the root remembered
This isn’t your typical path to wellness.
Something in you knows the old ways aren’t working. You’ve done the therapy. The shadow work. The nervous system repair.
You’ve named the parts, tracked the patterns, spoken all the right words.
Still, something keeps repeating.
The loop persists because the root is asking to be met. Because the knowing you carry predates every system that told you otherwise.
Embodied Rebellion is a return.
A return to what the body never forgot. To the ancestral memory braided into your bones,
the signal beneath the noise, the pulse of what’s still true behind the distortions.
This is a path of remembering what was never truly lost, only buried.
It’s a refusal to keep numbing, performing, or pushing through.
Here, slowness is sacred. Listening is practice. Clarity arrives on its own terms. It’s in this field that coherence begins to reshape you.
This work is rooted in queer, relational, and body-based care—for those unraveling inherited stories, tuning toward truth, and reclaiming the frequency that was always theirs.
It’s a space for those who’ve tried everything and still feel something deeper pulling at them. The ones who are drawn to what’s raw, real, and just a little bit unruly.
Are you ready to come into contact with what’s always been yours?
is this work for you?
embodied rebellion is for those ready to:
Come back into contact with what’s been buried but never lost
Create identity from inner resonance, not outer approval
Reclaim their voice and speak what’s real in relationships, boundaries, or decisions even when it’s messy
Navigate relationships dynamics with discernment, rather than reflex
Rebuild relationship with their ancestors
Feel the intelligence inside grief, anger, and collapse
Explore what’s unfolding within, without rushing toward a solution
Create beliefs grounded in sovereignty, not inheritance
Root into connection: with self, others, and within the living field that holds more than just humans
embodied rebellion is not for you if:
You’re looking for a quick fix or a step by step formula
You’re not ready to move beyond comfort or challenge old beliefs
Taking ownership of your growth feels overwhelming
You find it impossible to sit with discomfort, ambiguity, or not-knowing
No judgement—we’ve all been there. This work will wait for you when you’re ready.
Looking for therapy?
I also offer somatic therapy grounded in relational care through my separate practice, Intrinsic Elements Psychotherapy
“You are not ‘the best of yourself’ but the entirety of who you are-the ugly and the beautiful.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
The Path Inward
This is descent.
A return to what the surface world taught you to fear.
You may be standing at a turning point—something unraveling, no longer sustainable, no longer true.
Something in you knows the old way isn’t working.
You’re tired of doing it alone. Tired of holding it all together.
And even if you're not sure what comes next, you know something has to change.
Beneath it all, there’s a quiet ache—for connection, for something real.
With yourself. With others. With the world around you.
Maybe you were never taught how to be in relationship in a way that felt true.
Still, something deeper is calling.
You want to feel what’s real.
To be with your grief, your longing, your becoming.
To root into something more honest than performance or survival.
This work isn’t about chasing healing as a destination.
It’s about remembering what you thought you had to abandon.
It’s a return to the rhythm of your own truth.
Echoes From the Descent
“My experience with Alexandra of Embodied Rebellion has been deeply transformational for me. There was life before Alexandra and now life after. Their knowledge and expertise in somatic experiencing is vast. In our short time together, I felt myself taking leaps toward accessing the truest parts of myself.
Now I’m much more connected to myself, I can practice radical self-trust, and my truths are simplified. I'd highly recommend working with Alexandra to anyone ready to learn how to listen to the body, understand how to locate your felt senses, and then see what happens next.”
—Katie Zink, Yoga Teacher, Community Facilitator, and Creator of Ritual Yoga
Alexandra Winteraven, MA
Alexandra is a queer, nonbinary somatic depth practitioner and modern-day descent guide whose work is rooted in ancestral sight, body-based wisdom, and the transformative power of descent. With precision, presence, and care, they support others in gently unraveling the stories and survival strategies that no longer serve.
Their work invites a return to what’s been forgotten, exiled, or buried beneath years of getting by. With deep respect and steady attunement, Alexandra holds space to meet parts with curiosity and compassion. Each layer is welcomed in its own time, revealing the body’s quiet intelligence and resilience that’s been there all along.
This is a path for those feeling something shift beneath the surface—a stirring, an invitation—and who are ready to explore the call in relationship, with tenderness and courage.