Rupert Spira

Rupert Spira first came across the poetry of Rumi at the age of fifteen in 1975. Shortly afterwards he learned the Mevlevi Turning, a sacred Sufi dance of movement, prayer and meditation, at Colet House in London. Soon after this he met his first teacher, Dr. Francis Roles, who was himself a student of Shantananda Saraswati the Shankaracharya of the North of India,. Under Dr. Roles’ guidance he learned mantra meditation and was introduced to the classical system of Advaita or Non-Duality. This formed the foundation of his interest and practice for the next 25 years.

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Reviews

Rebecca

Sep 30, 2025

Profound. I will definitely come back to this reflective meditation.

Rebecca

Sep 20, 2025

Outstanding non duality practice- inward looking and transformative. Grounding and simple.

Bob

Aug 27, 2025

I've listened to this several times. It always takes e to peace, freedom, and ease.

Suzanne

Nov 17, 2024

Rupert goes deeper than I ever imagined. “Love IS the recognition of our shared being.”

Sue Lindop

Sep 27, 2024

As a long time Buddhist practitioner this breathed new life into my practice. Thank you Rupert.

Dennis Wittrock

Aug 1, 2024

Brilliant. Rupert finds great analogies and metaphors to express and explore the inexpressible everpresent reality our own true nature. I listened to this track before but today I re-cognized more of what it is trying to convey. Thanks 🙏

Paula

Jun 29, 2024

Thanks so much for this guided meditation. It brought to mind Rumi’s Great Wagon poem for me: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make any sense. Helpful and lovely.

Paul Preston

Jan 2, 2024

A classic simplification of Self Awareness - always here now.

Shawn

Oct 4, 2023

Phenomenal listening. Words hardly suffice this experience. Blessings beautiful soul.

Michelle

Sep 28, 2023

This was a great fund, as I’ve been learning about how to sit with or in awareness for the past 18 months. Thank you 🙏🏼 ✨

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