The Root Cause

I’ve been nestled in the warm and terrifying lap called “reckoning with life’s fragility” this week. A couple of significant losses and a...

Holi converges with International Women's Day

Today is simultaneously International Women's Day, and Holi! Holi is the fabulously colorful and creative holiday celebrated around Asia...

The Song Holds the Center

Gather up whatever is gutted. Whatever has had the center pulled out. Don’t just stitch it up; that will never work. Your stitching...

Poem falling, Poem howl, Poem scaffold

I At times poetry is a falling. The stumbling of a thought into a chasm of a place that had been barred and condemned, the precipice of a...

Revolution means a thing comes back

I Thich Nhat Hanh talks about the folly of a Guru who never gets around to planning a picnic. Look it up. The students kept asking for a...

Who I Write For

I just finished an Earth Day Weekend retreat, based in the dharma teachings of the pāramitās, the psychotherapy modalities of IFS and...

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About

SomaPsychotherapy and DharmaBridge were founded by Kelly Blaser, a Meditation and Dharma teacher and Licensed Marriage Family Therapist who works from a somatic and transpersonal perspective. Her writings on this blog bring insights from practice, from poetry as practice, from the dharma, and from the transformations she's been honored to be with in her work with hundreds of clients.