Awakening Now
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 discover freedom through direct experience.
If you are ready to look within, this podcast offers clear guidance and grounded conversation — simple, sincere, and free of spiritual jargon
Awakening Now
Latest Episodes
You Already Know There is No Separate Self. Why Doesn't it Feel That Way?
Here's the Buzzsprout description for episode 133, in your voice, mentioning the live Zoom recording and the open invitation to join next time.You can already understand that there is no separate self, clearly and without doubt, and stil...
The Idea That Started All the Seeking with Sabina Witzel
There is a particular kind of loneliness in believing you are in here, and everything else is out there. Most of us carry that feeling for years without ever asking where it came from, or whether it was ever true.In this episode of Awake...
When Pointers Leave the Seeker Nowhere to Go with Sukhdev Virdee
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 explored the teachings deeply. They have read the books,...
The Message the Seeker Cannot Use, with Jim Newman
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: there is no separate self, no path, no one becoming a...
“How Do I Awaken?” The Question That Hides an Expectation
“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 difficult emotions.In this live Zoom meeting, Ilona explores tha...
Fan Mail
thank you for this episode Ilona. Before listening I was concerned about my flip-flopping amongst teachers/teachings. Now it makes perfect sense. I resonate with Pierce's exploratory nature! You and your work are a gift to the World.
Houston, Texas