Group Therapy at Root & Rise

Rest and Regulate: Somatic Yoga for Nervous System Healing

This trauma-informed outdoor yoga group is for adults experiencing stress, burnout, anxiety, or disconnection from their bodies. Through grounding, breathwork, and accessible movement, this space supports nervous system regulation, rest, and a gradual return to feeling safe and at home in your body.
  • Next Group Starts June 9, 2026
Duration
8 Weeks
Length
2 hours
Format
In-Person in Fort Collins
Date & Time
Tuesdays, 5-7pm
Participants
6-10

About the group

This group is an invitation to slow down, drop in, and come back to yourself — gently, and at your own pace.

This Rest & Regulate series is a trauma-informed somatic yoga group designed for adults who are navigating stress, burnout, anxiety, or a felt sense of disconnection from their own bodies. Guided by a Root & Rise therapist and certified yoga instructor, each session weaves together psychoeducation on the nervous system, grounding practices, breathwork, and accessible movement — creating a container where regulation isn’t something you push toward, but something that naturally unfolds.

Sessions will be held at Spring Canyon Park in Fort Collins. Insurance by be accepted depending on your plan. Sliding scale is also available — reach out to discuss.

  • Next Group Starts June 9, 2026

Rest & Regulate honors the pace your body actually needs. Each 2-hour session is structured to ease you in and allow you to leave feeling more settled than when you arrived. The classes will be held at Spring Canyon Park in Fort Collins.

  • Arrival & Check-In (30 min): Optional sharing and a grounding prompt to help you orient, arrive, and begin to co-regulate with the group
  • Practice (~60 min): Polyvagal-informed psychoeducation, somatic awareness, trauma-informed movement, and breathwork to support nervous system flexibility and embodied presence
  • Closing Rest & Reflection (30 min): Restorative rest, yoga nidra–inspired relaxation, and optional group reflection to integrate what arose in the session

Each week follows a theme that builds on the last, gently guiding you through the layers of nervous system healing — from foundational safety and grounding, to mobilization, agency, connection, and finally, deep integration and rest.

This group is for adults who feel like they’ve been running on empty — and are ready for something that meets them where they are. It is especially for those who are moving through:

  • Chronic stress, burnout, or exhaustion
  • Anxiety, hypervigilance, or difficulty calming down
  • Emotional numbness, shutdown, or disconnection from the body
  • Patterns of people-pleasing, collapse, or feeling “stuck”
  • A desire to feel safer and more at home in your own body
  • Recovery from trauma or highly stressful life experiences
  • A sense that traditional talk therapy isn’t quite reaching the parts that need healing

No yoga experience is necessary. All bodies, abilities, and nervous system histories are welcome here.

Through this 8-week journey, you’ll develop a more trusting, resourced relationship with your own body and nervous system. Participants can expect to…

  • Build a foundational understanding of nervous system states and how they show up in daily life
  • Develop practical somatic tools for grounding, self-regulation, and returning to calm
  • Reconnect with the body’s cues — including signals of safety, rest, boundaries, and need
  • Shift out of chronic stress cycles and into greater ease and presence
  • Experience the regulating power of community and being witnessed
  • Leave with personalized strategies to support ongoing nervous system health

By the end of the group, you’ll carry with you a deeper sense of safety in your body, a more compassionate relationship with your nervous system, and tools you can return to long after the group ends.

$30/session • Insurance by be accepted depending on your plan • Sliding scale is also available — reach out to discuss

Meet your facilitator

This group is facilitated by Hailey Pieruccini, BS, CAT, Clinical Mental Health Intern (she/her). Hailey brings a rare and beautiful combination of lived and clinical experience to this series.

As both a trauma-informed therapist-in-training and a certified yoga instructor, Hailey has spent years sitting at the intersection of body-based healing and relational care. Her background in community mental health, addiction services, and somatic, nervous-system-focused therapy means she understands, deeply, how stress and trauma live in the body — and what it takes to help people find their way back to safety and ease.

Hailey’s approach is unhurried, nonjudgmental, and attuned to each person’s pace. She believes healing happens not through pushing harder, but through creating the conditions where the nervous system finally feels safe enough to soften. That philosophy is woven into every layer of how this group is designed — from the session structure, to the trauma-informed movement, to the intentional group size that makes real connection possible.

Hailey Pieruccini, therapist at Root & Rise

What we'll cover (session breakdown)

Each week builds on the last, following a thoughtful arc of nervous system healing — from orientation and safety, through activation and agency, into connection and rest.

Session Theme Focus
1 Grounding & Safety Orienting to the group, introducing nervous system states, and building present-moment awareness
2 Support & Stability Identifying internal and external resources; exploring steadiness and groundedness in the body
3 Emotion & Flow Understanding sympathetic activation and how emotions move through — and can safely discharge from — the body
4 Boundaries & Choice Reconnecting with agency and consent; noticing “yes,” “no,” and “enough” as felt body experiences
5 Power & Energy Accessing strength and vitality while maintaining regulation; mobilizing without tipping into stress
6 Connection & Co-Regulation Exploring relational safety and the healing that happens in community
7 Awareness & Expression Integrating nervous system states through mindful movement, reflection, and expression
8 Integration & Rest Settling, restoring, and identifying tools and practices to carry forward
  • Next Group Starts June 9, 2026
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