Awakening the Heart: How Rina Rain’s New Release Invites Listeners into a Brighter, More Connected World
Month: March 2026
I was born in Lithuania as one of five kids in a loving and musical household. All of us played instruments, and I found my own form of rhythm in sports, becoming a professional athlete at just 14. But it didn’t take long to realize that chasing trophies wasn’t the same as chasing fulfillment.
As a first-generation college student, I was taught from early on that education was the foundation of a meaningful life. I completed my undergraduate studies in engineering and continued with graduate studies in executive coaching. I felt truly blessed as many of my lifelong dreams came true. I got what I believed would make me happy. Yet beneath every success and cultural label, I found myself still searching for meaning.
Traveling the world stirred my quest for something deeper. In 2005, while living in New York, I began a decades-long transformational journey, becoming a certified coach, guiding others through career transitions, the pursuit of happiness, and the discovery of life’s purpose. Helping others uncover their passions illuminated my own — the longing for direct experience of inner freedom.
After years of attending retreats, trainings, and immersing myself in teachings from great spiritual masters, I began to see a paradox: the more I sought wisdom outside myself, the more alone I felt inside. This was my rollercoaster of spiritual bypassing. I avoided the present moment in pursuit of enlightenment.
The truth was so much closer than I was willing to see. Everything I was looking for already lay within. I just needed to find a way to access it. The journey inward to silence, the one we often resist, became my greatest challenge and my deepest teacher. Going within was the only way out.
In 2012, I became a secular guided meditation teacher in Lithuania, continued this work in the United Kingdom, and later, upon return to the United States in 2015, expanded even further.
Today, I am a mantra artist and meditation teacher. My work brings all of those threads together: music, curiosity, mindfulness, and a relentless pursuit to live from inner truth.
As a lifelong seeker, I believe it’s possible to awaken to the unfolding freedom within. My hope is to help others experience this awareness, just like many teachers have shown me all along: It begins within…
With deep gratitude to my family, friends, all my teachers, students, and fellow explorers,
Rina Rain