BLAIR GLASER, MA, LCAT, RDT has taught women around the country innovative skills and new ways of thinking to improve their experience in their bodies, at work and in relationship. She is a New York licensed creative arts therapist, teaches drama therapy at a graduate level at Pratt Institute, and has guest-lectured about drama therapy at New Rochelle College, The New School, and New York University.

 

She has run workshops for 12 years and led drama therapy groups with several different populations, including a group for teenage girls that she was recruited to facilitate by actor-activist Jane Fonda. She is in private practice with men and women in person and internationally by telecommunications. She has consulted with individuals and managers at JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York and at Omega Institute, and also speaks at conferences and gatherings.

 

Blair worked for six years as part of the core staff of Eve Ensler's V-Day, a movement to stop violence against women and girls, corresponding with women all over the world about issues of empowerment. Through her experiences with V-Day, she developed and facilitated The Vagina Monologues Workshop, a creative approach to sexual empowerment for women, which she taught in New York City, Santa Fe, Los Angeles and at Omega retreat centers in New York and in Austin, TX.

 

Blair's passion for consciousness has led her to in-depth study of various spiritual traditions, such as Siddha Yoga, Taoism, and Native American Shamanism. At age 24 she began creating and facilitating retreats for the SYDA Foundation. In addition to the more verbal modality of Multi-Dimensional Psychotherapy, Blair conducts a type of embodied drama therapy she calls SpiritPlay. The healing power of theatre, which Blair pursued for 16 years, inspired her to receive her Master's in Drama Therapy from Vermont College and The Institutes for the Arts in Psychotherapy, where she eventually served as a senior faculty member.

 

In 1999, one of her drama therapy groups for actors was filmed by Europe's Envoyé Spécial,  the European version of Nightline. In her previous career as an acting coach, Blair became the Internet's premiere actor-advice columnist, when the weekly column "Ask Blair" appeared on Playbill On-Line. Blair's articles have appeared online in UK's feminist e-zine, FLOW, at Sexual Health.com, in the Hudson Valley Arts/ Spirit / Culture publication; Chronogram and now at Feminist.com.