Leila Sadeghee is a yoga and meditation instructor working throughout the fields of priestessing, motion, yoga asana, depth non secular observe and vitality therapeutic.
We caught up with Leila to listen to extra about her practices…
What does a typical day appear like for you?
I reside 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 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 wherever from one to a few hours of observe. Not too long ago I’ve undertaken a deepening of my day by day observe, so there are extra ‘straight to observe’ mornings lately, and will likely be for the remainder of the 2024.
Then breakfast – almost at all times eggs (I want the protein) and I begin in with emails, ongoing research, growth, and pc work. Not too long ago I’ve been finding out a number of 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 yr’s Divine Mom pilgrimage that I will likely be main in Provence. There’s additionally prep, each research and planning, for my invitation-only pilgrimage to South India, The Secret Pilgrimage.
Blended in with this are conferences for my vitality fluency/non-duality coaching, Thriller Faculty, and personal consumer & mentoring periods for my vitality work, Vitality Weaving. I wrap up by making myself dinner (I like to prepare dinner) and both gabbing with my friends or watching a film.
Two days every week I train lessons 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 centered on instructing and being with folks in particular person. Between these occasions I normally go for walks, rifle by way 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 Days (when it’s on). I like to bounce.
How did your yoga journey start and what impressed you to turn into 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 the right way to begin.
Luckily I had a pal who was dedicated to an Indian guru – Gurumayi Chidvilasānanda – and after I known as her she stated: You should MEDITATE. So I discovered a category – that is pre-intenet days, thoughts you – and went to meditate, praying I might lastly really feel some aid 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 instructor. He stated – ‘You already know, some folks discover that it’s simpler to calm the thoughts after they observe yoga…’ and he was really instructing an Iyengar class proper earlier than the meditation. It wasn’t my first yoga class – I had been to some with buddies earlier than –
However now I actually NEEDED it to work. So for me, āsana observe was at all times a observe to arrange the vessel for deeper awakening practices. I nonetheless train 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 educated, greater than 10 years after my awakening. I instructed myself that it was only for my very own observe – however after I noticed what 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 helpful to share.
What impressed you to concentrate on your observe?
I don’t learn about specialisation – however I’ve turned to give attention to 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 instructing a big schedule of āsana lessons in huge studios & my annual boutique yoga immersion & instructor coaching – to the work I’m doing now, in supporting folks 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 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 kinds.
How have you ever seen yoga profit your college students?
Lots of my college students have discovered the ability 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 reside from – has been very liberating, radically liberating for a lot of of my college students.
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 method of current.
I’ve stated 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:
Cittih svatantra vishva siddhi hetuh.
My colloquial language riff: ‘Maa is at all times doing it’
Consciousness, completely autonomous, is the true reason for every part.
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 (night) by way 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 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 excellent devotion to the types of Divine Mom there. And the crew who’re coming are very particular folks certainly.
France pilgrimage to Paris & Provence is early June.
Lot’s of juicy issues to sit up for….
Discover out extra about Leila:
Web site: https://www.leilasadeghee.com/
Instagram: @leilasadeghee
