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

Awakening Through Divine Light Transmissions With Imogen Sita Webber 13.03.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message If you are wondering what is a divine light transmission, or shaktipat, watch this video as my guest today has a lot of experience and is uncovering what this practice is about.  Meet Imogen, who had an awakening through Energy transmissions. Imogen Sita Webber shares her story of seeking and being with various teachers, looking for awakening. Something happ...

Radiance of Awakened Life With Trip Overholt 06.03.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message What does awakened life look like? Meet Trip Overholt, a former co-host of the Conversations with Avant Garde Sages radio show.  I met Trip back in 2011 when I was invited to an interview for the show. Trip together with John Troy interviewed many emerging and established teachers of nonduality and I was lucky to be one of them.  Today Trip shares his awaken...

Healing From The Past with Abbie Westgate 28.02.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Meet Abbie Westgate. In this episode, Abbie shares her awakening story and the tools she used for healing from the past. She went from traumatic childhood experiences to recognising that she can heal and help others to heal too. Today she is a coach and she shares what she learned on the way to wholeness. She got very interested in using nervous system regul...

Awakening, Non Duality and The Wizard of Oz With JOHN TROY, ‘The Wizard’ 21.02.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message John Troy is a legend. We talked about awakening, non-duality, Nirvilkalpa Samadhi, synchronicity, interesting people he met and experiences he had. John had his first awakening experience at the age of thirty, fifty years ago, way before the internet and today he shares what it was like for him.  I met John Troy in 2011, just after Liberation Unleashed was...

Be Peace with Karen Lee Cohen 14.02.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Meet Karen Lee Cohen. We talk about peacefulness and what it means to be at peace.  Karen shares her story and her beliefs about awakening and oneness. Currently, she is in the process of writing her second book, titled “Let’s Be Peace” about her spiritual journey and devotion to alternative health, wellness, and positivity.  Her entrepreneurial goals includ...

Spiritual Practice with Sondra Harper 07.02.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Do you have a spiritual practice?  In this episode Sondra Harper shares her awakening story and what led to the shift as well as what she is engaging with every day to maintain the calm and open experience of life. Sondra recently published a book The Four Attitudes: The Alchemy of an open heart and a calm mind. You can find it on her website here:  https://...

Awakening to The Joy Of Being With Craig Sotkovsky 31.01.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message There is a long journey from intense suffering to awakening to freedom of being yourself.  Meet Craig Sotkovsky, Entrepreneur, Author, 9/11responder, Lung Cancer Survivor, Father, and International Speaker. Craig shared his awakening story and talked about his struggles and painful experiences on the way to freedom of being himself. His radiance shines, his...

Self-inquiry session with Laurentiu 24.01.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message In this self-inquiry session, I talked to Laurentiu who has been a seeker for some time and likes Buddhist philosophy and teachings. Join Laurentiu in the direct pointing session. We talk about seeking energy and how it works. We touch on reactivity, sense of self, and centre of awareness, inquire into how difficult it is to be present, what is the differenc...

Opening To Aliveness With Adam Chacksfield 17.01.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Awakening is just a beginning. What follows the initial shift of perspective is a continuous opening to aliveness, to intimacy, to presence and peace that is beyond words and understanding. I talk to Adam about his journey as an individual and a teacher. We look at strong emotions as shame, guilt, remorse around being yourself and sexuality.  Adam Chakcsfiel...

Exploring Mind And Thoughts with Lunaria Gaia 10.01.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message In this episode I speak to Lunaria Gaia and we explore the mind, thoughts, and concepts of awakening. Lunaria shares her story and talks about her work with people.  For 15 years, Luna has lived, studied and breathed self love, body confidence and self esteem. As an accomplished life coach, NLP practitioner, speaker and healer, she inspires thousands of peop...

Reversing Emotional Repression with Scott Kiloby 03.01.2024

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Today I speak to Scott Kiloby about hidden aspects of ourselves how to find them, how to recognise repression and reverse it.  Scott Kiloby is an internationally recognized and sought-after author, teacher and speaker on the subject of mindfulness and non-dual wisdom as it applies to addiction, anxiety, trauma and depression. He is also known for his work he...

Awaken To Being Present With Elizabeth Kipp 27.12.2023

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Be here now, as Ram Dass said. In this episode, I talk to Elizabeth Kipp about being present. We discuss what awakening is and how to awaken. Elizabeth shares a bit of her story of chronic pain and realisation that she is her own authority. Her health situation was resolved by using particular tools that she is openly sharing. She demonstrates a bit of ances...

Awakening To Spirit Guides With Trina Joy Lucas 20.12.2023

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Awakening has many forms and flavours. Trina Joy Lucas shares her story about awakening to spirit guides. She was born into a family of psychic healers, studied Chinese and Western medicine and went through her own intense health problem — all that led her to become a Psychic Spiritual Healer, Medical Intuitive and Educator who has been in clinical practice...

Hypnotherapy for Emotional Health with Stepanka Kuralova 13.12.2023

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message If you are looking for a way to better emotional health, hypnotherapy may be the answer. In this episode of the Awakening Now podcast, I talk to Stepanka Kuralova. She is a clinical hypnotherapist and empowerment coach. Today we talk about what awakening is, and Stepanka shares her story of health struggles and sudden improvement once she found hypnotherapy....

Awakening To Freedom From Guilt And Shame 05.12.2023

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message In this episode I talk to Lubomir Ostrev. He is a guide on Liberation Unleashed together with his wife Luchana and is currently staying in France, while his home country is Bulgaria. For many years Lubo has been pointing to freedom in various formats. In this episode he shares his story and his best advice for a seeker.   You can get in touch with Lubo throu...

Awakening Now: Benefits Of Having A Guide 29.11.2023

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message In this episode, I talk to Vince Schubert from Australia. Vince has been a guide on the Liberation Unleashed forum since 2011 and he has a lot of experience working with seekers. Today he shares his story about being identified as a seeker himself for many years and how it all fell away. We discussed Vince's awakening experience and the impact it had on...

You Are Your Own Guru 22.11.2023

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message In this episode I talk to Maria. She is a psychotherapist, a busy mum of three children, and she lives with her husband in Manchester, uk.  Maria describes her seeking experience and talks about the dark night of the soul. She shares about her experience of awakening to love and her best advice is to recognise that you are your own guru. You can find Maria o...

Openness and Curiosity Are The Key 14.11.2023

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Listen to Branimir’s awakening story. A Shift happened as he was reading the Gateless Gatecrashers book. Branimir shares his experience before and after, and talks about openness and curiosity as the key, that helped him a lot. If you need assistance with your own inquiry come to the Liberation Unleashed where you can register for a free account and get a vo...

Deep Looking Experience: Restlessness Unveiled 08.11.2023

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Dive into a deep looking session and meet the energy of restlessness. My guest today is Gunnar and you met him in episode 12. You can use this recording as a meditation and follow along listening to our talk and reflect on what you see in your experience. Let’s dive in!  Deep Looking is a transformative practice that brings clarity, release, and profound pea...

Awakening: THIS Is What You Are Looking For 01.11.2023

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Listen to Laura’s awakening story. She hasn’t been seeking for a long time. Everything seemed to happen quickly. A Shift happened a year ago. Laura shares about her experience before and after, what she had to deal with and how she met the challenges.  I had been meeting Laura for private sessions for over a year and witnessed her journey as it was unfolding...

Energy Transmission With Helen Amery 25.10.2023

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Helen Amery is a nondual guide and author, supporting others on their awakening and enlightenment journey. She had her first big awakening experience back in 2018, and after that, she dived deeply into the exploration to know who she really is. Who we all really are. A mum of two kids, she has continued to live a “normal” life throughout all of this and has...

Deep Looking Experience: Unraveling Doubt 18.10.2023

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message I am inviting you to dive into a deep looking session. You can use this recording as a meditation and follow along listening to our talk and reflect on what you see in your experience.  I talked to Gunnar, who after some period of clarity and lightness found himself having doubts. Have I lost it, have I never got it- it’s a familiar place for many seekers. H...

Mark Petrick's Awakening Story of Seeking and Finding 11.10.2023

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Today I talk to Mark Petrick. After many years of seeking and going through different teachings Mark can say with confidence, that yes, the shift happened and today he is sharing his story with you.   Mark Paul Petrick is an award-winning artist utilising the craft of photography to represent his subjects, as well as the poetry of concepts and visual situati...

Exploring Direct Experience of The Body 04.10.2023

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message Today I am talking to Tanya, she is a member of the Liberation Unleashed community. Tanya has been struggling with body image and beliefs about that. I invited her to share a little about her journey and we took a deeper dive into direct experience of the body today.  If you need assistance in your own inquiry come to the the Liberation Unleashed where you c...

Awakening to Spacious Intimacy 26.09.2023

Send me your thoughts in a Text Message In this episode meet Homer, another guest who has been through the Liberation Unleashed process a while ago. We explore his point of view and his advice to the seeker that is still looking for awakening. We talk about spacious intimacy of present moment.  If you need assistance in your own inquiry come to the Liberation Unleashed where you can register for a...

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