-About Us-
Who We Are
Omni Gal
Hello, and thank you for taking the time to be here and read about me.
I am 53 years old, married to Ron. Together, we are parents of two and partners on the path.
Since childhood, I have been drawn to the inner life of human beings and to the forces that move us. I remember watching the people around me, and observing myself as well, trying to understand human nature.
I began my “formal” studies around the age of 18, though my motivation was, of course, deeply personal. I wanted to understand how I could find my way out of the feelings of worthlessness, emptiness, and sadness that had surrounded me for years. Deep down, I knew that life could offer me more, and that I had more to offer in return.
I am deeply grateful for the good fortune and privilege I have had to learn from inspiring teachers in colleges, courses, and various workshops. Over the years, many books and other written sources of wisdom seemed to find their way to me “by chance.” Together with countless hours of personal therapy with a wide range of excellent practitioners from different, and sometimes unusual, methods and approaches, they have become meaningful milestones on my path.
Over the years, I have trained and explored my body and consciousness through movement, including dance, martial arts, yoga, and more, as well as through meditation, self-observation, Kabbalah studies, and other paths. Yet above all, my deepest learning has come from life itself.
For me, every moment is a call and an opportunity for growth. I learn from everyone: my children, my partner, my students, my clients, my friends, cats, dogs, and flowers.
In my work over the years, body, emotions, energy, imagination, consciousness, movement, and conversation have come together into one whole. Presence and intuition allow me to move with what arises and choose the precise response that can guide the person I am working with toward discovering the diamond hidden within each challenge in their life.
I have had the honor of working with people from all walks of life: doctors, psychotherapists, healers, spiritual teachers, businesspeople, homemakers, babies, elderly people, and even those who were nearing the end of life. People from different cultures and different faiths. In each and every one of them, I found love.
Ron Freund
My name is Ron. I am 53 years old, married to Omni, and the father of our two children.
I would like to share with you the fruits of 25 years of therapy, study, and accompanying people on their life path, and to plant seeds for working together.
Over these years, I have spent hundreds of hours in meditation, studied and practiced Tai Chi, explored metaphysics and Kabbalah, worked in mediation, and practiced and taught therapy in Israel and abroad. I have spent many years exploring the inner life of human beings through listening to my body, my emotions, and my consciousness, my own personal “laboratory.”
I discovered that things I once believed were beyond my reach were actually right under my nose, and that in order to unravel complex entanglements, I had to approach them with simplicity.
Like many others, I believed that if I could “just solve this or that problem in my life, then I would be happy…” And so, happiness continued to be absent from my life.
At some point, I came to understand that “descents and ascents” are the natural movement of the universe, and that I can draw from both and learn from both. Each time I agreed to experience the fear of death in all its intensity, I was born anew.
I feel that there is a spring of life at the center of what we perceive as the “I”. It is the source of personal vitality, wisdom, and inspiration. This inner place connects the sense of “I” with the sense of “we” and with the rest of humanity and the universe. When we close our eyes and turn our attention toward that center of “I”, this spring can be sensed quite easily.
I believe that conflicts, illnesses, injuries, emotional crises, and other challenges are here only so that we may move through them and deepen our connection with that inner place and with one another.
I believe that we are all companions on this journey.
Dr. Gilly Gal
Personal development and the human being’s resources for self-healing have always been my main field of interest. Since 2002, I have studied, explored, and intensely experienced many phenomena in the world of spirituality. Over the years, I have trained and refined my inner capacities and gained a deep understanding of the connections between psychology, the natural sciences, religion, and spirituality.
As part of my training, I studied developmental psychology, as well as the boundary between formal psychotherapy and holistic methods of treatment.
I began my journey by studying philosophy and mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Later, I moved to Denmark and studied psychology at the University of Copenhagen. After completing my studies, I worked as a support psychologist with families in distress. Three and a half years of work in this field broadened my horizons and gave me an understanding of people living on the margins of society.
From 1997 to 2000, I worked as the chief psychologist at a school for children and young people facing difficulties. There, I was responsible, among other things, for training managers, guiding staff, organizing therapeutic and educational programs, supervision, and assessments.
After another six months of working with foster families, I chose to establish my own clinic. Today, I work full-time as a private psychologist.
Many directions have inspired me on my path: several courses in Gestalt therapy, the Grinberg Method in Israel, systemic training in the Milan approach, training in clinical hypnosis, Thought Field Therapy, and especially Omnitherapy.
In addition to my daily work in my clinic, I teach in the Omnitherapy therapist training program in Denmark and Israel.
I brought my understandings together in the book I wrote, “Bridge,” a scientific story about energy and consciousness, published in September 2006. In the book, I present several new concepts within psychology and describe my methods of work, which today include elements from the wisdom of Kabbalah, modern shamanism, quantum physics, Tibetan Buddhism, body therapy, and energy work.
The soul, as both a concept and a real dimension, is the most important element in my work.
Our Story
“Isn’t it difficult to work together as a couple?” This is the question we have been asked most often over the years. For us, the answer is clear: we could not have done all of this without one another. Is it difficult? Yes, it is certainly challenging at times. And for that very reason, it is also awakening, growing, developing, and deeply moving.
The Omnitherapy method was born out of a shared exploration of ourselves and of the relationship between us. We discovered that in order to create a good and supportive connection, each side must be willing to be real, exposed, and vulnerable. We searched for, and found, a way to guide each person toward that inner place where their strengths and resources are revealed.
We were both born in 1971, two weeks apart, in the same hospital in Be’er Sheva. Our fathers worked in the same workplace, and our homes were only 100 meters apart. We went to the same high school, but the connection between us was formed only around the age of 28, when life brought us together again.
We were amazed to discover that our lives had somehow continued to run in remarkably parallel ways. It turned out that both of us had devoted those years to studying therapeutic methods and to working with people in a clinical setting. Both of us had given ourselves to a journey of searching and understanding the self, the human inner world, mysticism and psychology, the body and consciousness, and their connection to everyday life. We had gone through similar experiences and had tried to decipher the secret of a good relationship. Fortunately, we met at the age of 28, just before we had given up on the idea of partnership. The connection was almost immediate, and within two years we had become parents.
In the years that followed, Omni began traveling to Denmark once every three months to visit her sister, Gil-Li Gal, who had been living there for many years. Gil-Li is a very successful clinical psychologist in Denmark, working with hundreds of clients. She noticed that there were some clients she was not managing to help, and she suspected that work involving touch might be beneficial.
The changes her clients experienced after a series of three sessions with Omni were significant and powerful, and Omni’s schedule became increasingly full with each visit. The demand grew, and Ron also began traveling there to offer treatments and lead workshops. Throughout those years of work, we would sit together and think through the different treatment cases, refine our understanding, examine what had been done, and consider what could be improved.
Therapists from various methods also began coming to us, and after several years of traveling back and forth, many of them began asking to learn how to “do what we do” themselves.
Wow. That was challenging. Teaching? Who had even thought of that? At that stage, Ron took the reins. He broke down, organized, and defined the working model we had developed over the years. He divided the material into a two-year training program plus a year of internship, and little by little we began to understand that we had probably discovered something truly valuable and important, something worth passing on to as many therapists as possible.
And that is what we did, throughout Europe and in Israel. It is a great joy to see people break through in their lives, to hear our students describe how they help their clients, how much they enjoy the work, and, of course, to witness their growth as human beings.