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    The Gentle Path presents

    Rooted & Rising

    A 4-week somatic breathwork programme, starting 11/11 at 11am GMT

    From Survival to Self-Trust · £150 or two payments of £75

    Sometimes the very patterns that helped us survive become the ones that keep us from fully living.

    A three-week guided breathwork journey to reconnect with your inner strength, loosen the patterns that keep you in protection mode, and rediscover the freedom to be yourself.

    Whether you're navigating illness, heartbreak, burnout, loss, a major life transition or simply feeling ready for a new chapter, this is an invitation to honour where you've been and explore what's possible next.

    You've survived so much.
    What would it feel like to truly live?

    Maybe you've spent years being the strong one.

    Holding everything together. Putting everyone else's needs before your own. Pushing through exhaustion. Staying positive when everything inside you feels anything but.

    Perhaps life has shaken you through illness, heartbreak, trauma, burnout or a major transition.

    And somewhere along the way, your body learned to protect you.

    The overthinking. The people-pleasing. The perfectionism. The constant need to anticipate what's next.

    You may even understand exactly where these patterns came from.

    But understanding your patterns isn't always the same as changing them.

    Because sometimes the mind understands long before the body feels ready to change.

    And that's where our journey begins.

    Why the Breath?

    Sometimes the mind needs
    the body to go first.

    When we experience chronic stress, our breathing can become shallow, rapid or restricted, reflecting a nervous system that has learned to stay on alert.

    But the relationship works both ways.

    The way we breathe can also influence how we feel.

    Breathwork is the intentional use of breathing patterns to influence our physical, emotional and mental state.

    Research shows that specific breathing practices can support nervous-system regulation, heart-rate variability, stress reduction, emotional wellbeing and attention.

    Our breath also plays a fundamental role in cellular health, helping regulate oxygen, carbon dioxide and the chemistry that supports energy production and brain function.

    Emerging fields such as quantum biology are expanding our understanding of life's intricate energetic and molecular processes, although their direct relationship to breathwork and healing remains an area for exploration.

    But perhaps one of the most fascinating possibilities lies beyond conscious thought.

    So much of how we respond to life happens automatically.

    The way we brace. The way we hold back. The way we respond to fear, conflict or uncertainty before we've even had time to think.

    Through breathwork and somatic awareness, we can begin noticing these unconscious patterns as they arise in the body.

    And through repeated experiences of awareness, regulation and choice, we can begin practising new responses.

    Not just understanding our patterns. Beginning to repattern them.

    This is where the science and the magic of healing meet.

    Your Journey

    ROOT → RECLAIM →
    RISE → EMBODY

    Three weeks of guided breathwork, daily practices and shared exploration, culminating in a closing ceremony of movement, expression and becoming.

    1. 01 / ROOT — WEEK 1

      ROOT

      Find Your Ground

      Safety. Acceptance. Coming home to yourself.

      Explore how your body responds to stress and uncertainty, and begin cultivating a greater sense of grounding, spaciousness and connection.

      Discover the difference between who you are and the protective states you move through.

    2. 02 / RECLAIM — WEEK 2

      RECLAIM

      Reclaim Your Inner Strength

      Agency. Boundaries. Self-trust.

      Explore the patterns of fear, control and self-abandonment that can keep us in protection mode.

      Reconnect with your inner resources and discover that strength doesn't have to mean holding everything together.

    3. 03 / RISE — WEEK 3

      RISE

      The Freedom to Be You

      Expression. Possibility. Becoming.

      Explore perfectionism, expectations and the protective identities that may have shaped your life.

      An invitation to reconnect with joy, authenticity and the freedom to be more fully yourself.

    4. 04 / EMBODY — THE CLOSING CEREMONY

      EMBODY

      SAH Method — Somatic Activated Healing

      Part ritual. Part rave.

    EMBODY — THE CLOSING CEREMONY · Sunday 29 November | 5 PM GMT

    Part ritual.
    Part rave.

    Our journey culminates in the SAH Method of Somatic Activated Healing, created by Sah D'Simone.

    Combining somatic dance, expressive movement, breathwork, meditation and Body Keys, this embodied healing practice invites us to work with the emotions, protective patterns and parts of ourselves we've encountered throughout our journey.

    An opportunity to meet our shadows with love, express what we've been holding through movement and consciously invite in new states of being.

    Through music, breath, movement and shared ceremony, we bring the journey out of the thinking mind and into lived experience.

    To honour what we've been through. To move with what we're ready to release. And to embody who we're becoming.

    No perfect moves. No performance.

    Just the freedom to feel, express and move together.

    What's
    Included

    • 01

      Three live guided breathwork journeys

      Join us every Wednesday at 11 AM GMT for approximately 90 minutes of guided breathwork, exploration and integration.

    • 02

      Daily breathing rituals

      Short guided audio practices to help you develop a relationship with your breath and bring what we're exploring into everyday life.

    • 03

      The Inner Sanctuary

      A private WhatsApp community for connection, contemplation and shared exploration.

    • 04

      A closing SAH Method ceremony

      An embodied celebration through breath, music, movement and collective expression.

    • 05

      All sessions recorded

      Can't join us live? Return to your recordings in Kajabi at your own pace.

    • 06

      Lifetime access

      Continue using the guided practices and recordings after the live journey ends, for as long as the course remains hosted and available.

    Jennifer de Chickera smiling, wearing a colourful patterned shawl, seated in front of bookshelves

    A Personal Invitation from Jenny

    “I am not the
    same person
    who got sick.”

    I've had stage 4 cancer twice. The second time, I was told it was incurable.

    When I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2021, my world changed overnight.

    But what followed became the greatest awakening of my life.

    I began questioning everything. Not only what was happening in my body, but how I had been living.

    Read the full story →

    The overworking. The constant striving. The people-pleasing. The quiet ways I'd learned to abandon myself.

    I came to believe that these patterns, and the chronic stress I had lived with, may have played a role in my own health journey.

    But recognising them wasn't enough.

    I could understand my patterns perfectly and still feel my body responding in the same old ways.

    It was through somatic work, breathwork, meditation and movement that I began discovering a different relationship with myself.

    I experienced emotional release, began changing deeply familiar responses, discovered boundaries I hadn't known how to honour and learned what it meant to feel safe in my own body.

    Alongside my medical treatment, I immersed myself in neuroscience, nervous-system regulation, spirituality, consciousness and the extraordinary possibilities of human transformation.

    The science and the magic of healing.

    I've been living with no evidence of disease since 2021.

    But something else happened along the way.

    I fell in love with being alive again.

    Not because fear disappeared or life became perfect.

    But because I began discovering a different way to live inside myself.

    I am not the same person who got sick.

    That experience became my calling.

    To create spaces where people can slow down, reconnect with themselves and explore what's possible beyond the patterns they've learned to survive.

    That's why I created Rooted & Rising.

    Because you deserve more than a life spent surviving.

    With love,

    Jenny ♡

    Somatic Breathwork Facilitator | Somatic Coach in Training | Meditation Teacher | Functional Medicine Health Coach Candidate

    Is This Journey
    for You?

    Rooted & Rising may resonate if you're navigating illness, trauma, burnout, loss or a major life transition.

    If you recognise patterns of people-pleasing, perfectionism or overworking.

    If you've done the inner work intellectually but want to explore change through your body.

    If you're longing for more safety, self-trust, freedom, connection and joy.

    You don't need breathwork experience.

    You don't need to be spiritual.

    You don't need to have everything figured out.

    Come as you are.

    Your
    Investment

    Your place includes the complete three-week journey, daily guided breathing practices, The Inner Sanctuary community, the closing SAH Method ceremony and ongoing access to your course recordings.

    11 / 11 at 11
    Wednesday 11 November 2026 · 11 AM GMT
    Closing ceremony: Sunday 29 November · 5 PM GMT

    £150

    Or two payments of £75

    YES, I'M READY TO JOIN →

    Places are limited to keep the group intimate and supportive.

    A short health and suitability screening will be completed before participation. Rooted & Rising is a trauma-informed wellbeing experience, not a replacement for medical treatment, psychotherapy or specialist trauma care.

    You Don't Have to Fight Yourself
    to Become More of Yourself.

    You are allowed to soften.

    You are allowed to take up space.

    You are allowed to discover what life can feel like when you stop carrying everything alone.

    ROOTED & RISING
    From Survival to Self-Trust
    11 / 11 at 11 · £150

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