This 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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"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 thei…
"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.…
"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…
“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.…
In 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 re…
In 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 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 other…
Jason 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…
Satish 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 …
In 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. H…
In 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 way…
We 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 painti…
In 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…