Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Resting in Being
2025-01-08 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | online
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…

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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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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—You Were Never Broken
2025-02-12 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
You Were Never Broken
Wednesday, February 12, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. 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 mistaken identity that we are broken and beyond repair. We develop this common belief about ourselves when we believe what our minds tell us and the messages we received when we were young.
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 live with this belief defining who we are, which sets in motion attempts to fix ourselves. We just can’t seem to find the inner peace and well-being we long for.
So if peace is possible (it is), where do we find it?
Hoping to feel better at some future point in time will keep us searching forever. Instead, our suffering calls us to turn inward in any moment to explore this essential question: “Who am I?” If you are not the broken one your thoughts tell you that you are, who are you?
Instead of answering this question directly, we’re invited first to meet the fullness of our experience in the present moment with unconditional love and care. We get curious about the thoughts and feelings that we find at the core of our personal identity…rather than assuming they’re true. As we open to all that is, including and beyond that identity, we discover spaciousness, tenderness, and the capacity to be present with what’s here right now…our original innocence prior to all our human experiences.
And this changes everything, including how we feel inside, our choices, and our relationships. Over time, the habit of these limiting identities relaxes, giving way to moments of uncaused peace and simple happiness. We find space for new ways of being and relating far beyond the sense of being broken.
And our hearts expand into quiet, effortless intimacy with all.
With guided meditation, teachings, and conversation, we’ll explore the question, “Who am I really?” and make the miraculous discovery that we’ve never been broken. 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, February 12, 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:

“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—From Darkness to Light...Welcoming Everything
2025-02-19 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
From Darkness to Light…Welcoming Everything
Wednesday, February 19, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

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

Our focus for this meeting is on investigating the nature of consciousness as welcoming everything without resistance. Standing in the unconditional “yes” to all that is, there’s peace, non-attachment, and openness to whatever arises. The walls of separation that create our struggles in life soften, and our whole being is experienced as fully alive in the timeless Now.
What blocks our lived experience of this peacefulness? Being taken over by our conditioned patterns. It’s like we’re in a trance, believing the story of our thoughts, lost in our feelings, and contracted into a limited view of ourselves, others, and the world. When we’re in this state, we’re not welcoming everything.
Perhaps from early on in our lives, we learn that it’s just not safe to be. We’re afraid of turning toward emotional pain, so it goes outside of awareness. We turn away from ourselves, betraying our truth and playing out strategies to hide from, avoid, or reject our present moment experience. Then our focus goes “out there” into the world, trying to fix our problems and find the peace and happiness we long for.
We’re overlooking the possibility of resting in our true nature…as it is…right in this moment…with no resistance whatsoever.
In our time together, we’ll shine the light on the ways we resist our present moment experience. And we’ll practice the felt reality of being the spaciousness that naturally welcomes everything.
No longer efforting to avoid and defend, the light of our true nature shines everywhere…endlessly…
Come explore the possibility of welcoming everything. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space together in community with like-minded friends.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, February 19, 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:

“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 sense of safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.
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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Rest in Being; Not in Thinking
2025-02-26 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Rest in Being; Not in Thinking
Wednesday, February 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.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

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

Our focus for this meeting is on the relationship we have with our thinking minds. Do you look to your thoughts to determine your reality? Do you trust what your mind tells you about yourself and the world? Are you feeling stressed? Then your thoughts have more power than you might realize.
With few exceptions, the thoughts that appear in our minds express the human fear-based needs to know and control. We spin in our heads with judgments, self-criticisms, comparisons, and worries about the future, trying to figure it all out.
These thoughts divide the world into right and wrong, good and bad, safe and unsafe. And meanwhile we long to let it all be so we can just rest in Being…
In our time together, we gather in loving community to explore our relationship to thinking. What is our felt experience when we’re taken over by the mind?
And if we let go of the habit of thinking, what remains? Can we trust enough to rest in Being, not in thinking…
All are welcome to join us for guided meditation, teachings, and conversation as we explore beyond the mind to realize the possibility of peace…right here…in the silent overflowing fullness of the infinite now…
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, February 26, 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:

“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—Everyday Awakening in Our Relationships
2025-03-05 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Everyday Awakening in Our Relationships
Wednesday, March 5, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. 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 conscious awareness to how we show up in the sacred space of our relationships.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

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

“You have no friends. You have no enemies. You only have teachers.”
~Ancient proverb
When we blame others and want them to change, our own feelings remain stuck. In our time together, we’ll make a loving U-turn with our attention to go inward and explore our own experience. What arises in us that brings challenges to our relationships?
We’ll open to our patterns that create a sense of separation—from ourselves, others, and all of life. These are fear-based programmed ways of being that we learned early in our lives and left us feeling unsafe, rejected, unseen, or disconnected.
People-pleasing, withdrawal, needing to be right, holding grudges, defensiveness… These are signs of unexamined emotions that are ripe for liberation.
Untying the knots that lie at the core of our relationship struggles brings openness, ease, and space for new and authentic ways of being. We discover we can meet the tender places in ourselves with deep acceptance and care. Then we have the space to open with compassion to the struggles others might be experiencing as well.
The intimate connection we all long for unfolds when energy flows freely…and offers a portal into the deepest knowing of infinite oneness beyond our personal identities.
Let’s get practical in our explorations. 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, March 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.

Deep Healing of Trauma-Based Patterns Course—*Free Information Call*
2025-03-12 09:00 - 10:00
Deep Healing of Trauma-Based Patterns: Tending the Fertile Ground for Awakened Living
Course on zoom: March 20, 22, 27, 29, 9-11:00am Pacific each day
Starts at noon Eastern, 4pm BST, 5pm CET
Sponsored by Open Circle Center
Free Information Call
Wednesday, March 12
9-10am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 4pm BST, 5pm CET
Please click here to register for this free call.
You are most welcome to join the free information call about this upcoming course. You’ll learn more about the course, and there will be time for Q&A.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Do you still get taken over by conditioned patterns—even after all the work you’ve done? Do you long to heal your sense of separation from your divine nature?
We hear about freedom as a possibility—or we’ve had a taste of our true nature—but somehow these patterns continue in our minds, emotions, relationships, and choices in life.
Join this 4-part course as we create a safe and supportive healing community to do the deeper work that unfolds on the path of awakening. Through helpful practices, including guided meditations, teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll learn to untangle these patterns and find our way home to the ever-present space of inner aliveness.

We’ll cultivate a sense of safety for those hidden, cut off parts of ourselves to come out into the light of loving awareness. This is what heals shame.
We’ll learn to notice repetitive thought patterns without getting caught in them and challenge limiting beliefs about ourselves, others, and the world.
We’ll practice ways to be with difficult emotions so they don’t control us.
We’ll attend to the nervous system and the body to stay rooted in the world.
And we’ll discover, over and over, the ground of being, your true home that has never been touched by these experiences. There is so much more to life than our patterns!

Stress and worry…people pleasing…persistent relationship struggles…proving yourself through accomplishments…these longstanding patterns are profound invitations into liberation from the sense of separation. Together, we lovingly embody our humanness as we expand into appreciation, joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Please click here to register for the free information call.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
And please click here if you’re ready to register for the course: https://opencirclecenter.org/event/gail-brenner-course-mar-2025/
Sliding Scale: $80 to $130
Friends are saying:

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

For more testimonials, please click here.
Gail Brenner, Ph.D. is a psychologist, author, and teacher with a devotion to the nondual teaching and embodied conscious living. For over 25 years, she has worked with individuals and groups on healing from early trauma. She is known for creating safe space for inner exploration and loves witnessing people grow into their full aliveness. She is experienced in supporting older adults in the transitions of aging, death, and dying and is the author of The End of Self-Help and Suffering Is Optional. Over the years, her capacity for presence and intimacy in all aspects of life has transformed, and she loves bringing this possibility to others.

Deep Healing of Trauma-Based Patterns: Tending the Fertile Ground for Awakened Living—4-session course
2025-03-20 09:00 - 11:00, 2025-03-22 09:00 - 11:00, 2025-03-27 09:00 - 11:00, 2025-03-29 09:00 - 11:00
Deep Healing of Trauma-Based Patterns:
Tending the Fertile Ground for Awakened Living
4-Part Online Course
Saturdays and Thursdays – March 20, 22, 27, & 29, 2025
9:00 am – 11:00 am, Pacific Time, each day
Sponsored by Open Circle Center
Recording will be sent out each day to all who register
You’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions.

Details and registration: https://opencirclecenter.org/event/gail-brenner-course-mar-2025/

Do you still get taken over by conditioned patterns—even after all the work you’ve done? Do you long to heal your sense of separation from your divine nature?
We hear about freedom as a possibility—or we’ve had a taste of our true nature—but somehow these patterns continue in our minds, emotions, relationships, and choices in life.
Join this 4-part course as we create a safe and supportive healing community to do the deeper work that unfolds on the path of awakening. Through helpful practices, including guided meditations, teachings, practical tools, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll learn to untangle these patterns and find our way home to the ever-present space of inner aliveness.

We’ll cultivate a sense of safety for those hidden, cut off parts of ourselves to come out into the light of loving awareness. This is what heals shame.
We’ll learn to notice repetitive thought patterns without getting caught in them and challenge limiting beliefs about ourselves, others, and the world.
We’ll practice ways to be with difficult emotions so they don’t control us.
We’ll attend to the nervous system and the body to stay rooted in the world.
And we’ll discover, over and over, the ground of being, your true home that has never been touched by these experiences. There is so much more to life than our patterns!

Stress and worry…people pleasing…persistent relationship struggles…proving yourself through accomplishments…these longstanding patterns are profound invitations into liberation from the sense of separation. Together, we lovingly embody our humanness as we expand into appreciation, joy, and deep connection with all of Life.

Details and registration: https://opencirclecenter.org/event/gail-brenner-course-mar-2025/

Sliding Scale: $80 to $130
About Gail Brenner, Ph.D:
Gail Brenner, Ph.D. is a psychologist, author, and teacher with a devotion to the nondual teaching and embodied conscious living. For over 25 years, she has worked with individuals and groups on healing from early trauma. She is known for creating safe space for inner exploration and loves witnessing people grow into their full aliveness. She is experienced in supporting older adults in the transitions of aging, death, and dying and is the author of The End of Self-Help and Suffering Is Optional. Over the years, her capacity for presence and intimacy in all aspects of life has transformed, and she loves bringing this possibility to others.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—The Way of Kindness
2025-04-02 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
The Way of Kindness
Wednesday, April 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.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

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

Our focus for this meeting is on kindness—recognizing the often harsh nature of our conditioned thought patterns and exploring the possibility of kindness.
What I’ve seen so clearly is that most of our thoughts are incredibly harsh and unkind. They criticize other people, they judge the things that have happened to us in the past, they go on about how we’re essentially flawed, and they tell us what’s not possible and what we can’t do.
And how do we feel when these thoughts are living in our mental space? Some combination of anxious, sad, tense, angry, lonely, inadequate, and shameful.
Consciousness is already essentially kind because it resists nothing. Deeply accept everything, and you’ll stand as the infinite field of conscious awareness that is effortlessly kind.
With guided meditation, teachings, and conversation, we’ll practice turning inward with kindness, like a breath of fresh air. We’ll see what it’s like to turn down the volume on negative noise in our minds so we’re available to openness, presence, and peace.
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 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, April 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.

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 sense of safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.
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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Core Practices for Peace and Happiness
2025-04-09 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Core Practices for Peace and Happiness

Wednesday, April 9, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.

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

Our focus for this meeting is on core practices for peace and happiness in everyday life. These are the five core practices I describe 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…
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, April 9, 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 sense of safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—The Secret to Happiness
2025-04-16 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
The Secret to Happiness

Wednesday, April 16, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
“This is my secret. I don’t mind what happens.”
J. Krishnamurti on the secret to a happy, content life
Our focus for this meeting is on the secret to happiness, which is to want what we have. We’re invited to discover the capacity within for unconditional acceptance of all that arises.

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

If we’re focused on wanting what we don’t have, we’re living in a state of lack. It’s an “if only” way of being…”if only I get what I want, then I’ll be happy.” This mindset focuses on the imagined future and distracts us from opening to the direct experience of reality present now.
For some of us, longing for what we don’t have is a habitual state. We’re pulled into the mind’s stories of lack and we’re familiar with feeling dissatisfied and inadequate in our bodies.
In our time together, we’ll explore need, lack, longing, and the fullness of what is. We’ll identify the stories that keep us hoping for something better…and open to the simple joy of meeting what is with a deep and heartfelt “yes!”. It’s such a lovely way to walk in life…
Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space together in community with like-minded friends.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Details
Wednesday, April 16, 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 sense of safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.

Coming Home Together Online Gathering—The Gifts of Anger
2025-04-23 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
The Gifts of Anger
Wednesday, April 23, 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.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

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

Our focus for this meeting is on the experience of anger. How can we know the freedom of our true nature, even when anger is present? How can we meet it with understanding and compassion? What are the gifts that anger offers us?
Anger is a challenging emotion for many of us—because its energy can be strong. We’re scared of anger and suppress it, or it bursts out and wreaks havoc on ourselves and our relationships.
How does anger live in your system? Hidden in fear, shutting you down, ready to explode, a seething slow burn, in judgment and sarcasm?
Awakened consciousness is naturally open to everything. In our gathering together, we’ll bring anger out of the shadows and into the light of conscious awareness—because if anger is present it’s here to be seen, felt, and known. We’ll explore the story it tells and tune into its enlivening energy that comes through the body. And we’ll include the messages you received about anger when you were young.
With great compassion, we’ll give anger space to be, acknowledging the power it can offer us for clarity, self-care, boundaries, and the experience of our essential aliveness.
Through guided meditation, teachings, and Q&A, we’ll address ways to express this sometimes confusing emotion with authenticity and care and explore self-care practices that support its integration. Come with your questions, confusions, shame, stuck places…and curiosity.
No longer afraid of the power of anger, you’ll realize its gifts…energy, aliveness, and expansive inner freedom…
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, April 23, 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 Body as a Gateway for Healing and Awakening
2025-04-30 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
The Body as a Gateway for Healing and Awakening
Wednesday, April 30, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.

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

Our focus for this meeting is on the body as a gateway for healing and awakening. What is your relationship to your body? Your body image? The physical sensations and energies that arise?
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.
Many of us live in our heads—without much awareness of our physicality. And when we open to experiences occurring in our bodies, we find hidden contractions, habitual ways of being, and places that feel stuck or shut down.
Let’s explore how we create the sense of separation that lives in the body and nervous system. 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.
In our sacred time together, we’ll bring space, breath, and deep compassion to our body experiences. We’ll notice how attuning to our shared nervous systems in our group can support grounding and connection.
Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll hold all that arises in our bodies 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, April 30, 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—Opening Endlessly Beyond Our Points of View
2025-05-14 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Opening Endlessly Beyond Our Points of View
Wednesday, May 14 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life 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 opening endlessly beyond our points of view. It’s the nature of our thinking minds to organize our experience of the world by contracting into opinions and judgments. We think we’re right and others are wrong and struggle when people and situations fail to match our views of what should be happening. For many of us, this is normal 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

We ignore reality…overflowing with infinite possibilities…fully open and available to everything…and instead attach to specific views and outcomes. What is the effect? Disappointment, frustration, and disconnection from ourselves and others.
In our time together, we’ll acknowledge the movements of our minds and examine the fear- and need-based origins of our viewpoints. Rather than taking them for granted, we’ll question their validity and feel into how they affect us—and our relationships.
Then we’ll explore the possibility of freedom from these mind movements by staying aligned with the natural unfolding of life. We’ll embrace curiosity, wonder, and deep acceptance of what is. What would it be like to live in this freedom?
We come together in the sacred space of loving community for this deep exploration, including teachings, guided meditation, and Q&A. Bring all of you—your fears, shame, questions, and confusion. All is welcome unconditionally!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, May 14, 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—Who Are You? The Essential Question for Trauma Healing and Awakening
2025-05-21 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Who Are You? The Essential Question for Trauma Healing and Awakening
Wednesday, May 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.
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

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.
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 everything 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, May 21, 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— Deep Listening as a Way to Be
2025-05-28 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Deep Listening as a Way to Be
Wednesday, May 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.
Our focus for this meeting is on listening deeply within and recognizing inner knowing and alignment. If we’re driven by unexplored fear or need, we look to the mind for guidance about how to live. Our programmed patterns are in charge as we get caught in endlessly trying to make decisions, figure things out, navigate our relationships, and find our way in life. It’s stressful and often fruitless as a path to the peace we long for.
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

But there’s another completely different way to be, which is to stop, relax, open, and get curious. Then we’re poised for deep listening to what wants to be shown to us with nothing in the way. We take the position of alignment with life’s intelligence beyond the personal self, not knowing anything, and available to what appears.
Then we listen, not from fear or lack, but with every cell in our bodies, with our hearts wide open, alive and receptive in the deepest place in us that trusts life’s unfolding.
Together, we’ll explore the practice of deep listening. When you let fear- and need-based tendencies be, what does life have in store for you? What is on the horizon itching to be expressed through you? And what is in the way of aligning with these truths?
We find that there is no such thing as making a decision. Rather, we surrender and allow as things unfold naturally…in the small actions of everyday life as well as in larger shifts into our full potential.
Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll explore the possibility of letting go into the river of life as it’s flowing right now…along with the fears that may arise.
We lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, May 28, 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—Freedom Beyond the Inner Critic
2025-06-04 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Freedom Beyond the Inner Critic
Wednesday, June 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.
Our focus for this meeting is on the harsh voice and false identity of the inner critic. Many of us are aware of this strong and negative habitual voice that appears in our minds. This voice can be shaming, militant, perfectionistic, and demanding.
Although its intention is often to protect us, it makes us contract into a separate and limited identity, turns us against our truth, and traps us by its high standards. We may not realize how stressful it is to live under its control.
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 unpack the inner critic thought pattern with understanding and compassion. We’ll learn to identify when it has taken hold, and feel into the fear, grief, and anger that lie at its core.
We’ll practice untangling our attention from what it tells us so we have the space to connect with what is true and alive in us. As our attachment to this voice softens, we’ll relax into ways of living that are kind and loving toward all that arises…and more aligned with the unity of all.
How do you work toward goals without the inner critic driving you? How do you function when when this critical and negative noise subsides? When the inner critic is in charge, we’re out of touch with our vulnerability, truth, and deep knowing. We’ll welcome these suppressed parts of ourselves into the light of loving awareness where they can flourish, innocent and free…
Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll explore the freedom that’s possible, here and now, beyond the contraction of the inner critic.
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 4, 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—Sharing Presence in Our Relationships
2025-06-11 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Sharing Presence in Our Relationships
Wednesday, June 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 awareness to the shared field of presence in our relationships.
In any interaction, there is the energy of the shared field that is created by the people who are present. Often, the field contains contractions and relational habits, leading to resistance, discomfort, and longing for real connection.
And when we are consciously aware in the field, there is the potential of just being together in presence, holding whatever arises in openness and love…being infinite awareness together beyond any separation. This is the medicine for our experiences very early in life of feeling alone and disconnected—when we most needed others for safety and care.
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 begin to more deeply feel ourselves, others, and the shared relational field we create together. We’ll turn toward ourselves to recognize how we close off from authentic connection and the strategies we use to get our needs met. These are signs that a conditioned pattern has taken hold.
When that happens, 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.
We’ll also open to how we feel inside when we’re with others who are triggered or disconnected. When they project their fears and needs onto us, we may end up in a relationship dance that feels unfulfilling. And with awareness, we can hold even those contractions in love.
Come and explore the invitation to see through the veils of conditioning that appear in our relationships. With attention to our shared relational field, we’ll turn inward to lovingly welcome 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 possibility of intimate connection by bringing attention the shared space of pure being. 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 11, 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—Opening to Curiosity, Humility, Compassion, and Devotion
2025-06-18 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Opening to Curiosity, Humility, Compassion, and Devotion

Wednesday, June 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 gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life is the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and living the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
Our focus for this meeting is on exploring ways to celebrate and remember the sacred knowing of our true nature. No matter how deep our experience is of endless openness beyond time and space, we find ourselves living the challenges and joys of daily life. How can we live these moments aligned with the truth of reality, informed by the revelation that who we are is not limited and lacking?
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 will shine the light of our inquiry on curiosity, humility, compassion, and devotion. What is our experience when we deeply feel into these qualities of being? How can we infuse them into our relationships with ourselves, other people, nature, and life? What is it like to live without the illusion of the separate self and knowing our connection to all?
In a supportive field of shared presence, we’ll open to these essential qualities in our own experience. We’ll explore how our view expands as we let go of limited ways of being and embody spaciousness, aliveness, and love. This is your natural being, who you have always been…
Our time together includes guided meditation, teachings, helpful 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.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, June 18, 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—Fear, Anxiety, and Trust in the Unfolding of Life
2025-06-25 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Fear, Anxiety, and Trust in the Unfolding of Life
Wednesday, June 25, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on fear and freedom from fear. Do fear and anxiety disturb you?
These are essential emotions to investigate on the path of awakening. If left unexplored, they pull our attention into our minds and a sense of separation. We forget that we can rest as Being which trusts the natural unfolding of life.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. 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 fear and anxiety rule, believing their stories limits us in life. Thoughts filled with worry and negativity will be our living experience. We dwell in our heads—while we unknowingly overlook the here-and-now presence of infinite peace and love.
Fear is behind the disconnection expressed in so many ways in our world today that create conflict, aggression, division, and painful othering.
Fear is a survival mechanism that is built into the human brain and nervous system. Yet, the realization of our true nature invites us to explore beyond its protective voice. In our gathering together, we’ll explore how fear, and its cousin anxiety, show up in the body and the stories they tell us that keep us rattled.
When we believe what anxious thoughts tell us, we’re living in a fear-fueled fantasy in our minds, disconnected from aliveness, awareness, and truth here and now. We’ll investigate to see if these stories we live by are actually true. How do we live if we’re not guided by fear and anxiety? Who are we in this boundless freedom?
Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, you’ll discover the potential—already in you—to be fully alive in your life, free beyond the limits of fear.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, June 25, 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:

“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—Getting to the Core of Early Trauma Patterns
2025-07-02 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Getting to the Core of Early Trauma Patterns
Wednesday, July 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.
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.
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 haven’t had the support we need to regulate our nervous systems so we can feel balanced and grounded in ourselves and in life.
And we grow up trying to figure out how to cope with the sense that something is missing. Some of the ways we do that are overachieving, perfectionism, people pleasing, self-judgment, or hiding from life.
Together, we create a field of safe space to explore these tender parts of ourselves. We support each other to meet them with deep acceptance and care, and have the 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 loving community—to find our way home. We lean into our shared being—and our shared breath—to support us.
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, July 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.

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—The Sacred Work of Trauma Healing and Awakening
2025-07-09 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
The Sacred Work of Trauma Healing and Awakening
Wednesday, July 9, 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, July 9, 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—Rest in Being; Not in Thinking
2025-07-16 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Rest in Being; Not in Thinking
Wednesday, July 16, 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. Our 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.
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

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…
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, July 16, 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—Wise Inquiry Into Emotions
2025-07-23 09:00 - 10:30
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Wise Inquiry Into Emotions
Wednesday, July 23, 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 because we need others for support and nervous system regulation. Resisting emotions is isolating and reinforces shame. In our time together, in the spirit of peace and freedom, we’ll open up to our experience of emotions. Because if we continue to be entangled in their stories, we will continue to suffer.
Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll take our stand as loving aware presence and learn how to practice welcoming emotions freely, taking our hands off the wheel and allowing their full liberation.
You are unconditionally welcome just as you are. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, July 23, 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.
