ROOT
from scattered to rooted:
a journey to feel more grounded, present and connected to yourself
NEXT COHORT STARTS 24 SEPT
Early Bird price until 8th September
4 weeks. 6 hours live online. intimate group. guided practices
You've built a beautiful life across borders.
So why does it feel like you're a ghost walking through it?
You make it look easy. You navigate your career, international reloactions and holding the family together. From the outside, it looks effortless.
Inside, you are peddling at 100 miles per hour just to keep afloat.
Your mind is often racing, juggling countless invisible details, whilst willpower keeps you going.
You feel constantly braced, ready for impact. Tight jaw and hips. Shallow breath. Hunched shoulders. Even when you try to relax.
You don't need another app or check-list that feels like an addition to your to-do list.
You need a safe, quiet space where your nervous system learns it is finally safe to land.
Are you ready to reclaim your ground and find yourself again?
Do you find yourself perpetually braced for impact? Noticing a tight jaw, tense shoulders shallow breathing, even when trying to relax?
Do you want to feel physically present in your own home? Sitting at dinner and feeling genuinely there?
Do you carry a quiet sense of being rootless? Living across cities, roles and expecations and longing for a place you can finally drop your armour and belong?
ROOT is an intimate, 4-week journey created for global citizens, parents and high-functioning professionals ready to stop operating in survival mode and plant deep roots. You don't have to do this alone.
Over 4 live sessions together, we move through:
Unbracing the body: understanding chronic tension and stress and learning how to gently find our ground again.
Somatic practices: simple, daily practices that signal safety to your nervous system so it knows you have arrived.
Embodied belonging: start building a felt sense of home inside your own skin, no matter how many times you change cities or roles.
What changes when you ROOT
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A Quiet, Settled Body: Wake up with an unclasped jaw, deep breathing, and a nervous system that no longer operates in baseline panic.
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Real Relational Presence: Sit on the rug with your kids or at the table with your partner and feel completely, somatically there.
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The Freedom to Truly Rest: Enjoy an open weekend without feeling guilty or needing to prove your worth through output.
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An Unshakable Internal Anchor: Carry a deep feeling of home inside yourself that stays reliable, regardless of external chaos.
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Grounded Authority: Step out of white-knuckle over-functioning and lead, create, and set boundaries from a relaxed, steady center.
You become unshakeable. Whatever life brings.
I'm Sarah Grosso
I'm an anthropologist (PhD, London School of Economics), counsellor (MBACP, SGfB) and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. I have lived and worked across multiple countries whilst raising a family.
I specialise in helping internationally mobile professionals, nomads and leaders move out of high-functioning survival and build an unshakeable feeling of home within.
ROOT
Practicalities
Schedule
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4 weeks early evening starting September 24
What we will cover together
Week 1: Planting roots.
Understand your nervous system’s response to transition and learn grounding and orienting tools you can easily integrate into your daily life.
Week 2: Mapping your anchors.
Using anthropological insights to identify what "home" actually means to your body and psyche.
Week 3: Befriend your nervous system.
Mapping your inner landscape to help you build self-awareness and understanding so you feel less overwhelmed and more organized and oriented.
Week 4: Integration and Nesting.
Creating your personal guide so that you can continue to build resilience and self-compassion.
Your Registration Includes
· 4 x 90-Minute Live Sessions: Intimate, small-group for deep work and connection. Everything happens live so we can experience the connection of the group. This means there won't be recordings for this.
· Weekly Guided Audio Practices: somatic exercises to use between sessions.
· The ROOTS Guide: A workbook to help you map your progress and record your "anchors."
· Private Facebook Group: Direct access to a supportive group of fellow travelers.
Investment
ROOT workshop series - EARLY BIRD price: €225 (Includes 20% VAT) instead of €350.
Please note that although the workshops are informed by therapeutic, trauma-aware practice, they are eductional and are not therapy. For therapeutic work, you are welcome to reach out to me for individual or couple counselling.
Can't make it this time? Join my mailing list below and I'll let you know as soon as the next dates are planned.
FAQs
Is this therapy?
Although I am a counsellor and draw on that knowledge and experience, these workshops are created to be educational. This is a circle where you can connect with like-minded souls and learn practices that can help you feel more grounded. The course could complement therapeutic work depending on your needs.
This is also not a therapy group. Participants have the opportunity, but no obligation, to share their experiences with others.
If you feel individual or couple counselling is more appropriate for you at the moment, you are welcome to reach out to discuss this with me privately.
What if I can't make all of the classes live?
This is an intimate group experience and I will not record or share recordings of the sessions.
Connecting with others who share some of your experience enhances the benefit of the workshop. As someone who has moved abroad and experienced feeling lonely, I intentionally wanted to offer this opportunity for connection.
If you are unable to attend a session live, where possible, I will give you the opportunity to attend that session with a future cohort when the course runs again. You will also have access to the guide and practices.
I'm not sure if this is right for me at the moment?
I want to make sure that this is the right choice and that you will benefit from attending the workshops.
ROOT is designed for people who have moved between cultures or are going through other kinds of transitions. It might be for you if you are feeling tense, stressed and overwhelmed and are seeking ways of feeling more grounded and coming home to yourself again.
If you are unsure, you are welcome to reach out to me here to explore your situation, with no obligation.