Root & Rise Community

Root & Rise Community Community-led wellbeing 🌱
Retreats, workshops & programmes
For adults & young people
Anxiety • Trauma • Stress • Reset
You’re not broken.

You’re not alone.

🔗 rootandriseretreats.org

03/06/2026

🌿 Meet the Team: Macaulay 🌿

We’re excited to introduce Macaulay, one of the facilitators joining us for our upcoming Root & Rise Retreat on Saturday 1st August.

Macaulay brings an uplifting energy and a deeply holistic approach to wellbeing, blending ancient wisdom with modern understanding. A lifelong student of health, growth and vibration, his work draws from the Vedic systems of Yoga, including Hatha, Ashtanga and Ayurveda, alongside Qigong Chinese energy healing traditions.

Through his own journey of overcoming anxiety, trauma and chronic pain, Macaulay discovered the transformative power of movement, breathwork, connection and inner work. Today, he is passionate about helping others reconnect with themselves, build resilience and experience more joy, balance and freedom in daily life.

At our retreat, Macaulay will help create a space where you can slow down, breathe, move, reconnect and remember what it feels like to truly nourish yourself.

✨ A day to pause.
✨ A day to reset.
✨ A day to reconnect.

📅 Saturday 1st August 2026
⏰ 10:00am – 8:00pm
📍 The Cedars Academy, Birstall, Leicester

Spaces are limited.

🔗 Link in bio

21/05/2026

🌿 Come and join our next Community Drumming Circle 🥁

There’s something powerful that happens when people come together through rhythm.

A space to:
✨ connect
✨ breathe
✨ be present
✨ feel the calm
✨ enjoy the energy of community

No experience needed and all drums & instruments are provided (you’re also welcome to bring your own).

Whether you come alone, with friends, or with family - everyone is welcome.

📅 Saturday 27th June
⏰ 12:00pm – 2:00pm
📍 Elizabeth Park Sports Centre
Checkland Rd, Thurmaston
Leicester LE4 8FN

We’d love to welcome you there 🙌

💬 Message us if you’d like to join the WhatsApp drumming community group.





Community

19/04/2026

Our hearts are full after our first Root & Rise community drumming circle yesterday 🌱

We want to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us, shared their energy, and helped create such a warm and uplifting space. It was truly special to connect, laugh, and be present together in rhythm.

A big thank you to everyone who supported behind the scenes with setting up, to Callum from One Community Music & Emma for holding the space so beautifully. We’re also grateful to for providing the venue.

A special mention to Jay for his incredible dhol performance, the energy you brought was something else. Truly inspiring.

Moments like this remind us of the power of coming together. When we slow down, connect, and share energy as a community, something shifts…and we felt that with all of you 😊

We feel blessed to be surrounded by such genuine, open-hearted people, and we’re excited to continue creating more spaces like this across the community.

This is just the beginning.

With gratitude,
Rahul, Juliet & Marie-Claire 🌿








31/03/2026

✨ COMMUNITY DRUMMING CIRCLE ✨

There’s something powerful that happens when people come together and drum…
No experience. No pressure. Just rhythm, connection, and pure energy. 🥁

Join us for a free community drumming circle - a space to relax, have fun, and feel part of something.

Bring your friends, bring your family, bring your energy.
Everything is provided - just turn up and enjoy the vibe.

📅 Saturday 18 April
⏰ 11:00 – 12:15
📍 Elizabeth Park Community Centre, Thurmaston

Whether you’ve never touched a drum before or you love music - you’re all welcome.

Let’s come together, make some noise, and raise the energy as a community.

25/03/2026

This is something I experienced myself… and I knew I had to bring it to Leicester.

There’s something powerful that happens when people come together and drum.

The first time I joined Callum’s drumming circle, I had no experience at all.
But within minutes, my mind went quiet. The rhythm pulled me into a state of flow that felt calming, uplifting and energising all at once.

I left feeling lighter… like I’d had a reset.

That’s exactly what we’re bringing to the community.

🥁 Root & Rise Community Drumming Circle
📍 Thurmaston, Leicester
📅 Saturday 18 April 2026
⏰ 11:00 – 12:15

No experience needed
All drums provided
Open to all ages

This first session is optional donation based — just come and experience it.

👉 Reserve your space via the link

https://rootandriseretreats.org/drumming-circle/







17/03/2026

Show your staff you care.

When organisations prioritise staff wellbeing, they send a powerful message to their teams - that people matter just as much as performance.

Our Root & Rise Staff Wellbeing Days create a calm and supportive space where staff can step away from daily pressures, reset, and learn simple practices that support long-term wellbeing.

Many organisations invite us to deliver sessions during:

• INSET and training days
• staff development days
• wellbeing weeks
• corporate team events

Our sessions combine practical wellbeing tools with deeply restorative experiences.

Participants may experience:

• Breathwork & relaxation techniques to regulate the nervous system and reduce stress
• Practical strategies for managing pressure and avoiding burnout
• An immersive sound bath experience using instruments such as singing bowls, gongs and chimes to create deep relaxation and mental clarity

Staff leave feeling calmer, refreshed and equipped with simple tools they can use in everyday life and work.

Now booking Staff Wellbeing Days across Leicester and surrounding areas.

RootAndRiseRetreats.org

Heal. Grow. Rise.








3 Simple Ways to Break Free from ProcrastinationProcrastination isn’t laziness.It’s often a sign of overwhelm, self-doub...
15/01/2026

3 Simple Ways to Break Free from Procrastination

Procrastination isn’t laziness.
It’s often a sign of overwhelm, self-doubt, or fear of getting it wrong.

When you understand why it’s happening, it becomes much easier to move forward.

Here are 3 tools I regularly share with my coaching clients:

1. Make the task smaller than your resistance
If it feels heavy, it’s too big.
Ask yourself:
“What’s the next smallest step I can take in 10 minutes or less?”

Momentum is created through action, not motivation.

2. Stop waiting to feel ready
Clarity comes after you start, not before.
Perfection keeps you stuck. Progress builds confidence.

3. Remove the emotional pressure
Instead of “I have to do this,” try:
“I’m choosing to spend 10 minutes on this.”

Reducing pressure lowers resistance and makes starting easier.

If procrastination is slowing you down in life or business, support can help you move forward with clarity and confidence.

— Juliet
Business & Life Coach
Facilitator, Root & Rise Community








The mind is a powerful tool.But when every thought is taken as truth, the system becomes overwhelmed.This isn’t about th...
08/01/2026

The mind is a powerful tool.
But when every thought is taken as truth, the system becomes overwhelmed.

This isn’t about thinking positively.
It’s about noticing.

When a thought is seen as a thought,
the body begins to settle.
Space returns.

At Root & Rise, we don’t teach control —
we teach relationship.

You don’t need to fight your mind.
You need to meet it with awareness.

From there, choice becomes possible.








For many people, the hardest part of slowing down isn’t the slowing itself.It’s the fear of what might happen after.The ...
06/01/2026

For many people, the hardest part of slowing down isn’t the slowing itself.

It’s the fear of what might happen after.

The fear that if you stop holding everything together, something will slip.
That if you soften, you’ll lose momentum.
That ease will turn into stagnation.
That rest will become avoidance.

So the system stays alert — not because it loves pressure, but because it associates tension with stability.

From the body’s perspective, vigilance has been a way of keeping life intact.

This is why moments of calm can feel uneasy.
Why peace doesn’t always feel peaceful at first.
Why people sometimes return to busyness, urgency, or overthinking the moment things begin to settle.

Nothing has gone wrong.

The body is checking whether ease is safe.

And it learns safety not through reassurance, but through experience - through small moments where softening doesn’t lead to collapse, consequence, or loss.

Where life continues.
Where things still get done.
Where connection remains.
Where you are still you.

If you notice yourself tightening again after a moment of relief, see if you can meet that response with curiosity rather than correction.

Something inside you is protecting what matters.

And with time, that protector can learn a new truth:

That steadiness doesn’t require strain.
That presence doesn’t undo progress.
That you don’t have to grip life to keep it together.

Gentle inquiry (tool, not task):

When things feel calm, ask quietly:
“What am I afraid would happen if I stayed here a little longer?”

You don’t need an answer.
Just notice what the body is guarding.

Often, that awareness alone is enough to allow trust to grow.

Softening isn’t the end of responsibility.
It’s the end of unnecessary holding.

Heal.
Grow.
Rise.









Most of the stress we experience isn’t coming from what’s happening.It’s coming from the quiet picture we’re holding in ...
04/01/2026

Most of the stress we experience isn’t coming from what’s happening.

It’s coming from the quiet picture we’re holding in our head of how this should be going.

How we should feel by now.
How healed we should be.
How confident, calm, certain, or “sorted” we imagine ourselves becoming.

That picture rarely shouts.
It just sits in the background - comparing, measuring, tightening.

And every time reality doesn’t match it, something contracts inside us.

We don’t usually notice the contraction itself.
We notice the frustration.
The self-doubt.
The sense that we’re behind, broken, or doing life wrong.

But that pressure isn’t coming from life.

It’s coming from the relationship we have with that inner image.

Here’s something worth noticing:

The moment we drop the picture, even briefly, nothing actually collapses.
Your breath doesn’t stop.
Your life doesn’t fall apart.
You don’t disappear.

What does change is the effort it takes to be here.

And that effort - the constant inner adjusting, fixing, monitoring, is what exhausts us far more than the moment we’re in.

A gentle experiment, if you want one:

Next time you feel pressure, don’t ask “What do I need to change?”
Ask instead:
“What picture am I trying to live up to right now?”

You don’t need to fight it.
You don’t need to replace it with a better one.

Just notice it and see what happens when you stop organising your nervous system around it.

Often, that small shift is enough to let life move again.

Not because you’ve improved yourself…

But because you’ve stopped standing in your own way.









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