Growing a mycelial network for humans through shared Celebration, Growth, and Community.
ROOTED IS FACILITATED BY:
Names are linked to our Facebook profiles.
You can find out more from there.
Kí McCrae
Our mission at ROOTED is to honor those brave folks who march to the beat of their own drum. We provide a welcoming space for individuals to reconnect with themselves and strengthen their sense of community. We encourage personal growth, self-expression, and a deeper understanding of the natural world around us through honoring the cycles of the sun, moon, and seasons; guided meditations; sound healing; and the sharing of food as a way of creating community and connection.
THEME FOR OUR 2026 GATHERINGS:
7 Keys to Embodied R/Evolution
We gather at 5 pm and try to start at 5:30 pm. If you’re late it’s okay, just quietly settle in, we promise to give you a smile and to welcome you properly when we are able. Located in Chesapeake, VA.
Please check out our Facebook group and the Events section there for address and more info on each event.
DATES for our 2026 gatherings:
March 22 - The 1st Key
April 19 - The 2nd Key
May 17 - The 3rd Key
June 14 - The 4th Key
July 19 - The 5th Key
August 12 - The 6th Key
September 13 - The 7th Key
Themes are loose and open to alteration based on what is rising in our Community and in the World around us. The following are the focal points for our gatherings, wisdom shares, sound healing, and embodiment practices. We are not focused on the Chakra system, we allow it to lead us into whatever is rising at the time.
The First Key:
ROOT, RED, HOME, FAMILY, TRIBE, COMMUNITY, GROUNDING TO SOURCE AND MOTHER EARTH, HEALTH, PROSPERITY.
The Second key:
SACRAL, ORANGE, CREATION, GESTATION, PASSION, SEXUALITY, INSTINCT, INSPIRATION, THE SOURCE OF YOUR INNER KNOWING.
The Third Key:
ASSOCIATIONS: SOLAR PLEXUS, YELLOW OR GOLD, WILL, SERVICE TO SELF, PERSONAL AUTHORITY, INTEGRITY, POWER, DRIVE, AUTHENTICITY; PERSONAL POWER; CONFIDENCE; ‘THE FIRE IN YOUR BELLY’; ACTION.
The Fourth Key:
ASSOCIATIONS HEART; GREEN OR SOFT PINK/ROSE GOLD; LOVE-UNCONDITIONAL AND INTERPERSONAL, AS WELL AS PERSONAL LOVE; COMPASSION; DEEP EMOTIONS; EMOTIONAL BALANCE; THE BRIDGE BETWEEN THE UPPER AND LOWER CHAKRAS; THE CAULDRON WHERE THE ESSENCES OF ‘AS ABOVE, SO BELOW, AS WITHIN, SO WITHOUT,’ BECOME MEDICINE; GROWTH; HEALING; FORGIVENESS.
The Fifth Key:
ASSOCIATIONS: THROAT; BLUE; COMMUNICATION (all types-verbal, written, your inner thoughts); THE ABILITY TO SPEAK YOUR TRUTH AND USE YOUR VOICE IN SERVICE TO SELF, COMMUNITY, THE WORLD; ALSO RELATED TO YOUR ABILITY TO LISTEN.
The Sixth Key:
ASSOCIATIONS: THIRD EYE; INDIGO; INTUITION; INNER GNOWING/KNOWING; INSIGHT; HIGHER KNOWLEDGE; IMAGINATION; VISUALIZATION; TRUSTING YOUR INNER WISDOM; THE ABILITY TO SEE BEYOND 3-D REALITY; CLARITY; THE ABILITY TO BE OPEN TO DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES; CLARITY; SELF-AWARENESS.
The Seventh Key:
ASSOCIATIONS: CROWN; VIOLET; CONNECTION TO SOURCE OR A HIGHER POWER; UNITY CONSCIOUSNESS; ONENESS WITH ALL; ENLIGHTENMENT; CONSCIOUSNESS; INSIGHT; AWARENESS; HIGHER UNDERSTANDING; CALM; CENTEREDNESS; PEACE.
HOW OUR GATHERINGS WORK AND WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING
Please bring a chair or other comfortable-on-the-ground seating for yourself. Bring bug spray. If rain is threatening, bring an umbrella. In case of inclement weather we will celebrate indoors, please check the group FB page for updates.
After the celebration we will share a potluck meal. Please clearly mark your sharable contributions for those who have food allergies or sensitivities. If you are able to bring something to share, please do, if not please jump up and grab a plate and help yourself. It is our belief that part of building community is in the sharing of food and the conversation that flows as we enjoy a shared meal. There are times when each of us will just not have the time or energy or monetary resources to bring something and it's okay! All of you is welcome here.
Speaking of ‘all of you welcome here,’ please know that we hold a space of non-judgement. If you are hungover, recovering from addiction, sad, angry, beleagered, joyous, thrilled, sexual…whatever, come. We are here for all it. Yes, witches, bitches, whores, bikers, cowboys, soldiers, the unemployed, the wealthy, trans folk, LGBTQI+++, cis, het, whatever religion or social demographic you are aligned with is okay. Dogma is not our jam. We do have minimal tolerance for bombast and holier-than-thou attitudes. Bring your child mind, your open heart, your open mind, and a small dose of humility and we, the facilitators, promise to do the same.
Well tended children are welcome as are any sounds and wiggling. We will be near water, so please keep a close eye to be sure they are safe. If you have a service animal, they’re okay too, so long as they are leashed (I have many cats, two horses. and a dog. Meetings are at or inside my home at this time.)
Help with clean up after the pot luck is appreciated.
ROOTED—our story
Several years ago a deep desire to create a community of spirit rose within me, a longing for a community of humans weaving a mitochondrial network in which we are connected and in communication and are mutually supportive. ROOTED grew from that desire.
A little back story: For years my community was mostly homeschool families and small-scale homesteaders. I taught my children and took them to co-op classes, we raised chickens and rabbits and chinchillas, sheep and goats and horses and cattle. We grew a huge garden and produced much of the food we ate.
The river of life flows on, though, children grow up, go to college, move out, get married, have children of their own. I love all of this and yet I was also cast adrift. I over the homeschool mama-drama, though I do still have one or two close friends I met through it. Small scale homesteading was fun when I was feeding a family and had the kids around to bring the life lessons provided by animal husbandry and tending to growing things, but when I found myself alone in the garden or taking care of the chickens while also married to a man whose passive aggression often found me weeping over plants he had killed with his flame thrower or animals who needed the vet because of his inability to do what he said he would, all of the work of producing food felt draining and pointless.
So I backed off. Eventually got him to move out—side note, this is my house. It was my grandfather’s house. My dad grew up here. Anyway, as a result I also lost my social circles. It took a couple of years for me to realize that I missed community but the realization was the seed that idea for ROOTED grew from.
I am the one who planted the seed. Kí is the one who watered it. We facilitate but this group is a community effort. We offer what we are able and are grateful to those of you who show up like the sun nourishing the seedling we have grown together.
We are in this to create community. A community that you can lean into and one which you can support.
We all have gifts and needs. We all sometimes need someone to listen or to bring us lasagna or to just send quick text asking, ‘How are you? Are you okay today?’ Small gifts, small things, are some of the most potent in this world. Thank you for sharing yours and thank you even more for allowing yourself the vulnerability to accept support when you need it.
We tend gardens and children, and we tend to the tasks at hand. Tending never requires us to hurl our well-being onto the sword of self-sacrifice but only to offer what we are able (and sometimes that is silence) and to accept the returning wave of reciprocity.
We all move in multiple communities in our lives. Families, work, friends, books clubs, social media, educational institutions. Many of these have shown us things to avoid, some have harmed us, some have helped us feel seen and safe and held. That is our desire here, that you feel seen, safe, and held.
ROOTED is a collective effort. Thank you for being part of it.
