Teachers of Diamond Approach Los Angeles

Sandra Maitri is one of the principal teachers of the Diamond Approach, and a member of its leadership council. She leads groups in the San Francisco Bay Area and is the founder of Ridhwan UK. She was one of the original students of Claudio Naranjo, MD, a trailblazer in Transpersonal Psychology and her background includes extensive work with Vipassana meditation and Tibetan Buddhism. Her books, The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul and The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues: Finding the Way Home, were published by Tarcher/Penguin in 2000 and 2005. Trained as an artist, she paints in her free time. You can visit her website at SandraMaitri.com to learn more about her.



Joyce Lyke is one of the senior and supervising teachers of the Diamond Approach and a member of its leadership council. She has been teaching Diamond Approach groups for 20 years, and currently leads on-going groups in Santa Barbara, Vancouver, Seattle, and the United Kingdom. In addition to her thirty years as a student in the Ridhwan School, home of the Diamond Approach, she was for fifteen years a teacher and workshop leader on Esalen's gestalt training staff. She has a degree in Somatic Psychology from Antioch University and has extensive bodywork and movement training.You can visit her website at JoyceLyke.com to learn more about her.