Heralding Light & Loving Kindness

Shepherding the Multivalent Personality Towards the Luminous Self

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5TH

With Kelly Blaser, LMFT

Reserve Your Spot

This day-long immersion comes just before year's end, when we most need to cut through tensions and stressors, and focus on what we most value. This day of practice will help you to cultivate the Brahmaviharas - Kindness, Compassion, Joy, & Equanimity - and generate a field of resilience, inspiration, and generosity to carry you through the holidays and the new year.

The tensions of the holiday season can be fierce. Many people report feeling burdened by time or financial pressures, relationship issues, or emotional overwhelm. During this day-long immersion, we will explore how to soothe the mind and unhook from identification with the complexities of our strongest emotional burdens. We'll open up the possibility that the deepest Self abides in a field of loving-kindness big enough to hold it all.

Heralding Light & Loving Kindness will steady your mind and nervous system and give you an opportunity to extend compassion towards all aspects of your being.

OUR METHOD

A Spiritual Approach to Kindness, Resilience, & Understanding

Heralding Light & Loving Kindness will provide exercises to support you through whatever the holidays have in store, with methods for generating loving kindness that work even in messy circumstances. We'll explore questions such as:

  • In the midst of our complex, multi-valent, inner experience, how can we put our deepest values in the center of our actions?
  • How can we ground ourselves in essence nature this holiday season?
  • How can we run the energies of the Brahmaviharas through the body-mind?
  • How can we discern between true empathy and the near enemy of pity?
  • How can we occupy our own field of awareness, set boundaries, and allow others to have their own experience?
Reserve Your Spot

heralding light & loving kindness will

Help you uncover and articulate the complex array of feelings and needs within.
Open a portal to feeling true compassion for yourself and others.
Center you in your values
Remind you of your capacity for presence & awakening.

heralding light & loving kindness will

Help you uncover and articulate the complex array of feelings and needs within.
Open a portal to feeling true compassion for yourself and others.
Center you in your values.
Remind you of your capacity for presence & awakening.

HERE'S HOW IT WORKS

A Day to Immerse in Transformative Practices & Teachings

Sunday, December 5th ~ 10:00 am - 12:30 pm & 1:30pm - 4:00pm Pacific Time
Gather live on Zoom with Kelly and community.

We will spend time sitting in meditation. We'll open up the body with gentle movement and yoga. We'll consider the teachings on the Brahmaviharas, also known as the "divine abodes" or the "four immeasurables" or the "perfect virtues." We'll practice transformative writing exercises that can help us listen with compassion to distinct aspects of our own personality structure. We'll share a little, for those willing and inspired, and give voice to whatever tensions are arising. Kelly will offer ways that the dharma can support you in opening your perspective and softening the heart, as well as offering exercises that you can take with you into the rest of your season and life!

Reserve Your Spot

Ideally you will attend this event live. Please set aside the entire day to participate.
If you cannot attend live, a recording will be available for 30 days. Keep in mind that some of the richest segments of these events are interactive, community shares. Most of these segments will not be recorded.

heralding light & loving kindness is for...

  • Anyone who wants to transform anxiety and aversion into the light of inner wisdom, willingness, and possibility.
  • Folks who want to connect their spiritual practice to the flow of daily life and meet the challenges of relationship with loving kindness.
  • Holiday revelers of any ilk who need inspiration to bring a spirit of peace, love, and joy to their end of year celebrations.
  • Anyone who wants structured support to explore their inner experience.

MEET YOUR GUIDE

Kelly Blaser

Kelly is the founder of DharmaBridge and a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist with an emphasis in Buddhism, Śaiva and Śakta Tantra, and Somatic Psychology. She is dedicated to the power of metta (loving-kindness), meditation, and creative practice as avenues for accessing reality, and thus, true transformation at the personal and collective level.

Kelly offers programs in meditation, mindfulness, creative practices, and compassionate self-inquiry. She offers practices to help people pierce through conditioning, open up to possibility, access authentic experiences of bold self-expression, heal splits inside themselves, and connect with the courage to create and accept change, both internally and collectively.

She draws inspiration from the Zen, Vipassana, Vajrayana, Śaiva, and Śakta teachings, as well as from the wildness of nature and the power of social change movements.​

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