A Somatic & Ecological Guide
to Embodied Presence

A downloadable PDF offering simple practices you can return to when you feel overwhelmed, unsure, or disconnected.

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You spend most of your life inside.

Inside the screens. Inside your head.

 

Your days unfold under artificial light, paced by notifications and urgency rather than sunrise and rhythm. Your body attempts to keep up, adapting where it can, tightening where it needs to — staying alert longer than it was ever meant to.

Constant demands on your attention. Heart aching from all it holds.
You find yourself shifting your weight.
Adjusting your posture.
Taking a deep breath that doesn’t quite go all the way down.

Even when the world slows in certain moments, your nervous system doesn’t slow with it. The body stays braced, listening for the next demand, the next interruption, the next thing to manage.

 

What you're feeling isn't a personal failure or a lack of resilience— it's the cost of living in a society disconnected from the conditions our bodies rely on to slow, soften, and rest.

 

ROOTED exists to help reconnect with those conditions.

ROOTED is a living guide you can return to — a trusted place to land when you feel overstimulated, unsure, or disconnected.

 

This 50+ page downloadable PDF holds 20 gentle, evidence based somatic practices designed to help find steadiness in everyday life. 

Rather than asking you to push through or change yourself, ROOTED offers simple ways to create the conditions that allow a sense of solid ground to return. Over time, these trusted tools soften the constant bracing, making it easier to feel at home in your body and connected to the world around you. A remembering begins — that regulation is relational, and that returning to the body is also a return to the living world we came from.

The human nervous system did not develop in isolation.

It evolved in continuous relationship with the living world —
with gravity and ground,
with seasons and cycles, 
with movement and touch,
with daylight and sunset.

It learned how to settle through repeated relational conditions: orientation, grounding, rhythm, containment, responsiveness, and participation. These relational conditions, once woven into daily life, have thinned in modern times. 
 
When these conditions are present, the innate intelligence of the body and nervous system can seek and find balance. 
When they are missing, the body stays alert, braced, and effortful — even in moments meant for rest.
 
Each section of ROOTED gently reintroduces one of these conditions, offering simple ways to restore the relational ground your body relies on to settle.

We were never meant to live this far from Nature 

— from the slow, regulating rhythms that once shaped our lives.

Most support tools get left behind because they ask for more energy than you have.

They assume you can pause, reflect, decide what’s wrong, and then take action. But when your system is already stretched, those steps alone can be exhausting. In moments of overwhelm or depletion, the last thing you need is another practice that depends on clarity, motivation, or sustained effort.

 

ROOTED was designed with those low-capacity moments in mind.

Not only for when life is calm or spacious, but for the moments when you’re trying to conserve what little energy is left. When your system is taxed, ROOTED doesn’t ask you to rise above—it meets you where you are, without requiring you to sort out what needs fixing or improving.

 

ROOTED meets you where you are

It offers simple points of contact that can be accessed as life keeps moving—small ways the nervous system can move, respond, and return without stopping everything else. These practices don’t rely on insight or decision-making. Over time, they support nervous system flexibility by meeting the body where it already is, allowing shifts to emerge even when life hasn’t slowed down.

 

ROOTED isn’t another task you have to strain to keep up with.

 

It’s a living system you can step into for continued nourishment.

 

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What ROOTED Supports Over Time

ROOTED isn’t meant to change your life overnight.
It supports the quieter shifts that make daily life more manageable.

 

Over time, people often notice:

  • the body softening sooner after long stretches of stimulation

  • less time spent stuck in alertness or bracing

  • an easier return after stress, instead of staying keyed up

  • less second-guessing what their body is asking for

  • more trust in small signals of rest, rhythm, and response

  • a steadier sense of being “here,” even when the day stays full

  • a deeper sense of connection and appreciation to nature 

 

These shifts don’t come from forcing calm or overriding stress.

They come from creating conditions the nervous system can respond to. 

ROOTED is for you if:

→  You’re seeking relief that doesn’t require pushing, fixing, or overriding your body

→  You want grounding tools that fit into real moments, not ideal conditions

→  You want a resource you can return to in different seasons of stress, rest, and change — not a program you have to keep up with

→  You’re curious how attention, environment, and relationship quietly shape your inner state

→  You’re drawn to nervous system regulation, embodiment, or Nature and  ecology — and want practices that respect how living systems actually shift over time 

 

This work is for people who sense their body is asking for relationship, not repair

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 “The way Kelsey shares wisdom mixed with spirituality makes her offerings feel both deeply mystical and completely practical. I’ve learned how to listen to myself in ways I never had access to before. Her offerings are rich and profound.” 

- Kim 

Exhaustion is not a personal failure.

It’s what happens when we live outside of relationship
with the body, the earth, and the rhythms that once guided life.

ROOTED Guide

Kelsey is a devoted student of the living Earth and the mystical currents that flow through all wisdom traditions. As a medicine carrier, body-worker, and long time facilitator, she walks the pathless path of listening to the unseen, honoring the innate intelligence of the body, and reciprocity with the holy wild.

Her service is an invitation to remember our belonging in the greater web of life, awaken to the holy conversation unfolding through all of creation, and to abide in our own authentic divinity. 

Kelsey Marie, MPH, LMT, E-RYT, Doula, Eco-Spiritual Guide 

 

“Kelsey has such a calm and grounding presence. She holds a field with such mastery everything feels intentional and magical. She articulates and explains things so beautifully, I received more insight and open heartedness than I imagined. ” - Jess

 

 ROOTED may not be a fit if:

→ You’re looking for quick fixes or rapid transformation through "biohacking" and control

→ You’re seeking techniques to override discomfort rather than meet it with curiosity

→ You believe stress can be resolved through thinking alone

→ You’re not interested in exploring how place, environment, and rhythm influence nervous system health

→ You value optimization and efficiency over relationship and belonging

 

"Kelsey ALWAYS delivers. Her containers are safe and authentic. Wise beyond her years she is truly a teacher as she actually lives what she says. I am always nourished by her offerings." - Alex 

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