healing in community
Root Collective™
[ A somatic studio for stress release & soulful sisterhood ]
What if being held in sisterhood is what finally brings you home to yourself?
When your body has been in overdrive…
Have you been feeling maxed out and stuck in a constant state of going and doing—trying to balance all of your responsibilities and roles, not wanting to let anything fall?
From the outside, it probably seems like you have it all together. But internally, your mind and body feel like they are always on and it’s wearing you down.
You know your nervous system is out of balance, and your body needs to learn it's safe to relax, but how can you do that when life asks so much of you?
We’ll teach you how to slow down…
Slowness can feel scary when you're used to living in survival mode. That’s why we do this work together. Because something settles when you're surrounded by others who are learning to slow down too. When you hear someone take a deep exhale, you breathe a little deeper. Your body feels a little safer. It becomes easier to notice what’s really going on—in your body, your heart, your mind, and your nervous system.
Our classes, events, and retreats invite you to strengthen your muscle of embodied awareness. To notice what you feel, when you feel it—and to learn how to move, breathe, and release what’s been held.
Because when release doesn’t happen, you remain stuck in that survival state. And everything—sleep, digestion, emotions, relationships, work, parenting, and tasks in general—feel harder, more exhausting, and more overstimulating.
Root Collective is a studio, a community, and a sanctuary to remind yourself that stillness is safe. Stress can be released. And all emotions are welcome. It’s where we go to soften, to reclaim our sense of agency, and to be surrounded by like-hearted women choosing to stop holding it all alone. To move, breathe, feel and heal in community.
Is your body telling you that it’s been holding too much?
How many of these sound like you:
Irritability and impatience —often towards loved ones.
Zoning out, disconnecting, or feeling energetically exhausted.
Feeling more easily overstimulated by daily life.
Pushing through tough times only to collapse later.
Frequent physical discomfort like aches, tension, sleep/digestive issues.
Feeling like relationships are sometimes too effortful or draining.
A sense that something feels ‘off,’ like you’re just going through the motions— and you know there has to be more.
ROOT COLLECTIVE
STUDIO SCHEDULE
MONDAYS: ROOT COLLECTIVE FLOW (9:30AM) + MONDAY MANIFESTING (10:30AM)
Root Collective Flow is our signature somatic movement class designed to help you release pent-up stress and emotions from your body. This class combines a class theme, guided journaling, and intuitive movement/breathwork. It teaches you how to strengthen that muscle of embodied awareness so you know how to release off the mat too.
Monday Manifesting guides you to create your own manifestation journal with a worksheet that invites more intentionality into your week. We will journal, reflect, and discuss together, inspired by the RC theme for the week – and enjoy open studio-time, coffee and tea during and after!
TUESDAYS: SENSUAL FLOW WITH JESS (5:30PM)
Sensual Flow is a weekly hybrid class that marries breath-work, movement, and myofascial release with the tether of feminine sensuality tying it all together. Classes will vary from being more energetic, to more restorative, and everything in between. May include but not be limited to: yoga inspired somatics, self myofascial release, self massage, kundalini inspired flow, and dance.
WEDNESDAYS: SOMATIC BREATHWORK WITH BONNIE (9:30AM)
Somatic Breathwork is a weekly class that guides us to use the power of the breath to shift the stuck emotions creating pressure and tension in the body. By engaging in specific breathing patterns, we can activate the body's natural ability to release this energetic weight and free up more space to access our regulated, grounded selves.
FRIDAYS: ROOT COLLECTIVE FLOW (9-10:30AM) AND PEN + PRESENCE (10:30-11:30AM)
This Root Collective Flow class is 90 minutes and includes group discussion around the weekly theme.
Pen + Presence is a creative writing class. But it isn’t your typical writing class—it’s about giving yourself space to show up. To write, to rest, to reflect, to play. You’ll get a handful of gentle prompts, a cozy container, and full permission to do it your way.
1 SUNDAY A MONTH: MAMA + ME SOMATICS (9-9:45AM)
A 1x monthly (45min) Sunday AM somatic class that invites you to bring your littles ages 2-10 to Root Collective Studio for a morning of co-regulation. In this class we will learn kid-friendly breath and somatic practices to help keep our nervous systems and our little's nervous systems regulated in times of distress.
EVERY OTHER MONTH: SOMATIC SILENT DISCO WITH HOLLY (FRIDAY NIGHT FROM 7-8PM)
This event will rotate every other month on a Friday night with our Friday Dance Party!
Holly, the owner of The Wave SRQ, will lead us in a somatic silent disco that gets us out of our heads and into our bodies for a fun, freeing, and cathartic evening of dancing with our own headphones in a room full of women who are ready to release with some rhythm.
Hi, I’m Alissa
Anxiety Expert, Somatic Teacher, &
Founder of Root Collective™
I deeply emphasize with the experience of feeling like you’re just trying to get through the day... rather than feeling like you’re fully living it.
I also know how frustrating it is to actively seek a way out of that survival state, only to keep finding yourself sucked back into it again.
I’ve always craved a space that allowed me to be with both my body and my mind at the same time.
To stretch, find some cathartic release, and regulate my nervous system through movement—while also being invited to explore my inner world and my emotions via journaling and guided discussion.
I realized other women were craving this same space, so I decided to create it.
Welcome to ROOT COLLECTIVE
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If analyzing & thinking hasn’t worked, then it’s time to invite your body into the conversation
Drop-In for a Studio Class
Classes available for drop-ins include Monday morning Root Collective Flow, Tuesday evening Sensual Flow, and Wednesday morning Somatic Breathwork
These classes will invite you out of your head and into your body, connecting to sensation and using somatic practices to help ground your nervous system.
The Root Collective Membership
Healing in community. Unlimited classes and experiences for $128/mo.
We move, breathe, feel, process, and release in our weekly somatic classes— and we also gather for fun, intentional, relationship-building events and retreats. Together we cry, laugh, explore, learn, and grow.
Whether you’re brand new to Sarasota or you’ve lived here your whole life, I invite you into the Root Collective Membership—a women’s community focused on regulating our systems and building authentic, soulful connections. A place where you can feel seen, heard, and known. We’re doing the work, but we don’t need to do it alone.
Teaching & Speaking Engagements
I support groups of all kinds in a desire to decrease feelings of stress and overwhelm and increase capacity for authenticity, connection, clarity, focused attention, productivity, creativity, and full present-moment living.
With either my signature Root Collective Flow class or my Rooted & Regulated training, I can teach your group how to access a calm and grounded nervous system state.
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