Meet Cherie Salma Bianco
Kundalini Yoga teacher and somatic therapist, Borrego Springs
Cherie Salma Bianco is a somatic therapist, Kundalini Yoga guide and shamanic practitioner with more than four decades of healing work behind her.
Whether you're in one of her classes or just run into her around town, time with Cherie tends to leave you in a better mood. She's warm, quick to laugh and easy to talk to, and a few minutes of conversation with her can make the rest of the day feel a little less rushed.
Finding home in the desert
Cherie moved to Borrego Springs in 2019, drawn by the peaceful desert lifestyle and the town's status as an International Dark Sky Community. She earned her 500-hour certification in Kundalini Yoga and began teaching local residents, many of them seniors. Longtime friends may also know her from her many years as a professional hairdresser.
A lifetime of learning
Her training reads like a map of healing traditions. She studied Core Energetics body psychotherapy directly with its founder, the late Dr. John Pierrakos, and Q'ero shamanic healing from Peru with Alberto Villoldo. She learned Kundalini Yoga from Guru Singh, Brett Larkin and Mukta Kaur Khalsa, and spent nearly three decades studying Sufi mysticism under the late Sidi al Jamal of Jerusalem. Her background also includes massage therapy and intuitive guidance.
Root to Rise
Cherie brings all of this together in her own method, Root to Rise. It blends body-centered therapy, Kundalini Yoga, Q'ero healing, Sufi teachings, sound healing and modern nervous system regulation.
The idea behind it is simple. “When the body experiences safety, the soul naturally remembers who it is,” she says. Her sessions aren't about pushing or forcing change. They're about helping people relax enough in their own bodies that change can happen on its own. As she puts it, “You don't become someone new. You remember who you've always been.”
Ways to join in
Cherie offers private sessions, either one at a time or as a series of six. Her group classes include Kundalini Yoga, Kokopelli Core Movement and Qualities Chanting, and she also leads workshops and retreats. She teaches in Borrego Springs, in San Felipe, Baja California, and online over Zoom. View her schedule of retreats and events.
She has also written three books, available on Amazon and Kindle: Root to Rise: From Survival to Sovereignty in a Dysregulated World , 365 Daily Return: 365 Days of Somatic Wisdom and The Living Instrument: Tuning the Body, Nervous System & Life Force Through Kundalini.
Find Cherie
The Mall, 587 Palm Canyon Drive, Suite 219, Borrego Springs
312-925-0468
· salmacherie@me.com
kundalinibianco.com
