Something Deeper is Calling You

A three-day online retreat designed for all helping professionals. This time will deepen your own insight and give you valuable interventions for dealing with both ego-strengthening and ego-transcendence.

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True Friends Satsang Retreat with Eli with German Translation-ONLINE

May 21, 2021 – May 23, 2021

This is a 3 day retreat with Eli with German translation.

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Seeing Through the Structure of Ego: Realizing your Essential Self Retreat with Eli

Online – April 22 – 26, 2021

5-Day Retreat with Eli and Leela School Teachers. Live discussions and questions as Eli works with people to see through fixation to essence.

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Now in this brand new podcast series, Heart to Heart, our host Lisa Schumacher will be sharing excerpts from live meetings that Eli has led over the years. Join us each month.

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A Lineage, Satsang & Enneagram Video Collections

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Serving Love as a True Friend

We are committed to the whole world waking up from the personal trance of suffering. We can make a difference one heart and one mind at a time

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Who’s Making Love?

by Eli Jaxon-Bear | March 31, 2021 | Essays on Awakening | 0 Comments

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....

Enchantment & Entrainment

by Eli Jaxon-Bear | March 26, 2021 | Essays on Awakening | 0 Comments

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...

Teachers: Doing and Being

by Eli Jaxon-Bear | March 11, 2021 | Essays on Awakening | 0 Comments

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...

Breaking Free of Imaginary Gods & Demons

by Eli Jaxon-Bear | March 2, 2021 | Essays on Awakening | 0 Comments

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...

The Desire for Happiness

by Eli Jaxon-Bear | February 18, 2021 | Enneagram Articles, Enneagram Articles DE, Essays on Awakening | 0 Comments

"Your true nature is happiness and bliss" - Ramana Maharshi Everyone wants to be happy. This is a universal component of the human condition, and may seem so self-evident that it does not bear noting. Even those who intensely hate themselves or do violence to...

What is Satsang?

by Eli Jaxon-Bear | February 16, 2021 | Essays on Awakening | 0 Comments

Interview with Connections Magazine for May, 2001 issue 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...

Five Traps to Avoid in the Pursuit of Happiness

by Eli Jaxon-Bear | February 5, 2021 | Essays on Awakening | 0 Comments

Conscious Connection Magazine, June 17, 2018 Our Declaration of Independence states that we are all created equal and enjoy the rights of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” The sad joke here is that the “pursuit of happiness” almost never leads to lasting...

Supreme Yoga of Non-Ado

by Eli Jaxon-Bear | January 20, 2021 | Essays on Awakening | 0 Comments

Lucknow, India • Originally created March, 2013 Yoga is the cessation of the turning of thought. When thought ceases spirit stands in its true identity as observer of the world. Patanjali Ultimately, if you are a sincere yogi interested in liberation, or a...

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It shows the veiling of true consciousness
by habits of egoic identification“ ~ Eli

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Advanced Clinical Hypnosis with Eli, Lisa, and Jared #2

Online – May 28, 2021 – May 30, 2021

True Friends Satsang Retreat with Eli with German Translation-ONLINE

May 21, 2021 – May 23, 2021

Seeing Through the Structure of Ego: Realizing your Essential Self Retreat with Eli

Online – April 22 – 26, 2021

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I can’t find words to express how useful Eli’s teaching and the Leela School have been in supporting my own self-discovery and in deeping my capacity to serve others. I am forever grateful!

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Podcast

A Collection of Interviews

Leela Videos

A Lineage, Satsang & Enneagram Video Collections

Leela School

Serving Love as a True Friend

Essays on Awakening

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