Rev. Teresa Lynn Gardiner is the Founder and Spiritual Director of the on-line teaching center The Art of Life & Love , which she affiliated in 2025 with the Centers for Spiritual Living.  She has been an ardent student of metaphysics since the age of 17, a lifelong exploration of what it means to express love in the rich and the sacredness of Life. 

Rev. Teresa served for two years as a staff minister at Oakland Center for Spiritual Living, still calling this one of her Beloved communities. Her gratitude for Ernest Holmes is evident as she shares her vibrancy for Life and for Love through the Science of Mind tools and practices.

Each weekday morning, in individual texts, she shares a daily reading from the Science of Mind textbook, following Rev. Dr. Edward Viljoen’s Science of Mind in a Year guide. And for over 4 years has led a live online spiritual community celebration/devotional practice, 5 mornings a week. All are welcome to come, start their day with a life affirming practice that builds in a revealing of our innate inner home of love–we are seen, heard and more easily return to this place in the practice,.

 Those who feel called are invited to speak with her directly to be included, or reach out to her at Teresa@theartoflifeandlove.org

At the heart of her ministry is an experience of Love as a spiritual living principle–a very real, beautiful, and sometimes messy experience of being human and still to feel the nurturing of the Universal Presence as our very lives.