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 awakening power of two simple questions
Pathways Magazine By Gangaji and Eli, April 2004 “Simply because you are alive and intelligent enough to read this, you are ready for the next evolutionary leap, from the isolated selfishness that is destroying the world, to the bliss of union, which holds the healing of the earth.” It is possible to awaken to the … Read more
Meditation
Visionen Magazine Interview with Inge Hasswani, March 2004 With the growing interest in satsang-advaitas in Europe, there is some confusion around the meditation subject. I’d like to bring up this concern with you. The traditional Buddhist teaching enhances the role and importance of meditation, the neo-Advaita followers seem to think that there is no need … Read more
Mirror Mirror
Article and Interview in Australia’s NOVA Magazine Vol 12 No 6, August, 2005 At first glance, the Enneagram appears to be simply a rather pretty geometric shape, a nine-pointed star with enough symmetry to please the eye, and just enough irregularity in its form to make you curious. But this ancient Sufi design is far … Read more
Saints, Sinners and Self-Realization
Eli Jaxon-Bear interviewed by Bertrand Coquoz KGS Magazine – Humburg – Germany, 2008 BC: Last night, as I knew that an interview with you was taking place, a subject appeared: Self Realization. This concept is much used and seems central to the mankind quest for happiness since forever. What does that mean for you? To … Read more
I love therefore I AM
Connections Magazine Interview Germany – May 2010 “ama ergo sum” I love therefore i am. (Our take on Descartes cogito ergo sum -“I realize, therefore i am”) What has love to do with the Essence and the identity of Man? How important is love for being? To ask how important is love for being is … Read more