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Culturally Informed Somatic Practices for Trauma Recovery and Everyday Stress
Rooted in Cultural Wisdom and Collective Care
Roots of Resilience hosts monthly community circles + monthly learning circles
weaving nervous system care, trauma first aid, and cultural healing wisdom — blending simple, body-based (somatic) techniques for stress relief with grounding practices rooted in the wisdom of Indigenous Mesoamerican traditions and the Andes.
Through Somatic Practices, Curanderismo, Breathwork, Sound, and Plant Medicine,
we offer gentle, practical tools to help you feel steady and supported.
We approach these experiences without judgment, guiding you toward empowerment in your healing.
What is a learning circle?
A learning circle is a community-based model rooted in Indigenous pedagogies of collective knowing. Unlike a classroom or workshop, a learning circle assumes that wisdom is already present in the room and the role of the facilitator is not to pour information into participants, but to hold the conditions in which knowing can emerge, be shared, and be integrated.
In this context, the circle format honors the teaching that all people carry cultural knowledge, lived experience, and embodied wisdom. Learning is not a transaction or consumption, it is a ceremony of remembering, relating, and returning to self.
Check our next monthly course offering starting this June 2026
This is for anyone that wants to go more in depth about these teachings
What is a community circle?
A community circle is a practice-based learning community, receiving community care, hosted every month for free and open for anyone to join. In this circle, you'll learn basic tools to support your nervous system. You’ll leave feeling grounded, supported, and more at ease in your body.
Sign up for our newsletter to find out about our next monthly community offering. All community circles are held virtually.
This is for anyone curious about Indigenous approaches to emotional wellness and seeking connection.
No credentials required. Just come as you are
You'll Walk Away With
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Easy, body-based practices
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Somatic education inspired by Indigenous teachings to return to presence and connection
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An understanding of stress and trauma and how tending to your nervous system can create space for deeper healing
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Simple steps to care for yourself and others during moments of stress or crisis
These practices are not new, they are the ways our ancestors tended to each other and the land. We are simply remembering. We are bringing research and context.
Leave feeling grounded, reconnected, and reminded that you already carry the tools for resilience within you.
Monthly Breakdown:
Arc 1 Arriving & Orienting
Session 1 June 2026 : Opening + Trauma First Aid Practice (Condor)
Session 2 July 2026 : The Nervous System - Somatic Map (Puma)
Arc 2 Roots: Cultural Healing Frameworks
Session 3 August 2026: Susto, Miedo, & the Shocks We Carry (Serpent)
Session 4 September 2026: Elements & Directions - Hummingbird (Colibri)
Session 5 October 2026: Sound, Voice, & Deep Listening (Water) + Special Guest Teacher
Arc 3 Tending: Embodied Practices
Session 6 November 2026: Breathwork + Teomania (Air)
Session 7 December 2026: Plants, Color, & Symbols (Earth) + Special Guest Teacher
Arc 4 Soul: Shamanic & Spiritual Dimensions
Session 8 January 2027: Soul Retrieval & Shamanic Perspectives
Session 9 February 2027: Food, Ritual, Humor & Community as Medicine
Session 10 March 2027: Integration & Returning to the World
Across the full course arc, participants collaboratively contribute to a living Community Resilience Mural. A map of cultural healing practices, resources, and ancestral wisdom that grows session by session. This artifact remains present and interactive throughout the course.
Disclaimer: Please note that this course is educational, but is not a substitute for clinical mental health treatment. If you are in crisis, call 911 or if in need individual support, please reach out to a qualified provider.
Crystal guides embodied, movement-based experiences for connection and healing. Her work bridges somatic practice with earth-based ways of knowing — recognizing that the body is not separate from land, rhythm, and relationship.
She is an Andean medicine carrier with Coahuiltecan roots, weaving in her ancestral medicine practices of Curanderismo, and in relationship with elders and teachers including those of Mayan, Mexica, Shipibo, and Q'ero Andean traditions. Through movement, voice, and presence, she holds relational spaces where people can return to themselves and to the earth beneath them.
These practices are ancient and living. Crystal approaches them with humility, in continued learning, and in deep gratitude to the lineages and teachers who carry and transmit them. Her work is further informed by a clinical mental health background, training as a dance movement therapist and teacher, and a PhD student in Integral Studies with research in Indigenous knowledge systems.
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
Somatic Practitioner & Facilitator, Earth-Based Wisdom,
Movement & Healing