Dr. Gail Brenner

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Emotional Freedom
2024-06-05 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | online
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Emotional Freedom
Wednesday, June 5, 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 offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on bringing wise inquiry to emotions. In the timeless formless infinite field of pure being, what we call emotions might appear…and presence remains undisturbed. Yet, we all feel emotions and know them to be a normal part of the experience of being human.
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 feel stuck in limitation, confusion—or any form of suffering—emotions are involved. And when we meet them with care and unconditional welcoming, they become a gateway into realizing our true nature. We liberate the experience of emotions from the stories that make them real, as they transform into pure, alive energy.
Many of us habitually turn away from our emotions, creating a sense of division inside. We’re afraid of being overwhelmed by them, and we feel we don’t have the skills needed to actually turn inward and lovingly be with them. We feel the war inside ourselves, fueled by resistance, that breeds anxiety, fear, and discontent.

In our time together, we’ll get curious about our emotions. Finding courage within, we make the sacred movement to turn toward the fear, grief, anger, and shame to get to know how these experiences live in our minds, bodies, and actions. No longer pushing them away, we meet them with the kindness and love they’ve been longing for. This is the path to discovering freedom, and the loving practice of welcoming them no matter how many times they appear.
We value the power of safe and loving community for this exploration. 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, June 5, 2024 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: The Sacred Work of Trauma Healing and Awakening
2024-06-12 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
The Sacred Work of Trauma Healing and Awakening
Wednesday, June 12, 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 offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on turning toward our early trauma patterns—with compassionate and loving hearts—investigating 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 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, June 12, 2024 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.

Intergenerational Trauma: Healing Practices Workshop
2024-06-19 10:00 - 11:30
Intergenerational Trauma: Healing Practices Workshop
Wednesday, June 19, 10:00am – 11:30am Pacific
1pm Eastern, 6pm BST, 7pm CET
on Zoom
with Mays Imad, Ph.D.
https://whereolivetreesweep.com/
This event is sponsored by my friends at SAND (Science and Nonduality) and is part of the 21-day online premiere of the film, Where Olive Trees Weep. The premiere includes panels, music, poetry, and more. Please click here to have access to the film and join all the events.
Mays Imad, Ph.D. and I will lead a workshop on healing practices for intergenerational trauma to offer a safe space to open to and digest our reactions to the film and the current situation in Palestine. We will include breakout rooms for group sharing. All are welcome.
This newly released documentary is a heartbreakingly beautiful and poignant film about the struggles and resilience of Palestinian people living under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice. It features Dr. Gabor Maté offering trauma healing work for Palestinian women who were detained in Israeli prisons. Please join us.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Fear, Anxiety, and Opening to What Is
2024-06-26 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Fear, Anxiety, and Opening to What Is
Wednesday, June 26, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on fear, anxiety, and acceptance of things as they are. Do fear and anxiety disturb you? These are essential emotions to investigate on the path of awakening…because any remaining belief in the separate self is fueled by fear.
If fear and anxiety rule, they will limit you in life, and you’ll find that you’re living a fraction of what is possible for you. You’ll be contracted into thoughts filled with worry and negativity—and miss out on the realization of infinite peace and love.
And fear is behind the disconnection expressed in so many ways in our world today that create conflict, aggression, division, and painful othering.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

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

Fear is a survival mechanism that is built into the human brain and nervous system. Yet, the realization of our true nature invites us to turn away from its protective voice. In our gathering together, we’ll explore how fear, 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, June 26, 2024 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:

“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—Awakened Living in Body, Mind, and Heart
2024-07-03 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Awakened Living in Body, Mind, and Heart
Wednesday, July 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 offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on awakened living in our bodies, minds, and hearts. When we begin to open beyond the limiting and repetitive stories in the mind, we discover a tremendous amount of space for fresh and new ways of being.
No longer caught in self-focused thinking, we become aware that the gifts of our human capacities are in service to Life, which includes everything in form.
How can the infinite spaciousness of awakening infuse our bodies, minds, and hearts? How can we bring this deep knowing into how we show up with ourselves, others, and life situations? This is what we’ll explore in our time together.
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

Awakening to our true nature means that we no longer identify as a person who is limited and separate. With this shift, we begin to notice that our bodies are naturally more relaxed, our minds are free, and our hearts overflow with gratitude and generosity.
The invitation into the embodiment of awakening is available to all. Even as we feel identified with our conditioned patterns and explore what remains of them, we can still practice aligning our bodies, minds, and hearts with their natural state.
Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll explore each of these realms of our human experience and practice embodying our essential freedom as a lived experience in every moment.
Let’s practice the direct experience of living this freedom!
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, July 3, 2024 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:

“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—Working with the Reactivity of Our Emotions
2024-07-10 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Working with the Reactivity of Our Emotions
Wednesday, July 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 offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life is the laboratory as we open to the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and the right now experience of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on slowing down and staying grounded so we can work with the reactivity of our emotions.
We all know what it’s like to be taken over by emotions. We’re caught in the mind’s narrative about what’s happening, and our bodies are tied up in knots. Then our actions follow from this limited lens, and here we are again, in a familiar place of drama and frustration. Sound familiar?
Bringing spaciousness to our emotions changes everything. We slow down…pause…and embrace the art of getting curious about our emotional experience. We take the time to investigate emotions as they arise—with great precision. This careful meeting of what is breathes freshness into every moment.
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

We get to know our emotional reactivity so well that we begin to find space—to ground ourselves in clarity, understanding, and love for all. We recognize how the stories of emotion grab us and feel the tendencies to act in ways that come from fear and hurt…rather than from openheartedness. We notice how these stories close down our hearts and lead us into separation.
We need the power of community when it comes to our emotions. Together, we’ll take our time to breathe, relax, and feel into the safety of our relational space. We’ll tenderly explore our emotional experience in detail, including the nervous system, body sensations and energies, familiar narratives, and the actions that follow. And we’ll feel into and practice new and loving ways of being, within ourselves and with others.
Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll bring a new level of awareness to emotions so they no longer hijack our capacity for wise responding. Infusing our emotional experience with heart-centered awareness, we move forward with expanded capacities for presence..kindness…and intimate connection…
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, July 10, 2024 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
2024-07-17 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
The Art of Intimate and Authentic Relationships
Wednesday, July 17, 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 offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on intimate and authentic connecting in our relationships. 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 the limiting story that tells us we’re not good enough or need to be in control. 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.
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

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, July 17, 2024 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.
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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Core Practices for Trauma Healing and Awakening
2024-07-24 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Core Practices for Trauma Healing and Awakening

Wednesday, July 24, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on core practices for the path of awakening and trauma healing in everyday life. These are the five core practices I described in my book Suffering Is Optional. Practices give us tools to rely on when strong conditioned patterns take hold and help us to integrate our deep love for freedom into the moments of our actual human lives.
As we explore and practice loving self-care for the patterns that arise in us, we realize these old stories don’t accurately define who we are. Then we’re much more available to fully experience life as it is in the present moment…unlimited and free…

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

Do you want peace and freedom to be your living reality? Do you want to authentically connect with yourself and others? Then practice now with whatever habitual reactions appear. Let every story, emotion, and identity come into the light of awareness so you know exactly how you end up feeling limited and triggered.
No longer veiled by conditioning, you’ll expand into spaciousness, fresh responding, and an infinite capacity for love.
Here are the five core practices:

Turning toward your experience;
The safe haven of being aware;
Losing interest in thoughts;
Welcoming feelings; and
The sacred return to loving aware presence.

These practices are like breadcrumbs on the spiritual path to support you in finding your way back from the illusion of made-up stories to the realization of the truth of your essential self. You discover that who you are has always been whole, fully alive, and overflowing as love… You discover the freedom to be yourself fully.
In our time together, we’ll unpack these five practices so they feel accessible to all. Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll open to all that is with compassion and love as we 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 appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Wednesday, July 24, 2024 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—Liberating the Mind From Its Stories
2024-08-07 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Liberating the Mind From Its Stories
Wednesday, August 7, 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 offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life is the laboratory as we open to the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and the right now experience of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on finding freedom from the mind’s stories by studying the mind and how it creates the sense of separation. This exploration shows us that attachment to the contents of our minds distracts us from experiencing the aliveness of our true nature…and living day-to-day in this freedom.
Once we’re no longer interested in using the mind to define ourselves and our reality, we’re immediately present, open to all that is, free of mind-created fear and angst. We’re available to actually live the fullness of who we are—in our relationships with ourselves, others, and life as it unfolds in every moment. This is embodied freedom.
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

In our time together, we’ll look at the ways the mind works, including judgments, opinions, comparisons, stories, problem-solving, and general nonstop commentary. What is behind the mind’s functioning? What does it have to do with feeling separate? And how do we unattach from the contents of the mind? (Hint: it’s not about making thoughts stop.)
Through guided meditation, we’ll experiment with letting go of the mind’s stories and instead rest here…in open spaciousness…in pure loving awareness free of thinking…accessing the power of simply being present.
We move from what the mind tells us about “reality” to realize the direct experience of liberation here and now…with a radiant mind that is clear and open like the sky…lit up with wonder and delight…
We come together in the sacred space of loving community for this deep exploration, including guided meditation, teachings, helpful tools, and Q&A. Bring all of you—your fears, doubt, shame, questions—and joy. All is welcome!
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, August 7, 2024 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—Freedom Beyond the Sense of the Separate Self
2024-08-14 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Freedom Beyond the Sense of the Separate Self
Wednesday, August 14, 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 offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life is the laboratory as we open to the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and the right now experience of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on discovering how we make ourselves feel separate and limited. When we believe that we are defined by our stories and feelings, we live according to these constricted views. We’re prone to thinking about ourselves a lot, maintaining safety and protection, and taking things personally.
There is a strong sense of the inner self fueled by fear and lack and the outer world that feels unsafe. The belief in the separate self is at the root of our psychological struggles in life.
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

In our supportive field of loving connection, we’ll explore the sense of separation so you can feel into exactly how it limits you. Then we’ll expand beyond separation into a way of being that is spacious, free and unattached. Here is where you discover aliveness, creativity, inspiration, and the joy of living. We’ll shed light on deep inner listening and surrender in the moments of daily life that lovingly replace the need for control.
You’ll practice staying grounded in your present moment experience, and from here we explore the programmed patterns that make us believe in the sense of separation.
We realize that we can’t go it alone. Our disconnection from our divine nature happened in the context of relationship so we need to practice together—in a supportive and loving community—to find our way home. Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space together in community with like-minded friends.
With guided meditation, teachings, and conversation, we’ll practice creating safe space for this deep exploration. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand beyond the known into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 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.
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In-Person Gathering: Melting Into Being
2024-08-18 14:00 - 16:00
Melting Into Being
In-Person Gathering
Sponsored by Open Circle Center
Sunday, August 18, 2024
Satsang 2:00-4:00PM, refreshments until 5pm
8476 Sonoma Avenue, Sebastopol, CA
All are welcome!
Sliding scale $10-$20
No registration, pay at the door
In our time together, we’ll relax into effortless being, marinating in the luminescent knowing of our true nature.
We’ll leave the limitations of our personal stories and attachments to discover liberation—already here—timeless, boundless, and free. This is you…who you’ve always been despite any beliefs that tell you otherwise.
At the same time, we bow to our humanness—meeting our conditioned and fear-based patterns with understanding and compassion. And we know that who we are is unlimited, overflowing with love, and infinitely peaceful.
You are welcome just as you are with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—or simply to share sacred space. With guided meditation, quotes from our beloved masters, and open conversation, we’ll celebrate together, discovering peace and happiness right at the heart of our everyday human lives. I look forward to being with you!
Gail Brenner, Ph.D. is your guide. As a psychologist, author, and teacher, she transmits a love of truth with a fire that burns brightly. Gail is an expert in healing from early trauma and brings to this work years of experience with individuals and groups. She is known for creating the safe space needed for deep inner exploration. Gail is the author of the award-winning The End of Self-Help and Suffering Is Optional.
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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Who Are You? The Essential Question for Trauma Healing and Awakening
2024-08-21 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Who Are You? The Essential Question for Trauma Healing and Awakening
Wednesday, August 21, 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 offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life is the laboratory as we open to the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and the right now experience of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on the essential spiritual question, “Who am I?” and why it matters to explore it. At the root of personal suffering lies the belief that who we are is a person with a history, story, needs, 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 distorted filters.
What does this mean for you and your life? Say that you’ve learned to define yourself as unworthy or inadequate. This belief will lead you to override your authentic dreams and desires, as you focus on seeking approval from others in an attempt to feel whole. You’ll believe that happiness and fulfillment are not meant for you.
This is how it works for any fear- or lack-based belief we think defines us. Attachment to any story, emotion, idea of freedom or enlightenment, or ideas about the past or future will cause us to contract into a false sense of self and affect everything about our human experience in 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. 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

The release from suffering occurs when our attachment to the mind completely disintegrates. We no longer look to any habitual beliefs to define us. We stop feeding stories and going to the mind’s content to know who we are or how to act. We no longer give any weight to hopes, expectations, should’s—or any thought that takes us away from Presence here and now.
This is a radical shift into freedom, expansion, and not knowing—and into the boundless peace beyond all mental ideas that has always been here and available. It is knowing and living from pure aliveness.
A quote from poet William Blake describes this possibility: “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.” By perception, he means any ideas we believe to be true and real that veil our view. And what remains without them is infinite knowing…pure, clear seeing.
Are you interested in suffering less? 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. Bring all of you—your fears, doubt, shame, questions—and joy. All is welcome!
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, August 21, 2024 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—Healing and Awakening in the Body
2024-08-28 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Healing and Awakening in the Body
Wednesday, August 28, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on the body as a gateway for healing and awakening. What is your relationship to your body? The physical sensations and energies that arise? Numbness and dissociation? Your body image?
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 including our bodies, fully experiencing all that is.
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

Many of us are attached to the noise of our thinking minds—without much awareness of our physicality. And when we open our attention 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, August 28, 2024 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.
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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Getting to the Core of Early Trauma Patterns
2024-09-04 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Getting to the Core of Early Trauma Patterns
Wednesday, September 4, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on giving our compassionate attention to how disruption in our early relationships affects us. If we felt unsafe, rejected, unseen, or disconnected early in our lives, we develop an identity that we are unworthy, not good enough, or wounded beyond repair.
We grow up trying to figure out how to cope with the sense that something is missing. Some of the ways we do that are overachieving, perfectionism, people pleasing, self-judgment, or hiding from life.

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

Together, we create a field of safe space to explore these tender parts of ourselves. As we discover we can meet them with deep acceptance and care, we have space to realize there is so much more to life than our patterns!
Many of our conditioned 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.
In our time together, we’ll practice staying grounded in our present moment experience, and from here we turn our attention inward to recognize our mind-made limited stories from the past that create personal suffering.
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.
Our gathering includes guided meditation, heartfelt teachings, practical tools, and Q&A.
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. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 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:

“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.
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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Emotional Freedom
2024-09-11 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Emotional Freedom
Wednesday, September 11, 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 offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on bringing wise inquiry to emotions. In the timeless formless infinite field of pure being, what we call emotions might appear…and presence remains undisturbed. Yet, we all feel emotions and know them to be a normal part of the experience of being human.
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 feel stuck in limitation, confusion—or any form of suffering—emotions are involved. And when we meet them with care and unconditional welcoming, they become a gateway into realizing our true nature. We liberate the experience of emotions from the stories that make them real, as they transform into pure, alive energy. Many of us habitually turn away from our emotions, creating a sense of division inside. We’re afraid of being overwhelmed by them, and we feel we don’t have the skills needed to actually turn inward and lovingly be with them. We feel the war inside ourselves, fueled by resistance, that breeds anxiety, fear, and discontent.

In our time together, we’ll get curious about our emotions. Finding courage within, we make the sacred movement to turn toward the fear, grief, anger, and shame to get to know how these experiences live in our minds, bodies, and actions. No longer pushing them away, we meet them with the kindness and love they’ve been longing for. This is the path to discovering freedom, and the loving practice of welcoming them no matter how many times they appear.
We value the power of safe and loving community for this exploration. 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, September 11, 2024 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:

“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.
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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Freedom From Past and Future
2024-09-18 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Freedom From Past and Future

Wednesday, September 18, 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 offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on 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. There is much said in our culture about being in the present moment. That’s because here is where we have the direct experience of life rather than living in imagined stories about our lives that are created in our minds.
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 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!
How can we integrate this truth about time into our daily lives? When we’re caught in stories about the past and future, we contract into a limited sense of ourselves, others, and the world. Realizing this, we return, over and over, to radiant presence, here and now and always available. We directly experience the living reality of where we are or who we’re with…free of layers of thinking.
We recognize wonder, delight, mystery, and the unknown. There is no same-old, same-old, no boredom, no expectations. Only This that’s arising now…with no resistance whatsoever.
In the reality of timelessness, there’s no anchor in the known. Without the limitation of thought, we’re available to inspiration, creativity, and infinite knowing. Even if thoughts are present, the mind is vast and open, empty and alert.
Come explore how time limits us in past and future and discover reality free of time. We leave the tunnel vision of old, constricting ideas as we expand into our true home of unbounded consciousness.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space together in community with like-minded friends.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 9:00am – 10:30am
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:

“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—Not at Peace? Let's Explore Attachment
2024-10-30 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Not at Peace? Let’s Explore Attachment
Wednesday, October 30, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 4pm BST, 5pm CET
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 offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on a deep exploration of attachment. What is attachment? It’s a whole body experience of leaving the present moment. We believe our desires and expectations that tell us we need something we don’t have for our peace and happiness. We experience a loss of freedom when we’re attached to certain outcomes happening.
We make our inner peace dependent on things we can’t control—people, money, success, possessions, health, circumstances, or even life itself—and when we do, we suffer.
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 we stay mired in our attachments, we’re resisting reality. It’s like living in a room filled with furniture—everywhere we turn we bump into something. We want life to be as we want it…and not how it actually is. Sound familiar?
In our time together, we’ll open lovingly to an exploration of the ways we’re attached. We’ll go behind the curtain of our attachments to discover fear…of losing control, of loss, of not getting what we think we need. And we’ll open to the free flow of life… Can we align with the truth of our experience, can we practice saying “yes” to reality as it is?
The exploration of attachments invites us to reflect on how we meet whatever appears in the moments of our lives. We may not be able to control what happens, but we can choose how we want to show up and relate to our present moment experience.
And here is where we find where we find wonder, potential, inspiration, and spontaneity.
Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll discover the potential—already in you—to be fully alive in your life, free beyond attachments.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 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:

“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—Living Nonduality in Everyday Life
2024-11-06 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Living Nonduality in Everyday Life
Wednesday, November 6, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on bringing attention to how we meet the moments of our everyday lives.

Our true nature is infinite openness beyond space and time, the formlessness from which all forms arise, fresh, innocent, and eternally loving.
Aligned with this truth, we no longer believe the fear-based, limited ideas we hold about ourselves and the world, and we open to everything, flowing with things as they are. Rather than needing to fix and control, we get out of our heads and rest effortlessly as the Being that we are, loving all that appears.
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

Even if we’ve only had a taste of this knowing, it serves to contemplate how to bring this truth into the moments of our everyday lives.
Our true nature is present when we’re driving, working, interacting with others, complaining about the weather, zoning out on Netflix, and planning the day. It’s here when we’re happy and when we’re feeling frustrated and stressed.
Let’s gather in loving community to explore viewing everyday life through the eyes of love rather than fear and resistance. How can we embody a deep acceptance of all that is in the activities of our daily lives? How can we, more and more, step into our full magnificence as we were meant to be?
To the mind, everyday life may look repetitive and unsatisfying. But to consciousness, the seemingly ordinary is an expression of aliveness, clear seeing, and love.
In our time together, we’ll get practical to discover a fresh way of being in the moments of daily life, aligned with our natural essence as whole, peaceful, primed for joy, and lacking nothing. Through guided meditation, teachings, and Q&A, we’ll discover space for the living reality of intimacy with all that is….and the realization of the sacredness of all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 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:

“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.
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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—No Mind, No Problem
2024-11-13 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
No Mind, No Problem
Wednesday, November 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 offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life is the laboratory as we open to the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and the right now experience of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on finding freedom from the mind’s stories by studying the mind and how it creates the sense of separation. This exploration shows us that attachment to the contents of our minds distracts us from experiencing the aliveness of our true nature…and living day-to-day in this freedom.
Once we’re no longer interested in using the mind to define ourselves and our reality, we’re immediately present, open to all that is, free of mind-created fear and angst. We’re available to actually live the fullness of who we are—in our relationships with ourselves, others, and life as it unfolds in every moment. This is embodied freedom.
Completely losing interest in the mind reveals the direct, abiding experience of peace beyond peace…
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

In our time together, we’ll look at the ways the mind works, including judgments, opinions, comparisons, stories, problem-solving, and general nonstop commentary. What is behind the mind’s functioning? What does it have to do with feeling separate? And how do we unattach from the contents of the mind? (Hint: it’s not about making thoughts stop.)
Through guided meditation, we’ll experiment with letting go of the mind’s stories and instead rest here…in open spaciousness…in pure loving awareness free of thinking…accessing the power of simply being present.
We move from what the mind tells us about “reality” to realize the direct experience of liberation here and now…with a radiant mind that is clear and open like the sky…lit up with wonder and delight…
We come together in the sacred space of loving community for this deep exploration, including guided meditation, teachings, helpful tools, and Q&A. Bring all of you—your fears, doubt, shame, questions—and joy. All is welcome!
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 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
2024-11-20 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
The Sacred Work of Trauma Healing and Awakening
Wednesday, November 20, 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 offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on turning toward our early trauma patterns—with compassionate and loving hearts—investigating 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 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, November 20, 2024 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—Healing and Awakening in the Body
2024-11-27 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Healing and Awakening in the Body
Wednesday, November 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 offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on the body as a gateway for healing and awakening. What is your relationship to your body? The physical sensations and energies that arise? Numbness and dissociation? Your body image?
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 including our bodies, fully experiencing all that is.
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

Many of us are attached to the noise of our thinking minds—without much awareness of our physicality. And when we open our attention 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, November 27, 2024 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.
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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Embodied Nonduality in Our Relationships
2024-12-04 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Embodied Nonduality in Our Relationships
Wednesday, December 4, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.
Our focus for this meeting is on bringing conscious awareness to how we show up in the sacred space of our relationships.
In our time together, we’ll explore the patterns we bring to relationships that create a sense of separation—from ourselves, others, and all of life. These are fear-based programmed ways of being that we learned early in our lives and left us feeling unsafe, rejected, unseen, or disconnected.

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

People-pleasing, withdrawal, needing to be right, holding grudges, defensiveness… These are signs of unexamined contractions that are ripe for liberation.
Untying the knots that lie at the core of our relationship struggles brings openness, ease, and space for new ways of being. We discover we can meet the tender places in ourselves with deep acceptance and care. Then we have the space to open with compassion to the struggles others might be experiencing as well.
Here’s the essential shift: we learn that we can be present with others—in our authenticity and listening deeply.
The intimate connection we all long for unfolds when energy flows freely…and offers a portal into the deepest knowing of infinite oneness beyond our personal identities.
With guided meditation, teachings, and conversation, we’ll practice creating safe space for deepening connection. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand beyond the known into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

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

Friends are saying:

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

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

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—What Is Nonduality?
2024-12-11 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
What Is Nonduality?
Wednesday, December 11, 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 offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on an exploration of the teaching we call nonduality. What is it? How can you know it in your own experience? Why does it matter—or does it? What does it have to do with happiness? What is the truth? Why does it seem so hard to find?

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

In loving community, we’ll feel into and directly experience what’s here and alive beyond all concepts.
Come with your questions, reports, musings, and curiosity. What remains when attachment to the material reality of time and space falls away? Discover the deepest silence…
All are welcome to join this deep and heartfelt investigation. I look forward to being with you!
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.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 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.
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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Wise Inquiry Into Emotions
2024-12-18 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Wise Inquiry Into Emotions
Wednesday, December 18, 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 offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on 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. 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

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. 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, December 18, 2024 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—Compassionate Inquiry Into Resistance
2025-01-02 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Compassionate Inquiry Into Resistance
Thursday, January 2, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
“What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size.”
~Carl Jung
Our focus for this meeting is on a compassionate investigation of the human tendency to resist our experience.
It’s our natural, awakened state to resist nothing. When the illusion of separation is seen through, there’s simply the effortless free flow of experience continually welcoming everything.
There is no threat, no fear, and no sense of a person who needs to avoid or defend.
But add in human reactions, fears, needs, and expectations, and the world starts to feel unsafe. We leave the peace of our true nature to defend, control, and avoid our own experience.

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

If you want to know the luminous peace of your true nature, then get to know how and when you resist.
What is resistance? It’s an activity of the agitated mind that says a resounding, “NO!” to your present moment experience. It’s a desire to cling to some experiences and push others away—a desire for things to be different than they are.
We hold strategies of resistance with tenderness and care, as they were needed at some time in the past for protection and safety.
In our sacred time together, we’ll lovingly open to how and why we turn away from our own experience—and the truth of the moment. Why do we resist what is? What is the form of resistance we call spiritual bypassing?
And we’ll invite in the possibility of opening to all that is with infinite openness and curiosity. We end the inner war with our experience as we relax into the peace beyond peace.
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
Thursday, January 2, 2025 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.
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

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—Resting in Being
2025-01-08 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Resting in Being
Wednesday, January 8, 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 offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on resting in being…
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.
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 to experience the full aliveness of our true nature…and rest here…

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

In our time together we’ll explore: how do you know this deepest truth? What gets in the way of knowing it?
We’ll simply be together. Whether we meditate, explore within, or share in conversation, we’ll recognize the powerful presence of pure being…infinitely aware…eternally free…the source of all…
Come with your questions, reports, and curiosity. What remains when attachment to the material reality of time and space falls away? Discover the deepest silence…
All are welcome to join this deep and heartfelt investigation. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
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.
Details
Wednesday, January 8, 2025 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.
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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—The Art of Intimate and Authentic Relationships
2025-01-15 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
The Art of Intimate and Authentic Relationships
Wednesday, January 15, 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 offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on 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 opportunity for presence and heart.
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 the limiting story that tells us we’re not good enough or need to be in control. 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.
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

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, January 15, 2025 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.
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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—In Love with Life
2025-01-22 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
In Love with Life
Wednesday, January 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 online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on opening to all that is…endlessly…in the moments of our lives.
As we travel on the pathless path to inner freedom, eventually our conditioned ways of being soften, and a newfound spaciousness is revealed. No longer veiled by familiar fears and strategies of protection, almost like a miracle, we discover that we’re open to life.
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 minds are transparent, as we become aware of natural movements we’ve unknowingly overlooked—perhaps a desire to slow down, relationships that are asking for our attention, a shift in priorities, or the need for rest and self-care.We feel fresh and innocent…poised to experience wonder, creativity, inspiration, silence, and unconditional love. We’re open to life, rather than resisting it.
Our gathering offers a supportive field of loving connection. Together, we’ll get curious about what it’s like to live with our minds and hearts unclouded and wide open, receptive to all that is. With guided meditation, teachings, and conversation, we’ll explore the everyday practical possibility of being in love with life.
And we’ll bring our infinite capacity for love and care to the tender and fearful places inside that contract, hide, and control.
Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space in community with like-minded friends. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

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

Friends are saying:

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

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

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—The Sacred Return: Awareness as a Way of Life
2025-01-29 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
The Sacred Return: Awareness as a Way of Life
Wednesday, January 29, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living.
Our focus for this meeting is on awareness as a way of life. When we are consciously aware of our inner experience, our whole life starts to make sense. As we lovingly turn toward what’s present—emotions, thought patterns, sensations and energies in the body—we become aware of our conditioned tendencies. And this awareness changes everything.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

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

When I first began the practice of inner awareness years ago, I was shocked at what my mind was saying and how I felt—I had no idea those experiences were present. But once I knew, I was able to get out of the rut of conditioning and into the world of potential for healing and opening…beyond anything I thought was possible.
Inner awareness as a way of life transforms everything—your relationships, how you make choices in life, how you show up with yourself when you’re triggered, how you relate to your early history, your knowing of freedom from the sense of the separate self.
And when we turn our attention inward, we realize that we can also explore the being aware experience itself. Here we touch into the vibration of consciousness, the formless aware alive Beingness that’s the source of all. The boundary between inner and outer falls away, as everything just is. We return here over and over.
Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll explore turning toward our inner experience, our resistances to doing that, and the gifts of staying consciously grounded in the here-and-now.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 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—Two Truths About Awakening
2025-02-05 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Two Truths About Awakening
Wednesday, February 5, 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 offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on two truths about awakening. You may notice that your mind comes up with ideas about what awakening is. Our thoughts project into the future, creating stories and images about what this experience will or should be like.
And when we believe these ideas, we’re in a state of lack—believing we’re missing out on this experience of awakening and desperately hoping it will occur at some time in the future. This thought pattern can lead people to seek for decades, endlessly reading books, watching videos, and sitting with teachers.
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

One essential truth about realizing your true nature is that it can’t be known by the mind. The mind is always operating in the realm of concepts—and awakened awareness is known only by direct experience, unmediated by the mind.
This means we need to be aware of the mind’s conceptualizing function and know not to believe it. Then we’re poised to turn our attention toward the infinite source of all.
Another truth about awakening is that it already is the reality of our experience. It is simply masked by our attachment to the content of our thinking.
We don’t become anything…rather, we realize what is already true here and now. Awakened awareness is eternally present, outside of the concept of time, prior to birth and death and the arising of all objects.
This means we don’t need to move one millimeter from where we are to know the truth of our being.
Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll explore these two essential truths about awakening. In loving community, we’ll courageously inquire, investigate, open, and celebrate the truth—beyond thinking and completely free of any limitation.
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, February 5, 2025 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.
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