Hosted by Ilona Ciunaite · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 131 episodes
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Join Ilona Ciunaite for honest conversations and guided explorations into the nature of self, consciousness, and awakening. This podcast is for those who are looking not just to understand awakening, but to see it — directly, in their own experience. Each episode invites you to slow down, inquire, and notice awareness itself. Through guided Deep Looking sessions and dialogues with teachers, authors, and fellow explorers, Ilona opens the door to what many call spiritual awakening — seeing through the illusion of self, and discovering peace that doesn’t come and go. You’ll explore: – Self-inquiry and direct experience – Deep Looking and seeing beyond the mind – The process of awakening and integration – Presence, awareness, and the end of seeking Ilona Ciunaite is a guide, author, and co-creator of the Liberation Unleashed community. For over 14 years, she has been helping seekers all over the world disco
Ilona Ciunaite hosts Awakening Now, a religion show with 131 episodes published.
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message In this episode of Awakening Now , I speak with Sukhdev Virdee, author of sixteen books on Advaita Vedanta and nondual philosophy. Sukhdev works with people who have already explor
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message In this episode of Awakening Now, I speak with Jim Newman, a well-known voice in radical nonduality. Jim shares one of the most uncompromising messages in the spiritual world: ther
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message “How do I awaken?” is the question many sincere seekers carry. Hidden inside it is often an expectation that awakening will bring permanent peace, clarity, or distance from difficu
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message In this episode of Awakening Now, Loch Kelly and Ilona Ciunaite explore awakening, nonduality, effortless mindfulness, and the subtle places seekers often become stuck after the fi
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message In this episode of Awakening Now, I speak with Greg Goode about self-inquiry and what is actually being seen through. Greg Goode is a nonduality teacher and author with a backgroun
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message In this episode, I speak about the upcoming 8-week guided experience and what it is really about. The enrollement is open untill the 20th of April. More info here. https://ilonaciu
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Today I share a very simple way of looking at experience. Using a drawing of two lines, we explore what is here in direct experience. One line represents life as it is happening —
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message In this episode of Awakening Now, I speak with Ananta Kranti about awakening and what the word actually points to. When Ananta first began sharing this message, awakening was descr
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message In this episode of Awakening Now, Ilona Ciunaite speaks with psychotherapist and author Robert Saltzman about awakening, the illusion of a separate self, and what actually changes
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message If there is no mind, why does it feel so loud? In this episode I look at what we call “the mind” as a living stream of thoughts appearing. Images, commentary, expectations about aw
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message In this episode of Awakening Now, I sit down with Angelo DiLullo to explore the myths that quietly shape how people think awakening is supposed to unfold. We look at the belief tha
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message In this episode of Awakening Now, Ilona Ciunaite is joined by Steven D’Souza — author, leadership guide, and creator of Leading From the Dark — for a deep conversation about shadow
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message In this episode, I invite you to look directly at the sense of self — not as an idea or a belief, but as lived experience. Before thoughts arise, before emotions move, before any s
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message After awakening, many people expect the body to relax and life to feel settled. The belief in a separate self has dropped, so ease should naturally follow. Yet for many, the body s
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Many people on the spiritual awakening path reach a moment where understanding is no longer enough. You may clearly understand non-duality, awakening, or the self illusion intellec
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Have you been craving awakening? Waiting for the moment when everything finally softens, the mind gets quiet, the heart opens, and you can finally stop searching? In this awakening
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Awakening is a shift in perception, a clear seeing of what you are and what you’ve mistaken yourself for. it reveals what was here all along You’re listening to Awakening Now, a po
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message In the Stay Spiritual interview, I talk about the quiet flip from seeking to seeing — the moment when the pressure dissolves and looking into your own present experience becomes th
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Trust yourself in awakening. In this intimate conversation, Ilona Ciunaite and nonduality guide Luchana Uzunova explore spiritual awakening, embodiment, and living as awareness in
Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Most seekers begin this journey with expectations — about how awakening should look, how it should feel, or what will be lost or gained. But these assumptions quietly block the ver
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