Infinite Awakening
A New Book by Stephan Bodian
A Guide to Nondual Wisdom and the Pathless Path
Rest as you are, open to what is, and discover the timeless, luminous, ever-present ground of being.
With deep clarity and a heart attuned to our shared humanity, Stephan Bodian illuminates a path to freedom and love that feels both timeless and intimately grounded and alive.
— Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge
Welcome to Infinite Awakening
The Book. The Course. The Podcast.
Infinite Awakening points beyond the traditional texts and teachings to a direct experience of the essential reality that lies at the heart of all traditions. Being is the ultimate teacher, life is the text, and the pathless path is your unique and inimitable journey home to who you really are. Begin with the book, a collection of powerful teachings, pointers, practices, and psychological guidance that lead you to the threshold of realization and beyond. Commit to an even deeper dive by enrolling in the course, an intensive multi-month immersion in nondual reality. Together these two are designed to wake you up right now to your essential spiritual nature, the source of abiding happiness, peace, and love. Many blessings on your pathless path.
What People Are Saying About the Book
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“Having read many books in this field, I can say that Infinite Awakening will be at the top of my recommended reading list for students. Stephan’s beautiful writing opens doorways to the infinite and intimate exploration of who we truly are while addressing the roadblocks and challenging emotions we meet along the way.”
— Loch Kelly, author of Shift into Freedom and The Way of Effortless Mindfulness
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An articulate and comprehensive guide to seeing through and working with what brings forth unnecessary suffering. Stephan draws from Eastern spiritual traditions, Western psychology, and his own direct observations and insights to provide a richly textured, multi-dimensional approach to being alive.
— Joan Tollifson, author of Nothing to Grasp and Death: The End of Self-Improvement
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“Infinite Awakening is a wise, nuanced, warm-hearted, honest, and beautifully written distillation of living insight into the open-ended nature of nondual spiritual awakening. Stephan Bodian clearly points to and evokes our undivided nature while creatively addressing the psychological challenges of trauma, eros, and intimate relationship.
— John J. Prendergast, Ph.D., author of Your Deepest Ground and The Deep Heart
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Infinite Awakening is both a comprehensive map for understanding the nondual path and a treasure chest of practical meditations, pointers, and wise advice. But most remarkably, it’s a portal through which to discover ourselves as pure presence. A must-read for anyone longing to taste the fullest nectar of life.
— Nancy Colier, author of Can’t Stop Thinking and The Emotionally Exhausted Woman
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Stephan Bodian is a master teacher sharing a lifetime of realizations and exquisitely skillful guidance, with both deep insights and powerful experiential practices. With a kind smile he invites us to come home, in the experiencing beyond all understanding, to a natural resting in awareness, love, and inner peace.
— Rick Hanson, Ph.D., New York Times best-selling author of Buddha’s Brain and Hardwiring Happiness
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" A seasoned spiritual teacher and psychotherapist, Stephan Bodian artfully blends psychological insights with timeless spiritual teachings, offering a compassionate and accessible path to liberation. This book is an invitation to shed limiting beliefs and awaken to boundless peace and clarity.”
— Lama Palden Drolma, Buddhist teacher, author of Love on Every Breath
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“A marvellously practical and sensible guide to the process of spiritual awakening. With great clarity, Stephan Bodian distills the essence from a variety of spiritual traditions and crystalizes the wisdom of a lifetime of spiritual exploration.”
— Steve Taylor, Ph.D., author of The Leap and Extraordinary Awakenings.
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I believe this book will become a classic, essential reading for anyone who wishes to practice, experience, or teach the truth of the non-dual. Stephan’s clear and nuanced writing is informed by his knowledge gained as a therapist as well as by the wisdom revealed through decades of deep spiritual inquiry and practice in the Zen, Advaita, and Dzogchen traditions.
— Jan Chozen Bays, MD, Zen teacher, author of How to Train a Wild Elephant and Mindful Medicine
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Stephan Bodian has devoted his life to exploring what it means and what it takes to recognize who we truly are, and to live wisely and well in this challenging world. This multifaceted book makes his many hard-won discoveries and gentle wisdom available to us all
— Roger Walsh, MD, PhD, Professor, University of California, cohost of the podcast Deep Transformation: Self-Society-Spirit
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Infinite Awakening is a concise but thorough compendium of the primary approaches to the groundless ground of awakening that we all share, and so often don't know how to find. It’s a book that had to be written, at this time of growing interest in true awakening, and Stephan's training in several spiritual traditions, as well as psychotherapy, and above all his own deep experience and his skill as a writer, make him ideally placed to provide it.
— Henry Shukman, Zen teacher, author of Original Love and One Blade of Grass
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Infinite Awakening is a guidebook that spans the whole arc of navigating the great complexities of human life as well as the lesser-known terrains of spiritual awakening and the embodiment of deep spiritual insight, and Stephan’s experience, training, and expertise make him a wise guide who offers grounded, well-tried, and well-informed counsel.
— Adyashanti, author of The End of Your World and Falling into Grace
Come Home to the Source
Suffering and dissatisfaction arise because you live in a limited dream of your own devising and believe yourself to be separate from the world around you. Seduced by the illusory narratives your mindputs forth, you’ve wandered away from your homeground of nondual presence and interbeing. When you awaken, through the guidance offered in this book and course, you realize that you’ve never been separate even for an instant—and this profound recognition reveals the happiness and peace that are your birthright but have remained hidden from view.
‘Stephan Bodian offers a tender, clear, compassionate, and beautifully articulated guide to the timeless understanding that lies at the heart of all true spirituality.
— Rupert Spira, author of The Nature of Consciousness and Being Aware of Being Aware
The Course: Experience the Awakening for Yourself
If the book is the map, the course is the journey. Infinite Awakening is a guided, experiential exploration of nondual realization and embodiment. Each class provides teachings, direct pointers to your natural state of awakened awareness, self-inquiry exercises, guided and silent meditations, and ample opportunity to connect with a community of fellow seekers to share your insights and questions. Through videos, written and audio teachings, live sessions, and live and recorded retreats, Stephan Bodian guides you every step of the way.
Take a Deep Dive into the Nondual
The journey of awakening requires courage, commitment, and above all a willingness to challenge your limited ego-centered view of life and step into the unknown. Most people are content to continue suffering in familiar ways rather than question their assumptions and risk losing the illusory world they’ve painstakingly constructed. The Infinite Awakening course takes you on a deep dive into the essential nature of reality while challenging the person you take yourself to be. It questions everything you thought you knew and offers you the opportunity to awaken to a new way of being filled with peace, gratitude, happiness, and love.
The Nondual Wisdom Podcast
Join me periodically for wide-ranging conversations about spiritual awakening and the nature of reality, incorporating the nondual wisdom of Advaita, Zen, Dzogchen, Shiva tantra, and beyond. My guests include teachers in these traditions, as well scholars, therapists, artists, and others who incorporate a nondual perspective into their work.
Latest Episodes
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More Teachings from Stephan
Join me on my personal website, where I offer teachings and meditations from the direct approach to spiritual awakening. There you’ll find:
Information about upcoming events
Audio versions of many of the guided meditations in the book
Free videos of webinars and classes I’ve offered over the years as well as interviews, conversations, and podcasts
Recorded workshops and retreats for purchase
Information about my other books: Wake Up Now, Beyond Mindfulness, and Meditation for Dummies.
Enjoy these resources, and thank you for your dedication to the journey of awakening!