Lots of people know that regular meditation practice, radical self-inquiry, & self-compassion create quantum shifts. When you receive guidance for integrating that work and weave the process directly into your life, it changes everything. But few people set themselves up with the support necessary to conduct a life of deep inquiry & committed practice. Thus, few experience its fruits.

With this life-changing program, the ongoing support of spiritual community, the wisdom of priceless dharma teachings, and potent coaching from Kelly, you will experience what many have called the "most powerful work" they have ever done.

Walking together with companions on the path sparks greater insight than any of us could achieve alone.

Since it’s founding in 2016, the DharmaBridge community has evolved time-tested processes that build the resilient support of spiritual community, while respecting and honoring each individual as walking their own path. Community is one of the indispensable jewels of the path to an awake life. The ongoing sangha has cultivated brilliant methods which form a matrix for our meetings, holding each member of the community in integrity and clarity, and keeping us remarkably free of drama.

Unlike most group programs, DharmaBridge includes one-on-one personal coaching with Kelly at every level of enrollment. And Kelly has a proven track record. She has helped many people like you blend ancient wisdom with modern insights from the field of psychology to reach deep levels of peace, actualization, and leadership.

You'll also receive more personalized support within a smaller group guided by a DharmaBridge mentor and have the chance for weekly partner work with another member of the sangha.

Inner Strength
& Devotion

We all have things we really care about - like the environment, or becoming more deeply honest, or taking a stand for justice, or the integrity with how we do business. If we're not doing the deep uncovering work to grow ourselves up, then those core, soul-level directives won't hold sway, and we'll blunder our way through life, making whatever decisions, doing what's easy, and just getting by. Whereas, if we enter into deep conversation with others and get reflected in the light of what most deeply calls to us, we derive the stability, commitment, devotion, and inspiration to embody our values with awakened purpose. DharmaBridge will take you there.

The 9-month program begins with a 1 hour, one-on-one call with Kelly to explore your unique vision and how to work with obstacles that come up.
The full sangha meets twice weekly, live, over Zoom, days and times TBA.
Smaller groups within the sangha guided by experienced DharmaBridge mentors meet once per month, live over Zoom.
Choose between the Lotus Path, Diamond Path, and Certification Track enrollment options (see below) for one-on-one coaching with Kelly throughout the program.
You'll receive an Antenna Listening buddy each trimester to self-arrange weekly phone meetings for partner work in this transformative practice (optional).
At the close of DharmaBridge, you'll have another 1 hour, one-on-one coaching call with Kelly to launch you into your next chapter.

DharmaBridge materials are provided without expiration in a private, easy-to-use, online, course platform called Thinkific.
The entire program is yours to keep with Unlimited Access.
All live group calls with the full sangha will be recorded and added to the course platform.
Additional pre-recorded “dharma talk” videos and yoga asana, mantra, and meditation practices will accompany the content of the teachings.
Once weekly emails provide a written recap of our Tuesday calls, with notes for deepening into the material.

For those seekers who intend to go beyond their own personal transformation and also offer support for others, Kelly recommends the "DharmaBridge Certified Counselor" training track for first time DharmaBridge participants. This option provides the foundation of a coaching or counseling practice and includes the opportunity to serve as a DharmaBridge Mentor during your first year in the program. A DharmaBridge Certified Counselor integrates the teachings and practices so thoroughly that they become confidently and steadily rooted into the Self. Upon completion of the program, you will trust yourself to serve others in their process of healing and awakening to essence nature.

If you are interested in this enrollment option, please discuss with Kelly in an exploratory call.

When I came to the meditation cushion in my 20s, I had a sense of vaguely remembering something that I had tasted but not integrated - as if I were meant to have absorbed it much earlier but had gone unconscious.

My mom was a meditator and yogi, so I had exposure to the dharma as a young girl. I think the grace and presence my mother accessed in her practice transmitted to me as a kid, but later, I got caught up in my own mental habits and went off course. The reasons ran the gamut, but at the end of the day, I think my energetic system was quite sensitive, and the patterns of shame, dominance, fear, disconnect, addiction, and trauma in our culture and in my own family were just too much for me. I became deeply shy, insecure, anxious, and withdrawn and got pulled into addictive habits — trying to stabilize myself with perfectionism and overwork, various forms of escapism, and striving to belong.

Adrenaline-seeking, extreme sports, addictive habits, and the raw power of the wilderness all braided together in temporarily elevated states that could turn off the self-critical component of my thinking, but didn't create lasting change. I also started to engage with social justice movements, and I could sometimes feel a righteous edge to my activism that didn't fit with what felt most deeply true to me. I realized I needed to organize my mind if I wanted a sustainable way forward.

When I returned to the dharma in 1989, I had a very strong sense that all my strategies had fallen short. I also had a sense that the things I'd done to manage myself would work themselves out; healing and wholeness were on the horizon. I started practicing meditation, initially encountering Zen. I had some profound tastes of freedom on the cushion and came to a sense that all my striving had roots in a deeper seeking. The dharma gave me back into the lap of that profound inner path.

My first 8 years of yoga practice with Kofi Busia and Zen practice with Cheri Huber created a lot of somatic expansion, healing, centering, and grounding. Some old patterns died away almost instantaneously, and I received a strong inner directive toward becoming a yoga teacher in 1997. I also continued to connect with Buddhist dharma communities - sitting with my Zen sangha and Vipassana teachers, as well as absorbing everything ever uttered by Pema Chödrön. While teaching yoga felt powerful, I also had a sense that true transformative power lived in meditation and in understanding the nature of consciousness through the dharma.

During those years, I also cried my way through a lot of emotional healing with reevaluation counseling and learned to hold space with others as a crisis line counselor in a domestic violence agency and as a counselor for autistic young adults. I began to study Non-Violent Communication and practice lucid dream work with a Sufi group. All these meandering paths ultimately led me to study psychology, becoming a Marriage and Family Therapist in 2006 with an emphasis in Buddhism, Śaiva and Śakta Tantra, and Somatic Psychology.

It feels relevant to note that my life and dharma unfolds inside a bilingual, biracial, bicultural family, which constantly asks me to open into the unknown. I met my partner Gabriel fairly concurrently with becoming a therapist. Almost immediately, I decided it would never work. Gabriel is Afro-Cuban and came to the US when he was 30. Sparks were flying, but my mind was drawing lines: too different, too wild, language barrier... However, I felt an incredible liberation in Gabriel. We slowly gathered trust around us, and 16 years later, here we are, with 2 whirling dervish children.

I've leaned into dharma practices again and again in the midst of the sometimes volatile, sometimes beautiful process of opening to one another across so many divides. Despite the challenges, there's nothing more precious to me than this little brood.

Once I'd become a therapist, I really saw the limitations of one-on-one therapy. I found that it couldn't compare with the profound strength group work had given me to trust my inner knowing, feel supported, and take action in alignment with my values and my vision for a compassionate world.

I created DharmaBridge to blend the wisdom of the dharma traditions, therapeutic techniques, and the alchemy of community. I want people to experience how meditation, loving-kindness, and compassionate self-inquiry offer unparalleled access to the nature of reality, how modern insights into the mind-body offer deep understanding of ourselves and others, and how sangha provides a reliable refuge for true transformation to take place.

Do I Need To Be A Yogi or a Buddhist to Participate in DharmaBridge?

Not at all. The way we study and practice in DharmaBridge welcomes and makes space for all experiences. We take a radically non-dual lens and have an anti-racist approach. This program will teach you reliable methodologies for deepening self-understanding and connection with others, while enhancing the quality of humanity you bring to whatever spiritual or secular tradition most inspires you. This program will also benefit anyone who particularly wants to understand and develop real-world application of the dharma traditions.

Can I really transform through an online course without any in-person contact?

Yes. Kelly has developed an immense capacity for holding sacred space in an online format. She came to leading online programs with a good deal of technological skill, so her comfort in navigating the digital world will put you at ease, help you get focused, and bring you into a conscious place of true connection with others.

Keep in mind, this program is delivered almost entirely LIVE, unlike many other online programs, so the experience will feel extremely juicy, interactive, and on purpose throughout.

I've tried other programs, read books, worked with coaches and healers, but nothing sticks. I really want change, but how can I trust this process?

If you feel reluctant to risk again or part of you wants to give up, I deeply encourage you to give DharmaBridge a chance. Relationship with the wisdom traditions, combined with powerful guidance, and regular reflection in sangha makes everything possible.

It's said that only a true narcissist cannot learn from the lessons of another. When we bond with sangha, every transformation from each group member becomes a gift to everyone present, and the growth that ensues is exponential.

Whatever you are struggling to transform or bring into being in your life can come to pass when you connect with your essential awake-ness, lean into the support of community, and contemplate the dharma. You can transform your suffering into nourishment.

What's the Time Commitment?

DharmaBridge sangha cohorts run for 9 months.

DharmaBridge meets live for two, 1 hour long, Zoom sessions most weeks. Both are recorded in case of conflicts. You are encouraged to attend these meetings live as much as possible.

Additional time commitments include:

Establishing a dedicated, personal, meditation practice and other ritual practices that support your personal vision of transformation with coaching on how to make sustainable commitments. (10 min per day or more)
Weekly Antenna Listening meetups with an assigned partner (20-30 min, optional).
Monthly or trimesterly one-on-one coaching with Kelly, according to your enrollment plan (Lotus, Diamond, or Certification Track).
A small group call once per month (1 hour).
Extended weekend sessions at several points throughout the program (2+ hours each).

Assigned homework is light for Lotus and Diamond path participants. It will include inquiry practices and projects (time varies), listening to and creating Voxer messages in a prescribed format (10-30 min per week), practicing meditation, asana, and mantra with guided recordings (20+ minutes).

Overall, be prepared to spend 2+ hours per week outside of live class times in personal practice, partner work, study, and inquiry.

Those on the Certification Track will have more extensive homework, with readings, recordings, and additional bi-monthly calls. These folks should plan on a time commitment of 4+ hours a week outside of live class times.

How Much Does the Program Cost?

DharmaBridge pricing depends on a variety of factors including which plan you enroll in and whether you qualify for a variety of possible discounts. We will discuss pricing with you on a consultation call.

It's free to apply and schedule a consultation call to determine your eligibility for custom pricing. Once we determine that the program is a good fit for you and agree upon a suitable pricing plan, a $500 enrollment fee secures your spot.

Click here to apply and schedule a consultation, now.

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