ABOUT LEELA
Life is a continual flow of endings and beginnings. Here are a few of mine.
I met and became a student of Mada Dalian in 2011 when I experienced a 10 day Vancouver intensive she leads. I came to this intensive thinking I must be crazy for coming and not really knowing what the point of it was. (I didn't think doing spiritual work would do much for me because my problems were too big and I thought spiritual people had it all together and ate only leafy green stuff)
I came because when viewing her website and info on the intensive, something mysterious in me said GO.
At that time I had been on psychiatric medications for 15 years and had been searching in vain for most of that time for a way to get off them. I felt there was something seriously wrong with me and I was looking for answers. I visited many healers, doctors, tried many treatments, many diets and read so many self-help books.
Everything I tried gave me that initial surge of hope. Some things I tried really did help to an extent and moved me forward in my development. Yet I was still in inner turmoil. All the explanations for adhd, depression, anxiety and bi-polar, although initially validating and insightful, ultimately did not ring true for me.
I came because when viewing her website and info on the intensive, something mysterious in me said GO.
At that time I had been on psychiatric medications for 15 years and had been searching in vain for most of that time for a way to get off them. I felt there was something seriously wrong with me and I was looking for answers. I visited many healers, doctors, tried many treatments, many diets and read so many self-help books.
Everything I tried gave me that initial surge of hope. Some things I tried really did help to an extent and moved me forward in my development. Yet I was still in inner turmoil. All the explanations for adhd, depression, anxiety and bi-polar, although initially validating and insightful, ultimately did not ring true for me.
I landed in Vancouver for that intensive in 2011 with such a torrent of doubts and biases. But the experience of those next 10 days with Mada actually shocked me. Those 10 days changed me more than the previous 15 years of searching combined. One change is that I stopped taking all psychiatric medication during that retreat and never took them again since.
I had up until then spent my whole life fearing, doubting, and controlling my inner world. The work done in those intensives involves specific active meditations and activities designed to release trapped emotions and self-sabotaging thoughts and increase self-awareness. We were given so much freedom to be honest, to express and explore! I was terrified of it yet it was also so liberating and healing!
Ending the medication was a big deal at the time but it was also just the beginning. I felt stronger and was able to function but still struggled with depression and anxiety. For the next few years I worked through many layers of unresolved trauma and issues that the medications had previously kept suppressed.
As I worked closely with Mada I learned how to use the Dalian Method (DM). DM became the primary technique that would unravel me - and I mean that in the best possible way. I never experienced something so deeply internal, so powerful, and so real. I finally had a way to understand myself without fitting into someone else's theories or ideas. I started to uncover a natural joy, compassion, and courage within me and life slowly became colorful and exciting and meaningful.
After adjusting to life as a happy person, with time I began to sense that there's more to life than just being and maintaining happiness. I stopped thinking of this inner work as just a way to get rid of my pain and problems.
I realized that I was a seeker. Seeking expansion of my consciousness.
And in time then came a further realization: This is all so much bigger than me.
This realization and my natural passion for this inner work lead me to share and facilitate this work for others. I started Expanding Consciousness in 2015.
Through private sessions - workshops - speaking - writing, I support fellow seekers in their journey to expand their consciousness.
PS. I now eat way more leafy green stuff too! :)
I had up until then spent my whole life fearing, doubting, and controlling my inner world. The work done in those intensives involves specific active meditations and activities designed to release trapped emotions and self-sabotaging thoughts and increase self-awareness. We were given so much freedom to be honest, to express and explore! I was terrified of it yet it was also so liberating and healing!
Ending the medication was a big deal at the time but it was also just the beginning. I felt stronger and was able to function but still struggled with depression and anxiety. For the next few years I worked through many layers of unresolved trauma and issues that the medications had previously kept suppressed.
As I worked closely with Mada I learned how to use the Dalian Method (DM). DM became the primary technique that would unravel me - and I mean that in the best possible way. I never experienced something so deeply internal, so powerful, and so real. I finally had a way to understand myself without fitting into someone else's theories or ideas. I started to uncover a natural joy, compassion, and courage within me and life slowly became colorful and exciting and meaningful.
After adjusting to life as a happy person, with time I began to sense that there's more to life than just being and maintaining happiness. I stopped thinking of this inner work as just a way to get rid of my pain and problems.
I realized that I was a seeker. Seeking expansion of my consciousness.
And in time then came a further realization: This is all so much bigger than me.
This realization and my natural passion for this inner work lead me to share and facilitate this work for others. I started Expanding Consciousness in 2015.
Through private sessions - workshops - speaking - writing, I support fellow seekers in their journey to expand their consciousness.
PS. I now eat way more leafy green stuff too! :)
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