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
Episodes
127 episodes
The Deconstruction of a False Perspective With Greg Goode
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 background in philosophy. He is known for his clear and st...
Seeing Through the Self Illusion: 8-Week Experience
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.
Where Are You Looking From?
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 — movement, thoughts, sensations, everything that appe...
What Happened to the Original Awakening Message? with Ananta Kranti
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 described very simply — waking up from the dream of be...
I Psychoanalyzed an AI… Something Uncanny Happened, with Robert Saltzman.
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 when the sense of a personal controller is questioned.<...
There Is No Mind — So Why Can’t You Stop Thinking?
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 awakening, ideas about how this should feel and what should ...
Awakening Myths Exposed With Angelo DiLullo
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 that awakening should resemble someone else’s story, feel pl...
Leading From the Dark: Shadow Work, Awakening, and Becoming More Human
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 work, awakening, and becoming more hum...
What Is the Sense of Self, Really?
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 story about “me” appears, there is a simple knowing of bein...
After Awakening When the Body Still Contracts
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 still contracts. Emotions rise. Old protection remains. This ofte...
I Understand It All, But Nothing Has Shifted
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 intellectually. You may know the language, have had glimpses, and ...
The One Question That Ends the Waiting | Won Bo (Zen Nun) on Awakening
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 now episode, I sit with Won Bo, a Lithuanian nun living ...
The Reality of Awakening: Why the Honeymoon Fades and How to Meet What Returns
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 alongYou’re listening to Awakening Now, a podcast for those who are on the path of self-discovery and ...
Do You Know Who You Really Are? | Stay Spiritual Interviews Ilona Ciunaite
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 the first real step toward peace.So many seekers carry a p...
Trust Yourself — The Key to Your Spiritual Awakening. With Luchana Uzunova
Trust yourself in awakening. In this intimate conversation, Ilona Ciunaite and nonduality guide Luchana Uzunova explore spiritual awakening, embodiment, and living as awareness in daily life. What unfolds after seeing through the self-...
Avoid These 5 Spiritual Awakening Mistakes
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 very seeing they long for.In this short talk, Ilona Ciunait...
The Threads of Awakening, with Pierce Salguero.
In this conversation, Ilona Ciunaite speaks with Pierce Salguero — scholar, author, and long-time meditator — about his book The Lamp Unto Yourself and his multidharma model that honors the many paths of awakening.Together they ...
Deep Looking: Beyond the Mind, Into the Heart
In this guided Deep Looking session, Ilona Ciunaite invites you to look directly into your own experience and explore the nature of the self. Rather than answering with the mind, you’re guided to notice thoughts, sensations, and awaren...
The Illusion of SELF - Non-Duality Explained
Non-duality and awakening aren’t concepts to believe in, they’re about seeing through the illusion of self. Trying to understand this with the mind is just another trap. You’ve been sold the idea that awakening is a magic switch… spoiler: it’s ...
Awakening Beyond The Mind With Alina Panteleev
What if awakening isn’t about understanding concepts, but directly recognising presence through lived experience?In this episode of Awakening Now, I sat down with Alina Panteleev, a Non-Dual Teacher and Certified Somatic Repression Coac...
The Hidden Reason You Still Feel Unfulfilled On Your Spiritual Journey
What if your regrets, guilt, and “what ifs” about the past are nothing more than sitting on a train wishing it turned left when the tracks only go straight?In this powerful satsang, we explore a simple but life-changing metaphor: life m...
The Illusion of Self: A Direct Guide to Awakening
Need help with seeing through the illusion of self? Go here 👉 https://bit.ly/4oY0ztVWhat if “I understand this intellectually” is the very thought keeping you from seeing reality as it is?In this nonduality dialogue, we look dir...
Breaking Free from Prediction Loops | The Liberty Code & Awakening Explained
What if your thoughts, emotions, and identity are just looping prediction patterns? What if true awakening means seeing through the ego’s hidden payoffs and collapsing them at the source?In this episode of Awakening Now, I sit down with...
The Truth About Awakening… and Why It Still Hurts / Part 2
How to recognise the truth about awakening, when there are so many people talking about it in various ways? Reach out to me for a guided session. https://bit.ly/4ozXGzjIn Part 2 of this heartfelt Deep Looking event, we go even deeper int...
Awakening Isn't the End of Suffering / Part 1
Awakening Isn't the End of Suffering. It's an opening, a new beginning. If you need some help, book a session here. https://bit.ly/4mD9HlLEven after a deep spiritual awakening, many still ask: "If I know who I truly am, why am I still s...