Leila Sadeghee is a yoga and meditation trainer working throughout the fields of priestessing, motion, yoga asana, depth religious observe and power therapeutic.
We caught up with Leila to listen to extra about her practices…
What does a typical day appear to be for you?
I stay by the ocean, so I usually get up and spend a while gazing on the sea and the sunshine over the ocean. Mornings are time to both go gradual, 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 observe. Just lately I’ve undertaken a deepening of my every day observe, so there are extra ‘straight to observe’ mornings lately, and will likely be for the remainder of the 2024.
Then breakfast – almost all the time 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 observe 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 arrange for subsequent 12 months’s Divine Mom pilgrimage that I will likely be main in Provence. 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 shopper & 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 buddies or watching a film.
Two days per week I educate lessons 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 lots of my weekends. So these days are extra targeted on educating and being with individuals in individual. Between these occasions I often go for walks, rifle via 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 Days (when it’s on). I really like to bounce.
How did your yoga journey start and what impressed you to turn out to be a yoga trainer?
In 1998, I had an enormous religious 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 find out how to begin.
Fortuitously I had a pal who was dedicated to an Indian guru – Gurumayi Chidvilasānanda – and once I known as her she mentioned: It is advisable MEDITATE. So I discovered a category – that is pre-intenet 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 wanting – and I felt worse than ever! After the category, I broke down into tears with the trainer. He mentioned – ‘You understand, some individuals discover that it’s simpler to calm the thoughts after they observe 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 a couple with pals earlier than –
However now I actually NEEDED it to work. So for me, āsana observe was all the time a observe to arrange the vessel for deeper awakening practices. I nonetheless educate from that perspective.
Someplace alongside the road I began realizing that it was my path to show the yoga. However I put it off for years earlier than I lastly educated, greater than 10 years after my awakening. I instructed myself that it was only for my very own observe – however once I noticed what 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 form of got here collectively at that time. I knew I had one thing invaluable to share.
What impressed you to concentrate on your observe?
I don’t learn about specialisation – however I’ve turned to deal with 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 educating a big schedule of āsana lessons in large studios & my annual boutique yoga immersion & trainer coaching – to the work I’m doing now, in supporting individuals in cultivating deeper practices – 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 form of spiritualised perfectionism and optimisation, reasonably than religious awakening. It’s additionally a pure movement of my devotion to the Divine Mom in all their types.
How have you ever seen yoga profit your college students?
A lot of my college students have discovered the facility and presence with observe that blew aside their restricted self ideas – and that awakening to a extra resonant dimension of life as a spot to stay from – has been very releasing, radically releasing for a lot of of my college students.
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 current.
I’ve mentioned 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:
Cittih svatantra vishva siddhi hetuh.
My colloquial language riff: ‘Maa is all the time doing it’
Consciousness, completely autonomous, is the true reason for the whole lot.
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 (night) via 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 important devotion to the types of Divine Mom there. And the crew who’re coming are very particular individuals certainly.
France pilgrimage to Paris & Provence is early June.
Lot’s of juicy issues to stay up for….
Discover out extra about Leila:
Web site: https://www.leilasadeghee.com/
Instagram: @leilasadeghee
