The founder of the Golden Dawn Centre : Prema Jansen

• Bachelor in Biology, St. Meinrad College, Indiana, U.S.A.
• Masters of Science in Education with a Major in Counselling and Guidance, Indiana University, Indiana, U.S.A
• Master of Divinity, St. Meinrad School of Theology, Indiana, U.S.A.
• Diploma in Analytical Psychology, C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, Switzerland

Prema completed his Master’s degree in Counselling (1968) in the U.S.A. and began his professional life as a Catholic priest in that same year. He worked as a priest for 4 years, before realizing his own need for therapy and self-development. He moved to Switzerland in 1972 where he entered therapy and began his training at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. He also trained for 2 years in Sandplay therapy with Dora Kalff, completing both his trainings in 1976. These years marked the beginning of his meditation practices. He practiced Tai Chi, various forms of breathing, and creative painting and writing. He also began his connection to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, learning and using many of their meditation techniques.

Prema then moved to Sydney, Australia where he worked as an analyst for 7 years, using primarily dream work and Sandplay therapy. During this time he was President of the C. G. Jung Society for 3 years. He also worked at the Sacred Heart Hospice with dying patients and their families for 3 years. He conducted many, many workshops throughout Australia in dream work, sandplay, creative painting and writing, Death & Dying, and Meditation. After 5 years Prema began training professional therapists. He worked in several government agencies, training conventional psychologists in depth psychology. He also worked in psychiatric clinics with deeply disturbed clients who were passing through psychotic episodes.

In 1983 Prema moved to the Blue Mountains (near Sydney) where, with his friend Bhakti, they co-founded the Living Water Centre. They offered a 3 month residential training program in Rebirthing and Applied Jungian Psychology. People began coming from many different countries to learn at the Living Water Centre, and a wide variety of methods were used. They taught Shamanic work, meditation practices from many traditions, Rebirthing, Sandplay Therapy, dream work, the use of dance, group work, therapeutic massage, and various other techniques as part of the training program. Prema, Bhakti, and the team also conducted many workshops throughout Australia and New Zealand during this time.

Prema moved to Western Australia in 1989 where he worked in several Government agencies as a counsellor and family therapist. He also did several workshop tours throughout Australia and the United States. However, his main focus and effort over these 12 years was his own inner growth and development. He used many methods such as fasting, various intense meditation techniques, and the “ordinary challenges of life” as his workshop towards wholeness. He also used fasting and “right eating” as methods with his clients, in order to dissolve their past conditioning. He set up and ran a spring water delivery business, helped his partner raise her two young children, and was active in the community by conducting a men’s support and therapy group. Prema began using The Tibetan 5 Rites as part of his meditation and also began his study of the Flower of Life work (Drunvalo Melchizadek). He also spent 6 months intensive training in the use of Tibetan Pulsing.

Prema was invited to Penang, Malaysia in May, 2003 and was married to Yu Xuan in October, 2004. They live in Penang where they run the Golden Dawn Centre. They have conducted workshops in Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru, Malaka, Kuching, Ipoh, Hatyai in Thailand and Singapore. These workshop tours have included lectures and seminars for hospital and Palliative Care staff. Over the past 2 years they have also conducted workshops in Tasmania, Melbourne, Western Australia., and the Blue Mountains.
The workshops include Dream work, Sandplay therapy, Death and Dying, Vision Quest, Tantra, Fasting and Right Eating, Rebirthing, and meditation techniques from many traditions.

The trainer, Lam Yu Xuan (pronounced Yu-shen) was born in 1969, she began her inner journey in September 2003. Yu Xuan has made a very big decision to change her life. She threw herself into therapist training in March 2004 with Prema and was married to him in October 2004. She is a very experienced trainer and she has gone through very deep healing herself. She enjoys helping people to be liberated from their suffering and to find their true and authentic self.

She also trained with various teachers from Israel and Taiwan in Body Movement & Dance Therapy, Art Therapy & Personal Growth. She claims that after attending many workshops from many famous teachers, “The work in The Golden Dawn Centre is very deep and profound. It speeds up the inner process”.

Prema and Yu Xuan say: "The aim of our workshops and therapy is to free the individual from his and her past conditioning, to free the individual to be their ultimate whole self, free of all dependency and fear, free to love, laugh and celebrate life".