An ancient game of self-discovery: seeing
your life more honestly than usual
With meWith the AI guideYour own video room
A game in which you look at your life a little more honestly than usual: at your choices, the stories that keep repeating, your doubts and the desires that have long gone unspoken.
Leela is played on a board of 72 squares, where rolls of the die move the token. The board is a metaphor for the path of life: every square has a name and a meaning, and your game unfolds against these meanings.
Come with a question and roll the die. You enter the game on a six: while you wait for it, you and your guide refine your question.
Arrows lift you up, snakes take you down, sometimes by several levels in a single move.
Live or AI, the guide opens up the meaning of the squares and links them to your question. The guide keeps the rules in mind, and your part is to live it.
The game ends on square 68, “Cosmic Consciousness”, right where the token waited for a six.
Clarity and your own answers to the questions you bring into the game. It is not fortune telling and not therapy. You decide.
In Sanskrit, “leela” means divine play
1500BC
The Rigveda, the oldest text of Hinduism, already holds the hymn of a gambler who lost everything at dice.
800BC
The Upanishads and the “Gita” give the game its laws: karma, samsara and moksha, the way out of the circle.
1290
Tradition credits the game to the poet Jnaneshwar. He turned vices into snakes and virtues into arrows.
1800
Monks teach karma on the gyan chaupar board. Hindu boards have 72 squares, Jain boards 84.
1892
In London the game is registered as the children’s “Snakes and Ladders”. The names of the squares are erased.
1975
Harish Johari gives the squares back their names and meanings. This board, too, follows his canon.
today
Cloth, cardboard or a screen. Any board, the same meanings.
You feel something is missing in your life: closeness, or money, or freedom. The game shows exactly where the gap opened up.
There is a wish but no plan. The game turns a vague intention into a first step.
Everything is stable, but you sense much more in yourself. The game helps you choose where exactly to step.
You have been trying for a long time, and nothing moves. The game shows what has stopped working.
Questions about calling and meaning, with no one to talk them over with. The game becomes that someone.
A decision hangs in the balance, and a mistake feels costly. The game lets you look at it without fear or other people’s advice.
Hi. My name is Anya.
Everything I do in life is about people and for people.
I don't lead the game as a teacher. My job is to help you hear your own answers, not my advice.
You can start
by meeting the guide
In about fifteen minutes you learn more about Leela as a tool, and I learn about you. If needed, I’ll suggest how to work with your question.
Free get-to-know-you callNo alcohol, plenty of sleep, less rush.
Keep the whole evening free: the quiet after the game is part of the process too. Put your phone in flight mode and switch the sound off completely.
Whatever comes up during the game is worth writing down straight away.
A quiet place, a good connection and a bigger screen. Better not on a phone.
It is about what matters most to you right now: a wish, an intention, a question or simply a theme.
Trained on the same primary sources and materials I learned from.
Try it freeFor a long time my life had been a kind of mess I couldn’t get out of on my own: I had neither the strength nor the habit of reflection. Our session literally put everything in its place.
Marina, 34Honestly, I’m still amazed at how differently I’ve started to see things. We dug into places I never even thought of looking.
Olya, 27Such a surge of energy. It feels like I really have shifted my track a little and started to see more clearly. There’s a lovely lightness in my heart.
Dasha, 23The game turned out to be very much about being honest with myself. And that, as it turns out, can be harder than being honest with others. At first I was really nervous, but with you as my guide I felt comfortable and safe.
Katya, 31It was as if you had fully immersed yourself in who I am: you knew how to approach me, where to look, and helped me make sense of everything through the lens of my personality and my stage of life.
Ira, 38
