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No, you don’t need any prior mediation experience. In fact, the word “meditation” is somewhat misleading. When we “meditate,” we’re simply experiencing reality. Experiencing reality is not difficult or esoteric, nor does it require any prior experience or special knowledge.
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Yes, the webinars are recorded, and the meditation might be shared online. The dialogues are not shared online. If you would like to ask Kyra a question without being recorded, ask her to pause the recording during your question.
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Kyra’s webinars typically occur on Thursdays at 8:00 am PST / 11:00 am EST / 4:00 pm GMT. If this is incompatible with your timezone, please contact Kyra to request an alternative time. She will do her best to offer alternatives.
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To join a webinar, go to the booking page, select a date and enter your details. Once you have entered your details, you will receive an email confirmation with the webinar Zoom link. You will also receive an email reminder 24 hours before the event. If you enter your phone number, you will also receive a text reminder. On the day of our meeting, simply click on the Zoom link in your email to join. The Zoom meeting room will open 15 minutes early to allow everyone time to settle in.
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Each meeting begins with a short meditation, followed by open dialogue and Q&A. If you’d like to share or ask Kyra a question after the meditation, simply click on the “Raise Hand” button in Zoom. When it’s your turn, Kyra will call on you and ask you to unmute yourself.
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Yes, and feel free to sign up for as many as you’d like. After the webinar, you’ll receive a “thank you” email that includes a link to make a donation, if you wish, but this is entirely optional.
Essence
A Bespoke Program with Kyra Spira
Kyra’s online gatherings offer the opportunity to taste the peace of your true nature, ask Kyra a question, or simply enjoy the company of those who are interested in the nature of reality, consciousness and healing. Each meeting begins with a brief meditation, followed by an open dialogue. No experience is necessary, and all are welcome.
Come experience the peace of your true nature and the unity of existence.
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Essence
A Bespoke Program with Kyra Spira
You don’t have to choose between love or freedom, peace or happiness
truth or beauty. These are not different experiences. They are different
names for the same experience: the experience of your essential self.
That is the destination of our journey together.
Essence is a bespoke program to experience, explore and express your true nature. The program is shaped entirely around you, like a perfectly tailored suit. Together, we find the right balance of live sessions and daily contact, over the right length of time. We begin wherever you are and walk together back home. You will have me in your pocket the whole way through.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise;
seek what they sought.
— Matsuo Bashō
Peace, happiness, love, truth, freedom, beauty—
these are the shades of your essence,
just as every color is only light.
You’ve already achieved what most people only dream of—financial freedom, speaking on top stages, advising world leaders—and none of it delivered the happiness you expected. You’ve read the spiritual books, sat with teachers, attended retreats, and yet it hasn’t brought real peace. Now you want the one thing money can’t buy: the experience of peace itself—not as an idea, but directly, in your own experience.
You know, intellectually, that your true nature is peace. But you don’t want to merely believe it. You want to experience it. You’re tired of seeking; you want to find. You want the truth—not the truth that someone else tells you, but the truth of your own experience.
THE DESTINATION
Your Essential Self
In Essence, we go straight to your essential self: pure presence, or consciousness—that which knows your experience. This is not a rare mystical experience, reserved for the select few. It’s the simple awareness that is knowing this very moment.
THE APPROACH
The Direct Path
Through conversation, targeted questions and guided explorations of your experience, we go directly to the experience of your essential self. First, we shift the focus of your attention from outward to inward. We then travel inward as far as attention can go: to the background of experience, awareness itself. Once there, we explore the nature of awareness to understand your essence clearly.
You don’t need to meditate for decades, discipline yourself or follow spiritual rules. This approach honors the mind, not as an obstacle to awakening, but as the very raft that carries you across the river.
It doesn’t matter if you believe that your nature is peace. What matters is that you experience it.
THE PROCESS
Recognizing, Exploring and Expressing Your Essence
While the journey looks different for each of us, it tends to move through three distinct phases.
In this first phase, we shift your attention from outward to inward. Inward doesn’t mean we focus on thoughts and feelings—that’s a half-way step. Inward means all the way within: to your self, the one that knows your thoughts and feelings.
Recognizing Your Essence
Exploring Your Essence
We then explore your essence and recognize its formless nature. As we do, peace, happiness and love no longer feel like abstract concepts, but names for your actual experience. We explore each quality to ensure you can locate it in your own experience.
P E A C E
The absence of suffering
H A P P I N E S
The absence of lack
L O V E
The absence of otherness
F R E E D O M
The absence of confinement
W H O L E NE S S
The absence of division
B E A U T Y
The absence of separation
Finally, you let your essence shine. There’s no need to abandon everything you’ve built, only to use it in the service of love. You might share your essence through a business, creative project or new technology. Or you may simply rest in your essence, allowing life to remain exactly as it is. There is no one right way to express your essence. The beauty of your essence will flow through you, in a way that is quintessentially you.
Expressing Your Essence
THE PROGRAM
A Bespoke and Private Experience
Essence is entirely tailored to you. Before anything is decided, we have an initial conversation to design your program around two elements: private sessions and daily touchpoints.
Private Sessions
An hour of unwavering attention to your direct experience. Sessions are conversational, and can include a brief guided meditation or experiential inquiry. Recorded and yours to keep.
Daily Touchpoints
Text and voice memos to keep us connected. You share what's alive—caught in a difficult feeling, after a hard conversation, or in the quiet of an ordinary morning. I respond with a brief voice note that reorients your attention to your essence.
ABOUT KYRA SPIRA, PHD
Kyra Spira has spent her career studying the nature of consciousness and the root of human suffering—first in the academy, then in the contemplative traditions. She holds a master's in Mind, Brain and Education from Harvard and a PhD in the Learning Sciences from Stanford.
She taught at Stanford before leaving academia to pursue her interest in the ancient philosophy of non-duality. Her time with Francis Lucille and Rupert Spira reoriented her mind to the nature of reality, and she often feels this was her true education.
Kyra now works privately with a small number of people drawn to the direct path to peace. She lives in Devon with her husband, Rupert Spira, where they spend their days writing, tending the garden and enjoying the beauty of nature.
Program Details
I work with only a few people at a time, so each receives my complete attention. Three places are available beginning in August.
Availability
Please complete the application below. I will be in touch within a few days.
To Apply
Initial Conversation
If there is space—and it feels like the right fit—we schedule an initial conversation to
co-create the ideal design for you. Complimentary, confidential, and no commitment.
Private weekly sessions are £600/month and daily touchpoints are £1,050/month. Minimum engagement is three months.
Investment
Questions
If you have questions before applying, you are welcome to write to me directly.