Ilona Ciunaite

Awakening Now

Religion EN ↓ 133 episodes

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-inqui...

Author

Ilona Ciunaite

Category

Religion

Podcast website

awakeningnow.buzzsprout.com

Latest episode

Jul 11, 2026

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Episodes

How To End Seeking. A Self Inquiry Session 28.08.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message If you are seeking and want to know how to end the seeking, this episode is for you.  If you want to see the truth and are ready, watch this and follow along. Welcome to this self-inquiry session with Omar. We dive right into it. Use this recording for your own inquiry. Pause the audio, and answer the questions by yourself before continuing to listen. This w...

How To See Through Self Illusion With Christiane Michelberger 21.08.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message If you need a manual on how to see through the self-illusion listen to my conversation with Christiane Michelberger. She has just published a new book, which is exactly that.  I have met Christiane through Liberation Unleashed. She is a guide and assists seekers to see through other illusions once the self-illusion is seen through. She works with Buddhist fe...

Everything Changes, Nothing Stays The Same With Tim Cliss 14.08.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Tim Cliss is a well-known non-duality teacher, speaker, and author.  Our conversation revolves around awakening, non-duality, nothing and everything. Tim shares a little bit of his awakening story which was full of desperation, aloneness, and suffering while looking for Truth. What revealed itself was surprisingly liberating and indescribable. Since then Tim...

Identity Shift: Awakening To The Natural State With Angelo Dilullo 07.08.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Awakening to the natural state is an identity shift, and it's a shift from what you think and imagine yourself to be to seeing what is always here underneath all concepts.  In this episode meet Angelo Dillulo. Angelo stands out from the crowd of non-duality teachers as a unique and energetic guide who is able to express clearly and create valuable conte...

How To Know If You Are Awakened With Delson Armstrong 31.07.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message How do you know if you are awakened? If this question is alive and you want confirmation, listen to this episode. You may get your answer.  Meet Delson Armstrong. We talk about what awakening is, how identification works, what the driving forces behind seeking are, and how to stop.  Delson Armstrong is a trailblazing American meditation teacher and author, r...

Discover Buddhist Practice To End Suffering With Doug Kraft 24.07.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Meet Doug Kraft and get practical advice on using Buddhist practice to end suffering. This conversation is filled with clear, simple pointers and tools you can apply today. You do not need to be a Buddhist to practice meditation and relaxation into awareness. You can start now and explore what happens if you apply the method of the Six R's and other too...

You Are supported. Conversation with Christine Wushke Part 2 17.07.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message In the second part of the conversation, Christine Wushke shares about the early days of seeking, when she was in an office job thinking about Awakening and Enlightenment. She found solace in a used bookstore where she discovered Eastern philosophy books and felt supported on her path by always being given the next thing she needed.  We discuss the importance...

Integration Of Awakening: How To Balance Your Nervous System With Christine Wushke Part 1 10.07.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message If you are seeking information on how to balance your nervous system, watch this episode. I talk to Christine Wushke about ways to balance and integrate the body-mind system in the awakening process.  Christine shares her awakening story and how the first big experience happened when she was only a child. She talks about her journey and what helped her in di...

10 Fetters and The Wheel Of Identification with Todd and Pernille Lent Damore 03.07.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Today I am talking to Todd and Pernille Lent Damore, a married couple, dedicated and inspired to share practical tools and teach 10 fetters in a unique way. The teachings about the 10 fetters originate from Buddhism and are regarded as “The Noble Quest” however; you do not need to be a Buddhist to understand them or gain insight about them. You can easily le...

Awakening To The Human Condition With Chris Grosso 26.06.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message My guest today is Chiss Grosso and you may know him from his books on non-nonsense spirituality. Chris is openly sharing his story which is intense, raw and emotional. If you have high sensitivity to issues of substance abuse, addiction or suicide, listen with caution. In the conversation, we dive deep into the human condition and how it relates to awakening...

Spiritual Awakening Meets Psychology With Elad Chone 19.06.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Listen to the spiritual awakening story of Elad. He had an awakening experience when he was seventeen years old. Since then there has been a journey of opening more and you can see and feel the flavour of his being. It’s kind, soft and inclusive. We talk about different modalities and Elad is inviting us to have an open conversation about spiritual awakening...

Self-Inquiry With Alessandro Session 4: What’s Next? 12.06.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Welcome to the fourth and final Self-Inquiry session with Alessandro. We met two weeks after our last session and checked in on how Alessandro was doing and what was next for him. He is reflecting on what was the biggest change and is sharing his view from a fresh perspective.  If you need assistance with your own inquiry come to Liberation Unleashed where y...

Come Back to Your Senses With Eshwar Segobind 05.06.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Meet Eshwar Segobind. In today's episode listen to an incredible awakening story. A shift happened while in the recovery centre for alcoholics and drug addicts. When everything external was removed, the only place to engage with left was inside his mind.  Eshwar Segobind is a spiritual seeker known for his remarkable journey towards self-realization and...

Snakes And Ropes With Jackson Peterson 29.05.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message In the second conversation with Jackson Peterson, we deeply investigate what awakening is. Jackson Peterson is a Dzogchen Teacher, an author and a practitioner. You can find our first conversation here  Awakening And No Self Experience With Jackson Peterson [Episode #36] https://youtu.be/iPnUM-DcPYM In this episode, he shares the snakes and ropes analogy as...

Stop Seeking With Dr Amy Johnson 22.05.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Meet Dr Amy Johnson. In the episode, Amy shared her awakening story and together we explored what awakening is. Your biggest problem as a seeker is that you don’t know how to stop seeking, so the seeking continues. And it shows up as thoughts and associated feelings of not enough, this is not it, there needs to be more, something better, this cannot be accep...

Poems From Infinity With Sahayak 15.05.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Meet Sahayak, a monk who lives in Thailand. Today Sahayak is sharing Insights for harmony --pointers to the joy of living in the present.  In this episode, Sahayak shares pointers to awakening in the form of poems that came through him as his own insights into the nature of reality. After many years of silence, Sahayak kindly shares his process and invites u...

A Conversation With A Monk 15.05.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Meet Sahayak and hear his awakening story. Sahayak has lived an incredible life and a big part of his experience was being with a guru, who inspired and guided him to a genuine awakening. For many years Sahayak stayed in silence, and today he is sharing his story. He lives in Thailand and is passionate about nature and is growing organic fruit forest. His pa...

Self-Inquiry with Alessandro Session 3: Effortless Being 08.05.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message I had my third session with Alessandro where we delved into the experience of effortless being. During our conversation, we discussed the sense of being that is always present and never changes. We started by going through some questions and concepts, and later we focused on shifting our attention from the mind to the body and heart, where something gets rev...

Self-Inquiry with Alessandro Session 2: Beyond Concepts 01.05.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message I met Alessandro a week later for the second self-inquiry session to continue exploring and to look deeper beyond concepts. A different view started to form. Clarity comes and begins to establish. What is always here comes into the foreground. Follow our session and answer self-inquiry questions asked for yourself. See what is revealed for you.  If you need...

Self-Inquiry with Alessandro Session 1: Who Am I? What am I? Is There I At All? 24.04.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Dive into the self-inquiry session with Ilona and Alessandro. The main question today is who am I?  You can use this video as your own inquiry by pausing upon hearing a question asked and answering for yourself before continuing to watch.  This is the first video of the inquiry series, come back next week for more.  If you need assistance with your own inqui...

Unlock Your Energy: Biofield Tuning And Expansion With Eileen Day McKusick 17.04.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Today we talk about Biofield tuning for greater expansion with amazing Eileen McKusick. The awakening journey is taking you to greater expansion. You become more receptive, aware and open to noticing contractions and places that still need to heal. In today's episode meet Eileen Day McKusick. We talk about awakening from a scientific point of view as sh...

Exploring The Ten Fetters with Kevin Schanilec 10.04.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message What are the Ten Fetters and is there something for you? You may have heard of the ten fetters and still do not know what it is all about. My guest Kevin Schanilec is sharing his experience and insights so that you can get some understanding of the Buddhist path of working with limiting beliefs. We discuss each belief and how to work with it. Visit Kevin&apo...

Awakening And No Self Experience With Jackson Peterson 03.04.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message You may have a good understanding of no self but are still waiting for no self experience. Dive deep with Jackson Peterson into the question of what awakening is.  'No one awakens' -- you may have heard this a lot and if there is still confusion about this, this video will help to clarify.  Jackson Peterson is a well-known Dzogchen teacher and an a...

Awakening, Honestly 27.03.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message My guest wanted to be anonymous; with that, he could share more honestly and openly about his awakening and his view on what is happening in awakening communities. We discuss topics rarely discussed, such as the radical nonduality trap and parroting ideas that are easily taken on as new beliefs. My guest is a young man from the United States who had an awake...

Practise Self Forgiveness and Letting Go With Joey Lott 20.03.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message What has a practice of self forgiveness and letting go got to do with awakening?  Joey Lott had a profound awakening experience, which was followed by depression and a dark time for six years. He shares his story of how he realised that there was nothing wrong with his experience and that self-forgiveness and letting go is a practice that makes a huge differ...

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