Mukti

Teaching

Mukti invites attunement to being and to the heart of awareness. Her ways of nurturing realisation and its embodiment in daily life are meditation, self-inquiry and body awareness. ^{2, 3}

Who it is for

For people who want to combine silent meditation with self-inquiry and an approach through the body.

Where to start

• Begin with her short text Guiding Attention on her website, about guided meditation and how attention is directed; free video and audio teachings are on the same site. ^{2, 4, 5}
• The Self in Full Bloom, six sessions of teaching and guided meditation, was published as audio by Sounds True in 2014, with an introduction by Adyashanti. ^{6, 7}

Works

• The Self in Full Bloom: Teachings and Practices for Embodied Awakening

  Audio recording · 2014 · Sounds True

  Six sessions of teaching and guided meditation on discovering one's true nature and expressing it in one's life, and on the masculine and feminine qualities in awakening.

  Visit source page · soundstrue.com ↗

• Guiding Attention

  Text · Open Gate Sangha (her website)

  A short text on guided meditation: how attention can be gathered and directed, what she learned from the line of Yogananda in her youth and from Adyashanti, and how she guides meditations herself.

  Visit source page · mukti.opengatesangha.org ↗

• The Timeless

  Text · Open Gate Sangha (her website)

  A short text for New Year's Day with a meditation exercise on time: noticing how the mind turns to past and future, sensing what notices without moving, and letting attention settle into the present.

  Visit source page · mukti.opengatesangha.org ↗

The short summaries are ours.

In their own words

Short passages in the words of Mukti, each with its source. Where the quoted text is not in the language of this page, a translation follows and says whose it is.

• What is it to be oneself, really, through and through, to be oneself? And what is that self, and how does that express?

• My own interest when guiding meditations has largely been to keep attention on an atmosphere of deep calm, providing a context into which structures of mind and separate self can let go.

• Consider how that which notices movements of mind—both movements of thought and gaze—is Itself unmoving. Sense the still vantage of what notices movement, and invite this locus of attention to be soft and easeful.

Documented teaching relationships

• Teaching areas recognised by Adyashanti

  Open Gate Sangha documents Adyashanti's handover of teaching leadership to Mukti 2023.

  Stated by an institution · mukti.opengatesangha.org

• Learned personally with Adyashanti

  Open Gate Sangha states that Mukti has been a student of her husband, Adyashanti, since he began teaching in 1996, and a teacher at Open Gate Sangha in his lineage since 2004.

  Stated by an institution · web.archive.org , myemail.constantcontact.com

• Teaching influenced by Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mukti writes that in her youth she took Paramahansa Yogananda as her teacher, although he had died in 1952, before she was born, and that she listened to those who continued his ministry; Open Gate Sangha says she studied his teachings for over 20 years.

  Self-reported · web.archive.org , web.archive.org (2)

Teaching relationships are documented statements. They confer no trust and do not attest realisation.

Compiled by us from the sources listed. Last checked 18 Oct 2026.

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