Somaraja Clinic is a unique design that embodies healthcare as an interdisciplinary phenomenon, transcending the limits of culture and modality. We offer an integral approach that includes Eastern and Western traditions, classical and modern schools, and psychic and somatic modalities.

Our work operates in the constitutional frame of the whole person, rather than the isolated fragments of symptoms and modalities. By perceiving the uniqueness of the individual in body, mind, and spirit, we articulate healing as an actualization of human potential.

We have developed our approach into a four-stage course of radical healing that unfolds as the process of (1) purification, (2) rebalancing, (3) rejuvenation, and (4) actualization. We invite clients to discover and design their unique healing process through a combination of therapies in consultation with us.

The four stages of radical healing are exemplified by (but not limited to) specific methods: the purification stage is addressed through the dietary, lifestyle, and herbal modalities of Ayurveda; the rebalancing stage is supported by Rolfing Structural Integration and Tibetan Moxibustion; the rejuvenation stage is facilitated by Ayurvedic massage therapies; and the actualization stage is guided by astrological readings and psychoanalysis.

Treatment begins by addressing the constitutional and causative factor(s) of symptoms. The purification of physical symptoms initiates a rebalancing of the vital force. The rebalancing process culminates in an energetic equanimity that initiates the rejuvenation of the spirit. The rejuvenation of the spirit becomes self-actualization. Thus, the four stages of radical healing catalyze healing from the depth to the surface and from the body to the spirit.

Somaraja Clinic proposes an architecture of healing that transcends the cultural imagination of East and West to discover a universal clinic rooted in the real.

The Somaraja Clinic views medicine as a sacred art and spiritual practice, rather than a commercial business. The modern medical model has fragmented healthcare into a corporate division of specialties that profit on illness.

The Somaraja Clinic resurrects the traditional medical model of integral healthcare, where healing is conceived as a creative, educational, artistic, and spiritual process. 

We welcome everyone from all demographics and orientations of life. If you demonstrate financial need, we will work with you to design a treatment plan that is accessible to you.

By participating in the Somaraja Clinic, you are reviving and incarnating a time-honored ethic of healing that ultimately impacts the collective.

Seal stamps are a traditional form of signature in East Asian cultures. Today, the seal functions very well as an iconic logo design. Our seal was designed by Tibetan calligrapher, Tashi Mannox, who learned the craft of traditional seal-making from Tai Situ Rinpoche.

The design is inspired by the mountain pine forest that surrounds our clinic in Boulder, CO. This led us to propose a design based on the spiral geometry found in the pinecone as a symbol of natural harmony.

Tashi explored the geometries of the pinecone, noting that it formed the golden section of the fibonacci spiral. From this, he discovered that five interrelating golden mean spirals are formed on a five-pointed star of construction grid lines.

Five is a significant number in medicine and spirituality—there are five elements, five phases, five virtues, five visible planets, five Buddha families. Five is the number of Heaven and Earth in correspondence, of the human being as an alchemical vessel standing in the center. The five spirals in the seal converge at a zero-point, suggesting the nature of emptiness and the hot point of moxibustion, from which the smoke-like qualities of healing and rejuvenation emanate.

The seal encompasses a range of symbolic meanings. Its circular symmetry suggests a mandala with the five spirals creating a sense of energetic motion within the image. The spirals are moving out from a central source, an image of evolution, growth, and expansion. In the original artwork, the smoke-like appearance of the spirals also resemble the outline of clouds and a mandala of dancing snakes.

The inclusion of a Sun / Moon motif is traditional in Tibetan-style seals. The Sun and Moon represent the union of wisdom and compassion, of consciousness and energy, of yin and yang. The addition of the Sun / Moon motif also lends an astrological resonance to the seal.

Patients typically seek healthcare for the treatment of a diagnosed condition. Rather than diagnosing and treating conditions, we place symptoms in the context of a unique individual. However, the hegemony of Western medicine has led the public to believe that illness was never successfully treated until two-hundred years ago. We renounce the colonization of medicine and announce the recovery of a new ethic of healing.

While Western medicine excels in emergency and life-saving interventions, Eastern medicine excels in preventing such extremes from arising. Clients approach us for a variety of reasons and conditions—physical, mental, and spiritual. Conditions we commonly see in the clinic include the following general categories:

Digestion: indigestion, reflux, bloating, ulcers, parasitism

Elimination: constipation, diarrhea, irritable bowel

Pain: musculoskeletal pain, injuries, back pain, headache, migraine, arthritis

Energy: fatigue, immune deficiency, autoimmunity

Allergies: food, seasonal, environmental

Reproductive: menstrual disorders, impotence, infertility

Psychological: stress, trauma, depression, anxiety, insomnia, ADHD

Neurological: neuropathy, lyme, memory loss

Ayurveda and Tibetan Medicine

• Diet and Lifestyle Consultation

• Moxibustion Treatment

• Herbal Medicine

Massage and Rolfing SI

• Ayurvedic Massage Therapies

• Rolfing 10-series and Advanced Work

Vedic Astrology and Human Design

• Natal, Yearly, and Compatibility Readings

Lacanian Psychoanalysis

• Un-knotting the Symptom

Somaraja is located in Boulder, CO on Flagstaff Mountain, at an elevation of 7,400 feet.

Our clinic is surrounded by a dense coniferous forest, adjacent to the open space of the Walker Ranch and Meyer’s Gulch Trailhead. This wilderness preserve serves as an ecotone, a transitional zone between biospheres that fosters a rich diversity of wildlife.

The location of the Somaraja clinic symbolizes our philosophy of health as an ecological juncture of relationships.

Somaraja means “Moon King” and is a reference to the Moon in the Sanskrit language. Somaraja (Tib: soma radza) is also the name of a medical treatise attributed to the sage Nagarjuna that was influential on Tibetan medical thinking.

Originally written in Sanskrit, the treatise was first translated into Chinese and then translated into Tibetan by Vairocana.

The content of the text reflects a unique confluence of traditions in its presentation of Chinese pulse diagnosis, Ayurvedic tridosa theory, moxibustion points, and descriptions of materia medica unique to the Tibetan plateau.

As the name of a cross-cultural medical text, “Somaraja” points to the Moon as an archetypal image of healing. Tibetan medicine describes the circulation of the life-force in correspondence with lunar cycles, placing the Moon as a symbol of the soul. In herbal medicine, the Moon governs the growth of medicinal plants and its phases determine the timing of their harvest. In astrology, the Moon represents the psyche, and its north and south nodes represent the unconscious.

Somaraja embodies our integrative ethic, highlighting the essence of medicine as a single great tradition that transcends cultural boundaries.