Dr. Gail Brenner

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Trauma Healing and Awakening in the Body
2026-03-18 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Trauma Healing and Awakening in the Body
Wednesday, March 18, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 4pm BST
on Zoom

PLEASE NOTE START TIME IS ONE HOUR EARLIER THIS WEEK IN THE UK AND MAINLAND EUROPE

Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering is a safe space and loving community for trauma healing and awakened living, informed by the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on the body as a gateway for healing and awakening. What is your relationship to your body? Your body image? The physical sensations and energies that arise? Numbness and dissociation? Your nervous system?
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

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

There is much to be explored when we bring our attention to the physical realm of our experience. We find the root of emotions, the residue of old habits and traumas…and the possibility for the free flow of the vibration of life as it appears through the body. We realize we can live in daily life in our bodies, fully experiencing all that is.
Many of us live in our heads—without much awareness of our physicality. And when we open to experiences occurring in our bodies, we find hidden contractions, habitual ways of being, and places that feel stuck or shut down.
Let’s explore how we disconnect from life…how does the sense of separation live in our bodies and nervous systems? Then we’ll bring awareness to these body experiences to liberate them from unconsciousness and the limits of our stories.
Because sensation without a story is simply life energy…without interpretation, past, or future. We begin to enjoy this embodied aliveness!
In our sacred time together, we’ll bring space, breath, and deep compassion to our body experiences. Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll turn toward our bodies, holding all that arises in the infinite freedom of loving presence. We’ll discuss specific tools and practices for body awareness, informed by wisdom traditions.
All are welcome as we lovingly embrace our humanness…and expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 4pm BST, 5pm CET

PLEASE NOTE START TIME IS ONE HOUR EARLIER THIS WEEK IN THE UK AND MAINLAND EUROPE

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

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

Friends are saying:

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

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
Gail Brenner, Ph.D. is your guide on this journey. She is a clinical psychologist and lover of truth with a fire that burns brightly. She brings to this work years of experience with individuals and groups and is known for creating the safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.
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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—The Secret to Happiness
2026-04-15 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
The Secret to Happiness

Wednesday, April 15, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering is a safe space and loving community for trauma healing and awakened living, informed by the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
“This is my secret. I don’t mind what happens.”
J. Krishnamurti on the secret to a happy, content life
Our focus for this meeting is on the secret to happiness, which is to want what we have. We’re invited to discover the capacity within for unconditional acceptance of all that arises.

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

If we’re focused on wanting what we don’t have, we’re living in a state of lack. It’s an “if only” way of being…”if only I get what I want, then I’ll be happy.” This mindset focuses on the imagined future and distracts us from opening to the direct experience of reality present now.
For some of us, longing for what we don’t have is a habitual state. We’re pulled into the mind’s stories of lack and we’re familiar with feeling dissatisfied and inadequate in our bodies.
In our time together, we’ll explore need, lack, longing, and the fullness of what is. We’ll identify the stories that keep us hoping for something better…and open to the simple joy of meeting what is with a deep and heartfelt “yes!”. It’s such a lovely way to walk in life…
Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space together in community with like-minded friends.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

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

Friends are saying:

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

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
Gail Brenner, Ph.D. is your guide on this journey. She is a clinical psychologist and lover of truth with a fire that burns brightly. She brings to this work years of experience with individuals and groups and is known for creating the sense of safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—The Direct Path to Inner Freedom
2026-04-22 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
The Direct Path to Inner Freedom
Wednesday, April 22, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together is a safe space and loving community for trauma healing and awakened living, informed by the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

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

Our focus for this meeting is on the spiritual path. What is the path? What are we looking for? How can we meet the twists and turns along the way?
In this gathering, we will take a bird’s eye view of the spiritual path to understand what it is…and isn’t. If you are on the path of awakening, something has lit up in your being that invites you into a deep exploration of all that is. We take all blinders off, and bring everything that arises under the microscope of awareness, integrity, and truth. We’re motivated to see things clearly as they are and not clouded by the mind’s illusions.
This is the path to inner freedom.
We call this passion for inner freedom the pathless path. You’re not getting something you don’t already have. You’re not fixing what you think might be broken within you. You’re not waiting for divine intervention.
The pathless path means that your attention turns inward, over and over, opening to all of your inner experience so you can discover that what you’re looking for is already here. When you go beyond the familiar stories and mental patterns, you find, shining brilliantly, the timeless essence of peace, freedom, and boundless love. This is you…who you’ve always been despite any beliefs that tell you otherwise.
Come and explore the pathless path to inner freedom in safe and supportive community. With guided meditation, teachings, quotes from the masters, and conversation, we’ll lovingly open to the mind’s structures that convince you you’re not free and the ever-present possibility of the deepest peace beyond imagination.
You are welcome with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space in community with like-minded friends. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

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

Friends are saying:

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

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

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—The Sacred Work of Trauma Healing and Awakening
2026-04-29 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
The Sacred Work of Trauma Healing and Awakening
Wednesday, April 29, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering is a safe space and loving community for trauma healing and awakened living, informed by the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on turning toward our early trauma patterns—with compassionate and loving hearts—to explore how disruption in our family environments when were young creates limiting ways of being that we carry into adulthood.
And we’ll shine the light of our awareness on the truth of who we are, our essential wholeness that has never been touched by anything that’s happened…
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

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

If you felt unsafe, rejected, unseen, or disconnected early in your life, it’s common to develop a conditioned identity that you are not good enough or broken beyond repair. Your attention goes into your mind and away from your body and heart, trying to figure out how to cope with the sense that something is wrong or missing.
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, others, and the sacredness of all of Life.
As we deepen in the holy work of trauma healing, we learn to care for the painful places that live in us. As the contractions of our trauma soften, there’s space to blossom into ourselves. Almost like a miracle, we begin to experience happiness, wonder, creativity, and authentic relationships.
Together, we create a field of safe space to explore the ways we get stuck. We’ll turn toward our inner experience with compassion, care, and unconditional acceptance. And we’ll realize there is so much more to life than our patterns!
Our time together includes guided meditation, teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation.
Finally, we realize that we can’t go it alone. Our disconnection from our divine nature happened in the context of relationship so we need to practice together—in a supportive and loving community—to find our way home. Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space together in community with like-minded friends.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, April 29, 2026 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

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

Friends are saying:

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

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

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—The Art of Intimate and Authentic Relationships
2026-05-06 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
The Art of Intimate and Authentic Relationships
Wednesday, May 6 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering is a safe space and loving community for trauma healing and awakened living, informed by the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on the art of intimate and authentic connecting in our relationships. And yes, it’s an art! We’ll open to the messiness, confusion, and ever present possibility for presence and heart.
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. Please pay what you can afford. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.
Pay $15.00
Pay $9.00
Pay $4.00
Our connections with others offer the precious opportunity for sharing the beingness of our true nature and embodying infinite compassion that welcomes all. How open can we be?
If we don’t feel free to be our authentic selves in our relationships, then a conditioned pattern has taken hold. We lose our grounding in love and openness, and we feel the pain of disconnection.
We’re identifying with limiting stories that tell us we’re not good enough or need to protect ourselves. Then we project our fears and needs onto others, hoping for things to improve, but getting familiar results such as abandonment, rejection, and not being seen.
At the same time, others may be projecting their fears and needs onto us. That’s how we end up in a relationship dance that feels unfulfilling.
No wonder we feel lonely and isolated. We’re relating through patterns and not actually meeting each other for the intimate and loving connection we long for.
We learn about relating with others early on in our lives, and for some of us, the message is that we need to suppress our authenticity in order to feel safe. Instead, we try to connect by pleasing others, or we give up altogether and settle for disconnection. Navigating relationships can be confusing—and frustrating!
Come and explore the invitation to see through the veils of our conditioning that appear in our relationships. We’ll turn inward to lovingly meet the tender places in us that we’re afraid to express.
Then we’ll feel into the possibility of showing up with others—innocent and free—having the courage to inhabit what is naturally true and alive in us.
Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll explore the limiting narratives we bring to our relationships and practice how to move beyond them—into freedom and authenticity.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm 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. Please pay what you can afford. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.
Pay $15.00
Pay $9.00
Pay $4.00
Friends are saying:

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

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
Gail Brenner, Ph.D. is your guide on this journey. She is a clinical psychologist and lover of truth with a fire that burns brightly. She brings to this work years of experience with individuals and groups and is known for creating the safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.
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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Wise Inquiry Into Emotions
2026-05-13 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Wise Inquiry Into Emotions
Wednesday, May 13, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering is a safe space and loving community for trauma healing and awakened living, informed by the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on bringing wise inquiry to emotions. In the timeless formless infinite field of pure being, what we call emotions might appear, but presence remains undisturbed.
Yet, we all feel emotions, and they are a normal part of the experience of being human. If you feel stuck in limitation and confusion, emotions are probably involved. Met with care and unconditional welcoming, they are a gateway into realizing our true nature.
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. Please pay what you can afford. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.
Pay $15.00
Pay $9.00
Pay $4.00
Caught in our limiting desires to protect and control, we’re pulled to avoid our emotions. We’re afraid of being overwhelmed by them, and we feel we don’t have the skills needed to actually turn inward and be with them. This creates an inner war that breeds anxiety and discontent.
In our time together, we’ll practice inquiring into emotions. With openness and courage, we turn toward our emotions, and get to know how they live in our minds, bodies, and actions. This is the path to discovering freedom, no matter how many times our emotions overtake us.
We value the power of safe and loving community for this exploration because we need others for support and nervous system regulation. Resisting emotions is isolating and reinforces shame. In our time together, in the spirit of peace and freedom, we’ll open up to our experience of emotions. Because if we continue to be entangled in their stories, we will continue to suffer.
Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll take our stand as loving aware presence and learn how to practice welcoming emotions freely, taking our hands off the wheel and allowing their full liberation.
You are unconditionally welcome just as you are. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, May 13, 2026 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm 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. Please pay what you can afford. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.
Pay $15.00
Pay $9.00
Pay $4.00
Friends are saying:

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

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

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Fear, Anxiety, and Trust in the Unfolding of Life
2026-05-20 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Fear, Anxiety, and Trust in the Unfolding of Life
Wednesday, May 20, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering is a safe space and loving community for trauma healing and awakened living, informed by the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on fear and freedom from fear. Do fear and anxiety grab you? Are you afraid of letting go?
Fear is an essential emotion to investigate on the path of awakening. Because if left unexplored, it pulls our attention into our spinning minds and creates a sense of separation from ourselves, each other, and the natural unfolding of life.
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. Please pay what you can afford. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.
Pay $15.00
Pay $9.00
Pay $4.00
By registering, you agree to keep the recordings for your personal use only and not share them.
When taken over by fear, we forget that we can rest as Being. Rather than trusting the effortless flow of things, we worry, control, and judge. We go into our heads and lose compassion for ourselves and others.
When fear and anxiety rule, believing their stories limits us in life. Thoughts filled with stress and negativity will be our living experience. We dwell in our heads—while we unknowingly overlook the here-and-now presence of infinite peace and love.
Consider the disconnection expressed in so many ways in our world today that creates conflict, aggression, division, and painful othering. Fear is at the core.
Fear is a survival mechanism that is built into the human brain and nervous system. Yet, the realization of our true nature invites us to explore beyond its protective voice. In our gathering together, we’ll explore how fear, and its cousin anxiety, show up in the body and the stories they tell us that keep us rattled.
When we believe what anxious thoughts tell us, we’re living in a fear-fueled fantasy in our minds, disconnected from aliveness, awareness, and truth here and now. We’ll investigate to see if these stories we live by are actually true. How do we live if we’re not guided by fear and anxiety? Who are we in this boundless freedom?
Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, you’ll discover the potential—already in you—to be fully alive in your life, free beyond the limits of fear.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, May 20, 2026 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm 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. Please pay what you can afford. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.
Pay $15.00
Pay $9.00
Pay $4.00
Friends are saying:

“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. I am inhabiting my life with so much more peace and openness, flow and freedom.” ~Sandra Joseph, Broadway star and author of Unmasking What Matters
“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 felt bathed in presence on the retreat. Your clarity and presentation style was lovely. I found the guided meditations to be very helpful. I appreciate how relatable you are in the group, how you don’t set yourself apart.” ~Denis N.
“Thank you so much for your teachings and for all the compassion and love you transmit to me, and so many others. Your teachings are a gift of grace and love.” ~Pat Brown
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

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

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Lose Yourself in Truth, Love, and Beauty
2026-05-27 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Lose Yourself in Truth, Love, and Beauty
Wednesday, May 27, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering is a safe space and loving community for trauma healing and awakened living, informed by the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
“I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature…”
~Jean Jacques Rousseau
Our focus for this meeting is on an exploration of truth…love…beauty… Just reading these words clears out the cobwebs. They are like a tap on the shoulder, beckoning us to return to ourselves, to remember our essential wholeness…liberated, alive, and free…

When the chaos of our thoughts settles, the clarity of truth shines through…
When we stop seeking outside ourselves to fulfill our needs, we know love…
When we meet the world without blinders on, we see beauty everywhere.

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. Please pay what you can afford. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.
Pay $15.00
Pay $9.00
Pay $4.00
By registering, you agree to keep the recordings for your personal use only and not share them.
Without these grounding qualities, we feel alienated and empty. We live our lives only skimming the surface of what is possible.
When we get out of our own way, what do we discover? Truth, love, and beauty—right here at the core of our being.
In our time together, we’ll explore our minds, hearts, and perceptions. Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll tenderly meet what blocks us from seeing things as they actually are.
And we’ll open to the possibility of infusing our everyday experience with truth, love, and beauty. We just might discover some unexpected treasures that life has in store for us…
We’re invited to embody these qualities. Live them. Lose ourselves in them. It’s the most compelling choice you could ever make… Come join us as we explore, practice—and celebrate!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, May 27, 2026 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm 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. Please pay what you can afford. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.
Pay $15.00
Pay $9.00
Pay $4.00
Friends are saying:

“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. I am inhabiting my life with so much more peace and openness, flow and freedom.” ~Sandra Joseph, Broadway star and author of Unmasking What Matters
“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 felt bathed in presence on the retreat. Your clarity and presentation style was lovely. I found the guided meditations to be very helpful. I appreciate how relatable you are in the group, how you don’t set yourself apart.” ~Denis N.
“Thank you so much for your teachings and for all the compassion and love you transmit to me, and so many others. Your teachings are a gift of grace and love.” ~Pat Brown
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais

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

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Timeless Being...Always Fresh and New
2026-06-03 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Timeless Being…Always Fresh and New

Wednesday, June 3, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering is a safe space and loving community for trauma healing and awakened living, informed by the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. Please pay what you can afford. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.
Pay $15.00
Pay $9.00
Pay $4.00
By registering, you agree to keep the recordings for your personal use only and not share them.
Our focus for this meeting is on time and timelessness. The past and future are mind-made concepts that create a sense of fear and lack. When we live in time, we feel the weight of our past history and worries about the future as we attempt to live in presence. Our culture speaks to the benefits of being in the present moment. That’s because here is where we have the direct experience of life rather than the stories about our lives that are created in our minds.
Our true nature as consciousness is timeless…no memory, no past, no time for problems to form, no time for suffering, no future fear…and no mind. There is just This, the alive reality of the now, directly experienced as it is. Thought isn’t needed, in fact, thinking about what’s happening takes us away from the reality of it.
Realizing timelessness, we know that every moment is fresh and new…so alive! There is always the opportunity to recognize wonder, delight, mystery, and the unknown. There is no same-old, same-old, no boredom. Only This…This…This…with no resistance whatsoever.
As a being in human form, the recognition of timelessness leaves us without an anchor in the known. Free of the limitation of thought, we’re available to inspiration, creativity, infinite knowing…and deep healing. Even if thoughts are present, the mind is vast and open, empty and alert.
Come explore how time limits us in past and future and discover reality free of time. We leave the tunnel vision of old, constricting ideas as we expand into our true home of unbounded consciousness.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space together in community with like-minded friends.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm 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. Please pay what you can afford. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.
Pay $15.00
Pay $9.00
Pay $4.00
Friends are saying:

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

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

In-Person Satsang in Sebastopol, CA
2026-06-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Sebastopol CA, 8476 Sonoma Avenue, Sebastopol, CA, United States
Coming Home Together:
Who Are You? The Essential Question for Trauma Healing and Awakening

In-Person Satsang Gathering in Sebastopol, CA
Sunday June 7, 2-4 pm, with refreshments until 5.
Location: 8476 Sonoma Ave, Sebastopol, CA, the home of Tomas Phillips.
Address sign says 8474/8476.
Park on street, walk down short driveway to house with carport. $10-20 donation requested, no one turned away, no reservation needed. Please dress mindfully, doors & windows will be open! If you have any Covid like symptoms, please stay home.
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The essential question in nondual inquiry is: “Who am I?” At the root of personal suffering lies the belief that who we are is a person with a history, story, preferences, fears, and a sense of lack. As long as we identify as this core belief, we will view ourselves, others, and situations through the lens of these limited filters.
Suffering subsides when our identity disconnects from the contents of our minds. We lose interest in our habits of thinking. We stop going to our familiar stories to know who we are or how to act. And we can feel the emotions in our bodies so they begin to soften their grip.
This is a radical shift into freedom, infinite spaciousness, and trust—and into the pure aliveness that has always been here and available.
We come together in the sacred space of loving community to explore the nature of identity and the freedom that’s possible when you know who you are—and who you’re not. Our gathering includes guided exploration, insights and dialogue, and heartfelt conversation. Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to be together with like-minded friends. All is welcome! I look forward to being with you…
Details
Sunday, June 7, 2-4 pm, with refreshments until 5
Sponsored by Open Circle Center
8476 Sonoma Ave, Sebastopol, CA. Address sign says 8474/8476.
Park on street, walk down short driveway to house with carport.
The satsang includes guided exploration, insights and dialogue, and Q&A and discussion.
Donations accepted.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Gail Brenner, Ph.D. is a psychologist and author, who is devoted to the nondual spiritual teaching and embodied conscious living. For over 25 years, she has worked with individuals and groups on healing from early trauma. She is known for creating safe space for inner exploration and loves witnessing people grow into their full aliveness. She is the author of The End of Self-Help and Suffering Is Optional. Over the years, her capacity for presence and intimacy in all aspects of life has transformed, and she loves bringing this possibility to others.
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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Making Decisions, Planning, and the Art of Enlightened Action
2026-06-10 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Making Decisions, Planning, and the Art of Enlightened Action

Wednesday, June 10, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering is a safe space and loving community for trauma healing and awakened living, informed by the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. Please pay what you can afford. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.
Pay $15.00
Pay $9.00
Pay $4.00
By registering, you agree to keep the recordings for your personal use only and not share them.
Our focus for this meeting is on action and making decisions. In the course of daily life, it feels like we’re making hundreds of decisions. But are we really?
In our gathering together, we’ll unpack decision-making, inquiring into who is making the decision and how actions actually occur. We’ll bring curiosity to our urges, wonderings, plans, and confusions.
What emerges when we don’t go to the mind to know what to do? What do we become aware of when we don’t act unconsciously, ruled by our conditioned patterns? Offering a sacred pause to explore what’s arising in the moment, we open to subtle emotions and underlying agendas that can keep us stuck and unaligned with our truth.
Whether you’re deciding on your next career move or what to eat for dinner, come and explore together the art of getting out of the way to make space for what wants to emerge. Stepping outside our automatic and familiar trajectories, we find intuition, gut feelings in the body, and the essential knowing that’s right here, waiting to be expressed.
We come together in the sacred space of loving community for guided inner exploration and heartfelt conversation as we relax and let life show us the way. Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space with like-minded friends.
We lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm 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. Please pay what you can afford. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.
Pay $15.00
Pay $9.00
Pay $4.00
Friends are saying:

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

“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
Gail Brenner, Ph.D. is your guide on this journey. She is a clinical psychologist and lover of truth with a fire that burns brightly. She brings to this work years of experience with individuals and groups and is known for creating the safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.
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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—What Is Awakening?
2026-06-17 09:00 - 10:30 | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
What Is Awakening?
Wednesday, June 17, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering is a safe space and loving community for trauma healing and awakened living, informed by the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. Please pay what you can afford. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.
Pay $15.00
Pay $9.00
Pay $4.00
By registering, you agree to keep the recordings for your personal use only and not share them.
Our focus for this meeting is on exploring awakening. There is much said about awakening in spiritual circles. In our gathering together, we’ll explore what all the fuss is about. What is awakening? Why does it matter? And how do you realize—in your conscious everyday experience—the truth of who you already are?
With guided meditation, teachings, and conversation, we’ll demystify awakening. We’ll touch on the traps that people often encounter in the awakening process, including spiritual bypass and relying on the mind to find the solution…when it can only be known by direct experience beyond the mind.
Bring your questions, confusions, and your belief that you’re a separate self with preferences, history, and limited identity. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand beyond the known into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, June 17, 2026 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm 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. Please pay what you can afford. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.
Pay $15.00
Pay $9.00
Pay $4.00

Friends are saying:

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

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