Unmani’s Message
So often we go through life feeling like we just don’t really fit in or believing that there is something fundamentally wrong with us. Perhaps we have a sense of something beyond this ‘mundane’ world, but we can not find a way to live and experience that. We grasp for help in any way that we can, in order to survive and live with the pain of feeling separate and alone. Perhaps we try to find what we are looking for in spiritual practices, or perhaps we try to find it in our relationships or work. But whatever we may find, only gives us temporary satisfaction or relief, and then again the same sense of pain and separation comes back and endlessly drives us to search for something more. We long for rest. We long for real peace, wholeness, freedom and love.
Meeting with Unmani is meeting with yourself in the most real and alive way. It is not about having yet another spiritual experience that comes and then sadly goes. It is not about any temporary experience that you can claim as your own special spiritual state. But instead it is about truly enquiring into what is really going on here in this life: What is your deepest longing? What do you really know, when you don’t just assume that your thoughts are true? Who are you really? What are you really afraid of? What is wrong with right now just the way it is? When you don’t hold onto any beliefs that you have read or been taught by others, what do you have left to hold onto?
This most fundamental and intimate enquiry cuts through all philosophies and belief systems, and is about truly facing your deepest fears, no longer blindly buying into dreamy hopes, and is about waking up to the reality of life. Life may not always fit into your ideas of how it ‘should’ be. It may not always feel comfortable. But there comes a point when you are just so tired of chasing temporary experiences of peace and love, and hoping for a perfect future ‘one day’. There comes a point when you acknowledge that your deepest longing is to wake up to reality no matter what. There comes a point when it is time to risk losing it all, and to courageously take a step into the unknown.
About Unmani
Unmani is originally from the UK, but has lived a nomadic life in many countries around the world from the age of 18. Since Unmani was a child, she has never identified with being a separate individual, and always felt deeply at one with life. But as her environment did not reflect this Oneness, she felt lost and alone, as if she had been dropped on an alien planet. Truth was always her only passion and reason for living. She spent years traveling around the world in search of the truth. Eventually Unmani’s wake up call was answered when she met the Zen master, Dolano. Unmani finally woke up out of self-doubt and confusion, and acknowledged her true nature as that same Oneness that she had always known since she was a child.
In 2013 she met her husband, the wonderful musician, and courageous lover of life, Robert Hanuman. In 2015 their son, Sky, was born. For Unmani, becoming a mother, continues to be an endless awakening to this very human life.
On 3rd January 2018, Robert Hanuman died suddenly from a heart attack while they were in India. This has been, and continues to be, a heartbreaking loss for Unmani and Sky. Robert Hanuman’s presence deeply influenced Unmani’s teaching, and in the time they were together it evolved into a more human expression of the courage to live the paradox of the Absolute, living as this human. Robert put Unmani’s words to his beautiful classical guitar music and Unmani still plays his songs at her meetings.
Unmani has been holding meetings and retreats all over the world for since 2003, and in this time people have been deeply touched by her work: She meets each person exactly where they are at, and in whatever they need at the time, while at the same time holding them in the truth of who they really are beyond it all. This combination, and paradox, of the personal and impersonal, brings so much depth, openness and healing to people’s lives. They wake up to who they really are, and discover how this is lived and integrated into their daily lives.
People Who Have Inspired Unmani
Dolano
Papaji
Osho
Tony Parsons
Nathan Gill
Gangaji
