Dr. Gail Brenner

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—From Darkness to Light...Welcoming Everything
2022-08-24 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
From Darkness to Light…Welcoming Everything
Wednesday, August 24, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on investigating the nature of consciousness as welcoming everything without resistance. Standing in the unconditional “yes” to all that is, there’s peace, non-attachment, and openness to whatever arises. The walls of separation that create our struggles in life soften, and our whole being is experienced as fully alive in the timeless Now.
What blocks our lived experience of this peacefulness? Being taken over by our conditioned patterns. It’s like we’re in a trance, believing the story of our thoughts, lost in our feelings, and contracted into a limited view of ourselves, others, and the world. When we’re in this state, we’re not welcoming everything.
Perhaps from early on in our lives, we learn that it’s just not safe to be. We’re afraid of turning toward emotional pain, so it goes outside of awareness. We turn away from ourselves, betraying our truth and playing out strategies to hide from, avoid, or reject our present moment experience. Then our focus goes “out there” into the world, trying to fix our problems and find the peace and happiness we long for.
We’re overlooking the possibility of resting in our true nature…as it is…right in this moment…with no resistance whatsoever.
In our time together, we’ll shine the light on the ways we resist our present moment experience. And we’ll practice the felt reality of being the spaciousness that naturally welcomes everything.
No longer efforting to avoid and defend, the light of our true nature shines everywhere…endlessly…
Come explore the possibility of welcoming everything. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space together in community with like-minded friends.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, August 24, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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.

Free & Online: The Spiritual Path of Conscious Relationship
2022-08-29 10:30 - 12:00 | online
Free for Everyone…All Are Welcome
You don’t need to be part of a 12-step fellowship to attend
Simply join with this zoom meeting ID, no passcode required: 550-501-9905

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Deep Trauma Healing: Tending the Ground for Awakened Living
2022-08-31 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Deep Trauma Healing: Tending the Ground for Awakened Living
Wednesday, August 31, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on the value of deep trauma healing to tend the ground for awakened living. Unexamined trauma is at the root of our conditioned patterns and makes the sense of the separate self seem real. We long for freedom and maybe have had a taste of our true nature, but somehow these patterns keep getting played out automatically in our minds, emotions, relationships, and choices in life. We feel caught in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
In loving and supportive community, we’ll explore how conditioned patterns keep us feeling separate. We’ll address how we resist—by believing our fear-based mindsets and avoiding or indulging our emotions. Meeting these resistances with welcoming and unconditional acceptance, we’ll discover the space to expand beyond the limited self into openness, pure being, relaxation, and joyful flow as a living reality.
You are welcome just as you are with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space with like-minded friends.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, August 31, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—What Is Awakening?
2022-09-07 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
What Is Awakening?
Wednesday, September 7, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on exploring awakening. There is much said about awakening in spiritual circles. In our gathering together, we’ll explore what all the fuss is about. What is awakening? Why does it matter? And how do you realize—in your conscious everyday experience—the truth of who you already are?
With guided meditation, teachings, and conversation, we’ll demystify awakening. We’ll touch on the traps that people often encounter in the awakening process, including spiritual bypass and relying on the mind to find the solution…when it can only be known by direct experience beyond the mind.
Bring your questions, confusions, and your belief that you’re a separate self with preferences, history, and limited identity. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand beyond the known into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, September 7, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B</span.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

In-Person Satsang in Sebastopol, CA
2022-09-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Sebastopol CA, 8476 Sonoma Avenue, Sebastopol, CA, United States
Coming Home Together:
Tending the Ground for Awakened Living
In-Person Satsang in Sebastopol, CA
Come and gather together for a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life is the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and living the deepest truth of nondual reality.
You are welcome as you are with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share space with like-minded friends. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into pure openness, overflowing appreciation, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Sunday, September 11, 2-4 pm, with refreshments until 5.
8476 Sonoma Ave, Sebastopol, CA. Address sign says 8474/8476.
Park on street, walk down short driveway to house with carport.
The satsang starts with a short meditation, then comments by Gail, then Q&A and discussion.
Donations accepted.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Gail Brenner, Ph.D. 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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Awake in Our Relationships
2022-09-14 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Awake in Our Relationships
Wednesday, September 14, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on embodying the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness in the sacred space of our relationships.
In our time together, we’ll explore the patterns we bring to our relationships that create a sense of separation—from ourselves, others, and all of life. These are fear-based programmed ways of being that we learned early in our lives and left us feeling unsafe, rejected, unseen, or disconnected.
People-pleasing, withdrawal, inflating or deflating ourselves in comparison to others, holding grudges, and defensiveness… These are signs of unexamined contractions that are waiting for liberation.
Untying the knots that lie at the core of our relationship struggles brings freshness, ease, and space for new and authentic ways of being. We discover we can meet the tender places in ourselves with deep acceptance and care…and have space to open to intimate connection beyond our personal selves.
With guided meditation, teachings, and conversation, we’ll practice creating safe space for deep connection. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand beyond the known into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—From Cluttered Mind to Radiant, Open Mind
2022-09-21 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
From Cluttered Mind to Radiant, Open Mind
Wednesday, September 21, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on exploring the mind. If we’re interested in being alive to our present moment experience, this is a useful exploration. Because it’s attachment to the contents of the mind that takes us away.
In our time together, we’ll look at the ways the mind works, including judgments, opinions, comparisons, stories, and general nonstop commentary. What is behind the mind’s functioning? How does it create the sense of separation? And what is it like to be less involved with thinking? (Hint: it’s not about making thoughts stop.)
Through guided meditation, we’ll experiment with letting go of the mind’s stories and instead rest here…in open spaciousness…in pure loving awareness…
We move from a mind-created “reality” to realize the direct experience of what is here and alive right now…with a radiant mind clear and open like the sky…
We come together in the sacred space of loving community for this deep exploration, including teachings, conversation, and Q&A. Bring all of you—your fears, doubt, shame, questions—and joy. All is welcome!
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, unconditional welcoming of what is, and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, September 21, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Bringing Wise Inquiry to Early Trauma Patterns
2022-09-28 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Bringing Wise Inquiry to Early Trauma Patterns
Wednesday, September 28, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on giving our compassionate attention to how disruption in our early relationships affects us. If we felt unsafe, rejected, unseen, or disconnected early in our lives, we develop an identity that we are unworthy, not good enough, or wounded beyond repair. And we grow up trying to figure out how to cope with the sense that something is missing. Some of the ways we do that are overachieving, perfectionism, people pleasing, self-judgment, or hiding from life.
Together, we create a field of safe space to explore these tender parts of ourselves. We’ll delve deeply into the how-to of this inquiry for meeting our experience with acceptance, compassion, and care. And we’ll discover the space to realize there is so much more to life than our patterns!
Our time together includes guided meditation, teachings for understanding our inner experience, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation. We turn our attention inward to find our way through the mind-made limits and the stories that create personal suffering.
How do you handle a frustrating encounter with someone? How do you navigate your relationships? What do you do with feeling disappointed, hurt, or bored? What about needs, desires, and stressful times? We’ll carefully shed the light of awareness on your personal attachments, bringing a loving perspective and clarity to these common life situations.
Finally, we realize that we can’t go it alone. Our disconnection from our divine nature happened in the context of relationship so we need to practice together—in a supportive and loving community—to find our way home. Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space together in community with like-minded friends.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, September 28, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—The Sacred Return: Awareness as a Way of Life
2022-10-05 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
The Sacred Return: Awareness as a Way of Life
Wednesday, October 5, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living.
Our focus for this meeting is on awareness as a way of life. When we are consciously aware of our inner experience, our whole life starts to make sense. As we lovingly turn toward the emotions, thoughts, and sensations and energies in the body, we realize the direct experience of what drives our conditioned tendencies. And this awareness changes everything.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

When I first began the practice of inner awareness years ago, I was shocked at what my mind was saying and how I felt—experiences I hadn’t realized were present. But once I knew, I was able to get out of the rut of conditioning and into the world of potential for healing and opening…beyond anything I thought was possible.
When we turn our attention inward, we realize that we can also explore the being aware experience itself. Here we touch into the vibration of consciousness, the formless aware alive Beingness that’s the source of all. The boundary between inner and outer falls away, as everything just is. We return here over and over.
Inner awareness as a way of life transforms everything—your relationships, how you make choices in life, how you show up with yourself when you’re triggered, how you relate to your early history, your knowing of freedom from the sense of the separate self.
Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll explore turning toward our inner experience, our resistances to doing that, and the gifts of staying consciously grounded in the here-and-now.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Opening to the Boundlessness of Love
2022-10-12 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Opening to the Boundlessness of Love
Wednesday, October 12, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living.
Our focus for this meeting is on love. When we let down our defenses, when all strategies of protection fall away, when we no longer identify as limited and separate, all that remains is the direct experience of love.
It’s boundless, sacred, beyond human form, and experienced as all-inclusive welcoming of all.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

You are most welcome to join our exploration of love. Whether we call it infinite peace, unconditional welcoming, or pure being, this absolute truth of reality encompasses all…
This is true love…divine, impersonal, the source of all, the fabric of Life with nothing separate from it.
And sometimes love feels confusing—and even hurtful. Let’s unpack love, bringing the light of loving awareness to our conditioning, and finding our way through to deep authentic connection sourced from the oneness of all.
Through guided meditation, teachings, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll welcome in the direct experience of reality, which is love itself. Moving beyond all forms, beyond any trauma patterns and ways we get stuck, we’ll turn toward the loving aliveness that’s here at the heart of any moment.
In our time together, we’ll inquire into our experience of love. What separates you from love? How available are you to this experience? How is your heart doing? How can this knowing of impersonal love inform your relationships and everyday life?
We lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering— Deep Listening as a Way to Be
2022-10-19 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Deep Listening as a Way to Be
Wednesday, October 19, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living.
Our focus for this meeting is on deep listening. If we’re driven by unexplored fear, we look to the mind for guidance about how to live. That’s how we get caught in endlessly trying to make decisions, figure things out, and find our way in life. It’s stressful and often fruitless as a path to the peace we long for.
But there’s another, completely different way to be, which is to stop, relax, open, and get curious. Then we’re poised for deep listening to what wants to be shown to us. We take the position of alignment with life’s intelligence beyond the personal self, not knowing anything, and available to what appears.
Then we listen, not from fear, but with every cell in our bodies, with our hearts wide open, and alive in the deepest place in us that trusts life’s unfolding.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Together, we’ll explore the practice of deep listening. When you let fear-based tendencies be, what does life have in store for you? What is on the horizon itching to be expressed through you? And what is in the way of aligning with these truths?
We find that there is no such thing as making a decision. Rather, we surrender and allow as things unfold naturally…in the small actions of everyday life as well as in larger shifts into our full potential.
Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll explore the possibility of letting go into the river of life as it’s flowing right now…along with the fears that may arise.
We lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Deep Trauma Healing and Awakened Living Retreat—Free Information Call
2022-11-01 09:00 - 10:00 | online
Deep Trauma Healing: Tending the Ground for Awakened Living
Retreat on zoom: November 3, 4, and 5, 9am-noon Pacific each day
noon-3pm Eastern, 4-7pm BST, 5-8pm CET
Sponsored by Open Circle Center
Free Information Call
Tuesday, November 1
9-10am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 4pm BST, 5pm CET
You are most welcome to join the free information call about this upcoming retreat. You’ll learn more about the course, and there will be time for Q&A.
Please click here to register for this free call.
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.
• 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.
Please click here to register for the free information call.
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.
If you have any questions or would like to know more about this course, please email Gail directly at gail@gailbrenner.com.
Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais
For more testimonials, please click here.
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.

3-day Online Retreat—Deep Trauma Healing: Tending the Ground for Awakened Living
2022-11-03 09:00 - 2022-11-05 12:00 | online
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 gail@gailbrenner.com.
Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

For more testimonials, please click here.
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.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Fear and Freedom from Fear
2022-11-09 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Fear and Freedom from Fear
Wednesday, November 9, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on fear and freedom from fear. Fear is an essential emotion to investigate on the path of awakening…because any remaining belief in the separate self is fueled by fear. If fear rules, it will limit you in life, and you’ll find that you’re living a fraction of what is possible for you. You’ll be contracted into thoughts filled with worry and negativity—and miss out on the realization of infinite peace and love.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Fear is a survival mechanism that is built into the human brain and nervous system. Yet, the realization of our true nature invites us to turn away from its protective voice. In our gathering together, we’ll explore how fear shows up in the body and the stories it tells us that limit our expression in life. We’ll investigate to see if the stories that fear tells us are actually true. And if not, who are we? How do we live if we’re not guided by fear?
Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, you’ll discover the potential—already in you—to be fully alive in your life, free beyond the limits of fear.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, November 9, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Free & Online: Deep Trauma Healing and Conscious Relationships
2022-11-15 10:30 - 12:00 | online
This event is free; all are welcome
Tuesday, November 15, 10:30-noon Pacific
Starts at 1:30pm Eastern, 6:30pm BST, 7:30pm CET

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Flowing Like Water
2022-11-16 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Flowing Like Water
Wednesday, November 16, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on flow and resistance. When we’re fully open to life, unattached to anything, then we’re one with the flow of life. We receive what is as it is with no resistance. We’re an open vessel for wonder, creativity, inspiration, and love. We meet all that arises—even the rocks and currents in the river—with a friendly, welcoming Yes! We realize that we are peace itself, resisting nothing. Do you want to know and live this peace? Then flow like water.
The invitation to discover endless peace highlights the residue of the separate self that thinks it needs to resist and control. In our meeting together, we’ll go within to find the direct experience of flow…and address the resistances that arise.

What about meeting our inner friction with peace? What about ending the inner war by welcoming all, even the resistance, without leaving the peaceful flow? You are welcome into this exploration—with your doubts, shame, stories, and resistances.
Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and intimate conversation, we’ll explore resistance and flow. Let’s understand exactly how we resist…as we touch into our heartfelt longing for peace.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Setting Emotions Free
2022-11-23 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Setting Emotions Free
Wednesday, November 23, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on setting emotions free. In the timeless formless infinite field of pure being, emotions aren’t even a dot on the landscape. Yet, we all feel emotions, and they are a normal part of the experience of being human. If you feel stuck in limitation and confusion, emotions are probably involved. Met with care and love, they are a gateway into realizing our true nature.
Caught in our limiting desires to protect and control, we’re pulled to avoid our emotions. We’re afraid of being overwhelmed by them, and we feel we don’t have the skills needed to actually turn inward and be with them. This creates an inner war that breeds anxiety and discontent.

We need the power of safe and loving community when it comes to our emotions. Resisting emotions is isolating and reinforces shame. In our time together, in the spirit of peace and freedom, we’ll open up to our experience of emotions. Because if we continue to be entangled in their stories, we will continue to suffer.
Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll explore emotions to understand how they live in our minds and bodies. We’ll take our stand as loving aware presence and learn how to practice welcoming them freely, taking our hands off the wheel and allowing their full liberation.
You are unconditionally welcome just as you are. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—True Meeting in Our Relationships
2022-11-30 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
True Meeting in Our Relationships
Wednesday, November 30, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on how we can use the sacred space of our relationships to bridge the feeling that we’re separate and limited beings, so we can actually meet each other, as we are, with eyes—and hearts—wide open. We’ll open to embodying our true nature as love that effortlessly includes everyone and everything…and feel into how we can be the expression of this love in interaction with others.
In our time together, we’ll explore the patterns we bring to our relationships that create the sense of separation—from ourselves, others, and all of life. And we’ll open to the possibility of being with each other…unveiled…vulnerable…unconditionally accepting…meeting as one in love.
We’ll explore fear-based programmed ways of being that we learned early in our lives and left us feeling unsafe, rejected, unseen, or disconnected. People-pleasing, withdrawal, inflating or deflating ourselves in comparison to others, holding grudges, and defensiveness… These are signs of unexamined contractions within us that are waiting for liberation.
Untying the knots that lie at the core of our relationship struggles brings freshness, ease, and space for new and authentic ways of being. We discover we can meet the tender places in ourselves and others with deep acceptance and care. And we open to intimate being with “others” beyond the sense of separation.
With guided meditation, teachings, and conversation, we’ll practice creating safe space for deep connection. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand beyond the known into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Deep Knowing Beyond the Sense of the Separate Self
2022-12-07 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Deep Knowing Beyond the Sense of the Separate Self
Wednesday, December 7, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on discovering how we make ourselves feel separate and limited. When we believe that we are defined by our stories and feelings, we live according to this constricted view. We’re prone to thinking about ourselves a lot, maintaining safety and protection, and taking things personally. There is a strong sense of the inner self fueled by fear and lack and the outer world that feels unsafe. The belief in the separate self is at the root of our psychological struggles in life.
In our supportive field of loving connection, we’ll explore the sense of separation so you can feel into exactly how it limits you. Then we’ll expand beyond separation into a way of being that is spacious, free and unattached. Here is where you discover aliveness, creativity, inspiration, and the joy of living. We’ll shed light on deep inner listening and surrender in the moments of daily life that lovingly replace the need for control.
You’ll practice staying grounded in your present moment experience, and from here we explore the programmed patterns that make up the sense of separation.
We realize that we can’t go it alone. Our disconnection from our divine nature happened in the context of relationship so we need to practice together—in a supportive and loving community—to find our way home. Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space together in community with like-minded friends.
With guided meditation, teachings, and conversation, we’ll practice creating safe space for this deep exploration. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand beyond the known into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Living in the Timeless Now
2022-12-14 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Living in the Timeless Now
Wednesday, December 14, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on time and timelessness. If you are suffering, then somehow the mind has drawn your attention into concepts of past and future. You carry patterns from the past into your present moment experience so you can’t be here fully. Or you believe something needs to change for you to be happy at some point in the future. These mind-made concepts create a sense of fear and lack. When we live in time, we feel the weight of our past history and worries about the future.
There is much said in our culture about being in the present moment. That’s because here is where we have the direct experience of life rather than the stories about our lives, veiled by time, that are created in our minds.

Our true nature as consciousness is timeless…no memory, no past, no time for problems to form, no time for suffering, no future fear…and no mind. There is just This, the alive reality of the now, directly experienced as it is. Thought isn’t needed, in fact, thinking about what’s happening takes us away from the reality of it.
Realizing timelessness, we know that every moment is fresh and new…so alive! There is always the opportunity to recognize wonder, delight, mystery, and the unknown. There is no same-old, same-old, no boredom. Only This…This…This…with no resistance whatsoever.
As a being in human form the recognition of timelessness leaves us without an anchor in the known. Free of the limitation of thought, we’re available to inspiration, creativity, and infinite knowing. Even if thoughts are present, the mind is vast and open, empty and alert.
Come explore how time limits us in past and future and discover reality free of time. We leave the tunnel vision of old, constricting ideas as we expand into our true home of unbounded consciousness. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space together in community with like-minded friends.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—An Open Exploration of Attachment
2022-12-21 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
An Open Exploration of Attachment
Wednesday, December 21, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on feeling into the experience of attachment—and the freedom that’s possible. When we make our happiness dependent on people, money, success, possessions, circumstances, or even life itself, we suffer. And when we align with our natural state, free of all resistances, we’re fully available to life as it is, flowing with what appears, and infinitely at peace.
Attachments are sticky. Our freedom goes out the window as we spend our energy trying to keep what we want and reject what we don’t want, meanwhile resisting the truth of the moment. We’re trying to fulfill our desires, as we live in fear of what we could lose.
Being attached is a normal part of the human experience along with grieving the loss of people and things we love. And, if we want peace, we’re asked to continually say “yes” to reality as it is.
Together we’ll open to the topic of attachment. We’ll explore the nature of attachment, the ways you’re attached, and the immediate, here-and-now possibility of freedom.
How does attachment serve? With guided meditation, teachings, and conversation, we’ll practice creating safe space to investigate the tender places inside ourselves—and the living reality of our true nature beyond all attachments. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand beyond the known into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, December 21, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Two-Day Retreat: Fully Alive in the Timeless Now - Dec. 30&31
2022-12-30 09:00 - 11:30 | online
Two-day Retreat:
Fully Alive in the Timeless Now
Friday & Saturday, December 30 & 31, 9:00am – 11:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recordings will be sent to all who register.
Sponsored by Open Circle Center. Please click here to register.
The calendar might tell us that a new year is approaching, but in truth, there is only this moment, now, free and uncaused, completely fresh and new, emerging from and infused with love. In any moment, we can turn away from our minds to recognize wonder, delight, mystery, and inspiration.
Come and join this two-day retreat as we explore the potential of living the freedom that we are in our everyday lives.
• How do you discover this freedom?
• What about the fear-based mind that wants to control life?
• How can you show up as love in your relationships?
• What about challenging emotions and the frustrations of daily life?
You are wholeheartedly welcome just as you are as we share intimate, loving space in community. Together we’ll explore the practical reality of awakened living in your own direct experience. Our time together will include guided meditation, words of ancient masters, self-reflective exercises, small group conversation, and plenty of time for Q&A.
We will investigate the myth of the separate self, the power of the thinking mind to divert us, and the possibility of living the moments of your human life with awareness, freedom, acceptance, and love.
Sponsored by Open Circle Center. Please click here to register.
Please feel free to contact Gail with any questions about the program at gail@gailbrenner.com.
For technical questions please reach out to web@opencirclecenter.org.

“Thank you so much for your teachings and for all the compassion and love you transmit to me, and so many others. Your teachings are a gift of grace and love.” ~Pat Brown
“What you’re pointing to is so difficult to talk about in words, but you describe it so brilliantly and give such practical, actionable steps to follow that I truly, deeply get it. I just cannot express to you how transformative your approach has been for me.” ~Sandra Joseph, Broadway star and author of Unmasking What Matters

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 The End of Self-Help and Suffering Is Optional.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Being the Space of Boundless Love for Ourselves and Others
2023-01-04 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Being the Space of Boundless Love for Ourselves and Others
Wednesday, January 4, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on exploring the space of boundless love. The true nature of who we are includes everything with no resistance. It offers a continual deep and open “yes” to everything that appears as life unfolds.

This natural deep acceptance is profoundly healing to the pain of our early trauma patterns. These fear-based patterns develop from disruption in our relationships early on in life—with ourselves and others. Although everyone is doing their best, we just don’t get the unconditional love and care we need to feel free to be fully ourselves.
What is needed to discover our essential wholeness is ongoing unconditional acceptance of all parts of ourselves. And this is just what is offered by the natural alive aware being of who we are. As we take our stand here in this openness, we find the loving space to hold these painful residues from the past. As these parts absorb into this love, their tension relaxes, and we come home, more and more, to live in daily life as a vast field of unconditional acceptance.
And miraculously, we find that we can hold this unconditional loving space for others as well.
Our gathering offers a supportive field of loving connection. With guided meditation, teachings, and conversation, we’ll practice holding the space of boundless love—for ourselves and others.
Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space together in community with like-minded friends. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, January 4, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—You Were Never Broken
2023-01-11 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
You Were Never Broken
Wednesday, January 11, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on the mistaken identity of feeling that we are broken, even beyond repair. If we believe our minds and the messages we received when we were young, we may develop this belief about ourselves. This sets in motion attempts to fix ourselves, attempts that are unlikely to bring us the inner peace and well-being that we long for.
So if peace is possible (it is), where do we find it?
Hoping to feel better at some future point in time will keep us searching forever. Instead, our suffering calls us to turn inward in any moment to explore this essential question: “Who am I?” If you are not the broken one your thoughts tell you that you are, who are you?
Instead of answering this question directly, we’re invited first to meet the fullness of our experience in the present moment with unconditional love and care. We quickly discover a softening of the thoughts and feelings that are at the core of our personal identity. As we open to all that is, including and beyond that identity, we find spaciousness, tenderness, and the capacity to be present with what’s here right now.
And this changes everything. Over time, the habit of these limiting identities relaxes, giving way to moments of uncaused peace and pure being. We find space for new ways of being far beyond the sense of being broken.
And our hearts expand into quiet, effortless intimacy with all.
With guided meditation, teachings, and conversation, we’ll explore the question, “Who am I really?” Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand beyond the known into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, January 11, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Getting Unstuck
2023-01-18 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Getting Unstuck
Wednesday, January 18, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on getting unstuck. Our natural state, unclouded by any conditioning, is infinitely open, fully free, and attached to nothing. It’s the pure free-flow of life in which all objects come and go, with no stickiness whatsoever.
Knowing this reality, we live as openness, available to everything, with no need for familiar fear-based survival strategies. There’s an open portal beyond separation to wonder, creativity, inspired living, and love.
Yet, as humans we have the experience of feeling stuck. We believe that we need to keep ourselves safe, avoid painful feelings, and limit the ways we express ourselves in life. And these ways of being keeps us locked into habitual reactions that affect our relationships, our feelings about ourselves, and the simple enjoyment of everyday life. We wonder if this is all that life has to offer.
At our gathering together, we’ll explore how we end up feeling stuck and ways to be with that feeling. We’ll practice the direct route to freedom by landing squarely in the knowing that we are the open spaciousness in which the mind-made stories that grip us arise—and not the stories themselves.
And we’ll open with curiosity as we turn toward the experience of feeling stuck to discover the treasures it holds and meet all that arises with compassion and deep acceptance.
With guided meditation, teachings, and conversation, we’ll illuminate what it’s like to feel stuck…and to be free… Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand beyond the known into freedom, flow, and deep connection with all of Life. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, January 18, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Awakening in Our Relationships
2023-01-25 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Awakening in Our Relationships
Wednesday, January 25, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on exploring openness and love in the sacred space of our relationships.
In our time together, we’ll explore the patterns we bring to relationships that create a sense of separation—from ourselves, others, and all of life. These are fear-based programmed ways of being that we learned early in our lives and left us feeling unsafe, rejected, unseen, or disconnected.
People-pleasing, withdrawal, needing to be right, holding grudges, defensiveness… These are signs of unexamined contractions that are ripe for liberation.
Untying the knots that lie at the core of our relationship struggles brings openness, ease, and space for new and authentic ways of being. We discover we can meet the tender places in ourselves with deep acceptance and care. Then we have the space to open with compassion to the struggles others might be experiencing as well.
The intimate connection we all long for unfolds when energy flows freely…and offers a portal into the deepest knowing of infinite oneness beyond our personal identities.
With guided meditation, teachings, and conversation, we’ll practice creating safe space for deepening connection. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand beyond the known into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, January 25, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—In Love with Life
2023-03-01 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
In Love with Life
Wednesday, March 1, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on the ongoing possibility of opening to life.
As we travel on the pathless path to inner freedom, eventually our conditioned ways of being begin to fall away, and a newfound spaciousness is revealed. No longer veiled by familiar fears and strategies of protection, almost like a miracle, we discover that we’re open to life.
Our minds are transparent, as we become aware of natural movements we’ve unknowingly overlooked—perhaps a desire to slow down, relationships that are asking for our attention, a shift in priorities, or the need for rest and self-care.
We feel fresh and innocent…poised to experience wonder, creativity, inspiration, silence, and unconditional love. We’re open to life, rather than resisting it.
Our gathering offers a supportive field of loving connection. Together, we’ll get curious about what it’s like to live with our minds and hearts unclouded and wide open, receptive to all that is. With guided meditation, teachings, and conversation, we’ll explore the everyday practical possibility of being in love with life.
And we’ll bring our infinite capacity for love and care to the tender and fearful places inside that still need to contract, hide, and control.
Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space in community with like-minded friends. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, March 1, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—The Pathless Path to Inner Freedom
2023-03-08 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
The Pathless Path to Inner Freedom
Wednesday, March 8, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on the spiritual path. What is the path? What are we looking for? How can we meet the twists and turns along the way?
In this gathering, we will take a bird’s eye view of the spiritual path to understand what it is…and isn’t. If you are on the path of awakening, something has lit up in your being that invites you into a deep exploration of all that is. We take all blinders off, and bring everything that arises under the microscope of awareness, integrity, and truth. We’re motivated to see things clearly as they are and not clouded by the mind’s illusions.
This is the path to inner freedom.
We call this passion for inner freedom the pathless path. You’re not getting something you don’t already have. You’re not fixing what you think might be broken within you. You’re not waiting for divine intervention.
The pathless path means that your attention turns inward, over and over, opening to all of your inner experience so you can discover that what you’re looking for is already here. When you go beyond the familiar stories and mental patterns, you find, shining brilliantly, the timeless essence of peace, freedom, and boundless love. This is you…who you’ve always been despite any beliefs that tell you otherwise.
Come and explore the pathless path to inner freedom in safe and supportive community. With guided meditation, teachings, and conversation, we’ll lovingly open to the mind’s structures that convince you you’re not free and the ever-present possibility of the deepest peace beyond imagination.
You are welcome with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space in community with like-minded friends. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, March 8, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Boundless Wide Open Heart
2023-03-15 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Boundless Wide Open Heart
Wednesday, March 15, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 4pm BST, 5pm CET
on Zoom
PLEASE NOTE TEMPORARY TIME CHANGE FOR UK AND EUROPE
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on exploring boundless love and the edges of our heart’s capacity.
Consciousness is unlimited in its capacity to be the unconditional wide open acceptance we know as love. When we take our stand as the essential vibration of life, we notice two things. First, a natural overflowing of generosity, joy, love, and expansion we might call bliss. And second, the edges of the heart that may feel bruised, scared, or not ready to trust.
We encounter the very human experience of longing for the boundless love that we are and the fear of actually knowing and living it.
We gather together in safe and supportive community to courageously explore our innate and infinite capacity for love. We’ll marinate together in the endless field of aliveness that is eternally welcoming of all. And we’ll make space to lovingly turn toward the fears that separate us from this openness.
Many of us have somehow learned that it’s not safe to love. We turn away from the fulfillment that’s possible and live in stress and contraction. With guided meditation, teachings, and conversation, we’ll tenderly welcome these edges with curiosity and deep compassion…and celebrate the love that’s always here beyond all time…
You are welcome with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space in community with like-minded friends. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, March 15, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 4pm BST, 5pm CET

Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Feeling Safe: Gateway to Awakening
2023-03-22 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Feeling Safe: Gateway to Awakening
Wednesday, March 22, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 4pm BST, 5pm CET
on Zoom
PLEASE NOTE TEMPORARY TIME CHANGE FOR UK AND EUROPE
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Our focus for this meeting is on what it means to feel safe and the role of safety in realizing our true nature.
Many of us grow up not feeling emotionally safe in our families. The effects of this lack of safety can be far-reaching. We resort to strategies to cope and survive such as trying to figure everything out in our heads, judging ourselves and others (the inner critic), people pleasing, and perfectionism.
And with no way of learning how to care for the emotions that naturally arise, we disconnect from the most tender parts of our experience.
Over time, we develop entrenched views of ourselves and others that are fear-based and limited. This is how we feel separate from ourselves and from life…and as we all know, this is not a satisfying way to live.
Trapped in these identities, we long for wholeness, but our search gets derailed by the inner mistrust we carry.
The realization of our true nature involves a shift of identification from a contracted sense of the personal self into the boundless field of alive presence. The tensions around our fear and mistrust relax completely…and if they temporarily arise, they come and go without attachment. We remain as peace.
In our time together, in loving community, we’ll explore emotional safety. What is it? How do we find it? And how does it support the realization of who we are beyond any mind-made patterns?
You are welcome with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space in community with like-minded friends. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, March 22, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 4pm BST, 5pm CET

PLEASE NOTE TEMPORARY TIME CHANGE FOR UK AND EUROPE
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

Choose the amount you would like to pay.Option 1 $15.00 USDOption 2 $9.00 USDOption 3 $4.00 USD

Friends are saying:

“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.
