Jesse Brune

Jesse Brune is a spiritual teacher, counselor, and coach based in Los Angeles, and yes, also a professional chef. He has spent his career living at the intersection of nourishment and spirit, and Active Love Project is where those two worlds finally meet.

For a decade, Jesse served as Co-Founder and Spiritual Director of Inspire Spiritual Community, an independent New Thought community built for LGBTQ+ folks and allies in Los Angeles. In that time he gave hundreds of live teachings, developed the Spiritual Practitioner and Counseling Program, and was deeply involved in social justice work. He has led meditation and healing retreats throughout California and is featured as an expert in the documentary Is Mindfulness Right For You (available on Amazon).

No stranger to the public eye, Jesse has co-starred in Bravo's Workout, Food Network's Private Chefs of Beverly Hills, and OWN's Emmy-winning Home Made Simple. He has been a featured expert in countless magazines, television shows, and books.

At the heart of Jesse's teaching is a simple conviction: that accessibility and simplicity are the keys to an effective spiritual practice. A practice is only useful if you know how to do it, and the deepest wisdom, he has found, almost always lives in the simplest places.

Active Love Project is his calling, a modern spiritual community built on one simple idea: that peace is not something you find someday. It is something you cultivate, right now, in the life you are actually living.