Azure Counselling - Attuned individual & relationship psychotherapy for your inner journey
A student of the path for over 18 years, Leo brings extensive experience to support your journey and unfolding life and spiritual paths through a variety of modalities and approaches. These include psychotherapy, body-based somatic approaches, advanced meditation instruction and yogic approaches derived from a variety of traditions. While some clients choose to work regularly, many check in intermittently to work on an intensive topic, or for a top up to help them clarify where they are at and to unpack where they are headed.
Spiritual & Inner Journey Guidance
Servicing area
We see clients from the Lower North Shore, Chatswood, North Sydney, Lane Cove, Northern Beaches, Sydney CBD and Inner WestFocus areas
Leo Martyn has been a practitioner of Buddhist meditation since 2004. During his 18 years of practice he has received instruction and guidance from many local and international teachers, held in the highest regard and leaders and masters in their traditions.
He offers extensive experience in helping beginners and more advanced students establish and further evolve and stabilise their practice and personal path. He also loves to do workshops for companies and groups of all sizes in meditation, mindfulness and advanced relaxation techniques.
Beginning with practice in the Vipassana - Western Insight Therevada tradition, Leo received early instruction from Sydney and nationally based teachers such as Christopher McLean. In this early time he attended numerous weekend and week or longer retreats to further establish his practice. For several years to 2009 he was a committee member of Sydney Insight Meditors Inc and looked after event management, digital design and event organisation.
Venturing further, Leo worked remotely for over 5 years for Gregory Kramer, founder of the Metta Foundation in Oregon, USA, attending to community development and web design and hosting needs. Leo also began practicing in the Burmese Insight tradition, attending many retreats of up to 15 days duration with the Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre. These retreats were led by Stephen Smith, Patrick Kearney and local and international ordained sangha.
During this time and from 2006, Leo became an ongoing student of the Diamond Approach, a challenging and highly evolved spiritual and psychological path founded by AH Almaas and Karen Johnson worldwide. He has been a student of this path now for 15 years and in most years completes 3-4 retreats.
Evolving further in 2013, Leo took the opportunity to become part of the founding of Pointing Out Australia Inc which worked to annually bring Daniel P Brown and Rahob Tulku Rinpoche to Sydney to offer highly evolved meditation and mindfulness retreats in the Tibetan Mahamudra and Dzogchen traditions, along with advanced psychology workshops in treating attachment disorders. Professor Brown developed this school and its teachings under the guidance of the late 32nd Menri Trinzin, spiritual leader of the Bon lineage and H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama.
In 2017 Leo began also to practice Kundalini Yoga under the guidance of Guru Devi Kaur and more recently, Guru Jagat Singh, bringing an embodied and energy based practice to his personal and professional journey.
Services
Counselling & Psychotherapy
1hrTBC
Online Counselling & Psychotherapy
1hrTBC
Qualifications
- Master of Social Work
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Graduate Diploma In Counselling and Psychotherapy
Professional Membership
- ACA - Australian Counselling Association
- Australian Association of Social Workers
- Australian Counselling Association (ACA)