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14+
Years guiding awakening & integration

Meet experience directly, without force.

This is a space for presence
You are welcome exactly as you are. There's room for what moves in you, and for the stillness beneath. We stay until your system recognizes its own sanity again.
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I see you

I see how much you have understood, how deeply you have looked, and how much effort it takes to stay present in a world that keeps accelerating. I see moments of clarity, and I also see the quiet tension that can remain in the body, even when the mind knows there is nothing to fix.

This is a place to stay with that honestly. A place where experience is met directly, with care and simplicity. Here, movement is allowed, emotions are welcome, and nothing needs to be forced into resolution.

You are welcome exactly as you are. 

Does this resonate?

You're close to seeing

You keep reaching for certainty, progress, or an "arrival." You sense something just beyond the edge of understanding, yet every attempt to grasp it seems to push it further away.

Or you've already seen

And yet emotions, fear, old patterns, or body-tension still move like they always did. The recognition is clear, but the nervous system hasn't quite caught up. Something continues to contract, to brace, to protect.
Either way, we don't treat this as a problem to solve. We stay with what's true long enough for clarity to be obvious, and for the system to soften into it. There's no rush to fix, no pressure to perform, no standard to meet. Just honest presence with what is.

Hi, I'm Ilona

For more than fourteen years, I have been guiding people through awakening and the integration that follows. I am a guide, an author, and co creator of the Liberation Unleashed community.
My work is grounded in direct experience and compassionate presence, with particular attention to the emotional and energetic layers that surface when clarity meets the body.
I live in Mauritius and work with people around the world.
You don’t have to rush here.
You can arrive as you are, stay as long as you need, and move at the pace that feels true.
Stay here.

Two Streams of Work

Each space is an invitation to stay present with what is here, without pressure to change or improve.
Direct Pointing
The most direct way I know to recognize what you truly are. It cuts through years of spiritual trying and goes straight to the core — the illusion of a separate self. This is not about concepts. It is a shift in perception that reveals what has always been here. When people search for clear guidance for non-dual awakening or seeing through the self-illusion, this is what they are looking for, even if they don’t yet have the words.
Deep Looking

The gentle, steady unwinding that follows awakening. A way to meet the mind’s conditioning and emotional patterns formed in childhood with compassion and clarity.

Awakening does not erase what has been held for decades. Deep Looking offers a way to meet these energies without pushing them away, without collapsing into them, and without trying to fix them — allowing what has been carried to finally soften and rest.

What is Deep Looking?

Deep Looking is the direct meeting of the energy behind emotions, patterns, stories, and sensations. It gently brings attention to inner contractions and allows them to be felt, heard, and met with kindness, so they can self-adjust and resolve naturally.

What does Deep Looking work with exactly?

Deep Looking works with the raw energetic experience beneath thought and narrative. Rather than focusing on explanations or analysis, attention is guided to how an emotion or pattern is actually felt in the body and nervous system, where it can complete its unfinished movement.

Is Deep Looking meant to awaken me?

Deep Looking facilitates awakening in areas of experience that have not yet been integrated, allowed, or met. When denied or obscured energies are cleared, there is often a deepening of awakeness, stillness, calm, and a clearer recognition of one’s natural state.

How is Deep Looking different from self-inquiry or Direct Pointing?

Self-inquiry and Direct Pointing investigate the belief in a separate self and point to what is already true. Deep Looking does not question identity. It supports the unwinding of emotional and energetic conditioning so that what has been seen can be lived more fully and effortlessly.

Do I need to have seen through the self-illusion to do Deep Looking?

No. Deep Looking can be supportive both before and after a glimpse. It helps seekers who feel stuck or overwhelmed, and it also supports those with clarity who notice old patterns, emotional reactions, or bodily contractions still arising.

Will I have to revisit painful experiences or memories?

Sometimes the source of a pattern is revisited, not to relive the story, but to allow the original energy to complete its wave. When an experience that was once overwhelming is met with safety and presence, the frozen contraction can finally resolve, which is how genuine healing occurs.

Is Deep Looking therapy or emotional processing?

Deep Looking is not therapy and does not rely on diagnosis, interpretation, or advice. It is a direct, presence-based way of meeting experience as it is, allowing the system’s own intelligence to restore balance and flow.

How do I know if Deep Looking is right for me?

Deep Looking is for those who feel ready to meet what has been avoided, held, or unfinished, without forcing change or seeking quick fixes. If you are drawn to honesty, gentleness, and allowing life to move through you more freely, this work may resonate.

Let's Connect

Free Resources
If you are new, begin by exploring my YouTube videos, podcast, blog, and newsletter.These offer an introduction to Direct Pointing self-inquiry and allow you to discover whether this work resonates, at your own pace.
Books
If you want to go deeper, read my book Liberation Unleashed. It offers a self-guided entry into Direct Pointing and a clear way to begin looking for yourself.
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Free Group Space
If you are ready to connect, join a free group meeting. Once a month, I host a live Zoom gathering where we explore together, with space for inquiry, listening, and real-time guidance.
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Experience
If you feel ready for direct support, you can work with me in private sessions. Sessions are available in 60 or 90 minutes, offered as short series, longer containers, or a year-long journey.
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One on One Guidance
If you are tired of seeking and ready to dive into your own experience, there is an 8-week guided journey where we look together, step by step.
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What happy clients have to say...

“I came to Liberation Unleashed in March and crashed the gateless gate very quickly. A whole new world opened up for me as a result of the new awareness and, for a while, I was in a state of bliss. This, of course, passed yet many things in life have been easier and more relaxed than they were before coming to LU. However, a couple of times since then, I have found been overwhelmed by unpleasant thought patterns and feelings. I was lost as to how to navigate and sought Ilona’s counsel. (I’ve begun guiding others through the gate and…
Robyn
“I was stuck in all of my suffering patterns and in the midst of it, I was referred to Ilona. Her graceful and kind, sharp and insightful, open and humble, spacious and light way of being gave me a great gift. After my work with her, I experience new access to my subconscious and am more able to meet whatever arises as it is. Triggers are welcomed now as I have tools from Ilona on how to free these stuck feelings. I can rest in what is and feel Life’s support in a way I never have. She met me…
Anna
After three months of sessions
“I did a lot of Deep Looking after gating. I found it a really valuable method which brought about a lot of information, love and compassion. It broadened heart and perspectives. The one time you guided me, I remember, left me 11 hours!! sleeping afterward. Like a baby. A precious gift! It brought me so much understanding and self-love, and such beautiful images and connections with the child characters I encountered. I truly feel it enriched my experience and being and the ability to connect to people and surroundings on a childlike pure level of no expectations, no judgement, full…
Anja Boers
Ilona Ciunaitė is a talented and sensitive person who has discovered her own deeper nature and knows how to guide others skillfully and simply along the practical path of recognizing the depths of their true self. Her ability to guide through what still limits and obstructs the experience of who we truly are is exceptionally powerful and liberating. I am deeply grateful to her for one of the most profound spiritual experiences of my life.
Evaldas Tamaliūnas
“I had a few sessions with Ilona and each time there were discoveries. After our meetings there is more peace, inner joy and positivity, and the mind is much calmer. It is difficult to express it all, even tiredness feels different – it has a flavour of love and positivity. Before my last session it was difficult to feel the chest and heart area, it used to be so heavy, as if a lid was on it. Now I go in these zones with ease, and there is love there, joy and gratitude. Thank you Ilona. ”
Inga
Dear Ilona After the first session I understood that you are the teacher I was looking for. I was looking for something and I did not know what that was, I was feeling sad and did not know why I was crying and did not understand tears. You have shown me the way through feelings, sensations, tears to this that is unfolding here now. Every moment in life is that which we are looking for and wants to be seen, experienced, embraced. Thank you for your sincere and kind look, for your words and stillness— in which truth and love…
Rasa Loga
Dear Ilona, thank you for the safe space and for the gentle guidance into the depth where all answers truly are. Thanks to you, finding them felt so easy. Thank you for the personal consultations — what we realized together opened my eyes and greatly lightened my life. Thank you for the satsangs — even unasked questions found their answers. Thank you for your kindness, sincerity, openness, for your support, and for the love I feel simply when I think of you. My deepest respect and highest recommendations — I wish everyone to meet you ❤️
Vilija Kotryna
“I received a session with Ilona as a gift during the abundance experiment project. I am very happy with this conversation. After the meeting I feel that I got back inner balance and a sense of fulfilment. I enjoy watching the world, experiences and feelings. Sometimes I get sucked into a twister of everyday stuff and I don’t notice how I fall into a mind jungle. And then I am stuck there.. Unnoticeably you try to control life and give in to the belief that you have to do something. That’s how tension arises. I don’t want to force and…
Ramunė
“Thank you, Ilona. Truth sets us free! I loved inquiry sessions. The depth is reached so gently and kindly and it’s so profound. All attention is directed to the essence comfortably and warmly. The tears are unavoidable, but the way I feel after a session is great. I am encouraging all seekers, who are feeling anxiety and negative feelings while not finding answers to core life questions. Ilona really helps to find your own answers, and that brings total relaxation. Warmly. ”
Eglė Stripeikienė
“There is deep joy of being after a session with you, dear Ilona. Peace and reality. Thank you for supporting me on the journey to depths of experience. I feel one more illusion has melted away. You helped me to see the unseen, I feel attention has freed itself from one more limitation. I am grateful to you, thank you for being!.”
Jolita
“ An unexpected gift from Ilona! That hour and a half of communion opened up immeasurable depths in me. I was a little confused, and Ilona very easily, joyfully and simply brought me back to myself. It was an indescribable feeling of being at ease, deep emotion and strong insights that brought me to the state of noticing the here and now. It felt like inner freedom opened up and unleashed itself from desire to define myself, to fit into description, to limit myself to the truths and rules of others. There is such freedom in my heart to feel…
Edita Gelažienė
“Right away I felt a resonance with Ilona’s gaze, it was so open and compassionate with a light smile on her face. And what she says does not create tension, although we talked about new ways of understanding things. Everything became clear, and so clear, that I can not understand how I could be asleep till now. I am very grateful and happy that such people exist and that I meet them. My heart is at peace and is radiating abundance into my whole body, home, world. And I feel playfulness in all that, which makes a cloudy day sunny.”
Angelė
Dear Ilona, thank you for the safe space and for the gentle guidance into the depth where all answers truly are. Thanks to you, finding them felt so easy. Thank you for the personal consultations — what we realized together opened my eyes and greatly lightened my life. Thank you for the satsangs — even unasked questions found their answers. Thank you for your kindness, sincerity, openness, for your support, and for the love I feel simply when I think of you. My deepest respect and highest recommendations — I wish everyone to meet you ❤️
Arnius Galinskas
“I did a lot of Deep Looking after gating. I found it a really valuable method which brought about a lot of information, love and compassion. It broadened heart and perspectives. The one time you guided me left me sleeping for eleven hours afterwards, like a baby. A precious gift. It brought me so much understanding and self-love, and beautiful images and connections with the child characters I encountered. I truly feel it enriched my experience and my ability to connect to people and surroundings on a childlike, pure level of no expectations, no judgment, full of sincere, uncensored joy…
Anja
“After ten years of shadow work and enquiry, I thought I was pretty much “done.” Ha! Your clarity, realness and rigor had me see truth, and for that I’m eternally grateful.”
Matthew Patton
“I have listened to our session again and even transcribed a couple of interactions. Very useful. I notice that whenever an upset arises, I often stay with it, and by welcoming, it loses its charge. I’m more loose and comfortable with judgments as discernment.
 In general, I feel more relaxation, remembering that I’m the space where all is allowed. Sometimes I ask the mind and heart if they are at peace. When the mind is agitated I remind it that silence is its natural state; very helpful.
 I also asked an emotion, “what do you want me to know?”, about…
Angie
“Ilona is a beautiful angel that sits with me with an open heart, vast as the mountains. She holds space in which I can be free to bring up anything, which she helps me meet with love, respect and gratitude. Her tenderness is disarming and helps me to surrender my imagined self into the abyss of the Eternal Now. It is always a joy to come to the next Deep Looking session, knowing that Ilona’s wisdom and sharp pointers will guide me to new discoveries. Much love and gratitude to you.”
Stephane
“My sessions with Ilona were eye opening to say the least. Ilona points to the depth in the simplicity of life. She was a wonderful guide with simple yet deeply profound questions that had a dramatic shift on my way of looking at life. The Deep Looking that Ilona shares is a beautiful “unpacking” system that I continue to experience weeks after our sessions. There is a timeless quality to the sessions with Ilona that no matter how long one has been on the spiritual path, no matter how many books on spiritual subjects one has read, these teachings are…
Noel
“It was interesting having a Deep Looking session with Ilona. The inquiry is not invasive and for me it was an opportunity to see the story differently. I have investigated the same story many times over the years, but this time without the stickiness of the “I.” It was a lovely, gentle exploration into seeing what is, as opposed to the story. The story still remains, however my point of view has changed from watching it as a repetitive monologue to watching with interest how it will unfold next.”
Kay
“In our individual session, Ilona was kind and loving. I felt her interest and care as she gently guided me through the process of a dialogue with my mind and heart. She offers a process of deep healing.”
Fran
“I had a Deep Looking session with Ilona over Skype and found it useful in unbuckling some of the knots and stickiness that were happening due to the unfolding and dissolving of the separate self. Her very gentle and compassionate approach was exactly what was needed to allow conditioning to surface and be accepted. As a psychotherapist, I see a lot of spiritual bypassing in the non-dual community, and it is wonderfully welcomed when Ilona takes time to help the separate self in the way it needs before it is let go of. I recommend her highly.”
Tanya
“I had read about Deep Looking and started exploring it myself before working with Ilona. Over time it began spreading like a soft wildfire in my system, showing up daily and bringing spontaneous openings that sometimes brought me to tears. Doing the session with Ilona felt like being held through the process, intensifying it over a longer period. I couldn’t always articulate what was happening, but I trusted her completely. Often it’s only later that I notice what has shifted, like a seed planted that takes time to grow.”
Filip
“I was overwhelmed by unpleasant thoughts and feelings triggered by a social situation. Ilona suggested I was resisting certain emotions and offered a Deep Looking session, which we did the next day. The work was deep yet not difficult. I felt safe enough to go into very vulnerable feelings and personal memories. When the session ended, it felt like much less time had passed, yet a clear shift had occurred. My heart had opened and expanded, and I have felt more relaxed and at peace ever since.”
Robyn
“Ilona’s Deep Looking sessions are really worth doing, especially if you feel stuck behind a mental wall of worry and control. She works very effectively over Skype, asking questions with kindness and deep respect. As the mind clears, the heart opens. The effects can last for days.”
Jon
“Thank you, Ilona, for the Deep Looking session. It is amazing how directly it went to the right issues. Your comforting voice helped me surrender to the process. It felt safe, like walking hand in hand back through the past and arriving fully here and now. It is amazing how one person can help create such a shift in the whole life experience. You listened deeply and supported me with love throughout. You are a treasure.”
Mila
“Thank you for the meeting yesterday. It was a very special experience and the shift in perception feels similar to coming out of a long Vipassana retreat. I felt more present in the body, more at ease, and less driven by urgency. Stress and tension softened, emotions were acknowledged and passed more easily, and there was a growing joy in simply being. What I received from Deep Looking feels completely different from other methods I’ve trained in. It goes straight to the heart of things. It’s the only thing I would offer to anyone sincerely searching for freedom.”
Anonymous
“Seeing from an energetic perspective brought real clarity. My understanding of reality shifted in a deep and meaningful way.”
Aurimas Radkevičius