Our Mission is to support you in the experience of living your individual unique life through Human Design. We are international Human Design teachers and we offer readings, workshops, lectures and personalized one on one processes live and in virtual classroom environments.
Leela and Dharmen Swann-Herbert
Life Partners for Over Twenty Years
We have been partners in love and life for over 20 years. We have a multi-ethnic blended family, and we raised 3 of our boys together. In our years together, we have lived throughout the western United States as well as many years in Hawaii. We have survived parenthood, failed businesses, bankruptcy, illness, and separation; as well as the intense joy of creating a life together dedicated to growth, stewardship, and personal accountability.
We met Human Design together over a decade ago. We had our individual readings from Ra as well as a partnership reading on the same day. We have seen not only the personal transformation that Human Design offers, but also the quality of life in our relationship undergo dramatic changes.
We are polar opposites - Dharmen is a black guy from Harlem, Leela is a white girl from The Valley - east coast/west coast, black/white, male/female. Dharmen is a wide-open Reflector, Leela is a triple-split emotional Generator - open/very defined, non-emotional/very emotional, logical/abstract, non-energy being/3-motor energy being. These opposite qualities and their accompanying conditioning had often lead to cultural, emotional, or value-driven conflicts between us. Through Human Design practice and the discovery of who we are beyond our conditioning, it has lead to these opposite qualities becoming harmonic.
Harmony in a relationship is a rare gift, certainly nothing that either of us had experienced in our lives prior to Human Design. It is due to the quality of life that we have found - as individuals and as a couple, that has led us to share Human Design.
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Dharmen - My relationship with Human Design
My relationship with Human Design is simply my relationship with my self. As a 1/3 Reflector, I have a deeply investigative personality, which has translated into a profound and authoritative study of Human Design Analysis, Rave Cartography, and currently Rave Psychology.
Human Design literally saved my life. When I found Human Design, my life wasn’t working. It hadn’t really worked ever - my various careers, living in spiritual communes and communities, monogamous and non-monogamous relationships, raising kids, starting businesses that failed – you name it. I’d tried it and it didn’t ultimately work. Since that moment of my reading in 1999, I have lived this life as myself and I haven’t looked back. I truly discovered my true home – my true self.
I am a Reflector. This knowledge was transforming. No wonder nothing worked in my life. No wonder I always felt I was living on shifting sand and nobody ever saw the real me. Without the understanding of my strategy and authority, there was no way for my life to work properly. In my study of Human Design, I’ve had to investigate deeply and for myself the truth of the experiment. I completed my first seven year cycle in July, 2006.
What I can say truly now, after this first cycle, is that life works, and I am riding the wave of its beauty and grace as the unique being that is me.
Reflectors are the only type who can truly “surf” the daily transits, for whom the conditioning of the Daily Program is correct. In this way, I take in the transits very deeply. This gives me a deep affinity to the work of doing readings. I literally “live” the definitions as we transit through the years, and I bring this depth of understanding to my work. It is my hope that as an analyst, I am able to share with you the truth of this experience.
My Professional Background
I have a professional background in coaching, training and development, and have taught over 600 workshops world-wide over 40 years prior to becoming a Human Design Analyst and Teacher.
I have been a student of Human Design for over a decade. I am a certified Human Design Analyst, and Human Design Color Analyst as well as a Living Design Guide. Over the years I have taken many classes with Ra Uru Hu, and consider him as my teacher. I have completed the Rave Psychology program, and I am currently finishing up my thesis work for certification.
Our family lived for many years in Maui, Hawaii and we currently live in Seattle, Washington. I am not an outdoors type, and I do not enjoy water sports. Go figure. I am a former professional basketball player; however, these days I am a golfer. My work as a Human Design Analyst My favorite aspect of doing readings is working with the individual to help them actualize the information. A reading is only a finger pointing to the experience of the self; it is not the actual experience.
I bring a unique viewpoint to readings – with no personal definition, I am wide open, and bring the depth of that wisdom and distinct lack of personal veneer. What people get with my readings is their unique self – not me. I do basic readings, and also partnership readings. I enjoy working with families and with individuals. As a Reflector, I am particularly suited to working with new Reflectors, but I enjoy working with any type.
Dharmen Swann-Herbert
Dharmen Rave Mandala
Teaching Human Design Students Most important for me is what the student takes away from the training and then experiments with in their life. I’m not interested in teaching for the sake of having people listen to me – I’m here to help people wake up to what their lives can be; how to enjoy living the unique being that they’ve been given in this life through Human Design.
Having been an educator and trainer for over 40 years, I bring many skills to the teaching environment that ensures the student gets the most out of the experience.
Although I may have an outline of material that will be covered in the workshop or class, I work with what the students bring to the event as well. Workshops and classes, in order to be effective, must provide the opportunity for realization. Real learning is what excites me, not rote repetition of facts.
Teaching is a dynamic – and being a Reflector, I have the ability to accurately reflect what is going on with the group, to know where people are at, and help guide them to where they actually want to be. Understand this as it is an important distinction: I’m here to guide people, not to where I want them to be – but where they want to be. I’m here to help you uncover the truth that you are – not to tell you what your truth is, but to create an environment where you discover your truth.
I’ve been a seeker all my adult life. From my early 20’s I was a student of Yoga and Eastern Spirituality, starting with Paramahansa Yogananda. I moved on and became a teacher in the Western Sufi Tradition; I then lived in the Rajneesh commune in Oregon, and have been a sannyasin for over 20 years. Needless to say, the spiritual search, the awareness that there is more to life than what meets the eye – has been the guidepost in my life.
The biggest challenge through all of these traditions and teachings, although I learned a lot, and grew a lot, I never really found home. My inner life and outer life were chaotic at best, and I never truly felt satisfied. I had been married and divorced twice before I was thirty. I had lived everywhere from a tipi on Mt.Shasta, to a Dallas mansion with a Rolls Royce to drive, a city girl with a downtown office career in Seattle, to a remote fruit farm with no electricity or indoor plumbing in Maui. Who was I, really – and where did I belong?
Leela Swann-Herbert
My Relationship With Human Design
Since the moment of my reading in 1999, I’ve known that the search was over, and that I had found my self. With Human Design, I had a blue-print for my life. I am a triple-split unconscious emotional authority Generator.
I’d like to say that it was easy to ‘get’ my strategy and authority, but it wasn’t. I’ve got to say, I’m a slow learner, I have a slow frequency which with I operate best. Now this was a revelation in itself for me. As a child, I was conditioned to be a quick learner, to always be at the head of the class, and to get my work done as quickly as possible, so I’d be ready for the next thing.
It was two years into my experiment before I realized how it felt to make an emotionally correct decision, and it was a decision that took over three months to make. It required a lot of slowing down, and a deep commitment to staying with the process, to take that much time in the gap.
Learning to not rush into taking action, to really wait until there was no emotional disturbance in the decision – either positive or negative – was an enormous effort. But the result – incredible. To make a life-choice without doubt or fear, to move forward with satisfaction and no regret, to trust and surrender 100% to the decision, and not be excited or terrified of the outcome, and to meet the flow of life rather than resistance.
It’s been an amazing journey from there – to go from making one correct decision, to gradually getting to where it’s the only kind of decision I’m willing to make. I can’t say the process has been easy, or that there has been a steady progress – because that’s not my way. My journey has been a process of plateaus, walls and breakthroughs. Periods of time when my life was going along at a certain level and then hitting the wall, over and over and over; then another breakthrough, a long plateau and then hitting another wall, eventual breakthrough, and so on.
4/6 Generator
My Professional Background
I am a PHS Analyst and a Living Design Guide, and I consider Ra to be my teacher. I have completed the PHS Practitioner study program, and I am currently finishing up my thesis work final certification as a PHS practitioner. I am also currently in the Variable Teacher Training Certification program.
My professional skills are in business management and development. For 20 years, I worked primarily in the Natural Foods industry: from managing Natural Food stores, opening stores for a national natural grocery chain, training staff in everything from customer service to counseling customers in vitamins, supplements and herbs. I also directed sales for a homeopathic company, as well as directed operations for a chain of retail pharmacies with a natural products focus.
I have also been an entrepreneur my entire work career - starting diverse businesses such as a publishing company to training independent business owners in sales and business management skills.
