1Ilona Selke was born in 1961 in the Himalayas to a German family. She spent the first three years of her life speaking German and Persian in the mountainous areas north of India.

After the untimely death of Ilona’s father, her mother and her two daughters moved back to Germany in the mid-1960s. Ilona spent the next 17 years in Germany with her family, living with her grandparents, aunt, uncle, mother, and sister in an extended family.

Ilona’s mother taught her two daughters Yoga, the Yogic Breath techniques, and meditation from a very early age. As a trained pedagogue and talented seminar leader, her mother took Ilona and her sister to many seminars and training courses from an early age, including teacher-training courses for group leadership, which Ilona’s mother taught. These early trainings in how to lead seminars set the tone for Ilona’s life’s work, shaped her future, and motivated her to lead inspiring, transformative seminars for over three decades.

Since 1989, Ilona has trained participants and instructors around the world in the art of conscious interaction with seemingly solid reality and in developing heightened states of awareness and soul-consciousness.

At age 15, Ilona began to inquire into the nature of the spiritual worlds, and since age 18 she has meditated regularly and has taught meditation classes since age 26.

At the age of 20, Ilona Selke moved to America to study philosophy and comparative religion on the East Coast. Because she did not find satisfying answers to life’s fundamental questions in her studies, she devoted herself to Eastern teachings, focusing on meditation and the mystical discovery of inner worlds.

During her philosophy studies, Ilona met Don Paris, Ph.D., her future husband and meditation teacher at the time, with whom she furthered her own studies in meditation and soul consciousness, which led Ilona from theoretical philosophy into direct, mystical perception.

In the mid-1980s, she moved to Colorado with her husband, Don Paris, Ph.D., and studied body-centered psychotherapy, massage therapy, breath-work therapy, Hakomi, and Gestalt Therapy.

After a Walk-About period in 1987, Ilona Selke and her husband discovered the SE-5 and Radionics, which catapulted their lives into a new dimension.

They moved to Seattle later in 1987, and within three years they moved to an Island north of Seattle, in the Northwest Pacific, where they built their geodesic Dome house. There they started their corporation dba Living From Vision, which is dedicated to teaching about the quantum understanding of reality and that consciousness is interactive with matter. Both started teaching seminars in meditation and awareness training, as well as Radionics, first in the greater Seattle area but soon all around the world.

HOLODYNAMICS

In 1988, Ilona started studying with Dr. Vernon Woolf, the developer of Holodynamics, to be a seminar leader. In 1995, Ilona received her Master’s Degree from Dr. Vernon Woolf in the Holodynamics Method.

LIVING FROM VISION®

During her training with Dr. Vernon Woolf, Ilona met Dr. Rod Newton, the developer of the Living from Vision® (The LFV course),  and became first a Trainer and then a Teacher -Trainer and then the World Wide Distributor and Trainer for the LFV Course. The LFV course was translated into six languages: German, English, French, Spanish, Chinese, and Czechoslovakian, and is now also available as online courses in various languages, along with a specially designed daily planner app.

Ilona works with an international network of LFV Instructors who teach the LFV methods worldwide, and the course has been translated from English into German, French, Spanish, Czechoslovakian, and Chinese.

Ilona and Don have traveled all over the world for the last 40 years to lead their seminars, among others to Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, England, North America, Canada, Australia, South Africa, South America, India, Hong Kong, Japan, China, Singapore, and Bali, as well as some other Far Eastern countries.

RADIONICS

In 1988, Ilona Selke and her husband met some exceptional inventors and researchers in the field of alternative medicine who became their life-long mentors.  Among the closest was Dr. Bob Beck, the developer of the famous BrainTuner, and another engineer, Willard Frank (stage name), who had developed one of the most renowned Radionics instruments to that date.

In 1993, Don Paris published a book on Radionics and specifically about the SE-5 device: “Regaining Wholeness Through The Subtle Dimensions.” (Available on Amazon, or for FREE as a PDF from https://www.SE-5.com)

After Dr. Willard Frank’s death in 2008, Ilona’s husband, Don Paris, Ph.D. (h.c.), developed the SE-5 1000 in 2009 to complete the changeover from the previous SE-1000 to fit the computer age. The SE-5 has now been updated to the SE-5 2000, and Don also developed the SE-5 Balancing-Only Instruments, the Universe Quantum Interface (UQI), and the Quantum Wellness Hub, which allows worldwide access.https://www.QuantumWellnessHub.com and was featured in the movie “Frequency – The Secret To Everything”

The book “Regaining Wholeness Through The Subtle Dimensions.”  was originally written in English, then translated and expanded into German. It is now published in German, English, Japanese, French, and Spanish.  For his work, Don received an honorary Doctorate.

DOLPHIN RESEARCH

In 1990, a visit to SeaWorld inspired Ilona Selke to explore the world of dolphins. The imprisonment of these seemingly so intelligent beings shocked Ilona deeply and became Ilona’s internal driving force to discover the cetaceans’ true intelligence and healing ability, and to explore the legendary telepathic abilities of dolphins in the wild.

Over the following decades, Ilona and Don Pairs spent thousands of hours with wild dolphins and whales in oceans around the world. In Key West, they became owners of Dolphin Watch Inc., a dolphin-watching boat they operated for 10 years.

BOOKS & MORE

The results of her years of research, especially the Spinner dolphins in Hawaii and the Bottlenose dolphins in Florida, as well as their spiritual experiences and the experiences of their seminars, are described vividly and inspirationally in two of Ilona’s books: Wisdom of the Dolphins and Dolphins Love & Destiny.

In 1993, Ilona wrote her first book, a children’s book, Alin Learns To Use His Imagination, based on Dr. Vernon Woolf’s work on Holodynamics, in which children, as well as grown-ups who are young at heart, can learn to use their imagination productively to transform problems and turn their dreams into reality.

Additionally, Ilona has published more books, including Dream Big – The Universe is Listening and The Power of Your Consciousness – 6 golden Rules to Living From Vision, all translated into multiple languages, and has co-authored two books as well.

Additionally, Ilona has published many workbooks, online courses, and guided meditations; has written many articles in English and German for magazines; appeared on many radio and television programs internationally; and been a popular speaker at the Prophet Conferences and many other conferences.

Together, Don Paris and Ilona Selke have published 20 Music CDs, and Ilona recorded well over 250 guided meditations in German and English. 

In 2016, Ilona Selke co-authored two bestselling books with Jack Canfield (co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul): The Big Secret, and with Brian Tracy: Success Blueprint.

In 2017, Ilona published the bestselling book Dream Big – The Universe is Listening, which is also translated into German and French, and in 2025, the book The 6 Golden Rules of Living From Vision, published in both English and German.

MUSIC CDs

As a flutist, Ilona has produced her own Album Himalayan Soul through the Monroe Institute, as well as published nine additional Music Albums with her husband Don Paris, of which the series TIBETANA features the renowned Tibetan Opera Singer Tsering Lodoe (who was a lead singer in the movies Himalaya and Seven Years in Tibet). Sound Samples are available on: https://www.tibetanamusic.com.

SHABMALA RETREAT CENTER

Don Paris and Ilona Selke offer seminars in their Shambala Retreat Center in Bali, with a focus on inner enlightenment in order to consciously experience the multi-dimensional universe.

Together Don Paris and Ilona Selke have made it their life’s work to promote higher levels of awareness, and to provide methods to be conscious co-creators in life. At the beginning of 2001, Ilona dreamed of building a kind of Ashram, where teachers from around the world work in tandem in the temple for the enlightenment of humanity.

In 2009, Ilona Selke and her husband opened their Shambala Retreat Center on the north coast of Bali  www.bali-shambala.com. 

Her team of 36 employees, whom she calls her angels, runs the Shambala Retreat Center on the north coast of Bali and the Shambala Spa in Ubud, and the Shambala team works with love and devotion, as it is found only in Bali.

At the same time, Ilona Selke and her husband set up the Shambala Spa in Ubud, which offers massages and other healing modalities, such as sound treatment and healing on the energetic level. After 10 years, they sold the Spa to their best employee and master massage therapist, Tika, who now continues the legacy set forth by Don and Ilona, now called Shambala Massage.  

In addition to working to develop the power of Soul Awareness, Ilona has had a lifelong passion for design and architecture, which she couldn’t live out in favor of her seminar and authoring work. Building the Shambala Retreat Center allowed her to design, which was another of her heart’s desires.

Don Paris and Ilona Selke live together in their geodesic Dome on the shores of an island in the Northwest Pacific, north of Seattle, and in their home on Bali.