About
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“If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.”
My name is Irena Sekulska, but people call me Iri. I am a Leela Therapist, a GHR- and CNHC-Registered Advanced Hypnotherapist, Mindfulness and Yoga Teacher & a researcher in economics. Through this offering, I invite you to be as you are, meet yourself fully and discover how you betray yourself in the name of something or someone “out there” to fulfil you and make you whole. I call this honest, but loving self-investigation a meeting in truth. I’m not speaking about the “ultimate truth” - I’m speaking about that simple moment when we stop telling ourselves lies. And truth is bitter in the beginning, but so sweet, freeing and deeply fulfilling in the end.
A brief story of depression…or Grace
In my 20s, despite having ticked all societal boxes for my age, I often experienced a ground of hopelessness and depression. This was interspersed with occasional periods of joy that I associated with having a relationship or achieving something new.
This eventually (and blessedly) culminated in a severe depression in my early 30s, which (also blessedly) took the rest of my high achieving life apart. I say blessedly, because it led me to investigate what was really going on, what was true love and fulfilment and where to find it.
Traditional psychotherapy and medication didn’t help much. I set out to find what else was out there to support me and answer my questions. Here, I share different beautiful tools that I found on the way - yoga, mindfulness, embodied hypnotherapy, psychedelics. But eventually, what shifted things for me wasn’t really a tool.
In 2017, my intense longing led me to satsang (a “meeting in truth”), originally with Gangaji & Eli and later on with my Master Ganga Mira. This meeting changed my life profoundly - my circumstances didn’t really change, but the search for fulfilment, love and truth in them finally stopped. Then I could really meet myself and just be. More and more, I discover that what I was longing for IS who I am and that brings quietness, joy and peace. I hope to show up in sessions in this way.
Words for serious people and studios
Photo by Olya.Photography
Qualifications
Leela Therapist, Leela School Certificate in Advanced Hypnotherapy (Amsterdam, 2020); Advanced Trance for Healing (online 2021)
Registered GHR and CNHC hypnotherapist in the UK
Psychedelics in Therapy, CPD online course with PESI UK (2022)
Somatic Experiencing online course with Peter Levine (2021)
Mindfulness Now Teacher Training Certificate (Oxford, 2019)
200h Rasa Yoga Teacher Training with Tanja Mickwitz (London, 2018)
Course in Gong Mastery and Sound Healing (Strout, 2019)
Msc Quantitative Finance and Risk Management (Bocconi, 2009) - just because it’s funny.
Words for curious people
If you are not bored just yet, you can find a longer story about the journey through Depression.
“When you meet Iri, you just know ‘that one is very different’. Different in the humble way she sees the world, us (you and me), our pain...With her, you feel seen for who you are without judgement - the ‘you’ that only you know, but struggle to express. ”