Leila Sadeghee is a yoga and meditation trainer working throughout the fields of priestessing, motion, yoga asana, depth non secular apply and vitality therapeutic.
We caught up with Leila to listen to extra about her practices…
What does a typical day appear to be for you?
I reside by the ocean, so I typically get up and spend a while gazing on the sea and the sunshine over the ocean. Mornings are time to both go sluggish, take a tea or chocolate in mattress, gaze on the sea & learn for pleasure earlier than I begin my day, or to rise additional early and go straight to my altar for anyplace from one to a few hours of apply. Just lately I’ve undertaken a deepening of my every day apply, so there are extra ‘straight to apply’ mornings nowadays, and can be for the remainder of 2024.
Then breakfast – almost at all times eggs (I want the protein) and I begin in with emails, ongoing examine, improvement, and laptop work. Just lately I’ve been learning among the Tantric Buddhist texts that I began my apply with within the 90s. I’m reviewing them as a result of I’m making a 2025 coaching for the thoughts known as The Ideas of Elevation, and we’ll be working with a few of these teachings. I’m additionally arranging a reconnaissance mission to the South of France to organize for subsequent yr’s Divine Mom pilgrimage that I can be main in Provence subsequent yr. There’s additionally prep, each examine and planning, for my invitation-only pilgrimage to South India, The Secret Pilgrimage.
Combined in with this are conferences for my vitality fluency/non-duality coaching, Thriller Faculty, and personal consumer & mentoring classes for my vitality work, Vitality Weaving. I wrap up by making myself dinner (I like to prepare dinner) and both gabbing with my buddies or watching a film.
Two days every week I educate courses in London at Re:thoughts studio (Vitality Weaving, my vitality work), Tripspace Yoga and Dance, and Sāmya Studios (Yoga āsana). There’s additionally workshops on lots of my weekends. So these days are extra targeted on educating and being with folks in individual. Between these occasions I normally go for walks, rifle by means of each charity store within the space (I’m a bloodhound), and in my London evenings I attempt to get to my favorite Persian home music get together, Diasporic Daze (when it’s on). I really like to bop.
How did your yoga journey start and what impressed you to grow to be a yoga trainer?
In 1998, I had an enormous non secular awakening, whereas working at galleries in Berlin in my early twenties. I used to be completely freaked out – I knew that the voice in my head – my ‘considering voice’ – wasn’t ME – but when my thoughts wasn’t me – then who was I?! I knew I wanted to get up spiritually – however I had no thought what that meant or how you can begin.
Thankfully I had a pal who was dedicated to an Indian guru – Gurumayi Chidvilasānanda – and after I known as her she mentioned: It’s worthwhile to MEDITATE. So I discovered a category – that is pre-interet days, thoughts you – and went to meditate, praying I’d lastly really feel some reduction from this desperation that had woken up inside me. Everybody was so quiet, beatific and peaceable trying – and I felt worse than ever! After the category, I broke down into tears with the trainer. He mentioned – ‘You realize, some folks discover that it’s simpler to calm the thoughts after they apply yoga…’ and he was truly educating an Iyengar class proper earlier than the meditation. It wasn’t my first yoga class – I had been to some with mates earlier than –
However now I actually NEEDED it to work. So for me, āsana apply was at all times a apply to organize the vessel for deeper awakening practices. I nonetheless educate from that perspective.
Someplace alongside the road I began understanding that it was my path to show the yoga. However I put it off for years earlier than I lastly skilled, greater than 10 years after my awakening. I informed myself that it was only for my very own apply – however after I noticed what trainer Tara Judelle was bringing to her educating ministry, the artfulness, the care – I knew I had the bug. At that time I had been working therapeutically with the physique for 7 years as a bodyworker. All of it type of got here collectively at that time. I knew I had one thing invaluable to share.
What impressed you to concentrate on your apply?
I don’t find out about specialisation – however I previously two years, I’ve turned to concentrate on my vitality work, Vitality Weaving. This brings collectively all of the energetic abilities and understandings of my years of Tantric sadhana, and centres my Avalonian priestessing and different threads of my life practices. I’m additionally main pilgrimages and specializing in supporting folks in non-dual awakening. These shifts – from educating a big schedule of āsana courses in large studios & my annual boutique yoga immersion & trainer coaching – to the work I’m doing now, holding programs to assist folks in cultivating deeper practices and revelation – are a results of my on-going decolonisation & frustration with the ‘white wellness’ paradigm of the up to date yoga scene, which focuses on a type of spiritualised perfectionism and optimisation, relatively than non secular awakening. It’s additionally a pure movement of my devotion to the Divine Mom in all their kinds.
How have you ever seen yoga profit your college students?
A lot of my college students have discovered the facility and presence with apply that blew aside their restricted self ideas – and that awakening to a extra resonant dimension of life as a spot to reside from – has been very releasing, radically releasing for a lot of of my college students. And likewise very stabilsing. A lot of them have created a complete new world of stability although the sadhanas they’ve undertaken in my deeper apply choices.
Additionally, holding the profound accountability of the seat of the trainer has additionally been life-changing for a lot of of my trainer trainees. I get them coming again, years later, sharing how deeply their lives have modified from coming to grips with such accountability. It has introduced them into a way more genuine and care-driven means of present.
I’ve mentioned it innumerable instances: these practices are highly effective. Highly effective to do them. Incomparably highly effective to share them.
What’s your favourite quote or life motto?
First sutra of the Pratjabijna Hrdayam:
CITIḤ SVATANTRĀ VIŚVA–SIDDHI–HETUḤ
Consciousness, completely autonomous, is the true reason behind every little thing.
My colloquial language riff: ‘Maa is at all times doing it’.
Who’s at all times doing every little thing? The Divine – Consciousness herself.
I really like this sutra. It actually unfolds a lot concerning the nature of actuality, and, implicitly, how you can be in the best relationship to it.
What’s arising for you in 2024 /2025?
First there’s Thriller Faculty – a coaching for vitality fluency and non-dual awakening – that’s October 23 by means of October 27 – in an amazingly charming venue in central London.
Then private pilgrimage – to a Black Madonna in Poland, and to Auchewicz. To Provence to analysis subsequent yr’s Divine Mom pilgrimage (I’m including some new Mary Magdalene websites and another particular issues.)
January I’m beginning The Ideas of Elevation – a year-long thoughts coaching for stability, readability, and luminosity of the thoughts and coronary heart. That’s in-person (and on-line for folk overseas) at Sāmya Studios, with 6 conferences all year long, plus common group check-ins and meditation on-line.
Finish of January it’s The Secret Pilgrimage in Tamil Nadu, South India! I’m so excited to return to those magical temples. I’ve an amazing devotion to the types of Divine Mom there. And the crew who’re coming are very particular folks certainly.
Divine Mom Pilgrimage to Paris, Provence, and Montserrat is in late Might/early June. You’ll be able to come for the entire thing, or simply attend a portion…. It’s an unbelievable, stunning journey.
Plenty of juicy issues arising!
Discover out extra about Leila:
Web site: https://www.leilasadeghee.com/
Instagram: @leilasadeghee
