Leila Sadeghee is a yoga and meditation instructor working throughout the fields of priestessing, motion, yoga asana, depth non secular apply and power therapeutic.
We caught up with Leila to listen to extra about her practices…
What does a typical day appear like for you?
I dwell 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 further 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 day by day apply, so there are extra ‘straight to apply’ mornings nowadays, and will probably 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 pc work. Just lately I’ve been finding out 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 Rules 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 12 months’s Divine Mom pilgrimage that I will probably be main in Provence subsequent 12 months. 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 power fluency/non-duality coaching, Thriller College, and personal consumer & mentoring periods for my power work, Power Weaving. I wrap up by making myself dinner (I like to cook dinner) and both gabbing with my friends or watching a film.
Two days per week I educate courses in London at Re:thoughts studio (Power Weaving, my power work), Tripspace Yoga and Dance, and Sāmya Studios (Yoga āsana). There’s additionally workshops on a lot of my weekends. So these days are extra centered on instructing and being with individuals 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 celebration, Diasporic Daze (when it’s on). I like to bop.
How did your yoga journey start and what impressed you to grow to be a yoga instructor?
In 1998, I had a large 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 concept what that meant or begin.
Thankfully I had a buddy who was dedicated to an Indian guru – Gurumayi Chidvilasānanda – and after I known as her she stated: You might want to MEDITATE. So I discovered a category – that is pre-interet days, thoughts you – and went to meditate, praying I might 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 instructor. He stated – ‘, some individuals discover that it’s simpler to calm the thoughts after they apply yoga…’ and he was truly instructing 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 figuring out 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 advised myself that it was only for my very own apply – however after I noticed what instructor Tara Judelle was bringing to her instructing 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 priceless to share.
What impressed you to focus on your apply?
I don’t learn about specialisation – however I previously two years, I’ve turned to give attention to my power work, Power 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 individuals in non-dual awakening. These shifts – from instructing a big schedule of āsana courses in huge studios & my annual boutique yoga immersion & instructor coaching – to the work I’m doing now, holding programs to assist individuals 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, quite than non secular awakening. It’s additionally a pure move of my devotion to the Divine Mom in all their varieties.
How have you ever seen yoga profit your college students?
A lot of my college students have discovered the ability 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 dwell from – has been very liberating, radically liberating for a lot of of my college students. And likewise very stabilsing. A lot of them have created an entire 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 instructor has additionally been life-changing for a lot of of my instructor 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 approach of current.
I’ve stated it innumerable occasions: 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 explanation for 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 like this sutra. It actually unfolds a lot in regards to the nature of actuality, and, implicitly, be in the suitable relationship to it.
What’s developing for you in 2024 /2025?
First there’s Thriller College – a coaching for power 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 12 months’s Divine Mom pilgrimage (I’m including some new Mary Magdalene websites and another particular issues.)
January I’m beginning The Rules 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 people 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 individuals certainly.
Divine Mom Pilgrimage to Paris, Provence, and Montserrat is in late Could/early June. You’ll be able to come for the entire thing, or simply attend a portion…. It’s an unimaginable, stunning journey.
A lot of juicy issues developing!
Discover out extra about Leila:
Web site: https://www.leilasadeghee.com/
Instagram: @leilasadeghee
