Our Story – How Bridge of Breath Began

Bridge of Breath Sangha began with a shared friendship across hundreds of miles. Co-founders and co-facilitators Caine and Matt became like family over a summer of long-distance phone calls, offering each other steady companionship through major life changes. Despite the distance between them, they found deep, shared healing in the Dharma at around the same time.

For Caine, living with a chronic illness and disability made leaving home to attend in-person gatherings difficult or impossible. Experience revealed a clear need for greater accessibility within the broader Plum Village community—and a vision was born to build an online space where physical presence (or even the ability to be upright) was never a prerequisite for belonging.

For Matt, balancing fatherhood with five children and full-time nursing school meant that traveling to a physical temple was rarely realistic. As an aspiring nurse, Matt intuitively recognized how essential accessibility is to total well-being, wholeheartedly joining Caine to champion a fully inclusive, virtual sangha.

Together as dharma brothers, Caine and Matt founded Bridge of Breath Sangha to serve as a refuge. We exist for anyone seeking the liberating, transformative path of Buddhism who might otherwise find accessing a practice community out of reach.