Miranda (previously Holden) is a dynamic spiritual teacher, counsellor and author of the spiritual guide book 'Boundless Love', published by Rider Random House. Born and raised in Australia, Miranda began her spiritual path after a dramatic initial awakening as a teenager. From then onwards, she passionately explored many avenues of meditation, psychological and spiritual approaches to human transformation, the fruits of which she began to share informally with others, parallel to an early career as a television presenter. By the age of twenty two, Miranda had relocated to the UK and began a thriving counseling and healing practice. She has been in full time spiritual service ever since.
During her mid twenties Miranda entered seminary training in New York City. Passionate that Spirit is beyond the ownership of any one religion, she studied the primary religions and mystical traditions, and their application to daily life. Miranda was ordained an interfaith minister and spiritual counsellor at the age of 26, and was asked to bring such a training to the UK. In 1996 she founded the ground-breaking charity ’The Interfaith Seminary‘ in London, where she was spiritual director for a decade. This was the first non-traditional seminary training in Europe, and made a major impact to the spiritual landscape in the UK.
Miranda crafted and delivered a life changing program of inclusive spirituality, spiritual counseling and ministry to hundreds of people whom she would work with intensively for a minimum of two years; who were themselves veterans of the spiritual path. During this decade, she honed her own awareness, teaching skills and developed a wealth of experience in supporting individuals and groups in profound spiritual opening. Additionally, during this time Miranda ran a private spiritual counseling practice, spoke inspirationally to various groups and facilitated seminars all over the world.
Miranda is known for her breadth as well as depth of approach, and extraordinary capacity to guide others into direct experience of The Sacred. Personally, her primary spiritual influences have been a blend of east and west: esoteric and psychological. For fifteen years Miranda was immersed in the teachings of spiritual psychology within ’A Course in Miracles‘, guided by her teacher Tom Carpenter. The inclusive vision of Interfaith, which embraces the perennial teachings alive in all authentic paths has been a major cornerstone. Miranda has sat in silence and enjoyed spiritual friendship with extraordinary women mystics such as Eileen Caddy, Sivasakthi Ammaiyar, Mother Meera and others. In more recent years, the Advaita teachings of Self-enquiry as taught by Ramana Maharshi and Papaji have brought about new depths of awakening which is strongly influencing the direction of the work today.
Most apparent is Miranda‘s depth of Presence, experience, and integration of approach, which translates in her ease in speaking to people in their language and level. Miranda is renowned for her profound capacity to help people open to direct experience of Truth and unwind their habits of suffering. She integrates Self-enquiry with spiritual psychology, universal wisdom and an authentic Grace that arises out of her own awakening. A gifted communicator, Miranda shares from the heart through verbal, silent and energetic means. Featured as one of the ’world‘s 250 most inspirational women‘, Miranda travels internationally, teaching, learning and writing. She is currently writing a new book. Her work is powerful, original and transformative.
