Amanda anandita Simon on Astrology, Sensitivity and Collective Shifts // Beckoned by the Stars - E228
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Release Date: 12/05/2024
Voices of Resilience: Embracing Uncertainty Together - E232
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How do we find our way in the long dark? In this episode, Amisha, Mary, and Lies engage in a heartfelt conversation about personal journeys, dreams, and the importance of resilience in the face of uncertainty. One of the themes that come up in this episode is about sharing your voice, allowing your truth to ripple out and inspire others. Together they reflect on past podcast episodes, highlighting the wisdom shared by our amazing guests, and conclude with insights on intuition and personal practices for reconnecting with oneself. In this conversation, the All That We Are team...
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Ripples Collective on Sacred Activism, Liberation and Peace // Embodying Another Possibility - E230
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Bringing diverse voices for peace, this episode is a special gem exploring the question ‘How can collective prayer create ripples that transform the world?’ In this final, heartfelt episode of the year, Ripples Collective shares their voices in a truly unique and tender way. Together they weave a moment of beauty and reflection gently infused with music, care and love. Ripples Collective is a group of Palestinian and Israeli non-violent activists, artists, and heart-led humans working together in connection, strength and love to embody another possibility. ...
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TIMELESS // 'How to Reconnect in a Disconnected World' with Johann Hari - E229
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'How to Reconnect in a Disconnected World?' we ask ourselves in this new timeless episode. Our guest is Johann Hari, the author of the New York Times bestseller: Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention, executive producer and Tedtalk speaker. His books have been translated into 40 languages, and been praised by a broad range of people including Noam Chomsky and Naomi Klein. I don't think it's a coincidence that grief and depression have the same symptoms. I think what depression is, in part is grief...
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Amanda anandita Simon on Astrology, Sensitivity and Collective Shifts // Beckoned by the Stars - E228
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How can understanding astrology support us in riding these times? This episode brings forth a powerful way of hearing, feeling and seeing the art that astrology is. A deeply misunderstood sacred practice that Amanda is enormously passionate about. As a consulting astrologer, acutonics practitioner and artist, currently studying an MA in Art and Ecology at Goldsmiths University, Amanda anandita Simon brings the poetics of this practice out of the astrological arena into spaces where it can offer and be recognised for its contribution to join other acts of resistance. “To...
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TIMELESS // ‘How to Become a good Elder and Ancestor’ with Vanessa Andreotti - E227
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Drawing on her work as an educator, indigenous and land rights advocate and her mixed family history, Vanessa invites us to reflect on what it means to die well. How to become good elders and ancestors? “It cannot be just about us. It has to be about our responsibility to the time when we are no longer here. And it cannot be a choice either. It has to be something visceral.” Vanessa Andreotti This timeless wisdom teaches us about the ways in which we can be in...
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Jaiya John on Rest, Intimacy and Liberation // A Balm for the Tender Soul - E226
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What is the true cost of our numbness, and how can we alchemize it into deep, loving intimacy? This conversation with Dr. Jaiya John is a balm, for tender times, tender hearts - a remembrance of how to touch tenderly, inwardly and outwardly. Dr. Jaiya John, born as an orphan on the sacred lands of the Ancient Puebloans in New Mexico's high desert, walks the world as a freedom worker, poet, author, teacher, and speaker, revered across continents. In this tender episode, Amisha and Dr. Jaiya weave a story of human connection—layered with vulnerability, healing, and the...
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TIMELESS //'How to Reimagine Power and Presence in Search of the Sacred' with Sophie Strand and Bayo Akomolafe
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Manda Scott on Thrutopia, Vision and Human Power // Writing A New Story - E224
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How do we emerge into a new future from here? In this week’s conversation with award-winning novelist, smallholder, contemporary shamanic trainer and host of the international chart-topping Accidental Gods podcast Manda Scott, we explore the edges of shaping the future of our wildest dreams. ‘The not knowing is what allows the space for the web of life to send the knowing in.’ and it is this not knowing that gives us room to dream, rise and change this system. ‘It's not predictable. If we can...
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TIMELESS // 'How to Move Beyond Propaganda and Embrace True Transformation' with Patrisse Cullors
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In this week’s TIMELESS episode, Patrisse Cullors highlights the urgent call for a softer, more connected world where care is the base of everything we do. As an Artist and Abolitionist, born and raised in Los Angeles and being on the frontline of abolitionist organising for 22 years, Patrisse offers us a powerful vision for how we can cultivate healing through active, compassionate engagement in our communities and how we can move beyond propaganda and embrace true transformation. “Our work is to show up and reshape this place.” Patrisse Cullors This is from our archives,...
info_outlineHow can understanding astrology support us in riding these times?
This episode brings forth a powerful way of hearing, feeling and seeing the art that astrology is. A deeply misunderstood sacred practice that Amanda is enormously passionate about. As a consulting astrologer, acutonics practitioner and artist, currently studying an MA in Art and Ecology at Goldsmiths University, Amanda anandita Simon brings the poetics of this practice out of the astrological arena into spaces where it can offer and be recognised for its contribution to join other acts of resistance. “To re-member a living relation with an ensouled cosmos, to restore and restore our dreaming heart and cultivate sensibility to subtlety - the intricacy and specificity present in each thread of our lived life.” Amanda shares.
Together we explore:
:: How to cultivate a bodily awareness that allows us to deeply touch and be touched by the world around us
:: What it means to return to the city after countryside life and how to prevent being overwhelmed by its intensity
:: What Pluto's recent transition from the Earth-based Capricorn to the Air-focused Aquarius signifies for us
:: How to understand astrology as an art and sacred practice
We hope that you enjoy this episode and that something here really lands for you.
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