FALLING OPEN IN A WORLD FALLING APART - The Essential Teaching of Amoda Maa

Published by Larsons Publications, October 2020

"Such a timely book! Amoda's clarity of writing makes the universal inner wisdom relevant and accessible to the seeker in these troubled times." — Ondrea Levine, author of The Healing I took Birth For and co-author with Stephen Levine of Embracing the Beloved

This book is "an invitation to openness." It offers the jewel of Amoda Maa's teaching—how to be fully awake and fully human, open in a way that's the key to freedom and to what's most needed in our troubled times. Unlike having no boundaries, this openness transforms reactivity, ends separation, leads us to our true authority, and guides us with the intelligence of love.

As this wise book eloquently reminds us, awakened living involves the boundless embrace of our precious, messy human experience in all its subtlety and complexity—the pain as well as the laughter, the confusion as well as the clarity—without either indentifying with it or pushing it away. This unconditional openness is not a practice, it’s our natural state, our inherently awake true nature, the timeless presence that welcomes reality just as it is because it is essentially not separate from whatever arises. Amoda Maa has it right—embodied awakening is the seamless marriage of form and emptiness, human and transcendent, vulnerable and indestructible, which meet right here and now —as you!
— Stephan Bodian, author, Meditation for Dummies, Wake Up Now, and Beyond Mindfulness
I love that Amoda Maa includes and works with our humanness, rather than attempting to ignore or by-pass the messiness and difficulties of everyday life. But she doesn’t get entangled in the mess either. Instead, Amoda invites a falling open into “the groundless ground of unbroken presence,” the openness that allows everything to be as it is. Paradoxically, this is exactly where genuine transformation happens. There is a gentle tenderness in this book. The words come from the heart, from clear seeing, and from the openness that the book invites the reader to discover.Amoda encourages “listening to the deepest truth in you, listening to that which is prior to narrative and prior to reactivity, listening to the silence within—and then moving from this silence. Or not moving at all.” Falling Open is a beautiful book that I haver highly recommend. As Amoda says, “This book is a transmission. Do not read it. Feel it.” Yes!
— Joan Tollifson, author of Death: The End of Self-Improvement and Nothing to Grasp
The invitation to fall open and to embrace what appears to be falling apart has always been a vital part of the lived awakening experience. And now that the world is shaking and ― dare I say it ― in the process of transformation, there is an urgency to the task at hand. Amoda speaks to this directly, and stirs the heart. Her voice is eloquent and precise ― a rich and extraordinarily valuable contribution to the current zeitgeist. I cannot recommend her ― and this, her latest book ― highly enough.
— Miranda Macpherson, spiritual teacher and author of The Way of Grace

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OPGAAN IN OPENHEID: in een versplinterde wereld

Dutch edition of FALLING OPEN IN A WORLD FALLING APART
Published by Samsara Books, 2021

Opgaan in openheid is een geschenk voor moeilijke tijden dat heel goed past bij de huidige periode van verandering en onzekerheid. Het is ‘een uitnodiging tot openheid’, en toont hoe ontwaakt leven gepaard gaat met de grenzeloze omarming van onze kostbare, rommelige menselijke ervaring in al haar subtiliteit en complexiteit – zowel de pijn als de vrolijkheid, zowel de verwarring als de helderheid – zonder je ermee te identificeren of haar te ontkennen. Dat is geen oefenpraktijk, maar onze natuurlijke staat van zijn.

Het  vormt de essentie van Amoda Maa’s onderricht: hoe je tegelijkertijd volkomen ontwaakt en volledig menselijk kunt zijn.


EMBODIED ENLIGHTENMENT - Living Your Awakening in Every Moment

New Edition published by New Sarum Press, 2022 (first edition published by New Harbinger Publications, 2017)

Foreword written by John Welwood, PhD — “Amoda's book is a guide to secular awakening, and an antidote to spiritual bypassing.”

Within the pages of Embodied Enlightenment, Amoda Maa offers a profound invitation: to awaken to our true nature and to live the truth of this awakening in everyday life.

Divided into three parts, Amoda comprehensively explores the evolutionary imperative of awakening, the journey of inner transformation and, finally, how to live from wholeness and freedom in the midst of our human experience.

This book is a rich resource for the contemporary spiritual seeker. Nonduality traditionally focusses only on the pristine state of emptiness but Embodied Enlightenment delves deeply into the often messy earthly dimension of ordinary life.

Embodied Enlightenment eloquently challenges us to honestly and intimately meet our experience just as it is, and to awaken out of the trance of the perpetually seeking separate self. This is a deeply illuminating description of how an awakened life transmutes the ordinary arenas of relationships, work, sex, money, the body, and life purpose. A beautifully written, inspiring, and distinctly feminine call to consciously embody the unfolding edge of evolution. I highly recommend it!
— John J.Prendergast, PhD, author of In Touch, adjunct professor of psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies, and psychotherapist
Amoda Maa is a gracious and powerful guide who steers a clear and honest path through the mist of confusion and misunderstanding about the awakened state to hold a new, revelatory light to all that was previously unclear or speculated on. Here, the old, outmoded ways of viewing liberation are cast aside for a more informed, enriching vision of enlightenment—one that embraces our twenty-first-century sensibilities and shies away from nothing.
— Stephen Gawtry, managing editor of Watkins Mind Body Spirit Magazine
With diamond-like clarity, a cup of compassion, and an almost poetic intensity, Amoda Maa debunks the myth of enlightenment, addressing many commonly held concerns and questions about the process of awakening. No topic is off limits in this conversation as she dismantles the scaffolding of our defenses, our beliefs—the very mechanism of seeking itself. I highly recommend this beautifully written and insightful book to anyone at any stage in their spiritual evolution. You are invited to dive in, face your personal wounds with ‘courage and tender honesty,’ challenge your assumptions, and root the full flowering of your consciousness in the very belly of your humanity.
— Kirtana, singer, songwriter, and recording artist of songs for awakening

ILUMINATE - Alcanzar La Iluminacion es Cosa de Todos Los Dias

Spanish (Mexico & South America) edition of EMBODIED ENLIGHTENMENT
Published by Fontanar/Penguin Random House, 2018

Amoda Maa elimina algunos de los mitos más comunes sobre la iluminación y ofrece una explicación accesible de los alcances de la conciencia despierta para cualquier persona que desee encontrar paz y plenitud en medio de este mundo caótico. Con claridad, pasión y gracia, Ilumínate ofrece orientación sobre cómo tu vida diaria puede llevarte al despertar y a la trascendencia. Este libro te ayudará a balancear la espiritualidad con temas recurrentes de la vida cotidiana como la abundancia, las relaciones personales, el bienestar físico, el trabajo, el dinero y la creatividad para alcanzar la felicidad y la plenitud en tu vida. Prólogo de John Welwood.


RADICAL AWAKENING - Discovering the Radiance of Being in the Midst of Everyday Life

This is a revised second edition of Amoda's first book How to Find God in Everything (2008), with a new Preface, Introduction, & Afterword.

Published by Watkins Publishing, 2016

Beautifully presented and practical as well as inspiring, this is an introduction to the world of non-duality, non-separation and our intrinsic oneness, and supports the reader on their path to inner joy and freedom. This new edition brings the book up to date with Amoda's teaching today. She also talks more about how her awakening happened and how this has evolved since the first edition of the book.


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DESPERTAR RADICAL - El Resplandor del Ser en Medio del Mundo

Spanish (Europe) edition of RADICAL AWAKENING

Translated by Diego Merino Sancho, and published by Gaia Ediciones, 2018. Despertar radical nos invita a sumergirnos profundamente en el misterio de la existencia tal y como es. Abrazar cada momento nos ofrece la oportunidad de despertar del sueño de la separación y de comprender que somos uno con la esencia divina que da origen a todas las formas. Este libro, escrito con un estilo ameno y accesible, constituye una introducción única y fascinante al mundo de la no-dualidad.


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CHANGE YOUR LIFE, CHANGE YOUR WORLD - Ten Spiritual Lessons for a New Way of Being and Living

Published by Watkins Publishing, 2012

A spiritual workbook with each lesson containing insights for contemplation, actions to take on a daily basis, and declarations to affirm the power of your inner light. This book offers Ten Spiritual Lessons that activate an “inner spiritual muscle” and unlock your true power. Each lesson has the capacity to change the way you see things, the way you experience things and the way you do things so that you are empowered to become an agent of change. The invitation in this book is for you to awaken the jewel of your inner radiance and to consciously collaborate in your personal evolution as well as in our planetary evolution.