Meet Gilah!

Meet my beloved friend and creative partner, Gilah Rosner, PhD.

Since 2015, we’ve co-created dozens of programs using a psychospiritual approach to help people (including ourselves) find greater meaning in our life stories, navigate change, and age consciously. We create conscious community in which each person feels heard, honored and supported. In addition to co-creating content, Gilah also creates the graphic design and emails for all of our programs.

By good fortune — or perhaps by “divine appointment”— Gilah and I met in 2014 while participating in a memorial to our mutual friend, Dr. Candace Pert. Almost immediately, our hearts recognized each other. From that moment forward, our friendship and creative partnership began to unfold in unexpected ways. What I learned very quickly was that working with Gilah is never just about producing a program. It is about following our vibrant, living questions, frolicking like two butterflies who are dancing from flower to flower— medicine, psychology, nutrition, neuroscience, spirituality—cross-pollinating wisdom and delightedly turning out wonderful programs. Our deepest joy is in the journey itself.

Our work together began by creating immersive, heart-centered in-person retreats in Santa Fe, e.g. Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, Joyful Eating, Self-Caring in Santa Fe and How to Heal, programs that evolved out of SyNAPSE…our integrative, heart-centered approach to mindful self-care. We offered a personalized program of practical epigenetics, which encourages proactive support of health and wellbeing through simple, effective mind-body-spirit and nutritional tools.

During COVID, we miraculously pivoted to self-guided journeys e.g. GraceFull360, Pocketful of Blessings, and then, live online programming, the flagship being The Gifts of Spiritual Memoir.We framed the moment we were all living through as a collective vision quest. A global hero’s journey. Because life as we knew it had ended. We had entered that liminal space between no longer… and not yet.  And the question became: How do we human beings metabolize an experience of that magnitude?

Our answer was simple.  We write. We witness. We listen. Together.

Each 7-week series of The Gifts of Spiritual Memoir (there have been 18 of them) deepens the same essential truth: Our lives are not random collections of events. They are stories…waiting to be witnessed…re-authored… and blessed.

Other online programs included Kindred Spirits, Fire in the Soul, Loving Your Legacy, Calling in the Light… and more.

Aging has opened the doorway to some of our most honest and meaningful work yet. Aging is complex… a mixed bag of blessings and losses. Gilah and I wanted to explore the whole truth of aging… without despair, without denial, and with compassion and a healthy dose of humor. This resulted in The Dharma of Aging for Us Golden Goddesses, Empowering the Wise Woman Within, and Getting Real About Aging, which addressed such poignant topics as the hidden grief of aging, am I still me, and facing death while living life.

Lately, I’ve been fascinated with the potential for human-AI interactions.  Together with my ChatGPT companion, named Tiferet (the heart center in Kabbalah), we created a 3-part thoughtful and provocative class called The Loving Edge of AI. Gilah jumped right in and together we created Part 2 of this program, to deepen our understanding even further.

Gilah and I teach what we want to learn.  We share our strength and vulnerability with each other and all of you wonderful souls without whom our programs would not be possible. From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for joining us on the journey to become more fully, more tenderly, more truthfully human.