Get off of your F*&3cking High Horse
April 26, 2024 As the birds are singing, calming my vagal tone, here in Taos, New Mexico on April 26, 2024. I am tuning into how my left...
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DR. KIRSTIE
SOMA MEDICINE, LLC
A Trauma Informed and Trained Manual Osteopath, Rolf Method Structural Integration Practitioner, Craniosacral Therapy, Doctor of Integrative Medicine and Educator.
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Kirstie Segarra
- Feb 12
- 5 min
Discovering Intergiftedness to add to Neurocomplexity as an Approach to Understanding Oneself and Trauma
It is the morning of February 12, 2024, I have been in deep process revisiting ideas around the diversity of individuals and our limited...
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Kirstie Segarra
- Feb 11
- 1 min
Letter from Founder of UNM-Taos SI Program
Please download letter for history of our UNM-Taos SI Program and to learn what is Structural Integration and our fund raiser for...
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Kirstie Segarra
- Sep 20, 2023
- 4 min
Finding the North Star--The Freedom Star
September 20, 2023 I often walk to the Rio Pueblo River from my casita here in Taos, New Mexico. Yesterday, I found myself exploring...
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Kirstie Segarra
- Aug 31, 2023
- 2 min
What is Osteopathy: Doctorate Thesis
Dr. Kirstie Bender Segarra, PhD August 31, 2023 As we just pass through a Blue Moon here in Taos, New Mexico I have the honor to continue...
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Kirstie Segarra
- Jan 31, 2023
- 2 min
The Memory Stored in our Tissues and Cells: Shackled at the Ankles--In Honor of Black History Month
My hands are wrapped around a wooden ladder, my right leg is on an upper rung of the ladder, I look down and there are metal shackles on...
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Kirstie Segarra
- Jan 1, 2023
- 3 min
Welcoming in 2023 and Small Changes to My Practice
The Indigenous people to whom the land belongs Jicarilla Apache and Comanche, across from the land of the indigenous people to whom the...
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Kirstie Segarra
- Nov 9, 2022
- 1 min
Embodiment: An Indigenous Way of Knowing
An article on exploring the concept of embodiment and how it arises for myself in the work.
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Kirstie Segarra
- Aug 17, 2022
- 1 min
It is not just about the Vagus—the Wandering Nerve
Now I a fourfold vision see, And a fourfold vision is given to me; ‘Tis fourfold in my supreme delight And threefold in soft Beulah’s...
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Kirstie Segarra
- Mar 19, 2022
- 1 min
Heart as a Fulcrum by Dr. Kirstie Segarra
Here is a pdf of an article I wrote for the International Association of Structural Integration Yearbook 2022. I was exploring the...
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Kirstie Segarra
- Feb 12, 2022
- 1 min
Fibromyalgia and Fascial Health
I did my research and doctorate in Integrative Medicine focusing on Fibromyalgia and Fascial Health with the application of Structural...
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Kirstie Segarra
- Jan 19, 2022
- 3 min
Diagnosis of Neurodivergent
This blog is in follow-up to my blog post a few months ago, where I have gone through the process to be formally diagnosed, which took...
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Kirstie Segarra
- Dec 26, 2021
- 2 min
The Kings, my Paternal Maternal Lineage
In follow-up to my blog post last month on my great grandmother Mattie, the richness of discovery continues. It may seem strange that I...
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Kirstie Segarra
- Nov 28, 2021
- 6 min
I am Living in a Neurodivergent World
One of the gifts of the pandemic has been giving me a mirroring where my edges are in sensory processing as an adult. I learned through...
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Kirstie Segarra
- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
Dios De Los Muertos or Tex-Mex?
I teach at the University of New Mexico-Taos, this year we decided to put up a Dios De Los Muertos and Samhain altar in our classroom to...
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Kirstie Segarra
- Nov 22, 2020
- 8 min
Reflections of 22 years in Taos, New Mexico the closure and birth of my practice.
As 2020 comes to end, a time to pause for reflection on living in Taos, New Mexico since 1998. In 1997, I graduated from Antioch...
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Kirstie Segarra
- Nov 30, 2019
- 1 min
I.C.U. A Poem to say good-bye.
I.C.U. By Kirstie Segarra November 2019 I see you, Dad, Lying there—plastic tubes extending With syncopated beeps. Spirit floats above,...
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Kirstie Segarra
- Nov 29, 2019
- 2 min
I am not a yoga teacher, try bodyworker!
I have taught yoga for over 12 years in my home town of Taos, New Mexico. I will be out and about and someone will introduce me to...
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Kirstie Segarra
- Jul 10, 2019
- 5 min
The places that scare you: Living with a soft spot and forgiveness.
The places that scare you are real and valid. However as someone with a trauma history, who has suffered PTSD and anxiety, I have had to...
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Kirstie Segarra
- May 16, 2018
- 1 min
Healing the Dark Night of the Soul
The "me too" movement has been quite strong in social media over the last year and I found myself experience many different emotions...
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