2025 Program Leaders

Leonie Van Gelder

Leonie Van Gelder lives on Orcas Island and for about 18 years managed Indralaya with her husband, Minor. She has led meditations in other theosophical centers, and silent meditation retreats at Indralaya for many years. Leonie is a massage therapist, Therapeutic Touch practitioner, and has worked with mantra and sound healing.  

Events with Leonie Van Gelder

Opening to Stillness: Silent Meditation Retreat
September 25 - 28, 2025

Opening to Stillness: A Silent Meditation Retreat to Nourish Self Compassion in Times of Uncertainty  Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are And listen to the wind singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing, the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, Not who you would like to be, Not the saint you are striving to become, But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You are already more and less Than whatever you can know. Breathe out, Touch in, Let go.  –By…