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.
Announcing Certification in Clinical Hypnosis
We are very pleased to announce the first Module 1 course, this is a 10 day in-person retreat with Eli Jaxon-Bear, the founder of the Leela School, alongside Leela Teachers and Mentors, covering the syllabus in an environment of openness and heart-based learning, experiencing, practicing, and deep support. Certification in Clinical Hypnosis, Level 1 – … Read more
The Leela School receives A.C.H.E accreditation
We are excited to let you know we received the A.C.H.E. (American Council of Hypnotist Examiners) accreditation in January 2016. You can read more about the A.C.H.E. and the A.C.H.E. code of ethics here: A.C.H.E. American Council of Hypnotist Examiners ACHE Code of Ethics
A Mysterious Love
Dear Gangaji and Eli, Meeting with you was mysterious and miraculous – indeed, driven by Grace. I am so lucky. As I said as I was weeping at your feet, it was against all odds that I could be there. Really. My husband agreed to take care of our 1 yr old twins and 3 … Read more
A Reflection of Grace
Dearest Eli, i just wanted to say thank you for everything. I feel completely transformed since I have gone back to my job. For the first time I feel fully engaged and out of the way. Whatever needs to be done, some sort of drive to do it for, has fallen away. What a relief!!!I … Read more
Disappearing into Love
“I don’t know what’s going on right now. I wanted to meet you for the first time. I’ve met you before, but never really met you. I had an experience last week of being here, and it’s so delicious, but if I look for it I can’t find it.” “That’s right” “But it doesn’t go … Read more