How to Integrate Spiritual Practice into Therapy Sessions

Therapists can enhance sessions by their own depth of realization, addressing an often-overlooked area of client well-being. Here’s how: Why It Matters: Until the true self is realized beyond the personal egoic identity, the client can improve on levels of ego-strengthening like building self-acceptance, confidence, courage and behavior change, but not reach the true end … Read more

8 Signs You’re Ready for Depth Therapy Training: A Guide to Your Next Career Step

What is Depth Therapy? Depth therapy is a transformative psychological approach that explores the unconscious mind to address root causes of emotional challenges and facilitate profound healing. Unlike conventional therapy methods that focus primarily on symptom management, depth therapy delves into hidden patterns, childhood experiences, and unconscious processes to create lasting change. At the Leela … Read more

7 Essential Skills for Ethical Psilocybin Facilitation

Psilocybin facilitation is about guiding individuals safely through therapeutic experiences with psilocybin. The process requires a strong focus on ethics, safety, and participant well-being. Here’s a quick breakdown of the 7 key skills every ethical facilitator should master: Why These Skills Matter Ethical facilitation ensures participants feel safe and supported, even during difficult moments. By focusing on preparation, … Read more

Enneagram vs Myers-Briggs: Which Serves Therapists Better?

Enneagram of Awakening symbol

Both the Enneagram and Myers-Briggs (MBTI) are valuable tools for therapists, but they serve different purposes. The Enneagram focuses on understanding why people behave as they do, diving into core motivations, fears, and emotional patterns. The MBTI, on the other hand, explains how people interact with the world, emphasizing behavior, preferences, and decision-making styles. Quick Overview: Enneagram: Best for deep … Read more

What is Satsang?

What is satsang? Satsang is sitting with a fully realized teacher who transmits silence and realization. Anyone can speak the words of satsang. My teacher, Papaji used to say you can teach a parrot to speak the words of satsang. And since the words are so powerful they will have an affect. But the words … Read more

Waking up & The Tower of Babel

A Temple up to Heaven   What do you see when you look at this painting? Does it evoke the bible story? We have a story explaining what the Tower of Babel represents and what Babylon was. The Bible or The Five Books of Moses tells us that the Tower of Babel is where God finds … Read more

Who’s Making Love?

Sex and Spirituality We’re going to look at a true issue in our community, which almost never gets addressed. It’s the issue of sexuality and spirituality and how we think of love. Religion addresses sexuality through morals and we’ve now all seen through that. Culture also address sexuality and as our respective cultures address it, … Read more

Enchantment & Entrainment

Welcome to this sacred space This is a sacred space and we’re here for the most sacred reason. We’re here for liberation. Liberation is the realization of who you are; it is the unspoken transmission and the formless teaching of the Leela School. Liberation is really just being quiet: being quiet long enough and listening … Read more

Teachers: Doing and Being

I’ve been very lucky in my life to have had many wonderful teachers. One of my teachers was a Taoist teacher; I spent three years with him and learned so much. He was a teacher of form. Most teachers in the world are teachers of form, as were my Tibetan Buddhist teachers. They taught certain … Read more

Breaking Free of Imaginary Gods & Demons

Ending the Superego’s Power of Enslavement What does “Breaking Free of Imaginary Gods & Demons” have to do with waking up and being free? “Breaking free” is about self-examination or looking at yourself to see what you haven’t seen before. One of the ways to do that is to name it. If you can name … Read more

The Enneagram and Beyond

For TaKeTiNa – The Power of Rhythm PodcastBy Reinhard Flatischler In this podcast, Eli meets an old friend and uses the metaphor of rhythm and vibration to transmit the possibility of waking up from suffering. Addressing the essential question of “what do you want” and “what to do” in the face of our crumbling world … Read more