DharmaBridge Shelter in Place 2020

This year, we gather in a new venue: HOME.

This is an incredible opportunity to transform our experience in our domestic environment. We'll have practice periods interspersed with 'working meditation' periods interspersed with conscious meal breaks interspersed with 'real life'. While you may not have the beautiful vistas of a retreat center as a backdrop for your practice, you will get to transform your 'vista' on your whole life.

Retreating from home will give you the opportunity to transform your reality from within. Doing this work IN PLACE, without the support of a beautiful retreat center or a monastic environment is actually a profound opportunity, and one that few ever take.

We will come together as sangha, drop into our practices, share (if we wish) what is on our minds and hearts, and healing energy for our contemplative practices.

In the presence of timeless dharma wisdom, a sangha to share the path, and your own awakened nature, you will lift yourself out of habit and touch the preciousness of life.

This weekend offers you space to breathe deeply and recommit to all you hold dear.

Anyone interested in opening up their eyes to the preciousness of human life.

Seekers & yogis who want to integrate dharma teachings into daily experience.

Healers, Therapists, and Caregivers who want to find a way to support themselves as they support others.

People who are ready to shift the way they deal with anxiety and fear AND people who like their practice and spiritual work to be light, playful, and fun. Both will happen!

Anyone who wants a reliable way back to grace on the days when one's capacity to handle the chaos of world feels very limited.

Eight classes with Kelly in meditation, dharma, asana, and applying the wisdom teachings to your life.
A support for thinking deeply about the struggles of your new reality and finding peace with the NOW. For example, we will look at issues like: "how will I schedule self-care and social time into my new life?" or "how will I make sure that I take breaks from my work?" or "how will I deal with my re-surging addictive habits" or "how will I remember the goodness of my partner when I am getting triggered by them all the time?"

Kelly's background in Zen and non-dual Shaiva Tantra gives her a way to support people in attending to this challenging moment in our history without being convinced that it is a problem.

We will explore how this 'crisis', like everything, is simply what is, and how we can be with it as another opportunity to turn one's face to the light. We will ask, over and over again, what is really true. This is the question that carries us back to the freedom of the deepest Self. Coming into a deeper relationship with this new reality has a way of instilling a sense of curiosity

This retreat offers a non-dual approach: By including the vexations of life in your practices, along with life's pleasures, you will build your capacity for intimacy with the wholeness of life. This, unlike other approaches, allows us to see clearly and cherish all that comes to us.

You will enter into a beautiful space of meditative inquiry and explore your own inner growth during this retreat, landing in the wholeness of spiritual practice in a way that deeply settles anxieties.

Kelly Blaser is the founder of DharmaBridge, as well as a Yoga and Meditation Teacher and a Marriage Family Therapist. She has worked with couples, families, and individuals for over 2 decades in navigating the complexities of relationship, including relationship with Self.

Kelly's work is to help others experience the infinite compassion beneath the chaos of life and to remind them of their true nature. Her programs and retreats focus largely on the power of applying the dharma to one's relationship with oneself and others. She helps people train themselves in meditation and compassionate self-inquiry, so they can gain freedom from conditioned mind and open up to possibility.

DharmaBridge Refuge in Place Virtual Retreat

April 24-26, 2020 ~ with Kelly Blaser, MFT

A 3-Day Immersion Experience

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Your Guide for the DharmaBridge Refuge in Place Retreat

DharmaBridge Refuge in Place Retreat April 24-26, 2020