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Leela Kelley Healing Arts

✨ somatic coaching and healing
✨ tending grief, opening joy
✨ bodywork for emotional wellbeing

02/05/2026

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Somatic healing does really feel like magic sometimes.

Practical magic.

The kind of magic that helps you meet life with more ease and care.

To feel more safe in your everyday life.

To get unstuck so you can access and actualize your creativity, your work, your authentic expression.

To be able to just Do the Thing.

To embody more clarity, alignment, and grounded inner authority.

To become your own safe haven that is simultaneously open and connected to the world around you.

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02/04/2026

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02/03/2026

In the last year I changed my sessions from 60 minutes to 75 minutes. I think it’s kind of wild that the standard therapy session is 50 minutes.

I find with somatic work, people just need more time.
We all need more time.

We are so used to the fractured attention that this tech age perpetuates.

I want a world we get to sink in a bit more slowly, allow things more space to unfold and spread out.

The body just wants to be listened to with presence and patience and care.

TBH, 75 minutes still feels too short sometimes.

I think my favorite session I did in 2025 was a 9 hour guided 🍄 journey with a client, and then the integration sessions that came later.

Girl healed so much she stopped needing weekly therapy. That’s some potent magic.

But in the meantime I’ll settle for 75 minutes, somatic work is kind of psychedelic on its own 😉

01/27/2026

Thank you, Winter ! Good bye, Winter!

Grateful for a nourishing time in the northeast with friends and family and familiar faces and places.

Nomadic life continues. Off to Mexico to live in the mountains 🇲🇽 ❤️

01/26/2026

Expression Beyond Words

Grief tending and emotional healing need much more than what words and “talking about it” can provide.

Read the full post here

https://www.leelakelley.net/blog-1/expression-beyond-words

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01/24/2026

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https://www.leelakelley.net/embodiedpath

01/21/2026

Being with what is / the wisdom of resistance (part two)

In therapeutic work, there’s often resistance that arises.

Resistance to feeling the feeling, resistance to “doing the work”, resistance to letting go, resistance to self acceptance.

All for good reason, because pretty much everything you’re experiencing has some purpose and wisdom to share, no matter how annoying or frustrating you find it.

Learning to be with what is, is no small task.

It’s a practice.

In therapeutic work, I don’t believe in pushing past resistance.

Being with what is includes meeting the resistance right where it is.

It is just another experience to be met with curiosity and compassion.

And paradoxically, the more we soften towards our walls, the more the walls might some day be able to feel safe enough to soften.

Read the full blog post “The Wisdom of Resistance” here https://www.leelakelley.net/blog-1/the-wisdom-of-resistance

01/20/2026

Okayyy this 2016 trend ! Looking back, it was a pivotal year of my life. I was 27/28, approaching my Saturn Return.

✨ I applied to and got accepted and began studying at the Florida School of Massage in Gainesville Florida.
✨ I was living in a school bus at Ariela’s Thai massage temple where and I met and became besties 🥹
✨ I was dancing A LOT and was taking workshops in Axis syllabus, body mind centering, and contact improv
✨ Before moving to Florida, I was living in Brattleboro with two good friends () a home we dubbed “Muladara Mansion” because we all had the sense the home was helping us develop a healthy root chakra. It was the first time in my adult life that I began to make enough money beyond just meeting my very basic needs.
✨ I was dating a guy who was quite a bit older than me who I learned so much from around healthy communication and began to feel some of my long held communication patterns begin to shift as I brought awareness to them. Still so messy for years lol but the seeds were planted 🙏🏼
✨Living in Gainesville and going to the Florida school of massage was a deeply meaningful, healing, and growthful time which propelled me on the professional path I’m on today. I felt so surrounded by love, good touch, dear friends, and the magical lands of north Florida.

I feel so much tenderness for this young, bright, optimistic, adventurous being 🩵

May I look back on this time 10 years from now with the same kind of reverence for the life path 🕊️

01/19/2026

In my last blog post, “What Grief Needs”, I wrote a bit about the importance of working gently with resistance when addressing grief.

“When grief has been unprocessed or tucked away for a long time, there is often significant resistance to feeling it. From a parts-work perspective, it is vital to spend time with these protector parts—honoring how hard they have worked to keep you safe, out of fear that the grief might swallow you whole.”

In this blog post “The Wisdom of Resistance” I reflect on ways to work with resistance in emotional healing work that honors the wholeness and wisdom of our bodies and minds.

Read it here https://www.leelakelley.net/blog-1/the-wisdom-of-resistance

12/27/2025

It is such a joy and honor
to hold these embodied grief rituals

To witness the transformation
the softening, the letting go
the courage and bravery
and whole hearted act
of coming together in community
and letting our grief, our sorrow,
our fear, our emptiness, our anger
have space to be expressed
to be held, tended to, and brought
into belonging

and to open space for the joy
the love, the connection, the liberation
The Prayer
that is the fruit
of this labor.

In the deep winter
after the noise of the holidays
have quieted
when we have laid to rest
the old year
in all its triumphs and griefs
when the seeds of the new year
have been planted

we come together to release
what is sometimes hard
to let go of

and to make space for more beauty,
joy, wholeness, and connection.

Sunday January 11th 2-5pm
At the Heart Rose Club in Brattleboro VT
🔗 in the b!0

12/20/2025

Some thoughts about what grief needs, from my own experience and working with clients.

Grief lives beyond words.
Beyond logic.
Beyond linear understanding.

Grief asks for a different kind of language.
Art.
Music.
Movement.
Ritual.
The Symbolic.

Grief beckons to be held—wide-armed, without question.
Compassionate, gentle, steady.

In a culture that values productivity and reason,
grief doesn’t make sense.
It pulls us into the deep waters of the subconscious—
a place most folks feel afraid to go alone.

And yet! Learning to walk (or surrender to) this path is deep medicine. Grief is not meant to be carried by alone.

Unprocessed, grief can harden us—
cutting us off from emotion, joy, creativity, and connection.
But when met with presence, expression, and ritual,
grief becomes our great teacher, our wise guide.

✨ read the full bl0g post here https://www.leelakelley.net/blog-1/whagriefneeds ✨

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10/31/2025

Raffle time! Fundraising to support access to food for folks losing snap benefits because this country is run by psychopaths.

Enter to win a session of your choice with me!

All sessions can be done virtually except bodywork, which will take place in Brattleboro in January or summer 2026 when I’m around.

-kelleyVT
$10 (can enter multiple times)
Include your email or WhatsApp

Winner picked November 8th ✨

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1037 Western Avenue
Brattleboro, VT
05301

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+16037622000

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http://www.leelakelley.net/

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