Embodied Arts, Care & Community at Chico’s SomaRoot Center

SomaRoot Center is a hub offering embodied arts, practitioner spaces, workshops, classes, and community events.

Embodied Arts, Care & Community at Chico’s SomaRoot Center

SomaRoot Center is a hub offering embodied arts, practitioner spaces, workshops, classes, and community events.

Meet Our Practitioners

Heal together

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Gather locally

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Grow rooted

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Move freely

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Heal together ⊙ Gather locally ⊙ Grow rooted ⊙ Move freely ⊙

A SomaRoot Center room with yellow armchairs, a white coffee table with a potted plant and salt lamp.

A Thoughtful Container for Care, Creativity, and Connection

SomaRoot brings independent practitioners, community offerings, and intimate space use into one organized Chico setting.

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What You Can Find at SomaRoot

Resident Practitioners

SomaRoot is home to practitioners offering bodywork, therapy-adjacent care, counseling, coaching, somatic support, and other aligned services. Each practitioner operates independently, with their own approach, credentials, schedule, and booking pathway.
The practitioner directory gives visitors one clear place to understand who works here, what they offer, and how to reach them.

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Events, Classes, and Rentals

SomaRoot also supports workshops, classes, practitioner-led offerings, visiting facilitators, community gatherings, and aligned space rentals.
This may include movement classes, support groups, educational workshops, creative practice spaces, trainings, small events, or recurring community offerings. Space use is curated so that the center remains aligned with its purpose and respectful of the practitioners and clients using the building.

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Community Programming and Partnerships

SomaRoot has the potential to support broader community-facing work: regional collaborations, grant-supported initiatives, youth or family programming, arts-based partnerships, and projects that bring body-centered practice into the wider North State community.
This is where institutional, nonprofit, educational, wellness, and community partners can explore whether SomaRoot is the right container for a shared program or collaboration.

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Embody Alchemy and SomaRoot Center owner Brae Onnah Sisk with short dark hair, wearing a beige jacket and a yellow bandana around their neck, taking a selfie outdoors with blurred green foliage in the background.

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A Home for Body-Centered Work

SomaRoot grew out of Brae Onnah Sisk’s long-standing commitment to embodied arts, therapeutic practice, and community care, including the earlier roots of Chico Body-Wise.

The center offers a local place for work that often crosses categories: bodywork, counseling, somatic education, movement, song, ritual, training, creative practice, and small group facilitation.

What ties these offerings together is a shared respect for the body, the nervous system, relationship, and creativity.

Common Questions

No. SomaRoot supports practitioner services, classes, workshops, community events, creative practice, and aligned rentals. Some offerings are therapeutic. Others are educational, creative, relational, or community-based.
Yes, if the event or use is a fit for the venue and its guidelines. The Events & Rentals page is the best place to begin if you are interested in hosting a class, workshop, gathering, or recurring offering.
SomaRoot has its own identity and local purpose, but it exists within the wider Embody Alchemy ecosystem. Embody Alchemy is Brae’s personal practice. SomaRoot is the shared center and community container.
Each practitioner has their own booking or contact pathway. The practitioner directory is designed to help you find the right person and follow the appropriate next step.