Teachers · Record
Dharmen and Leela Swann-Herbert
Direct students of Ra Uru Hu; developers of the IHDS Family Practice and Child Development curriculum.
Dharmen and Leela Swann-Herbert are living teachers and active practitioners. This profile documents their role as direct Ra students and developers of the IHDS Family Practice and Child Development curriculum. To update or correct this profile, contact scienceofdifferentiation@gmail.com.
- Legal birth name
- Dharmen and Leela Swann-Herbert
- Teaching name
- Dharmen and Leela Swann-Herbert
- Born
- Birth data not published in the public record
- Birth time note
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Birth data not published in the public record. Charts not published.
- Type / Authority / Profile / Definition / Cross
- Dharmen: 1/3 Reflector · Cross of the Unexpected. Leela: 4/6 Emotional Generator · Emotional Authority · Cross of Rulership.
- Active in the system
- 1999 — present
- Role
- Direct students of Ra Uru Hu; developers of the IHDS Family Practice and Child Development curriculum
- Trained by
- Ra Uru Hu — direct students since 1999 (Leela’s first reading with Ra, 1999). Dharmen completed the Variable Teacher Training Certification with Ra in 2010, the only time Ra taught it.
- Country
- United States
- Website
- thesecretofbeingyou.com IHDS listing: IHDS faculty; developed the Child Development Analyst and Family Practice Analyst Certification Programs.
- Teaching focus
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Dharmen and Leela Swann-Herbert are direct students of Ra Uru Hu who have been actively experimenting with Human Design since 1999. Leela had her first reading with Ra Uru Hu in 1999. Their Human Design education was conducted exclusively with Ra — Dharmen completed the Variable Teacher Training Certification with Ra in 2010, the only time Ra taught that particular certification program. Life partners for over thirty-seven years, they bring complementary and contrasting designs to their joint teaching: Dharmen is a wide-open 1/3 Reflector, Leela a triple-split 4/6 Emotional Generator, and they describe their sustained Human Design experiment together as foundational to their teaching.
Dharmen and Leela developed and teach the Child Development Analyst Certification Program and the Family Practice Analyst Certification Program at the IHDS — specialized tracks extending Human Design into family dynamics, partnership analysis, and child development. These programs represent a significant curriculum contribution to the IHDS’s advanced educational offerings. They also teach the Decoding Our Chemistry series at IHDS, exploring the Faces of the Godheads through relationship and partnership lenses.
Dharmen’s design as a wide-open Reflector informs his teaching emphasis — he describes his approach as offering students “their unique self, not me,” bringing the wisdom of total openness rather than defined perspective. His IHDS biography states his education “was exclusively with Ra Uru Hu.” Leela’s Emotional Authority and 4/6 profile inform her focus on the felt awareness of clarity, emotional process, and the dynamics of intimacy and individuality. Their joint teaching synthesizes these opposite orientations as a live demonstration of Human Design dynamics in a sustained relationship.
Dharmen and Leela continue to teach from the United States through their own platform at thesecretofbeingyou.com and through the IHDS. They have over thirty years of combined experience in Human Design.
Documented contributions
- Direct students of Ra Uru Hu since 1999; Leela’s first reading with Ra documented as 1999
- Dharmen completed Variable Teacher Training with Ra in 2010 — the only time Ra taught this certification
- Developed and teach the Child Development Analyst Certification Program at IHDS
- Developed and teach the Family Practice Analyst Certification Program at IHDS
- Teach the Decoding Our Chemistry series at IHDS (the Faces of the Godheads)
- Co-teach partnership and relationship analysis courses at IHDS including The Urge to Merge and Sexual Strategies and the Mating Dance
Primary sources
- thesecretofbeingyou.com/about — “Direct students of Ra Uru Hu, Dharmen and Leela have been actively experimenting with Human Design since 1999. Trained by Ra in the mechanics…”
- thesecretofbeingyou.com — Dharmen: “My Human Design education was exclusively with Ra Uru Hu… I completed the Variable Teacher Training Certification program with Ra in 2010, the only time he taught this particular teacher certification.”
- ihdschool.com — IHDS listing for Child Development Analyst and Family Practice programs
- humandesigncollective.com/podcast — Leela: “She had her first reading with Ra Uru Hu in 1999 and has been experimenting with the Human Design System ever since”