most things the hard way anyway.
Sound familiar?
I have screamed in my car. I have sat in parking lots unable to go inside. I have smiled at the right moments, said the right things, and gone home and quietly fallen apart. I have carried guilt and shame like a backpack I forgot I was wearing — so long it started to feel like just... my posture.
My guides, medicine women, akashic reader, and therapist have all heard me say — more than once — that I have a hard time kicking myself off the cliff. I can see the ledge. I can see exactly what is on the other side. I just stand there looking at it like it owes me something.
Sound familiar?
I have never been addicted to substances. I have been addicted to people.
To loving so hard and getting so completely intertwined that I lost the thread back to myself. Staying longer than I should have. Waiting until the whole thing blew up my life before I did anything about it. Not because I did not know better — because some part of me genuinely believed that leaving, or taking up space, or having a need, was the same thing as being a burden.
It cost me. Me. Period.
I hid. Beautifully, thoroughly, convincingly. I researched instead of feeling. Yoga. EFT tapping. Sound medicine. Plant medicine. Breathwork. Bodywork. Human Design. Astrology. Spinal Flow. Each one like a new key — not because the last one did not work, but because I kept finding new locks.
What finally shifted was not a modality. It was reaching out. Going inward — really inward — with support. Learning that the weight I was carrying was not proof that something was wrong with me.
It was proof that nobody had ever handed me the road map.
Learning your own nervous system, your own energy, your own design — it is like trying a whole new workout for your body. Strange at first. Sore in places you did not know existed. At least one moment where you think — why is this bringing up the thing from 2009.
That is normal. That is not failure. That is the body starting to trust.
How I am Wired
Not a performance. Just how I actually function.
I am a Generator with Sacral Authority — my body knows before my mind does. Every yes I ignored and regretted, every no I overrode to keep the peace — my Sacral was trying to tell me. I just did not have the language yet. Now I do. And I teach it.
I am a 2/4 — the Hermit / Opportunist. I disappear to integrate. Then I come back. I need more alone time than most people understand and I used to apologize for it constantly. My best work, my deepest collaborations, have always come through genuine human connection. Through trust built over time.
My North Node in Scorpio in the 10th House means my job is to go into the deep dark water and come back with something true. To help people cross the bridges they have been circling for years.
I help people cross their own living death bridges. From unalignment to alignment. From shutdown to capacity. From the version of themselves that learned to disappear — to the one that never actually had to.
This is not a niche I chose. It chose me. Scorpio is not subtle. Neither am I. But at least now I know why.
Born under a Waning Gibbous Moon — I am here to share what I have lived. Teaching is not separate from healing for me. It is the same thing.
Training & Study
My training spans Spinal Flow, somatic and mind-body coaching, polyvagal theory, yoga, breathwork, sound healing, biofield tuning, and astrology — alongside years of devotional study in feminine embodiment, energy medicine, and the healing arts. I am currently studying with Zen Femme Mind-Body HD School. Everything I offer I have lived first. None of it is theoretical.
THE PHILOSOPHY
There is nothing to fix. There is only a return.
Your body already knows how to heal. Your nervous system already knows how to regulate. Your soul already knows who you are. This work is not about adding more — it is about creating enough space and safety for what is already true to finally be felt.
Slow is the rebellion.
Healing is not performance.
You are not broken — you are often overstimulated, over-adapted, and disconnected from your body.
Real change does not come from forcing. It comes from safety, presence, and integration.
No insight matters if it never becomes lived.
THE WELLNESS GROVE
I am not building this alone — and I never wanted to.
The Wellness Grove is a collective wellness space — a gathering of practitioners who have chosen to operate from abundance instead of competition. We share space, resources, and the belief that the right support for you is never more than one honest conversation away. When I am not the right fit, I will tell you. And I will point you exactly where to go.
Root & Rise Embodied is my piece of that collective. And I am still building it — in real time, in the middle of my own becoming.
I still do not have it all figured out.
But I have learned this —
You do not have to be finished to be of service. You just have to be willing to show up honestly. Without the performance. And hold space for someone else while they find their way back.
That is what I am here to do.
If something in you just said yes while reading this —
That is your Sacral talking. It knows before your mind does.
Trust it.