Here we engage in study and practice around the creation of care ecologies in embodied, creative and playful ways; in response to the mistrust, division and alienation rampant in Western culture. We are committed to building the muscle of relationship—to self, other, and our world through study, somatic practice, critical consciousness raising, and creative expression and activism.
The spaces we offer will stretch and challenge us in ways that can make room for transformation, through a body-centered framework that promotes the experiential and soma as portals to the imagination and creativity that are a part of our reworlding.
is a virtual gathering space that exists as study and practice space, and a watering hole for inspiration and expanding perspectives and imagination. Our virtual gathering space facilitates encounter with people and perspectives beyond our bubbles, so that they may inspire transformative experiences and possibilities for local connections and change.
There is nothing more radical than friendship—a force capable of bridging divides and countering the dehumanization that keeps us locked in separation.
Our gatherings are an experiment in care on the way to community, a portal into radical possibility explored through sound, art, stories, play, collective inquiry, and nurturing creativity. These explorations are grounded in self-responsibility and the delicate dance between safety, resource, and relational risk.
Our monthly offerings are designed to facilitate opportunities to imagine possibilities of relationship across divides, and to cultivate the underground networks of care that do not rely on unstable institutional structures and attempt something different than what has been conditioned in many of us through harmful cultural paradigms.
We are committed to deepening self and communal awareness through somatic practice, creative expression, and liberatory movement. We create spaces for transformation through embodied practices and modalities, as well as spaces that foster celebration, cultural dexterity, and collective resilience through music, song, dance, and movement. Challenging conditioned models of learning, we embrace an emergent process of (un)learning inspired by Paulo Freire, illuminating ways to disrupt entrenched personal and cultural conditioning. Our monthly gatherings cultivate critical consciousness, relational depth, and creative reworlding.
You are welcome here—and we invite you to trust your wisdom in knowing when it’s right to be here.
The Rooted Care Lab is an embodied co-research space exploring how we build relational trust, mutual care, and community through collective study, somatic practice, and creative expression. This journey responds to the challenges and divisions we encounter—scarcity, race, class, conflict, and other barriers to relationship—by engaging in movement, music, song, and experimental practices that expand our capacity for connection.
It is not a classroom where answers are given, but a collective workshopping experience where we gather in inquiry, study, and embodied experimentation. Through self-reflexivity and bodily practice, we cultivate responsibility for the worlds that come next, bringing forth the unique contributions each of us has to offer in our virtual and local contexts.
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rooted sponsor
$45/month
rooted supporter
$35/month
Rooted Friend
$25/month
Please choose the option below that best meets your financial & situational needs. If you are in a position of relative economic advantage, please pay what you can, as your contribution goes to support our ability to offer these activities.
All levels of membership receive equal access to all of Rooted's activities in the Village and within the Rooted Care Lab. We are most interested in folks joining who appreciate what it is that we are trying to do here.
Work-Trade: We'd love to welcome you no matter your current financial limitations. The Village relies on the financial contributions of our members, but if your finances have been impacted for any reason, or, please consider the Work Trade (aka the "contributor") option.
Work-Trade includes a couple of hours per month doing something that aligns with your skills and interests. There are many possibilities, including community tending, video editing, writing an article/blog, outreach, administrative skills, etc.
Please use this form to indicate interest.
Rooted membership has been simplified to make joining the village and its adjacent Care Lab more accessible in a difficult economic climate and across global geographies and currencies.
You are welcome here.
International membership: Our sign up links are for people anywhere in the world to join. However, if USD currency makes it cost prohibitive to join us based on your local currency, please click here to join us via a reduced international membership.
You wish to practice self-care and self-responsibility, calling forward your wisest and most intentional self into collective study and practice.
You wish to engage in ongoing personal and collective (embodied) study, but have no plans to go "back to school".
You're exhausted by the binary choices of our culture is fraught with, and seek alternatives.
You feel ready to engage in relational experimentation, entering ‘brave space’, and vulnerability to reach across divides and weave friendship. Knowing that friendship denotes care and mutual regard for others.
You seek to challenge systems of isolation and alienation. Valuing the individual while re/membering our interdependence and the unique and important contributions we each can make to social change.
You are interested in how radical love and collective care could look and feel.
You want to know how what your unique contribution to the world could be, and nurture that spark with others.