Alissa Vreeland

04/02/2025

You’re not lazy. You’re not broken. You’re dysregulated.

Your nervous system is wise—it’s trying to protect you, not punish you.

That constant scrolling, snappy mood, or deep exhaustion?
It’s not a personal failure. It’s your body saying “I don’t feel safe.”

This is where somatics can change everything.

Through slow movement, breath, grounding, and presence, you can come back into connection with your body and re-learn what safety feels like—on a cellular level.

No fixing. No hustling. Just remembering.

Root Collective is here to walk with you back to yourself.

Ready to feel more grounded, present, and alive?
Follow for nervous system wisdom, somatic practices, and seasonal embodiment rooted in sisterhood.

Tag a friend who needs this reminder.

04/01/2025

You’re not too sensitive.
You’re not overreacting.
You’re not “too much.”

You’re just holding too much.
Too many roles.
Too much pressure.
Too many feelings with no safe place to land.

At Root Collective, we make space for that.
For you.
To move.
To breathe.
To feel what’s real—and finally let it move through.

Come as you are. Let’s heal in community.

03/27/2025

This is what we do inside of Root Collective.
Come get rooted.

03/19/2025

I did the drunk bestie trend but in reverse on accident (because I’m always bad at trends) — but I actually liked chatGPTs down-to-earth explanation of how I support women 🤍

“Babe. Listen. You know how you’re always doing everything for everyone and then wondering why you’re exhausted, stressed, and low-key resentful? Yeah. That’s because your nervous system is straight-up frazzled, and no amount of deep breaths or bubble baths is fixing it.

That’s where I come in. I help badass, big-hearted women (like YOU) actually rebalance their nervous systems, so you can stop running on fumes and start feeling grounded, clear, and at peace—without having to move to a mountaintop or ghost your responsibilities. We do this through somatic practices, movement, and a community of women who actually get it.

Basically, I help you stop feeling like a burnt-out shell of yourself and start feeling like you again. Let’s go.”

03/02/2025

Had my portrait done last night by and 😂

It was a technique called ‘blind contouring’ that .l.sullivan taught us at our Root Collective event

Underneath our drawings, we were encouraged to speak to the hearts of our models— writing 5 words that came to us about their energy and spirit. These were mine 🥹

often uses the term “aligned sisterhood” to describe Root Collective. I feel that in my soul

Where else are we practicing this deep + loving witnessing of another person?

It has never been easy for me to receive. But this community is opening my heart in so many magical ways

If these types of moments and memories are ones you’re seeking in your own life, let’s chat about a Root Collective membership 🤍

12/17/2024

We need to FEEL to heal… but how are we supposed to do that if emotions are hard for us?

If we received direct or indirect messages at a young age that certain emotions weren’t okay to feel

We can’t simply “tell ourselves” as an adult that it’s time to start feeling them

The body and the nervous system has already identified these emotions as unsafe. It knows that openly feeling them can result in losing connection to others. And connection is what we need to survive. It’s truly that basic

So we need to gently teach our systems that it’s okay to feel. We do this by guiding the body to a calm + grounded state, and then as the emotions begin to surface, to be in a safe space that tells your body this is OK. You’re not being judged. You’re not at risk of being shamed or dismissed. Your emotions are safe here. You’re welcome here as you are

THIS is why I created somatic yoga. Therapy wasn’t fully involving the body in the work I knew needed to be done. And healing in community (when we’re at a good place in our healing journey) can take us so much farther than 1:1 can.

I of course still believe in therapy whole heartedly. And I also believe it’s only part of the process. My mission when I created somatic yoga was to fill the gaps therapy can’t fill

Let’s chat about this more if its something you can relate to 🤍

12/11/2024

I remember the first time I went to yoga— it felt like coming home.

I was in my first semester of graduate school for my masters in mental health counseling and I immediately knew that this practice was not only going to help me personally, but that it was going to forever change how I envisioned supporting future clients

So I kept showing up. Going weekly. Learning more. And I started focusing more of my grad school projects and research on mindfulness, meditation, visualizations, and yoga philosophy as a necessary compliment to the theories we were learning and practicing

I finally started my YTT a few years after graduating with my masters, right before I found out that I was pregnant with my son. I finished my training when I was 8 months pregnant 🤰🏽

Yoga has been anchor in every stage of my adult life. I practiced SUP yoga at my bachelorette party, I hired my first and favorite yoga teacher to lead us in yoga with my bridesmaids on my wedding morning, I trained as a teacher in my first pregnancy, and my practice transformed when I was postpartum

I just found a gratitude journal from over 10 years ago and I put the intention out there that I was going to teach yoga + one day own a space where women could come together and use yoga to heal.. and that id also be leading retreats all over the world (still getting to that part haha!)

I might not own a physical space, but we are creating a beautiful community for women to heal through yoga and finding that gratitude journal all these years later was so serendipitous and affirming

As a yoga student, I always felt so energetically open after classes and would look around the room, hoping to make a new friend in the space.. but it always felt weird and hard as everyone rolled up their mats and headed on with their day

That’s not what Root Collective is. We ground + move + heal + open.. and then we hangout and gather and engage with each other after

It’s what I always needed for myself and what I always hoped to create. Healing in community

Trial a membership with us today and see what the magic of community healing feels like ✨🤍

11/13/2024

I say this all the time and I’ll say it again because I really want to validate those of you who can relate… I experienced more emotional and fully body releases in yoga than I ever did in therapy . .
And this isn’t because every therapist I saw wasn’t skilled or qualified. It’s because I got really really good at a young age at keeping my emotions locked away. Now, I can’t easily access them simply by talking. I need to move in an intuitive, regulating, grounding way to cue to my overprotective nervous system that I am safe to feel . .
If you’re someone who intellectualizes, analyzes, lives in your head, “overthinks,” is “high-functioning,” self-aware, and always appears OK on the outside.. even when you’re struggling on the inside… then you’re in the right place— because I get you intimately .. and so do the other women in our community . .
Root Collective blends my background as a psychotherapist with my love and appreciation for yoga. Bringing together body + mind to help you release what you’ve been holding and to give you the tools to face life and stress differently — all while feeling connected to others . .
If this feels like something you’re seeking, join my email list as the link in my bio so you can be the first to learn about upcoming RC gatherings, groups, workshops, and events

11/12/2024

To celebrate reaching 9k followers— I’m doing a giveaway!

Watching this community grow since like 2018 has been so amazing— thank you for sticking around as I’ve found my way and niched down more and more to what I feel called to do

Swipe to learn how to enter.. ill be selecting two winners, here's what you can win:

1. Access to my 45-minute digital course: Nervous System 101

2. 20% off my group program beginning in January: Re-Write Your Nervous System (you can join the virtual option or the in-person option)

Thank you again 💛🙏

11/07/2024