3-day Online Retreat—Deep Trauma Healing: Tending the Ground for Awakened Living

Deep Trauma Healing: Tending the Ground for Awakened Living

Retreat online on zoom: November 3, 4, and 5,
9am-noon Pacific each day
Noon-3pm Eastern, 4-7pm BST

Sponsored by Open Circle Center

Please click the link to register: https://opencirclecenter.org/event/gail-brenner-retreat-nov-2022/

Addressing trauma and how we hold it is essential to seeing through the illusion of the separate self. Join this powerful 3-session retreat as we create a safe and supportive healing community to do this deeper work that unfolds on the path of awakening.

Unexamined trauma is at the root of conditioned patterns and keeps you feeling stuck, limited, and unable to be free. You long for freedom and maybe have had a taste of your true nature, but somehow these patterns keep getting played out automatically in your mind, emotions, relationships, and choices in life. You feel caught in the painful sense of separation…from yourself and the sacredness of all of Life.

You are welcome just as you are with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions. Through practices, inquiries, and experiments during and between our sessions, we’ll learn to untangle these patterns and find our way home to the ever present, relaxed, open space of inner aliveness. There will be plenty of time for Q&A with Gail.

• Session 1, Thursday: We’ll cultivate a sense of safety for those hidden, cut off parts of ourselves to come out into the light of loving awareness. This is what heals shame and separation.
• Session 2, Friday: We’ll bring skillful means to how we experience conditioned patterns—in our bodies, nervous systems, emotions, and beliefs.
• Session 3, Saturday: We’ll explore devotion, surrender, and the practicalities of awakened living.

And we’ll discover, over and over, the ground of being, your spacious true home that has never been touched by these experiences.

Stress and worry…people pleasing…persistent relationship struggles…proving yourself through accomplishments…the inner critic…these longstanding patterns are profound invitations into liberation from the sense of separation. Together, we discover being fully alive in our humanness as we expand into overflowing gratitude, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.

Please click the link to register: https://opencirclecenter.org/event/gail-brenner-retreat-nov-2022/

Gail is offering a free information session on Tuesday, November 1 from 9-10am Pacific. You’ll learn more about the course, and there will be time for Q&A. Please click here for details and to join the session. 

If you have any questions or would like to know more about this course, please email Gail directly at [email protected].

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Gail Brenner, Ph.D. is your guide on this journey. She is a clinical psychologist and lover of truth with a fire that burns brightly. She brings to this work years of experience with individuals and groups and is known for creating the sense of safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration. She is the author of three books, including the award-winning, The End of Self-Help.