Leela Kelley Healing Arts, 1037 Western Ave, Brattleboro, VT (2025)

07/14/2025

JULY NEWSLETTER

* July CI class & Jam
* Summer bodywork special (discount code inside)
* Accepting new Therapy & Coaching Clients

06/23/2025

🌸June Newsletter🌸

https://mailchi.mp/16ee1e4f5d05/june-june

Happy Solstice! I am back in town and offering in person sessions again and would looove to see you.

In this months newsletter:

🐸 Integrative Bodywork, Therapy & Coaching, Astrology and Tarot Readings
🐸 Part Two of "On Crete" (travel writing and poetic musings)
🐸 New Moon and Full Moon Podcast
🐸 BRAT JAM (QT contact improv and somatic movement jam)
🐸 ...a meme...

xo
Leela

05/21/2025

Happy May and a Hello from the UK!

I just sent out this months newsletter. In it, you'll find:

✨ my new favorite meme
✨ upcoming venus meditations (friday may 23rd 11:15-12:15ET on zoom)
✨ most recent podcast episode on the full moon in scorpio
✨ ways to work with me (somatic therapy & coaching! tarot readings!)

👉https://mailchi.mp/e33430ea52cb/may-letter

s u b s c r i b e to stay up to date about all the thing things.

HUGS
leela

12/09/2024

Happy December ❄️ 🌲

My bodywork books are open for December & January!

Come get some cozy care for your body & heart.

These sessions integrate therapeutic massage, somatic bodywork and biodynamic craniosacral.

My focus is to provide a restful place of support for the nervous system and psycho-emotional-spiritual well being. These sessions help to support an overall sense of integration, wholeness, and ease for body, mind, and spirit.

My office is located in West Brattleboro VT.

Use the links below to schedule yourself a healing bodywork session:

60 minutes: https://leelakelley.as.me/?appointmentType=5564263

90 minutes: https://leelakelley.as.me/?appointmentType=5564266

🌱💓🙌🏼

11/21/2024

Dear Humans,

Join me this Friday for a FREE online Somatic Self Care class, 10-11am ET

I’ll be sharing gentle somatic practices to help ground, settle our nervous systems, clear stuck energy, and awaken into greater self love and self acceptance. I hope you can join me - it’ll be nice and settling and give you some tools to practice on your own.

Sign up here: https://leelakelley.as.me/?appointmentType=69377225

The other day I saw a quote that said “imagine if we measured our success by the amount of safety people felt in our presence.”

It made me think about how much safety, coziness, and softness are such important factors for me in healing. I think back on the all the iterations of my offerings, and at their core is a sense of safety and coziness. I know that this isn’t what everyone needs -some people need something harder, or faster, or higher intensity.

But for me, I have a Cancer Moon. I think back to 11 years ago when I was offering 1:1 restorative yoga sessions and basically would just build pillow forts for adult humans to rest in.

My bodywork practice is similar. And now as a somatic therapist, I realize I am still creating that space for folks. My hope is for people to feel seen, held, safe, at ease. And yes, to also challenge stuck places, to transform, to grow, but in a way that moves at that speed of trust (AMB). I’m not sure how much sustainable transformation is possible if we don’t actually feel safe and held.

The other day a somatic therapy client said that when they come to my office they feel like could a nap, because it feels like a safe and restful place. And of course, many of my bodywork clients do indeed take naps. And I’m so glad to provide a restful place in this fast fast world.

I hope you are finding moments of safety and ease in these turbulent times. If my offerings could support you, it would be an honor.

Big Love,
Leela

Check out my full November Newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/256e221a1863/november-cozy?e=87d537757

10/09/2024

October Offerings👀🐬
https://mailchi.mp/0b211203b4b5/october-offerings

Featuring!
* New moon podcast (how'd eclipse season go for you?!)
* FREE class this month ( somatic self care)
* BRAT JAM : a q***r & trans CI jam in Brattleboro
* a simple prayer song
* 1:1 Integrative Somatic Therapy & Coaching

xo
leela

09/09/2024

Please check out my September MuseLetter (slowing down into Soup Season)
https://mailchi.mp/abba1e55a7f9/september-museletter

in the letter...
* new moon podcast
* celebrating facilitating at EarthSing and Touch&Play
* 1:1 offerings: somatic therapy & integrative bodywork

xo
Leela

(photo by Vicky, taken at EarthSing)

12/07/2023

🦋TAPPING FOR STRESS REDUCTION & EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE 🦋

You are invited to join me for an hour long online class that will help you slow down, release stress, build resilience, and tune into your somatic intelligence.

I will share one of my favorite mind-body techniques for releasing stress (among sooo many other benefits).

I’ll lead you through a practice that will help you feel great and you’ll learn some tools to practice at home.

If you’re like me, you might be totally sick of screen time - so please know that you can show up with your video off and just be led by the sound of my voice if that feels better for you.

sign up here https://www.leelakelley.net/groups.html

{beautiful luna moth art by Lisa McLaughlin}

12/01/2023

🌹TAPPING🌹

Sometimes I feel like some sort of missionary for Tapping, also called Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Because I have amaaaaaazing results with both myself and my clients (and my Mom), I want to share it with everybody.

Simply put, tapping helps to clear the charge around emotions or stories that we are carrying.

And what I love most about it, is that it’s centered around self love and self acceptance.

There is a big difference between trying to make a feeling go away and releasing the energetic charge around it.

Tapping/EFT helps to create space to form a healing relationship to our emotions and experiences.

It’s help to create space for new ways of relating to ourselves.

Tapping can help with big feelings like anger, jealousy, grief, anxiety, and fear.

It can also help with things like pain, sleep issues and other physical issues.

Tapping also has this magical way of opening up and clearing the energy field, which allows for a deeper connection to the subconscious and meditative states.

Interested in learning more of? I’m offering a Tapping 101 class (online) Friday December 15th at 10am EST.

Comment a 🌹 and I’ll send you the l!nk 👇🏼

(meme made by me, photo from Practical Magic)

11/28/2023

🌱NOTES FROM THE GEMINI FULL MOON🌱

We are in process,
always changing, evolving, re-birthing.
We are not stagnant, we are not meant to be concrete.
We are not finished - not tidy, in a box, with a bow on it.
The process is a spiral, an evolving question, a mysterious collaboration with the unknown.

I honor this spiral path by staying connected
to my body and the truth that lives there.
If I am sad, I let myself feel sad.
If I am anxious, I let myself feel anxious.
If I am angry, I allow myself to rage.
I allow this energy to Move
and to it, I offer love and acceptance.
If I stray away from what feels like integrity, I practice forgiveness.
And the more I love all these things
The less I get flung around
Like a little ship at sea.
I listen for the truth that lives in my body
and I practice compassion for myself and all beings.
I remember that this story , that we arrive at a place, complete, finished, done - is just a story and is not my truth. I allow myself to be in all my forms of becoming and unbecoming. I allow myself to be with Yours.

The best I can do is soften into each moment
and give myself grace.
To let no part of myself
be a stranger.
Not my rage, not my grief, not my lonely.
And especially not my Joy!

And some days I am tired of Process.
I am tired of the spiral path.
I want that linear production line of self.
Something concrete.
Something easy.
Something finished.
And that, too, belongs.

I lean into my spirit guides, my well ancestors.
Lean into the earth and the cosmos.
Lean into my Beloveds.
Lean into song.
I lean into this form that holds me,
this body that is a magic portal of transmutation.

I lean into curiosity.
& trust my own process
Learn to trust other peoples processes.
I learn to trust this Earth.

On days when I feel overwhelmed
The best I can do
Is return to simple prayer.
A breath.
A hand on heart.
Time and space
to feel
What is here
And to love it all.

https://www.leelakelley.net/

11/21/2023

But really, what would it be like ?!?

I really believe you are worthy of your own deep love and acceptance. You don’t have to wait until something about yourself is “better” to accept yourself.

Shaming ourselves, hating ourselves, judging ourselves - or any Part of ourselves - is not how we are going to heal, and is not how meaningful change happens.

It makes sooooo much sense why so many people have super strong and mean inner critics! Look at this world that we live in….Those are internalized voices of systems of oppression. Those are long standing familial patterns, voices of trauma, voices of pain. These are tough cycles to break. It’s worth it for ourselves , and it’s absolutely necessary for the healing of our communities 🌹

The path of wholeness is learning to love, accept, and care for ourselves and our parts of ourselves…. And the ripple effects are powerful!

https://www.leelakelley.net/somatic-therapy.html

💛

11/17/2023

🌱GRATEFUL FOR THE PATH🌱

I began teaching yoga in my early 20’s and eventually began studying yoga therapy, which is a form of therapeutic yoga designed to support all sorts of conditions and experiences within the body-mind-spirit.

Inspired by my experiences teaching yoga and fueled by a desire to learn more about the body, I moved to Florida to study massage therapy at the Florida School of Massage in my late 20’s. I became a massage therapist, moved back to Vermont, and opened little somatic wellness center with a friend & colleague. After being in bodywork practice for a few years, I noticed two things:

1.) At first, I thought I needed to work just structurally (healing someones back pain, etc), but the universe kept guiding me to work more on the emotional and psychological level. People were coming to me for trauma integration - they were processing different parts of themselves and moving through and processing emotions on the massage table.

and, 2.) My wrists hurt! My shoulders hurt! I soon realized helping people heal through my own physical labor was probably not sustainable for the long-run 😬

I wanted to continue supporting people in their somatic psycho-emotional experience and wanted more training to do so.

I attended Antioch University’s Masters program in Dance/Movement Therapy and Marriage and Family Therapy, which I graduated from in May 2023

I am now offering Somatic Therapy & Coaching sessions, both virtually & in-person. I’m loving this newest evolution and working with folks in this way 😊

I’m grateful for the path that led me here - grateful to the years of teaching yoga and somatics, grateful for the years of doing bodywork and massage, grateful for wrist pain pushing me in a new direction, grateful for the continuous curiosity around the body, healing, movement, and spirituality that brought me to this place.

It’s such an honor to walk alongside people on their path of embodied healing and wholeness 🌀

[photo of me and my nephew on the West River Trail]

https://www.leelakelley.net/somatic-therapy.html

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