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Lisa Schumacher

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Teaching

Lisa Schumacher offers satsang in the line of Ramana Maharshi, H. W. L. Poonja (Papaji) and her teacher Gangaji, with silence and self-enquiry into who one is. In her talks she speaks of surrender, of telling the truth to oneself and of meeting whatever arises; she also teaches the Enneagram as she learnt it from Eli Jaxon-Bear. 1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11

Who it is for

For people drawn to satsang and self-enquiry in the line of Ramana Maharshi, Papaji and Gangaji, in person or online.

Life and places
  • Born in 1964 in Montana and raised in Colusa, California, she met Gangaji at a video satsang in Southern Oregon in May 1995. 2
  • In 1999 she moved to Bolinas, California, to be closer to Gangaji, and worked for a short time at the Gangaji Foundation. 2
  • She has held satsang since 2006 in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and North America; her non-profit organisation, Satsang with Lisa, was founded in 2014 and is based in Ashland, Oregon. 1, 2, 3

Where to start

  • Her talks on her YouTube channel SatsangWithLisa, for example Surrender, the opening talk of a one-day retreat in 2020. 7, 8, 9
  • Her interview on forgiveness with Henk Engelenburg (2021), published on her website. 5
  • The Stone I Love (2012), her book of poems dedicated to Gangaji. 2, 6
Public context
  • According to her own organisation, her teacher Gangaji asked her in 2006 to begin holding satsang; one page of her website gives 2005. 1, 2, 3
  • She trained at the Leela School of Awakening, founded by Eli Jaxon-Bear, from 2002, and the school lists her as a senior teacher. 4, 11

Works

The short summaries are ours.

More works of Lisa Schumacher in the library

In their own words

Short passages in the words of Lisa Schumacher, each with its source. Where the quoted text is not in the language of this page, a translation follows and says whose it is.

  • So surrender to stillness, surrender to quiet. Realizations come and they pass. Who you are is untouched. Who you are is pristine awareness.

    SatsangWithLisa (YouTube channel) · Video "Surrender", opening talk of the one-day retreat Living Surrender (30 June 2020), 11:00–11:27 · youtube.com Recorded: Recorded talk published by Lisa Schumacher on her YouTube channel SatsangWithLisa. The wording is our transcription of the published audio; the video has no captions. Punctuation is ours.

  • …the potential for your mind to meet its master and rest in that, and in that resting to discover ever more deeply, because it is eternally blossoming…

    SatsangWithLisa (YouTube channel) · Video "Surrender", opening talk of the one-day retreat Living Surrender (30 June 2020), 14:05–14:38 · youtube.com Recorded: Recorded talk published by Lisa Schumacher on her YouTube channel SatsangWithLisa. The wording is our transcription of the published audio; the video has no captions. Punctuation is ours.

  • But what I discovered is that nothing has to change, except your relationship with yourself, that's all. You don't have to do anything differently, you just change your relationship with yourself, you tell the truth to yourself.

    SatsangWithLisa (YouTube channel) · Video "Tell the Truth to Yourself", from the Vienna weekend retreat of October 2016, 2:00–2:23 · youtube.com Recorded: Recorded talk published by Lisa Schumacher on her YouTube channel SatsangWithLisa; the clip includes a German interpretation, which is not quoted. The wording is our transcription of her English from the published audio; the video has no captions. Punctuation is ours.

  • Right now you can do this: ‘What really dies? The body dies–and what remains?’ This is Ramana’s gift to us, this self-inquiry.

    Forgiveness: An interview with Lisa Schumacher · Interview on satsangwithlisa.org (5 February 2021), answer to "Does forgiveness come after recognizing my mechanical behaviors?", paragraph 3 · satsangwithlisa.org Recorded: Her answer in an interview by Henk Engelenburg, published on her own website; the wording is that of the page.

Documented teaching relationships

Teaching relationships are documented statements. They confer no trust and do not attest realisation.

Sources
  1. Satsang with Lisa (home page) Home page of her own non-profit organisation; gives 2005 as the year of Gangaji's invitation, while her other pages give 2006. accessed 19 Oct 2026
  2. Meet Lisa (satsangwithlisa.org) Biography on the website of her own organisation. accessed 19 Oct 2026
  3. Meet the Board (satsangwithlisa.org) Her organisation's board page, with her own biography and statements of board members who are her friends and students. accessed 19 Oct 2026
  4. Stay True - Mentoring (satsangwithlisa.org) Her own page on her training and her one-to-one sessions. accessed 19 Oct 2026
  5. Forgiveness: An interview with Lisa Schumacher (satsangwithlisa.org) Interview by Henk Engelenburg, published on her own website on 5 February 2021; read in full. accessed 19 Oct 2026
  6. Lisa's Poetry Book (satsangwithlisa.org) Her organisation's page for her book of poems The Stone I Love (2012), sold by email order. accessed 19 Oct 2026
  7. Video (satsangwithlisa.org) Her organisation's video page, which embeds talks from her YouTube channel. accessed 19 Oct 2026
  8. SatsangWithLisa (YouTube channel) Her own YouTube channel, linked from her website; list of videos read. accessed 19 Oct 2026
  9. Surrender (YouTube, 2020) Opening talk of her one-day retreat of 30 June 2020 on her own channel; heard in full through our transcript. accessed 19 Oct 2026
  10. Tell the Truth to Yourself (YouTube, 2016) Clip from her Vienna weekend retreat of October 2016 on her own channel, with German interpretation; heard in full through our transcript. accessed 19 Oct 2026
  11. Lisa Schumacher (Leela School of Awakening) Teacher page of the Leela School, founded by Eli Jaxon-Bear, which trained and certified her. accessed 19 Oct 2026

Compiled by us from the sources listed. Last checked 19 Oct 2026.

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