Dear Community,
We have a beautiful and considered share for you today from Eslyn Barends about Self Leadership. Things may be all shiny on the outside, but how do you feel on the inside? What does it feel like to be inside of your skin, and do you really have joy?
Today we have on offer Spiritual Intuition as part of our Metaphysical Wednesdays. Read below for more information.
Enjoy the weekly Chi-Do booster available tonight, live on Zoom.
The Modern Mystery School UK & EU Team
Becoming the Leader of Your Own Life
Ancient Tools for Modern Leadership
There are moments in life when we realise that something is quietly asking to change.
Not in a dramatic way. Not as a crisis.
More as a gentle, persistent knowing, an inner sense that the way we’ve been living or leading no longer fits where we are heading.
For me, that knowing didn’t arrive all at once. It came in small moments. On the outside, things looked steady and successful. Inside, I could feel that something deeper was asking for my attention.
Like many people who are naturally capable and ambitious, I learned early how to lead outwardly. I knew how to take responsibility, how to organise and guide, how to hold things together when life felt demanding. I was good at pushing through uncertainty and finding solutions.
And yet, beneath that competence, there were patterns I struggled to move beyond.
Self-sabotage. Self-doubt. Seeking validation. Times when I would give my power away.
What I began to see slowly, over time, was that leadership truly begins with the inner relationship we have with ourselves.
To lead your own life asks for a different kind of self-responsibility. The kind that is honest and present. It asks you to notice where you are no longer aligned, where old habits or survival strategies are quietly shaping your choices, and where something within you is ready to be met more gently and more truthfully.
For many years, I tried to address these things through therapy, education, and all kinds of modalities. I could articulate my patterns clearly and trace them back to their origins. While that brought insight, it didn’t fully bring resolution.
At some point, I sensed that what was needed was not more thinking, but a deeper form of support. Something beyond the mind. Something that could meet the places I couldn’t quite reach on my own.
When I attended Healers Academy in London in October 2022, I didn’t arrive with expectations. I simply arrived with readiness. A quiet willingness to take the next step, even if I couldn’t yet name what that step would bring.
Those five days unfolded in a way that felt both gentle and profound. Sitting in the sacred Archangel Raphael’s temple, I experienced a soft and steady release of layers I had carried for years, some personal, some inherited, some difficult to explain. There was this deep sense of being held as old weight slowly fell away.
What stayed with me most wasn’t a single moment or experience.
It was how I felt afterward.
More settled. More present. More at home within myself.
My decisions began to feel clearer. My energy felt steadier. I noticed that I was responding to life differently, not from urgency or effort, but from a quieter, more grounded place inside.
Whilst Healers Academy is a place where you receive the life-changing sacred tool, the Life Activation, and the ability to share this with others. It is also a profound healing journey for the practitioner.
As you embody more light, your system begins to settle. Your presence changes. And from there, your life starts to reorganise in quiet, meaningful ways.
Ancient tools like these remind us that leadership is not a role we play. It is a relationship we cultivate with ourselves. When that relationship is steady, others around us can feel it, not because we are trying to lead them, but because our way of being naturally creates clarity, safety, and space.
If you are reading this and feel a gentle resonance, if something in you recognises the invitation to lead your life from a deeper place, Healers Academy may be part of that unfolding.
Not as something to fix you.
But as an initiation into meeting your life with greater presence, responsibility, and truth.
Because when you learn to lead yourself well, everything else begins to flow magickally too.
Eslyn Olivia Barends, Life Activation Practitioner, Ritual Master Novice, Kabbalist, The Netherlands
Happening tonight: Spiritual Intuition Class
In this workshop, you will learn about the spiritual senses, how to activate them, strengthen them, and how to safely build your psychic awareness and sensitivity.
You will be handed down tools and techniques that you can practice every day to develop your psychic abilities and to consciously work with your intuition.
You can achieve more in life if you can perceive more!
Ready to sign up for TONIGHT WEDNESDAY 28 January 2026?
Investment: £45
Time: 7-9pm
Venue: MMS UK & EU HQ, 4 Celbridge Mews, London W2 6EU
RSVP to secure your seats.
To register please email admin@modernmysteryschooluk.
Upcoming Metaphysical Wednesdays
4 February 2026 Seven Mystery Schools 7-9pm
11 February 2026 Prayer Night 7-8.30pm
18 February 2026 Awaken Thyself 7-9pm
Investment: £45 per class. Prayer Night is FREE.
Ready to sign up to any of these?
To register please email admin@modernmysteryschooluk.
Unveiling the calendar: March 2026
Become a Life Activation Practitioner is a sacred privelege, and the training will open your life beyond those 5 days.
Eslyn couldn’t have explained this sacred journey better …
Sitting in the sacred Archangel Raphael’s temple, I experienced a soft and steady release of layers I had carried for years, some personal, some inherited, some difficult to explain.
What stayed with me most wasn’t a single moment or experience.
It was how I felt afterward.
More settled. More present. More at home within myself.
As you embody more light, your system begins to settle. Your presence changes. And from there, your life starts to reorganise in quiet, meaningful ways.
Do you feel called? Read more about Healers Academy here.
Keys of the Ancients: A Hermetic Crossing into the Lineage of King Salomon (Open to All) 8-12 March 2026
Elven & Fairy Magick (Open to Certified Life Activation Practitioners) 13 March 2026.
Healers Academy 1 (Open to Adept Initiates: those who have done Empower Thyself!) 14-18 March 2026
Ritual Master Apprentice / RM 2 (Open to Certified Ritual Master Novices) 15-16 March 2026
Hermetic Communication of the Divine Masculine & Feminine (Open to those who have attended How to Live a Hermetic Life & Certified Ritual Masters) 17-18 March 2026
The Main Thing (Open to Certified Life Activation Practitioners) 19 March 2026
Temple (Open to Certified Ritual Masters) 20 March 2024
Enochian 3 (Open to Certified Ritual Masters) 21 March 2025
Enochian 4 (Open to Certified Ritual Masters) 22 March 2025
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