Dr. Gail Brenner

Awakening in Relationships: A Mini-Retreat
2022-04-14 09:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | online
Awakening in Relationships: A Mini-Retreat
Thursday, April 14, 2022 @ 9:00am – 1:00pm Pacific
Online retreat on zoom
Event will be recorded and emailed to participants.
You’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend the whole live session.
Event is sponsored by Open Circle Center. To register, please click here. https://opencirclecenter.org/event/gail-brenner-apr-14-2022/
Curious about embodying awakened consciousness in everyday life? Then let’s explore our relationships. Because when we can show up with others unveiled and free, we find no end to the intimacy that is possible.
In this mini-retreat, we’ll identify the patterns we play out that create a sense of separation—from ourselves, others, and all of life. These are fear-based programmed ways of being that include people-pleasing, withdrawal, inflating or deflating ourselves in comparison to others, holding grudges, and defensiveness. Together, we’ll untangle the distorted assumptions we hold about the world and learn to meet our tender emotions with loving acceptance.
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 realize our shared humanness, which brings compassion for ourselves and others, melting into the one boundless heart beyond our personal selves.
We learn about relationships from our first connections with our caregivers early on in life. Fear of rejection, hurt from feeling unseen, mistrust, the need to please—these are signs of unexamined contractions that are waiting for liberation.
Do you feel separate in your relationships? With guided inner reflection, a journaling exercise, small group experiences, and Q&A, we’ll practice creating safe space for authentic connection. You’ll leave with new insights, ways to experiment in daily life, and tools for being in your relationships as a pathway for awakening. I look forward to being with you!
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.
To register, please click here. https://opencirclecenter.org/event/gail-brenner-apr-14-2022/
“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. Thank you for being a beacon in tumultuous times. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais
“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.

Coming Home Together—Online Gathering
2022-03-30 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together:
Trauma Healing & Embodied Awakening
Wednesday, March 30, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm GMT
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Embodied Awakening 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 how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
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 longstanding conditioned patterns that feel stuck? 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.
You’ll practice staying grounded in your present moment experience, and from here we explore the programmed patterns that bring struggle to your life. Many of these patterns have plagued us for years. We hear about freedom as a possibility, but we just don’t know how to find our way there. We feel stuck in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
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. Our time together will include guided meditation, clarifying teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Wednesday, March 30, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
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.

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.
“The biggest thing you helped me see is that I’m sometimes shaming myself for being ashamed of myself. I’ll be playing with a lighter and gentler touch going forward :)” ~James T.

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.

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

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.

Coming Home Together—Online Gathering
2022-03-24 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together:
Trauma Healing & Embodied Awakening
Thursday, March 24 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 4pm GMT, 5pm CET
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Embodied Awakening 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 how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
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 longstanding conditioned patterns that feel stuck? 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.
You’ll practice staying grounded in your present moment experience, and from here we explore the programmed patterns that bring struggle to your life. Many of these patterns have plagued us for years. We hear about freedom as a possibility, but we just don’t know how to find our way there. We feel stuck in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
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. Our time together will include guided meditation, clarifying teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Thursday, March 24, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
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.

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.
“The biggest thing you helped me see is that I’m sometimes shaming myself for being ashamed of myself. I’ll be playing with a lighter and gentler touch going forward :)” ~James T.

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.

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

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.

Coming Home Together—Online Gathering
2022-03-10 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together:
Trauma Healing & Embodied Awakening
Thursday, March 10, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm GMT
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Embodied Awakening 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 how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
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 longstanding conditioned patterns that feel stuck? 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.
You’ll practice staying grounded in your present moment experience, and from here we explore the programmed patterns that bring struggle to your life. Many of these patterns have plagued us for years. We hear about freedom as a possibility, but we just don’t know how to find our way there. We feel stuck in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
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. Our time together will include guided meditation, clarifying teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Thursday, March 10, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
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.

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.
“The biggest thing you helped me see is that I’m sometimes shaming myself for being ashamed of myself. I’ll be playing with a lighter and gentler touch going forward :)” ~James T.

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.

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

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.

Deep Trauma Healing: Finding Ease and Well-Being in Everyday Life—5-part series
2022-02-12 09:00 - 11:00
Deep Trauma Healing:
Finding Ease and Well-Being in Everyday Life
A 5-Part Live, Online Series
Feb. 12, 16, 19, 23 & 26, 2022; 9–11am PST
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm GMT
Sponsored by SAND (Science and Nonduality)
For course details and registration, please click here.
We all want to feel good in our lives, to be relaxed and feel peaceful, optimistic, and inspired. This is our birthright, our natural way of being.
Why is this not our everyday experience? Unexplored trauma is at the root of patterns that keep us stuck in emotional pain and limited in life. We long to be free, but somehow these same patterns keep getting played out in our mind, emotions, relationships, and choices in life.
Come and join this powerful 5-session course as we create a safe and supportive healing community to do the deep work of trauma healing. Trauma happens in relationships that lack the safety we need. In this course, we come together to offer a safe space that welcomes you just as you are—with your fears, self-doubts, shame, and confusion.
Through focused teachings, guided meditation, group sharing, and experiments during and between our sessions, you’ll learn to untangle your conditioned patterns from the past and find your way home to being present and alive in your life as it is right now. This is where you’re available to creativity, enthusiasm, and the simple joys of everyday living.
Your daily life will be the laboratory as we explore specific tools to feel grounded and safe within yourself and your relationships.
Module 1: How trauma works
Practice: Grounding in the present with curiosity and openness
Feb 12, 2022 9:00am – 11:00am PST
First, we’ll slow everything down so you can begin to lovingly open to all parts of yourself. Then we get curious about what we discover. We’ll practice using the breath and our senses to create a safe and welcoming base as we begin to become aware of the hidden parts of ourselves. This is what heals shame.
Module 2: Getting to know our patterns
Practice: Compassion for all of our experience
Feb 16, 2022 9:00am – 11:00am PST
We’ll explore our repetitive patterns through journaling and small group explorations. We’ll turn toward the fear behind these patterns to meet it with love and care. Gently, we become aware of exactly how we get caught so we can question limiting beliefs we hold about ourselves, others, and the world. The possibility for freedom dawns.
Module 3: How the body holds trauma
Practice: Attuning to the body with love and care
Feb 19, 2022 9:00am – 11:00am PST
We’ll bring awareness to the body and explore how the nervous system gets activated when we’re triggered. We’ll discuss a range of practices for caring for the body, especially during stressful times. This is how you find the space to live more fully in the present.
Module 4: What is an emotion?
Practice: Navigating the waves of difficult emotions
Feb 23, 2022 9:00am – 11:00am PST
Turning toward all of our experience with compassion, we learn to embrace our emotions with the unconditional love they desperately long for. Together, we’ll practice holding safe space for ourselves and our emotions at a pace that feels right, staying connected to our own individual needs.
Module 5: Living fully in everyday life
Practice: Opening beyond our patterns into ease and well-being
Feb 26, 2022 9:00am – 11:00am PST
With growing trust in staying grounded, we’ll explore the practicalities of daily life with more openness and ease. How do you bring this new sense of freedom into your relationships and life situations? We’ll feel into the possibility of taking care of old patterns that arise as we live more and more in our full aliveness now.
For course details and registration, please click here.
Stress and worry… people pleasing… persistent relationship struggles… proving yourself through accomplishments… the inner critic… these longstanding patterns are profound invitations for compassion and understanding. Together, we’ll lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into peace, connection, and everyday joy.
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Coming Home Together—Online Gathering
2022-02-01 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together:
Embodied Awakening in Everyday Life
Tuesday, February 1, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm GMT
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Embodied Awakening 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 how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
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 longstanding conditioned patterns that feel stuck? 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.
You’ll practice staying grounded in your present moment experience, and from here we explore the programmed patterns that bring struggle to your life. Many of these patterns have plagued us for years. We hear about freedom as a possibility, but we just don’t know how to find our way there. We feel stuck in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
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. Our time together will include guided meditation, clarifying teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Tuesday, February 1, 2021 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
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.

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.
“The biggest thing you helped me see is that I’m sometimes shaming myself for being ashamed of myself. I’ll be playing with a lighter and gentler touch going forward :)” ~James T.

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.

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

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.

Coming Home Together—Online Gathering
2022-01-18 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together:
Embodied Awakening in Everyday Life
Tuesday, January 18, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm GMT
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Embodied Awakening 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 how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
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 longstanding conditioned patterns that feel stuck? 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.
You’ll practice staying grounded in your present moment experience, and from here we explore the programmed patterns that bring struggle to your life. Many of these patterns have plagued us for years. We hear about freedom as a possibility, but we just don’t know how to find our way there. We feel stuck in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
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. Our time together will include guided meditation, clarifying teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Tuesday, January 18, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
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.

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.
“The biggest thing you helped me see is that I’m sometimes shaming myself for being ashamed of myself. I’ll be playing with a lighter and gentler touch going forward :)” ~James T.

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.

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

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.

Coming Home Together—Online Gathering
2022-01-10 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together:
Embodied Awakening in Everyday Life
Monday, January 10, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm GMT
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Embodied Awakening 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 how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
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 longstanding conditioned patterns that feel stuck? 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.
You’ll practice staying grounded in your present moment experience, and from here we explore the programmed patterns that bring struggle to your life. Many of these patterns have plagued us for years. We hear about freedom as a possibility, but we just don’t know how to find our way there. We feel stuck in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
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. Our time together will include guided meditation, clarifying teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Monday, January 10, 2022 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
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.

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.
“The biggest thing you helped me see is that I’m sometimes shaming myself for being ashamed of myself. I’ll be playing with a lighter and gentler touch going forward :)” ~James T.

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.

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

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.

All Is Sacred: Living our Essential Nature in Everyday Life—2-part online retreat
2021-12-30 09:00 - 12:00 | online
All Is Sacred:
Living our Essential Nature in Everyday Life
2-Part Online Exploration
Dec. 30 & 31, 2021
9:00 am – 12:00 noon, Pacific Time, each day
Starting at noon ET, 5pm UK
Event will be recorded and emailed to participants after each meeting.
You’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions.
For course details and registration, please click here.
By cultural norms and conditioning, this time of transitioning to a new year prompts a reflection of the past and a view into the future. Yet, past and future are created intervals of time that exist only in the mind. When do you experience the past or the future? Right now as you think about them.
No matter what the calendar says, 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 and be right here to experience our full aliveness.
Come and join this two-day retreat as we explore the possibility of consciously living from our true essence.

How do you discover it?
How are your relationships affected?
What do you do with past conditioned patterns that arise?
What about challenging emotions such as grief, fear, and shame?

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, and the possibility of living the moments of your human life with awareness, freedom, acceptance, and love.
For course details and registration, please click here.
Questions about the program? Please email Gail directly at gail@gailbrenner.com.
For technical questions please reach out to web@opencirclecenter.org
“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.
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.

Coming Home Together—Online Gathering
2021-12-21 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together:
Embodied Awakening in Everyday Life
Tuesday, December 21, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm GMT
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Embodied Awakening 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 how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
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 longstanding conditioned patterns that feel stuck? 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.
You’ll practice staying grounded in your present moment experience, and from here we explore the programmed patterns that bring struggle to your life. Many of these patterns have plagued us for years. We hear about freedom as a possibility, but we just don’t know how to find our way there. We feel stuck in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
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. Our time together will include guided meditation, clarifying teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Tuesday, December 21, 2021 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
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.

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.
“The biggest thing you helped me see is that I’m sometimes shaming myself for being ashamed of myself. I’ll be playing with a lighter and gentler touch going forward :)” ~James T.

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.

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

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.

Coming Home Together—Online Gathering
2021-12-15 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together:
Embodied Awakening in Everyday Life
Tuesday, December 15, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm GMT
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Embodied Awakening 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 how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
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 longstanding conditioned patterns that feel stuck? 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.
You’ll practice staying grounded in your present moment experience, and from here we explore the programmed patterns that bring struggle to your life. Many of these patterns have plagued us for years. We hear about freedom as a possibility, but we just don’t know how to find our way there. We feel stuck in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
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. Our time together will include guided meditation, clarifying teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Tuesday, December 15, 2021 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
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.

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.
“The biggest thing you helped me see is that I’m sometimes shaming myself for being ashamed of myself. I’ll be playing with a lighter and gentler touch going forward :)” ~James T.

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.

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

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.

Coming Home Together—Online Gathering
2021-12-07 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together:
Embodied Awakening in Everyday Life
Tuesday, December 7, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm GMT
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Embodied Awakening 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 how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
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 longstanding conditioned patterns that feel stuck? 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.
You’ll practice staying grounded in your present moment experience, and from here we explore the programmed patterns that bring struggle to your life. Many of these patterns have plagued us for years. We hear about freedom as a possibility, but we just don’t know how to find our way there. We feel stuck in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
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. Our time together will include guided meditation, clarifying teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
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.

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.
“The biggest thing you helped me see is that I’m sometimes shaming myself for being ashamed of myself. I’ll be playing with a lighter and gentler touch going forward :)” ~James T.

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.

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

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.

Coming Home Together—Online Gathering
2021-11-23 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together:
Embodied Awakening in Everyday Life
Tuesday, November 23, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm GMT
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Embodied Awakening 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 how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
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 longstanding conditioned patterns that feel stuck? 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.
You’ll practice staying grounded in your present moment experience, and from here we explore the programmed patterns that bring struggle to your life. Many of these patterns have plagued us for years. We hear about freedom as a possibility, but we just don’t know how to find our way there. We feel stuck in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
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. Our time together will include guided meditation, clarifying teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Tuesday, November 23, 2021 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
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.

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.
“The biggest thing you helped me see is that I’m sometimes shaming myself for being ashamed of myself. I’ll be playing with a lighter and gentler touch going forward :)” ~James T.

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.

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

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.

Coming Home Together—Online Gathering
2021-11-10 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together:
Embodied Awakening in Everyday Life
Wednesday, November 10, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm GMT
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Embodied Awakening 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 how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
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 longstanding conditioned patterns that feel stuck? 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.
You’ll practice staying grounded in your present moment experience, and from here we explore the programmed patterns that bring struggle to your life. Many of these patterns have plagued us for years. We hear about freedom as a possibility, but we just don’t know how to find our way there. We feel stuck in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
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. Our time together will include guided meditation, clarifying teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
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.

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.
“I appreciated Gail’s ability to guide us in areas that are difficult to even put words to, as well as her ability to transmit such presence and lovingkindness. Somehow she was able to guide me around the resistance(s) to a more loving acceptance of what is. Gail is able to transform through her presence and I think anyone open to healing would benefit.” ~Erica C.

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.

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

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.

Deep Trauma Healing: Tending the Ground for Awakened Living—6 session course
2021-10-15 09:00 - 11:00 | online
Deep Trauma Healing: Tending the Ground for Awakened Living

October 15, 19, 22, 26 and November 2, 5, 2021
9:00 am – 11:00 am Pacific Time, each day on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm UTC
Recordings will be available and sent to all who register.
Addressing trauma and how we hold it is essential to seeing through the illusion of the separate self. Deep Trauma Healing: Tending the Ground for Awakened Living, offers a safe and supportive healing community to do this deeper work that unfolds on the path of awakening.
For course details and registration, please click here.
Unexamined trauma is at the root of your 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.
Together, we will carefully bring to light the mechanisms of these patterns into the light of loving awareness. And we’ll discover, over and over, the ground of being, your spacious true home that has never been touched by any life experiences.
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 space of inner aliveness.
You’ll get the felt direct experience of being in life open, without defenses, and free of the mind’s need to control. This is the foundation you need for openhearted awakened living.
Here’s what we’ll cover in the course:

Sessions 1 and 2: The illusion of the separate self; knowing our patterns intimately and how they show up in us;
Session 3: Attending to the body and nervous system;
Session 4: Honoring and embracing difficult emotions, learning resources to bring to your in-the-moment experience;
Session 5: What to do with the mind and limiting beliefs;
Session 6: Devotion, surrender, and the practicalities of awakened living

Come prepared to move out of your comfort zone in all areas of your life. You’ll discover the brilliance of embodying love, awareness, and deep connection with all…available in every moment.
For course details and registration, please click here.
A free information session with Gail is offered on Tuesday, October 12 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.
Friends are saying:

“I have found your approach really works for me. It gives me hope, and I actually believe that that I can live, think and feel differently, no matter what the situation.” ~ F.C.
“Gail was a wonderful loving and attentive presence; I felt seen and heard.” ~A.C.
“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.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“I love the meetings; I feel so safe and connected in the group.” ~Judy F.
“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.

For course details and registration, please click here.
Gail Brenner, Ph.D. is your guide on this journey. She is a nondual 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.
If you have further questions, please email Gail directly at gail@gailbrenner.com.

Deep Trauma Healing & Awakened Living: Free Information Call
2021-10-12 09:00 - 10:00 | online
Deep Trauma Healing & Awakened Living:
Free Information Call with Q&A
Tuesday, October 12 9:00am – 10:00am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm UTC
Recording will be sent to all who register.
This event is a free information call for my upcoming course, Deep Trauma Healing: Tending the Ground for Awakened Living presented by Open Circle Center.
Register here for the free call on October 12 from 9-10am Pacific:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAoc-uoqzIpH9dI1SQ2sMVJu6OpzcJYaZMJ
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. The recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
In this gathering, you will learn details about the course, including what we will cover and some of the practices we will play with. You’ll begin to experience the safe space of loving community as we embark on these deeper explorations that unfold on the path of awakening. Come with your questions, curiosity, and your desire to be deeply connected in the moments of your life. You are most welcome as you are.
The course, Deep Trauma Healing: Tending the Ground for Awakened Living, offers a safe and supportive healing community to do the deeper work that unfolds on the path of awakening. Addressing trauma and how we hold it is essential to seeing through the illusion of the separate self.
Unexamined trauma is at the root of your 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.
Together, we will carefully bring the mechanisms of these patterns into the light of loving awareness. And we’ll discover, over and over, the ground of being, your spacious true home that has never been touched by any life experiences.
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 space of inner aliveness.
You’ll get the felt direct experience of being in life open, without defenses, and free of the mind’s need to control. This is the foundation you need for openhearted awakened living.
Register here for the free call on October 12 from 9-10am Pacific:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAoc-uoqzIpH9dI1SQ2sMVJu6OpzcJYaZMJ
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Here’s what we’ll cover in the course:

Sessions 1 and 2: The illusion of the separate self; knowing our patterns intimately and how they show up in us;
Session 3: Attending to the body and nervous system;
Session 4: Honoring and embracing difficult emotions, learning resources to bring to your in-the-moment experience;
Session 5: What to do with the mind and limiting beliefs;
Session 6: Devotion, surrender, and the practicalities of awakened living.

For more information about the course and to register, please click here. Course dates are: October 15, 19, 22, 26, November 2, 5, 2021 from 9-11am Pacific.
Details for the Free Call
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 9:00am – 10:0am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
Register here for this meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAoc-uoqzIpH9dI1SQ2sMVJu6OpzcJYaZMJ
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Friends are saying:

“I have found your approach really works for me. It gives me hope, and I actually believe that that I can live, think and feel differently, no matter what the situation.” ~ F.C.
“Gail was a wonderful loving and attentive presence; I felt seen and heard.” ~A.C.
“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.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“I love the meetings; I feel so safe and connected in the group.” ~Judy F.
“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.

“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. She is the author of three books, including the award-winning, The End of Self-Help: Discovering Peace and Happiness Right at the Heart of Your Messy, Scary, Brilliant Life.

Integration Groups for "The Wisdom of Trauma" Film
2021-10-06 08:00 - 09:30 | Science and Nonduality Online
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I highly recommend The Wisdom of Trauma, an excellent film on trauma and addiction that will be shown again for a week starting October 4 along with new talks with trauma experts. I will be leading four integration groups during the week that you are welcome to join.
The film shows how unexplored early trauma is behind our conditioned patterns, including addictions. It will touch you, move you, and educate you. For more information and to sign up, please click here. You can register for the integration groups after you register to see the film and week of expert talks.
Integration Groups on October 6, 7, 8, and 9:
Come and gather in sacred community with your fellow travelers on the path of deep trauma healing. You are welcome just as you are with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions. Our disconnection from our divine nature happened in the context of relationship so we need to practice together to find our way home to our essential peace and wholeness.
In a safe and loving space, we will:

Ground together with a guided meditation;
Break out into small groups to share with others your reactions to The Wisdom of Trauma film and the Trauma Talks; and
Return together to share, listen, learn, and digest what you’ve discovered.

Together we take our stand in present moment aliveness, welcoming ourselves and each other with care and heart.
Here is the schedule for the integration groups I’ll be leading:

Wednesday, Oct 6, 2021 8–9:30am PDT
Thursday, Oct 7, 2021 10:30am-12pm PDT
Friday, Oct 8, 2021 8–9:30am PDT
Saturday, Oct 9, 2021 12–1:30pm PDT

To register to see the film, please click here. Then you can register for the integration groups.

Coming Home Together—Online Gathering
2021-09-08 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together:
Embodied Awakening in Everyday Life
Wednesday, September 8, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm GMT
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Embodied Awakening 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 and how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
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 money, work, and life purpose? 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.
You’ll practice staying grounded in your present moment experience, and from here we explore the programmed patterns that bring struggle to your life. Many of these patterns have plagued us for years. We hear about freedom as a possibility, but we just don’t know how to find our way there. We feel stuck in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
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. Our time together will include guided meditation, clarifying teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Wednesday, September 8, 2021 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
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.

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 love the meetings; I feel so safe and connected in the group. The community experience through Zoom is a treasure from the COVID-19 experience for me.”
~Judy F.
“Gail was a wonderful loving and attentive presence; I felt seen and heard.”
~A.C.
“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
“I appreciated Gail’s ability to guide us in areas that are difficult to even put words to, as well as her ability to transmit such presence and lovingkindness. Somehow she was able to guide me around the resistance(s) to a more loving acceptance of what is. Gail is able to transform through her presence and I think anyone open to healing would benefit.”
~Erica C.

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.

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

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.

Embodied Awakening Weekend Intensive
2021-08-27 09:00 - 12:00 | online
Embodied Awakening
3-Session Online Weekend Intensive
Aug. 27, 28 & 29, 2021
9:00 am – 12:00 noon Pacific Time, each day
Event will be recorded and emailed to participants after each meeting.
You’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions.
Sponsored by Open Circle Center, the Embodied Awakening Intensive offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. During our weekend together, your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self and how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
Please click here to register: https://opencirclecenter.org/event/gail-brenner-intensive-aug-2021/
How do you handle a frustrating encounter with someone? How do you navigate your relationships? What about money, sexuality, work, and life purpose? What do you do with feeling disappointed or 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.
Through our time together in safe and supportive community, you’ll practice staying deeply grounded in your present moment experience. From this grounded awareness, you’ll learn to meet your programmed patterns and early trauma—the inner critic, long-standing shame, feelings of fear and insecurity—with intelligence and loving acceptance. This is how you begin to shed the feeling of separation so you are free to be fully alive in your life as it is right now.
We’ll use specific practices and experiments in our sessions and between sessions to study the living reality of non-separation. We’ll study being in life open, without defenses, and free of the mind’s need to control. This is the foundation you need for openhearted awakened living.
Here’s what we’ll cover in each 3-hour session:

Friday: No self, no problem; slowing down, resting in inner stillness. We’ll begin to investigate the sense of separation that appears through early trauma and conditioned patterns;
Saturday: Finding our ground in spacious, still awareness; navigating the mind, emotions, and body, especially when we’re triggered;
Sunday: Practical everyday living in surrender and intimacy with Life.

Come prepared to explore beyond your comfort zone. You’ll discover the brilliance of embodying love, awareness, understanding, compassion, and deep connection with all…available in every moment.
Please click here to register: https://opencirclecenter.org/event/gail-brenner-intensive-aug-2021/
“I have found your approach really works for me. It gives me hope, and I actually believe that that I can live, think and feel differently, no matter what the situation.”
~F.C.
You are welcome to email Gail directly at gail@gailbrenner.com with questions.
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.

Coming Home Together—Online Gathering
2021-08-11 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together:
Embodied Awakening in Everyday Life
Wednesday, August 11, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm GMT
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Embodied Awakening 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 and how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
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 money, work, and life purpose? 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.
You’ll practice staying grounded in your present moment experience, and from here we explore the programmed patterns that bring struggle to your life. Many of these patterns have plagued us for years. We hear about freedom as a possibility, but we just don’t know how to find our way there. We feel stuck in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
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. Our time together will include guided meditation, clarifying teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Wednesday, August 11, 2021 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
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.

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 love the meetings; I feel so safe and connected in the group. The community experience through Zoom is a treasure from the COVID-19 experience for me.”
~Judy F.
“Gail was a wonderful loving and attentive presence; I felt seen and heard.”
~A.C.
“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
“I appreciated Gail’s ability to guide us in areas that are difficult to even put words to, as well as her ability to transmit such presence and lovingkindness. Somehow she was able to guide me around the resistance(s) to a more loving acceptance of what is. Gail is able to transform through her presence and I think anyone open to healing would benefit.”
~Erica C.

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.

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

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.

Coming Home Together—Online Gathering
2021-07-29 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together:
Embodied Awakening in Everyday Life
Thursday, July 29, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm GMT
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Embodied Awakening 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 and how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
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 money, work, and life purpose? 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.
You’ll practice staying grounded in your present moment experience, and from here we explore the programmed patterns that bring struggle to your life. Many of these patterns have plagued us for years. We hear about freedom as a possibility, but we just don’t know how to find our way there. We feel stuck in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
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. Our time together will include guided meditation, clarifying teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Thursday, July 29, 2021 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
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.

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 love the meetings; I feel so safe and connected in the group. The community experience through Zoom is a treasure from the COVID-19 experience for me.”
~Judy F.
“Gail was a wonderful loving and attentive presence; I felt seen and heard.”
~A.C.
“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
“I appreciated Gail’s ability to guide us in areas that are difficult to even put words to, as well as her ability to transmit such presence and lovingkindness. Somehow she was able to guide me around the resistance(s) to a more loving acceptance of what is. Gail is able to transform through her presence and I think anyone open to healing would benefit.”
~Erica C.

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.

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

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.

Coming Home Together—Online Gathering
2021-07-20 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together:
Embodied Awakening in Everyday Life
Tuesday, July 20, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm GMT
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Embodied Awakening 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 and how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
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 money, work, and life purpose? 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.
You’ll practice staying grounded in your present moment experience, and from here we explore the programmed patterns that bring struggle to your life. Many of these patterns have plagued us for years. We hear about freedom as a possibility, but we just don’t know how to find our way there. We feel stuck in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
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. Our time together will include guided meditation, clarifying teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Tuesday, July 20, 2021 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
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.

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 love the meetings; I feel so safe and connected in the group. The community experience through Zoom is a treasure from the COVID-19 experience for me.”
~Judy F.
“Gail was a wonderful loving and attentive presence; I felt seen and heard.”
~A.C.
“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
“I appreciated Gail’s ability to guide us in areas that are difficult to even put words to, as well as her ability to transmit such presence and lovingkindness. Somehow she was able to guide me around the resistance(s) to a more loving acceptance of what is. Gail is able to transform through her presence and I think anyone open to healing would benefit.”
~Erica C.

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.

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

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.

Embodied Awakening in Everyday Life—6-Session Intensive
2021-06-21 09:00 - 11:00 | online
Embodied Awakening in Everyday Life

June 21, 24, 28 and July 1, 8, 15, 2021
9:00 am – 11:00 am Pacific Time, each day
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm UTC
Recordings will be available and sent to all who register.
The Embodied Awakening Intensive 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 and how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
For course details and registration, please click here.
How do you handle a frustrating encounter with someone? How do you navigate your relationships? What about money, sexuality, work, and life purpose? What do you do with feeling disappointed or 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.
Together, we’ll create a safe and supportive community of pure intention for peace and freedom.
We’ll use explorations, practices, and experiments in our sessions and between sessions to study the living reality of non-separation. You’ll get the felt direct experience of being in life open, without defenses, and free of the mind’s need to control. This is the foundation you need for openhearted awakened living.
Throughout our six sessions together, you’ll practice staying deeply grounded in your present moment experience. From this grounded awareness, you’ll learn to meet your programmed patterns—the inner critic, long-standing shame, feelings of fear and insecurity—with intelligence and loving acceptance. This is how you begin to shed the feeling of separation so you are free to be fully alive in your life as it is right now.
Here’s what we’ll cover:

Sessions 1 and 2: No self, no problem; aliveness in everyday life;
Sessions 3 and 4: Early trauma and conditioned patterns; waking up in your relationships;
Session 5: Freedom beyond the mind-driven life; awakened action;
Session 6: Emptiness, surrender, devotion, intimacy with Life.

Come prepared to move out of your comfort zone in all areas of your life. You’ll discover the brilliance of embodying love, awareness, and deep connection with all…available in every moment.
“I have found your approach really works for me. It gives me hope, and I actually believe that that I can live, think and feel differently, no matter what the situation.” ~ F.C.
For course details and registration, please click here.
A free information session with Gail is offered on Saturday, June 19 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.
Friends are saying:

“I have found your approach really works for me. It gives me hope, and I actually believe that that I can live, think and feel differently, no matter what the situation.” ~ F.C.
“I love the meetings; I feel so safe and connected in the group. The community experience through Zoom is a treasure from the COVID-19 experience for me.” ~Judy F.
“Gail was a wonderful loving and attentive presence; I felt seen and heard.” ~A.C.
“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

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.
If you have further questions, please email Gail directly at gail@gailbrenner.com.

Embodied Awakening in Everyday Life—Free Information Call
2021-06-19 09:00 - 10:00 | online
Embodied Awakening Intensive:
Free Information Call with Q&A
Saturday, June 19 9:00am – 10:00am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm UTC
Recording will be sent to all who register.
This event is a free information call for my upcoming course, Embodied Awakening in Everyday Life presented by Open Circle Center.
Register here for the free call on June 19 from 9-10am Pacific:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrceuurz4oE9Kw62wSNCFRghUPq8jhbGQa
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. The recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
In this gathering, you will learn details about the course, including what we will cover and some of the practices we will play with. You’ll begin to experience the safe space of loving community as we embark on these deeper, practical explorations. Come with your questions and your desire to be deeply connected in the moments of your life. You are most welcome!
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The course, Embodied Awakening Intensive, 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 and how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
For more information about the course and to register, please click here. Course dates are: June 21, 24, 28 and July 1, 8, 15, 2021 from 9-11am Pacific.
How do you handle a frustrating encounter with someone? How do you navigate your relationships? What about money, sexuality, work, and life purpose? What do you do with feeling disappointed or 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.
We’ll use explorations, practices, and experiments in our sessions and between sessions to study the living reality of non-separation. You’ll get the felt direct experience of being in life open, without defenses, and free of the mind’s need to control. This is the foundation you need for openhearted awakened living.
Here’s what we’ll cover in the course:

Sessions 1 and 2: No self, no problem; aliveness in everyday life;
Sessions 3 and 4: Early trauma and conditioned patterns; waking up in your relationships;
Session 5: Freedom beyond the mind-driven life; awakened action;
Session 6: Emptiness, surrender, devotion, intimacy with Life.

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Details for the Free Call
Saturday, June 19, 2021 9:00am – 10:0am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
Register here for this meeting:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrceuurz4oE9Kw62wSNCFRghUPq8jhbGQa
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Friends are saying:

“I have found your approach really works for me. It gives me hope, and I actually believe that that I can live, think and feel differently, no matter what the situation.” ~ F.C.
“I love the meetings; I feel so safe and connected in the group. The community experience through Zoom is a treasure from the COVID-19 experience for me.” ~Judy F.
“Gail was a wonderful loving and attentive presence; I felt seen and heard.” ~A.C.
“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

“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.

Coming Home Together—Ongoing Online Conversations
2021-05-16 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together:
Embodied Awakening in Daily Life
Sunday, May 16, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm GMT
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
You are most welcome to join as we create a safe and supportive space online to explore the deeper work that unfolds on the path of awakening. We are a supportive and loving community, and you are welcome just as you are.
Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space together in community with like-minded friends. Our time together will include guided meditation, clarifying teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
A seed starts growing in us when we realize how much our conditioned patterns mask our happiness. Many of these patterns have plagued us for years. We hear about freedom as a possibility, but we just don’t know how to find our way there. We feel stuck in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
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.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Sunday, May 16 2021 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
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.

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 love the meetings; I feel so safe and connected in the group. The community experience through Zoom is a treasure from the COVID-19 experience for me.”
~Judy F.
“Gail was a wonderful loving and attentive presence; I felt seen and heard.”
~A.C.
“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

“I appreciated Gail’s ability to guide us in areas that are difficult to even put words to, as well as her ability to transmit such presence and lovingkindness. Somehow she was able to guide me around the resistance(s) to a more loving acceptance of what is. Gail is able to transform through her presence and I think anyone open to healing would benefit.”
~Erica C.
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.

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

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.

Coming Home Together—Ongoing Online Conversations
2021-04-30 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together:
Embodied Awakening in Daily Life
Friday, April 30, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm GMT
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
You are most welcome to join as we create a safe and supportive space online to explore the deeper work that unfolds on the path of awakening. We are a supportive and loving community, and you are welcome just as you are.
Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space together in community with like-minded friends. Our time together will include guided meditation, clarifying teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
A seed starts growing in us when we realize how much our conditioned patterns mask our happiness. Many of these patterns have plagued us for years. We hear about freedom as a possibility, but we just don’t know how to find our way there. We feel stuck in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
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.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Friday, April 30, 2021 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
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.

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 love the meetings; I feel so safe and connected in the group. The community experience through Zoom is a treasure from the COVID-19 experience for me.”
~Judy F.
“Gail was a wonderful loving and attentive presence; I felt seen and heard.”
~A.C.
“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

“I appreciated Gail’s ability to guide us in areas that are difficult to even put words to, as well as her ability to transmit such presence and lovingkindness. Somehow she was able to guide me around the resistance(s) to a more loving acceptance of what is. Gail is able to transform through her presence and I think anyone open to healing would benefit.”
~Erica C.
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.

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

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.

Embodied Awakening Intensive
2021-04-13 09:00 - 2021-04-22 23:00 | online
Embodied Awakening Intensive

April 13, 15, 20, and 22 from 9-11am Pacific
Tuesdays and Thursdays
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm UTC
Recordings will be available and sent to all who register.
The Embodied Awakening Intensive offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness and the myth of the separate self. Together, we’ll create a safe and supportive community of pure intention for peace and freedom.
For details and registration, please click here.
Throughout our four sessions together, you’ll practice staying deeply grounded in your present moment experience. From this grounded awareness, you’ll learn to meet your programmed patterns—the inner critic, long-standing shame, feelings of fear and insecurity—with intelligence and loving acceptance. This is how you begin to shed the feeling of separation so you are free to be fully alive in your life as it is right now.
How do you handle a frustrating encounter with someone? How do you navigate your relationships? What about money, sexuality, work, and purpose? What do you do with feeling disappointed or 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.
We’ll also use specific practices and experiments in our sessions and between sessions to study the living reality of nonseparation. You’ll get the felt direct experience of being in life open, without defenses, and free of the mind’s need to control. This is the foundation you need for openhearted awakened living.
Come prepared to move out of your comfort zone in all areas of your life. You’ll discover the brilliance of embodying love, life, and deep connection with all…available in every moment.
For details and registration, please click here.
Offering a free information session with Gail on Saturday, April 10 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.
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.
If you have further questions, please email Gail directly at gail@gailbrenner.com.

Embodied Awakening Intensive—Free Information Call
2021-04-10 09:00 - 10:00 | online
Embodied Awakening Intensive:

Free Information Call with Q&A
Saturday, April 10 9:00am – 10:00am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm UTC
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
This event is a free information call for my upcoming course, Embodied Awakening Intensive presented by Open Circle Center. For more information about the course and to register, please click here.
Course dates are April 13, 15, 20, and 22 from 9-11am Pacific.
Register in advance for the free info call on April 10:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAuf-yrqDotGNwMrgRhLvRvbGa9vq-0y56l
The Embodied Awakening Intensive offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore how to embody the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness and the myth of the separate self. Together, we’ll create a safe and supportive community of pure intention for peace and freedom.
We’ll explore conditioned patterns such as shame and the inner critic, relationships, sexuality, work and purpose—and approaches to frustration, disappointment, stress, and needs and desires.
We’ll also use specific practices and experiments in our sessions and between sessions to study the living reality of nonseparation. You’ll get the felt direct experience of being in life open, without defenses, and free of the mind’s need to control. This is the foundation you need for openhearted awakened living.
In this free call, you will learn details about the course, including what we will cover and some of the practices we will play with. You’ll begin to experience the safe space of loving community as we embark on these deeper, practical explorations.
Details
Saturday, April 10, 2021 9:00am – 10:0am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAuf-yrqDotGNwMrgRhLvRvbGa9vq-0y56l
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Friends are saying:

“I love the meetings; I feel so safe and connected in the group. The community experience through Zoom is a treasure from the COVID-19 experience for me.”
~Judy F.
“Gail was a wonderful loving and attentive presence; I felt seen and heard.”
~A.C.
“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

“I appreciated Gail’s ability to guide us in areas that are difficult to even put words to, as well as her ability to transmit such presence and lovingkindness. Somehow she was able to guide me around the resistance(s) to a more loving acceptance of what is. Gail is able to transform through her presence and I think anyone open to healing would benefit.”
~Erica C.
Saturday, April 10, 2021 9:00am – 10:0am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAuf-yrqDotGNwMrgRhLvRvbGa9vq-0y56l
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
“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.

Coming Home Together—Ongoing Zoom Conversations
2021-03-26 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together:
The Sacred Work of Trauma and Awakening
Friday, March 26, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 4pm GMT
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
You are most welcome to join as we create a safe and supportive space online to explore the deeper work that unfolds on the path of awakening. We are a supportive and loving community, and you are welcome just as you are.
Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space together in community with like-minded friends. Our time together will include guided meditation, clarifying teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
A seed starts growing in us when we realize how much our conditioned patterns mask our happiness. Many of these patterns have plagued us for years. We hear about freedom as a possibility, but we just don’t know how to find our way there. We feel stuck in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
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.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Friday, March 26, 2021 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 4:00pm UK
Please note that not all time zones around the world have changed. Time is 9am Pacific, noon Eastern, 4pm GMT, 5pm CET

Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
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.

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 love the meetings; I feel so safe and connected in the group. The community experience through Zoom is a treasure from the COVID-19 experience for me.”
~Judy F.
“Gail was a wonderful loving and attentive presence; I felt seen and heard.”
~A.C.
“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

“I appreciated Gail’s ability to guide us in areas that are difficult to even put words to, as well as her ability to transmit such presence and lovingkindness. Somehow she was able to guide me around the resistance(s) to a more loving acceptance of what is. Gail is able to transform through her presence and I think anyone open to healing would benefit.”
~Erica C.
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.

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

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.

Coming Home Together—Ongoing Zoom Conversations
2021-03-12 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together:
The Sacred Work of Trauma and Awakening
Friday, March 12, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
on Zoom
Noon Eastern, 5pm UTC
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
You are most welcome to join as we create a safe and supportive space online to explore the deeper work that unfolds on the path of awakening. We are a supportive and loving community, and you are welcome just as you are.
Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space together in community with like-minded friends. Our time together will include guided meditation, clarifying teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
A seed starts growing in us when we realize how much our conditioned patterns mask our happiness. Many of these patterns have plagued us for years. We hear about freedom as a possibility, but we just don’t know how to find our way there. We feel stuck in the painful sense of separation…from ourselves and the sacredness of all of Life.
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.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Friday, March 12, 2021 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5:00pm UK
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
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.

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 love the meetings; I feel so safe and connected in the group. The community experience through Zoom is a treasure from the COVID-19 experience for me.”
~Judy F.
“Gail was a wonderful loving and attentive presence; I felt seen and heard.”
~A.C.
“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

“I appreciated Gail’s ability to guide us in areas that are difficult to even put words to, as well as her ability to transmit such presence and lovingkindness. Somehow she was able to guide me around the resistance(s) to a more loving acceptance of what is. Gail is able to transform through her presence and I think anyone open to healing would benefit.”
~Erica C.
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.

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

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.
