Honoring Change and Protecting the Sacred

I love and hate Halloween. With all of it's spookiness and creative frivolity, which I ADORE, it is still such a placid, underachieving, superficial, folksy holiday, with little memory of its roots. Dear Halloween in America, Pull yourself together. You spent 8.5 billion dollars on Halloween this year, Americans. But you are missing your true purpose. Rise up, Halloween. You're better than this. Love, Kelly A little background for us. Halloween is Samhain, a fall pagan festiv

From Cuba to US soil: Sub-personality management, and Re-entry issues

Woke up in Cuba at 5am in the morning on Friday. There was a bit of flight havoc, in that our flight out of Santiago was delayed 12 hours and we would have (obviously) missed our connecting flight in Miami. Gabriel did a little magical combination of charming and bribing the agent of HavanaTur, who somehow got us on a different charter flight out. Can't really blame her for taking the bribe. Cuba is beautiful, musical and full of romance, but the beauty is crumbling, and you

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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.