Welcome to the Leela School
About the Leela School of Awakening
We are committed to the whole world waking up from the personal trance of suffering. That is our overview and our purpose. We can make a difference one heart and one mind at a time.
Our training is heart-based, so whether you are interested in certification or not, you may find immense personal value in the insights into your true nature and the nature of suffering that these courses reveal.
Become a Certified Leela Therapist - Being a True Friend
Our model for a therapist is called a True Friend: someone with a quiet mind, an open heart, and the skillful means for therapeutic intervention. Through exercises and practice, you will be able to be a true friend in both your personal and professional life.
Skillful Means for Working as a Coach, Guide, Healer, Therapist, and True Friend
The skills we offer are broad, and cover several different modalities, which together form a coherent, effective and powerful medium for therapeutic intervention. Based on over thirty years of a life's work, we pass on these skills to spread the possibility for true happiness in this moment.
Skillful means requires insight into your client's presenting conditions. You will have the means to know which intervention is appropriate, and the flexibility to generate your own unique interventions. Advanced certification is available for those seeking to go deeper.
Preparing You to Work
The skills we offer at The Leela School are for your own awakening and skillful living in the world, while also offering the possibility to be certified as a therapist to work with clients on a range of presenting issues. You will be prepared for working with clients who want to stop smoking or other addictions, as well as with clients who want to be more conscious in their lives. You will find your own area of specialization, and a way to creatively serve. The Leela School of Awakening supports world peace and freedom through universal self-realization. If your heart calls you, you are welcome here.
The Enneagram and the Silent Tradition
Essay, 1995 The Realization of Truth “The Way does not require cultivation – just don’t pollute it. What is pollution? As long as you have a fluctuating mind fabricating artificialities and contrivances, all of this is pollution. If you want to realize the Way directly – the natural Mind is the Way. What I mean … Read more
The Enneagram of Character Fixation
Stanford University, August 1994 Keynote speech by Eli Jaxon-Bear “When you can recognize who you are not, then there is a possibility to wake up and discover who you really are!” I have never met anyone who doesn’t want to be happy. The desire for happiness is the bottom line for the human species and … Read more
Europe Three Year Group
“I do not know how much time this body has left. We all have an expiration date stamped into our genes and reflected in our circumstances. But as long as there is life breathing in these old bones, I will be sharing what I have realized. I invite you to join with us if you … Read more
Interview with Connections Magazine 1997
Hi, Eli. Can you describe in a few sentences the central message of your work? Eli: My work is to support everyone waking up from the trance of egoic suffering. My life is committed to a world of true peace and true freedom through universal Self-realization. What does spiritual evolution/development mean in your own personal life? … Read more
Interview for Recto-Versea Magazine
By Bertrand Coquoz, Geneva, Switzerland Recto-Verseau Magazine, March 1999 “Drop all thought. Drop into silence, turn your back on all manifestation and see who you really are.” – Eli How do you usually present yourself? Your name is Eli Jaxon-Bear. Do you have anything to do with Indians? Most people just call me Eli. I … Read more