The Somaraja Mandala depicts the clinic's modalities as spiraling nodes in a network—not a hierarchy of treatments but a rhizomatic structure in which every modality is connected to every other through cycles of generation and correspondence. There is no fixed entry point and no predetermined path. The clinical process is constructed in real time, from the actual needs of the actual person.

This is the opposite of the protocol-based model of modern healthcare, where a diagnosis produces a treatment sequence that is applied uniformly. At Somaraja, the diagnostic insight and the therapeutic response are woven together in the same encounter—the word and the needle, the reading and the touch, the structure and the flow, all operating as nodes in a living network whose organizing principle is the whole person.

The modality is the node. The practitioner is the network. The clinic is the mycelium through which healing moves.

We describe our therapeutic philosophy as “radical healing”, where radical means: at the root.

Our work begins not at the surface of symptoms but at their constitutional source, the structural depth at which the whole person can be addressed.

This work unfolds through four movements:

The purification stage clears the ground—addressing the dietary, lifestyle, and constitutional factors that cause imbalances. The rebalancing stage restores the vital flow—through acupuncture, bodywork, and psychoanalysis. The rejuvenation stage consolidates what has been freed—through Ayurvedic therapies and the retreat process. The actualization stage is not a destination but an ongoing orientation—the subject in their fullest expression, living from the real rather than the symptom.

Each movement draws on the full range of the clinic's practice. The appropriate entry point is discovered in relationship with your practitioner.

We view medicine as a sacred art and spiritual practice. The modern medical model has fragmented healthcare into a corporate division of specialties that profit on illness. In response, Somaraja works in the tradition of the scholar-physician—the healer whose clinical practice is inseparable from philosophical inquiry, poetics, and spiritual life.

The scholar-physician does not apply protocols. They bring the whole of their learning to bear on the singularity of the person in front of them. This is the ethic of the clinic and the standard to which we hold our work.

The clinic is also a sanctuary in the sense of sanctum—a place set apart from the rhythms of ordinary life, where a different quality of attention becomes possible. Whether you come for a single session or a week-long retreat, you are entering a space that has been consciously cultivated for healing. The mountain, the forest, the cabin, the daily rhythm of practice and rest—all of it is part of the clinical container we invite you to.

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

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 seal design is inspired by the coniferous alpine forest that surrounds our clinic in Boulder. 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.

In addition to the seal stamp, we utilize Tashi’s famous “Cloud” artwork which adorns many temples in the Himalayan region. The cloud evokes the high mountains where we practice and the qi we work with.

The Somaraja retreat sanctuary is an alpine forest, home to a private cabin, sauna, and the full clinical resources of the clinic.

Somaraja retreats are rooted in the traditions of Ayurvedic panchakarma, Tibetan rejuvenation therapy (chulen), and Daoist inner alchemy—ancient medical systems that support the body to heal itself through natural rhythms of rest, purification, and restoration.

Each retreat is completely personalized—designed in consultation with both Neeshee and Nicole, and adjusted in real time as the healing process unfolds. Rather than imposing a fixed program, we cultivate a fluid daily rhythm: meditation and practice at dawn, clinical therapies through the morning, personal time in the forest, gentle movement in the evening.

Retreat durations range from a single day to a month or more, in keeping with the traditional understanding that genuine rejuvenation requires time.

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

Our clinic is surrounded by a dense alpine forest, adjacent to the open space of the Walker Ranch and Meyer’s Gulch Trailhead. This wilderness preserve serves as an ecotone, a continental divide between biospheres, fostering a rich diversity of life.

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

We wild-harvest the plant medicines that naturally grow on the mountain to craft oils and balms. We also process wild artemisia to produce our own moxa for moxibustion therapy.

While our clinic is located in the mountain area, we are accessible from downtown Boulder. Clients commuting from Boulder should anticipate a 15-20 minute drive from Pearl St.

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.