01/06/2026
Year End/New Year Letter from Gary:
Dear Friends,
As we come to the close of 2025 and beginning 2026, I find myself feeling deeply moved and profoundly grateful. It has been a truly robust and alive year for Life Energy Institute, the Graduate School for Life, our clinics, our students, our teachers, our staff, and our wider community. We are genuinely firing on all cylinders, and that is because of the people, each of you, who bring heart, commitment, and integrity to this work.
I want to say how immensely proud we are of our Graduate School for Life, of the dedication and brilliance of our teachers, the courage and growth of our students, and the steady presence of our colleagues and communities across Arizona, Washington, New York, Switzerland, Sicily, Japan, and Los Angeles. What we are building together is real, alive, and making a difference.
This last year alone, we’ve been able to offer approximately 20 scholarships, support around 10 fellowships, and sustain 12–15 clinics where people received sessions, alongside 12 professional online clinics in which our practitioners were paid for their work, as well as our ongoing student clinics. This is meaningful, tangible support reaching people where it truly matters.
A vital part of what makes all of this possible is our LEI-IPSB nonprofit Trust. It quietly and efficiently supports partial scholarships, fellowships, entrepreneurship, and community initiatives. It operates on a very lean budget, with most administrative support donated by Life Energy Institute itself, so the vast majority of funds go directly to people. Without the Trust, much of what we do simply wouldn’t be possible.
As we enter our 2026 fundraising season:
To those of you who give monthly: wow. Your steady support truly helps keep us balanced and sustainable. To those who have offered larger gifts or endowments at different times: please know how deeply impactful that generosity has been.
And to those who hold us in your thoughts, your prayers, your good energy, thank you. That matters more than you might imagine. It really does take a village to have a village. Community-oriented work only survives through shared care, shared responsibility, and shared belief in something meaningful.
In the world we’re living in, often fractured, sometimes bewildering, yet also full of people doing beautiful work, I believe more than ever in what we do. This is a time when people need support, presence, and a deeper energetic holding space to navigate stress, trauma, and change. Our work offers something unique and essential, meeting people in ways few other modalities can. If you’re able to contribute financially at this time, we would be deeply grateful. If you already do, or have in the past, thank you, thank you, thank you.
If you share our work, speak about it, or help us in any way to continue serving, every bit truly helps. The more people who support this work, the healthier and more sustainable it becomes for everyone involved. Most of all, I hope you love the work we’re doing, that you carry it into the world, and that you share it freely. People genuinely need it. And if you’re ever in doubt, simply help someone, you’ll find the doubt dissolves.
I’ll end with something I love from Japanese culture, a phrase that expresses gratitude, respect, and trust in what lies ahead:
“Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu.”
It loosely means, thank you for what you will do in the future, and please continue walking this path together.
So, thank you for all you’ve done, and for the good you will do moving forward.
Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu.
With deep gratitude,
Gary
📸 Original Artwork: Caleb Smith/ Peggy Collins
