Amoda Maa is a contemporary spiritual teacher and author known for her uncompromising clarity, tenderness, and deep transmission of love.

Her work points directly to the recognition of our true nature as the silent radiance of being — the unbroken awareness that is already whole, free, and untouched by the movements of mind and circumstance. Rooted in the direct path of nondual realization, her teaching invites a profound shift from seeking awakening as a future attainment to recognizing the truth of being here and now.

From an early age, Amoda’s life was marked by inner sensitivity and a sense of not belonging. After a traumatic childhood and the experience of war and displacement, a profound existential longing emerged that would lead her far beyond conventional pathways. This longing shaped her academic and personal pursuits, including many years of studying psychology at the University of London, where she received a BSc and undertook seven years of doctoral research.

But a persistent inner disquiet, together with a long period of depression, eventually prompted her to leave academia behind in search of something deeper.

For more than a decade, she immersed herself in a wide range of psycho-spiritual teachings and practices. These included Buddhist and Zen meditation, Tantric energy-work, Shamanic healing, Rebirthing breathwork, and transpersonal psychology. She was especially drawn to the writings of Carl Jung, Krishnamurti, Osho, and the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.

In the early 1990s, she traveled to India, where she spent time at the Osho Ashram in Pune. Immersed in a field of radical meditation and cathartic processes, she underwent a deep inner purification and experienced a falling away of many layers of fear. It was here, in surrendering to life itself as the teacher, that the seed of embodied presence was quietly planted.

Back in London, she created a transformational method that combined breathwork, movement, and emotional catharsis, offering workshops and retreats that gained a strong presence within London’s alternative healing and spiritual scene. Although this work was vibrant and alive, her inner life remained simple — rooted in meditation, deep inquiry, and surrender to what is.

Then, in 2002, in the midst of existential aloneness, there was a profound shift in consciousness. With no method and no teacher, a radical awakening occurred — a dissolution of ego-identity and a merging with the ground of being. This was not a spiritual high, but a death and rebirth that changed the fabric of perception. All seeking came to an end, and what remained was an unshakeable knowing of freedom and love as the essence of reality.

For several years, Amoda remained in a quiet period of integration, allowing the light of this realization to permeate every corner of her life. In 2012, she began to speak publicly — initially in small gatherings at her home — inviting spiritual seekers into a direct recognition of truth, openness, and the freedom of being.

Since 2016, Amoda has lived in the United States, offering in-person retreats, deep immersions, and online gatherings in service to a growing global sangha. She is the author of several books, including Embodied Enlightenment, Falling Open in a World Falling Apart, and Unveiling the Light of Being: The Direct Path to Realizing Your True Nature.

Her teachings are shared through the Amoda Maa Foundation, a nonprofit spiritual organization dedicated to preserving and supporting the Amoda Maa Teachings through retreats, online gatherings, publications, and sangha.

She lives in New Mexico with her husband, Kavi, co-founder of the Amoda Maa Foundation, whose poetry and contemplative guidance bring a complementary depth to the teaching field.

Kavi walks the path of the mystic through the language of poetry, the intimacy of presence, and a heartfelt reverence for the unseen dimension of reality.

For over two decades, he has shared life with Amoda Maa, bringing a quiet depth, poetic sensibility, and contemplative presence to the unfolding field of the teachings.

Born and raised in England, Kavi’s early life was marked by emotional challenges that seeded a lifelong quest for healing and wholeness. This quest eventually led him into the presence of a fierce Irish “warrior” teacher whose uncompromising guidance shattered inner defenses and set him on a path of truth. A long journey of recovery from chronic illness followed, through which he came into profound contact with the innate intelligence of life.

His love of Rumi’s ecstatic poetry has long been a companion on this path — infusing his language with the fragrance of the sacred and giving voice to the inexpressible.

Since 2003, Kavi has been immersed in a shared life with Amoda Maa. Being in the field of unconditional love at the heart of her teaching catalyzed a natural deepening of realization, devotion, and service. Over time, his own expression began to flower through poetry, contemplative reflection, and a quiet capacity to listen beneath the surface of experience.

In 2022, he began to step more visibly into a supportive role within the field. Through poetry, meditative reflection, one-to-one support, and occasional offerings at retreats and online gatherings, he offers a complementary voice that supports the deepening of the Amoda Maa Teachings.

Kavi now serves as co-founder of the Amoda Maa Foundation and as a contemplative guide within the wider teaching field. His presence brings sensitivity, humility, and a poetic attunement to the mystery of being.

His poems — shared widely on social media and brought to life through a recorded audio collection in his own voice — have touched many with their raw honesty and contemplative beauty. His book, Poems of Grace, gathers these pieces into a single offering.