{"id":10,"date":"2026-10-04T15:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-10-07T16:31:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T16:31:38","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/?page_id=10","title":{"rendered":"Our Story: How Bridge of Breath Was Born"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex wp-block-hidden-desktop wp-block-hidden-mobile wp-block-hidden-tablet\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<ul class=\"better-links wp-block-page-list\"><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item has-child\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/?page_id=10\">Our Story: How Bridge of Breath Was Born<\/a><ul class=\"wp-block-navigation__submenu-container\"><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item \"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/?page_id=73\">What is Mindfulness?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item \"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/?page_id=144\">What is Sangha?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item has-child \"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/?page_id=75\">Plum Village Tradition<\/a><ul class=\"wp-block-navigation__submenu-container\"><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item \"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/?page_id=283\">The Five Mindfulness Trainings<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Our-Story-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-250\" style=\"object-fit:cover\" role=\"none\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Our-Story-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Our-Story-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Our-Story-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Our-Story-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Our-Story.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our Story &#8211; How Bridge of Breath Began<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Our-Story-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-250\" style=\"width:350px;height:auto\" role=\"none\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Our-Story-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Our-Story-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Our-Story-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Our-Story-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Our-Story.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\u2014and 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Story &#8211; 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/?page_id=10\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our Story: How Bridge of Breath Was Born&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/622"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgeofbreath.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}