advaya podcast
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis is a collection of recordings from advaya's past events and gatherings, and selected interviews hosted on advaya.
Started by two sisters, Ruby Reed and Christabel Reed, advaya is a platform for transformative education. We create learning programmes with the leading minds of our time to shift perspectives, transform our relationships and enable thriving lives in harmony with the natural living world. In a time of increasing polarisation, binary thinking and dogmatism, we are creating space for collective inquiry, asking questions with compassion and curiosity, and reawakening wonder and imagination. Find out more at advaya.co.
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Episodes
04. Cultivating mutual reciprocities with Dr. Gavin Van Horn // REBIRTH podcast series
May 10, 2023 07:44 - 47 minutes - 87.5 MB"If words can do something, if they can sink into the heart, open up new paths of perception, lead us to the threshold of a forest, this is all to the good. Then we must leave them. They’ve done their work. They got our bodies where they needed to be. At this threshold, we must thank them for their service, and lay them down. It is time to stop speaking and listen. Come to the trees: to forget and to remember. To forget the straightjackets of manufactured time and cubicles. To remember somet...
03. Wild ways of being with Dr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian // REBIRTH podcast series
May 10, 2023 06:32 - 55 minutes - 104 MB"We are a family of cells making sense of laughter, a watery collection of tireless vitality. We are a long-tongued bee lost in legume and clover and a blanketing dayscape of small biotic collisions. We are a newt-filled dawn and a mud flat packed with clams. We are a split gill with twenty thousand sexes; a termite queen basking in adulation. Knowing this will always protect you." - Dr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, "Continuation" This is the third episode of REBIRTH, a limited podcast series...
02. Transness as nature incarnate with Willow Defebaugh // REBIRTH podcast series
May 09, 2023 18:37 - 49 minutes - 91.3 MB"My soul would sing of metamorphoses. But since, o gods, you were the source of these bodies becoming other bodies, breathe your breath into my book of changes: may the song I sing be seamless as its way weaves from the world's beginning to our day." - Ovid, “The Metamorphoses” This is the second episode of REBIRTH, a limited podcast series produced by advaya, in partnership with Stella McCartney Beauty. This episode features Willow Defebaugh: the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Atmos. A...
01. Seeding relationships to the land with Antonia Estela Pérez // REBIRTH podcast series
May 09, 2023 17:24 - 1 hour - 136 MB“The plants are so wise. They are our ancestors, they've been here, and they're sacred. That humility and that continuous wonder, and being in a kinship relationship with them—of like, let me listen. Let me listen to what they have to say.” - Antonia Estela Pérez This is the first episode of REBIRTH, a limited podcast series produced by advaya, in partnership with Stella McCartney Beauty. This episode features Antonia Estela Pérez: a Chilean-American clinical herbalist, gardener, educator,...
Visioning the Future with Rob Hopkins, Jane Davidson & Gillian Burke
October 08, 2021 15:28 - 2 hours - 193 MBIn this highly thought-provoking talk, Hopkins, Davidson and Burke explore the place of imagination & stories in the birth of a new world. Rob Hopkins, environmental activist and writer, discusses research on the steady and persistent decline of our imagination, linked to the loss of a culture of play, less time spent in nature and anxiety, stress and trauma. He touches on the lack of imagination in today’s politicians and explores what the imagination actually is and the ways in which we ca...
What Do You Do When There Is No Hope with Bayo Akomolafe & Toni Spencer
October 08, 2021 15:18 - 1 hour - 123 MBIn this poetic meditation on hope, we are joined by speaker, author and facilitator Bayo Akomolafe and facilitator, poet and mentor Toni Spencer. Together they discuss the abundance that can be found in hopelessness and the things that feel invited when darkness is all that there is. The speakers consider the costs and shape of hope, and explore the ways in which hope has been colonised - asking the question of whether endless hope is part of what the system wants us to do. Bayo suggests tha...
Listening to the Land's Dreaming with Sharon Blackie
October 08, 2021 15:11 - 49 minutes - 94.5 MBIn this episode we are joined by Sharon Blackie - writer, psychologist and mythologist with a specialisation in Celtic Studies. Sharon talks to us about a tradition of Celtic myths where divine otherworldly women were considered creators of the land. She shares with us the Celtic myths and folklore around the divine female who permeates the land, who has made it and shaped it. She talks to us about a societal epidemic of unbelonging nowadays and goes on to discuss that myth and story are the...
Economics in an Age of Climate Breakdown with Jason Hickel
October 08, 2021 15:01 - 30 minutes - 59.1 MBJason Hickel is an economic anthropologist and author of Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. In this eye-opening talk he debunks the belief that GDP growth is equivalent to human progress and discusses the ways in which our emphasis on GDP growth has been responsible for the overconsumption of high income nations, which has led to total ecological overshoot. He elucidates the tyranny of growth that lies at the heart of our economies and puts forward several ideas for a post-growt...
Is Ecology Relevant with Satish Kumar
October 08, 2021 14:56 - 22 minutes - 41.9 MBSatish Kumar, a long-term peace and environmental activist, joins us in this talk with his characteristic humour and warmth to discuss the most urgent challenge for young people today - namely, what kind of world we are going to face in a matter of years. He discusses the role of the highly educated in environmental destruction and the ways in which our systems of higher education have failed to provide us with the values or vision that will help us protect our planet. He urges young graduat...
The Mind Beyond The Brain with Rupert Sheldrake
October 08, 2021 14:52 - 36 minutes - 71 MBIn this episode Rupert Sheldrake, biologist and author, debunks the standard view that the mind is nothing but brain activity and argues that our mind is extended in every act of visual perception. He discusses topics like telepathy, morphic resonance, precognition, meditation and animal communication to prove that our mind truly extends well beyond the brain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Economics of Happiness with Helena Norberg-Hodge
October 08, 2021 14:44 - 39 minutes - 74.9 MBIn this thought-provoking episode, we join author, filmmaker, public speaker and pioneer of the local economy movement - Helena Norberg-Hodge. She has been promoting an economics of personal, social and ecological well-being for more than 40 years across three continents. In this week’s episode, she shares her experiences in Ladakh and Bhutan where she began to think about the destructive nature of a globalised economy that favours global traders over local traders and smaller businesses. She...
The Power of Mythology with Martin Shaw
October 08, 2021 14:40 - 27 minutes - 49.6 MBIn this episode mythologist Martin Shaw shares a series of myths with us and talks to us about the power of Myths. He discusses their ability to help us articulate what is hard to express and the ways in which the Earth itself has the chance to speak to us in the form of myths. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Science of Right Relations with Pat McCabe
October 08, 2021 14:37 - 40 minutes - 75.6 MBWe join the wonderful Pat McCabe, a Navajo mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker in this episode. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth and global healing. She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and is devoted to supporting the next generations. In this episode, she recounts her first experiences connecting to he...
Consciousness & Psychedelics with David Luke
October 08, 2021 14:25 - 23 minutes - 46.4 MBIn this episode, David Luke, Associate Professor of psychology at Greenwich University, talks to us about eco-psychology and how psychedelic substances can help us enhance our eco consciousness. Here he discusses his research on whether psychedelics impact our attitudes and behaviours towards nature and the environment. He shares the interesting and often funny discoveries that have emerged from his research. He also talks to us about shamanism, transpersonal psychology and the enhanced conn...