ROOT TO RISE

From Survival to Sovereignty


Welcome to

KUNDALINI BIANCO -

What if healing isn't about becoming someone new... What if it's about creating the conditions in which your body feels safe enough to remember who you've always been?

Root to Rise™—where modern neuroscience, somatic healing, and ancient wisdom come together to help you move from survival to sovereignty.

Here, you'll discover how to regulate the body, repattern the brain, and remember the soul.

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Choose the journey that calls you.

All are welcome — every age, every experience level, every body.       

                

Find your Path

The Three

Rivers of Transformation™

Root to Rise™

  • REGULATE Your Nervous System.
  • RECONNECT with Your Body.
  • REMEMBER  Who You Really Are.


For over forty years I've helped people move from survival into sovereignty through somatic healing, nervous system regulation, Kundalini Yoga, Core Energetics, Sufi wisdom, SOUND FREQUENCIES, and Q'ero healing traditions.

RIVER  ONE

REGULATE

From Survival to Safety


The Door Mat — learning safety


Your body learns that it no longer has to brace, protect, or simply endure.

Learn to calm the nervous system.

Reconnect to the body.

Restore energy.


Explore Beginner Classes

Accessible, grounding classes designed to help your body slow down, your breath deepen, and your energy realign.

Available as drop-in classes or packages.


Offerings include:

  • Kundalini Yoga  75-Minute Class w Sound Bowls - Frequency Alignment
  • Kokopelli Inspired Core Movement: Somatic Release
  • Qualities : Sufi Chanting & Heart Frequencies
  • Root to Rise Fundamentals


       "Safety is where healing begins."

Ideal if you want to feel calmer, clearer, and more at home in your body, without pressure or intensity.

RIVER TWO

From Safety to AWAKENING


The Prayer Rug — entering presence


As the nervous system settles, old patterns naturally soften, making room for deeper awareness, healing, and authentic connection.Release old survival patterns.


Reconnect with your authentic self.

Awaken deeper awareness.


As your body begins to feel safe, deeper patterns naturally begin to surface—not to overwhelm you, but to be understood, released, and transformed.


This is where ancient wisdom, somatic psychology, and spiritual practice come together.This is where the teachings of the ancient medicine traditions meet direct experience.


Through guided movement programs, circles, and seasonal intensives, you are supported in releasing long-held patterns, restoring vitality, and reconnecting with your authentic self.


"The body becomes the doorway."


OFFERINGS INCLUDE

  • Private 1:1 Sessions - Personal Support
  • 4 Day Retreat -Desert Bloom Awakening - Borrego Springs Jan 8-11, 2027
  • 6-Week Program -Root to Rise: 3 Rivers Transformation,
  • Women’s Frequency Alignment: Monthly Circle starting October 2026
  • Qero Peruvian Shaman Rituals: Calling in the DIrections + Drumming + Fire Ceremonies
  • Seasonal Deep Dives: Solstices & Equinoxes


RIVER THREE

AWAKENING TO SOVEREIGNTY


The Magic Carpet — living from embodied                                                                                 freedom

When body, heart, and soul come into alignment, life begins to unfold with greater clarity, purpose, trust, and ease.


Live from clarity.

Trust yourself.

Create from alignment.




When the body is regulated and the heart is open, life begins to feel different.

You no longer live from reaction.

You begin living from presence.

This is where clarity replaces confusion.

Where intuition becomes trustworthy.

Where life begins to flow instead of being forced.


Offerings include:Signature Experiences

  •  Private Coaching Journeys
  • Root to Rise Retreats
  • Intensive Immersions


"You don't become someone new. You remember who you've always been."

ALL

ARE WELCOME 

Class Schedule

SUMMER Schedule - 2026 Borrego Springs CA


ALL CLASSES $20 


WEDNESDAY 

12:30-1:30pm

KOKOPELLI INSPIRED CORE MOVEMENTS / SOUND AND CRYSTAL BOWLS MEDITATION 


THURSDAY 

10:30-11:45am

KUNDALINI YOGA CLASS /MEDITATION / SOUND BOWLS 


12:30-1:30pm

QUALITIES  - MANTRA / CHANTING / SOUND BOWLS 


1:1 PRIVATE SESSIONS 

Single or Series available

Available IN-Person + Zoom 

Text 312-925-0468 for pricing + more information

Call for availability and pricing details 312-925-0468 

ROOT to RISE RETREATS Borrego Springs & San Felipe, Baja Mexico 


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Kundalini Yoga Class

THURSDAY 

10:30-11:45am

KUNDALINI YOGA CLASS /MEDITATION / SOUND BOWLS 

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Kokopelli-Inspired Core Movement

WEDNESDAY 

12:30-1:30pm

KOKOPELLI INSPIRED CORE MOVEMENTS / SOUND AND CRYSTAL BOWLS MEDITATION 


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Qualities  Class

THURSDAY 

12:30-1:30pm

QUALITIES  - MANTRA / CHANTING / SOUND BOWLS 

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Private Sessions

1:1 Studio or Zoom

Flexible scheduling

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Retreats + Fire Ceremony

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YOUR 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, Kundalini Yoga teacher, shamanic practitioner, and pioneer in the integration of nervous system healing with 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 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 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.


Testimonials

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I have found Cherie's style comprehensive, adaptive, calm, and soothing. During this year of involvement with Cherie, I have given up the use of alcohol and marijuana as self-medicating practices and enjoy a new lifestyle. I am forever grateful for her taking the time to work with me to this end and I will continue to participate in her functions in the future.

Dave H

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I've had yoga practice in my life for many years.  But until I was introduced to the complexity and depth of Kundalini Yoga I was missing the essential element of connection between mind, body, spirit, and the universe. I am grateful to have found my teacher and guide in Cherie to continue my journey in the practice of Kundalini yoga.


Betty T.

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I 100% enjoyed the chakra workshop yesterday. I experienced some profound revelations especially during the Savasana phase with your exquisite gong (I think that’s what you use). I love that you explain the reasoning behind each concept and exercise. I found chaotic movement uplifting and energizing. Your groups have always been wonderfully supportive Thank you for sharing your teachings with us.

Cynthia

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Great class today, Cherie is a very dedicated and inspiring teacher and I love her class. Not only is it good exercise for my body, but it also brings me hope that there are still good people in the world.

Natalie

Core Energetics

Somatic grounding, nervous system repair, and body psychotherapy for deep cellular healing.

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Kundalini Yoga & Mantra

Breath, movement, sound, chanting, and frequency activation to awaken your life force energy.

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Q'ero Shamanic Healing

Indigenous earth wisdom, energetic lineage, and spiritual integration rooted in the Q'ero tradition.