Root and Bloom Institute is a project of Vision Walkers Collective, a non-profit organization with a mission to transform trauma and separation into embodied wisdom and deep connection.
The seed for Vision Walkers Collective (VWC) was planted in 2012, when the building was known as Rudramandir, a spiritual temple and training ground for somatic therapies. There, during a two-year comprehensive somatic training, VWC founder Jo Wunderly met her first psychedelic guide. A year after her studies, Jo dove into a series of underground guided psychedelic journeys and discovered healing and growth at levels she had not thought possible. Inspired by the transformational power of combining somatic therapy with guided psychedelic journeys, she made it her mission to help increase access to somatic and psychedelic-informed healing work.
In 2021, after the Covid pandemic shut down Rudramandir, Jo gifted funds to a bay area non-profit to further develop their training programs for psychedelic guides. When that organization collapsed with allegations of unethical behavior, Jo launched VWC to take over the vision and stewardship of this healing space (more on that here). VWC is committed to investing in expanded-states practitioners and trainers that exhibit a track record of high ethical standards and transparency in addressing personal and organizational “shadow”. VWC has crafted a set of 10 agreements to help guide us and our collaborators on that path. As of this posting in November 2025, VWC is in midst of an extensive remodel of this Berkeley building – creating clinical offices for somatic and expanded states therapy as well as spaces for practitioner trainings and group work – so it may become a hub for the evolution of healing and growth. The building will reopen in April 2026 as Root and Bloom Institute.
VWC is proud to continue the stewardship of this historic healing space for the somatic and expanded-states community. If you are a seeker, we invite you to check out our events and if you are a value-aligned provider, please consider joining our healing community via our therapy offices and group spaces.
