CHRYSALIS
The Path of Transformation
INSTANT ACCESS ONLINE COURSE
Chrysalis is a three-part series that blends Western psychology and neuroscience with Eastern practice and Buddhist psychology to bring about unprecedented, meaningful, lasting change to every arena of our lives. Through a systematically deepening engagement with meditation, journal prompts, and pre-recorded dharma talks you will gain insights and learn meditations informed by neuroscience, somatic psychology, Tibetan Buddhism, and the "parts work" of the Internal Family Systems model.
If you are experiencing repetitive patterns — be they patterns of thought, emotional cycles, compulsive behaviors, or patterns in intimate and interpersonal relationships, you’ve come to the right place.
How it works:
Chrysalis offers three, six-week modules that run successively.
You can take one module at a time or commit to all three.
Module 1: Embodied Presence
Module 2: Redefining Self-Love
Module 3: UNSTUCK: How to Heal Every Part of You
Full module outlines are below.
Module One:
Embodied Presence (6 weeks)
We begin by reclaiming our lost connection to the most primary aspects of our being: our soma (body), breath, and our natural state of open, curious awareness. In re-establishing a relationship to our body-mind in this way through meditation, not only do we activate neurological systems involved in mental quietude, creativity, intuition, and clarity; we open the doorway to working skillfully with our emotional world in manner that is both direct and warm. In recovering our ability to relax and feel spacious, we rewire our nervous systems with experiences of ease. CLICK HERE FOR FULL DESCRIPTION
Module Two:
Redefining Self-Love (6 weeks)
Our entire lives flow out of our relationship with ourselves. Our outer situation is always a reflection of our inner world. Still, how many of us live in abusive relationships with ourselves? Or attempt to shame ourselves into improving? In this leg of the journey, we open the heart to begin bringing about an inner harmony that naturally extends out into our lives. Specifically, we’ll be exploring iterations of lovingkindness (maitri) meditation, which has been scientifically shown to increase joy, contentment, gratitude, pride, hope, interest, amusement, awe, sense of purpose in life, enhanced relationships, and physiological health (Fredrickson, Cohn, Coffey, Pek, & Finkel, 2008). CLICK HERE FOR FULL DESCRIPTION
Module Three:
UNSTUCK: How to Heal Every Part of You (6 weeks)
The final leg of the journey is a deep dive into the courageous, direct, and (most importantly) effective “parts work” meditation native to Tibetan tantra, Internal Family Systems therapy, Gestalt therapy, and the Soul Retrieval of aboriginal medicine cultures. We will work safely and methodically through self-governed processes rich with emotional intelligence and centered on self-compassion and personal empowerment. People tend to gain precise and life-shifting insights and resolve right away in this work. You will also gain evidence-based skills for continuing this work well beyond the scope of this course. CLICK HERE FOR FULL DESCRIPTION
In this course, you'll:
Receive weekly video dharma talks you can watch at any time and at your own pace
Weekly audio meditations that progressively and systematically deepen as they go
Weekly handouts and journal prompts
Instant lifetime access to all of the course materials including all dharma talks, handouts and meditations.
All courses are guided by Ralph's principle of radical non-pathology, the audacious notion that nothing is wrong with any of us; that the troubles in our lives are a paradoxical invitation to grow and discover genuine confidence.
…This is not a quick fix.
This is a commitment to yourself and to daily practice.
This is a commitment to work within your limits, but to not back down for liberating truths that might be hard at first. This is also incremental work. My job is to give you time-tested tools that will last you the rest of your life, the rest is what you do with them. This is work that is drenched in self-love. It is work that asks us to show up for ourselves in the way we long for our lovers, best friends, and parents to show up for us -- with passion, dedication, fidelity, mercy, honesty, forgiveness, flexibility, and tenderness.
If you are ready to shift your life through an intelligent and dynamic system of practices, processes, and ideas, this course is for you. If you have ever wondered why therapy hasn’t really worked, this course is for you. If the changes you keep promising yourself you’ll make never materialize, this course is for you. If you struggle with an inner critic, anxiety, depression, and childhood traumas, this course is for you. If you are ready to move beyond surface-level mindfulness and into transformation -- what meditation was actually designed for, this course is for you.