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explore advaya’s teachers

Explore advaya's faculty of teachers, scientists, practitioners, philosophers and storytellers, 
who share multidimensional, local and diverse 
narratives from across the world.

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Bayo Akomolafe

5 courses
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Sophie Strand

3 courses
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Satish Kumar

1 courses
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Vandana Shiva

6 courses
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Veronica Strang

1 courses
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Manda Scott

2 courses
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Beloved Sara Zaltash

1 courses
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David Abram

2 courses
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Dr Andreas Weber

5 courses
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David Whyte

1 courses
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Helena Norberg-Hodge

2 courses
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Dr. Predrag Slijepcevic

1 courses
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Charles Eisenstein

3 courses
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Aisha Paris Smith

2 courses
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Brontë Velez

3 courses

Manchán Magan

Manchán Magan is a writer and documentary-maker. He has written books on his travels in Africa, India and South America and two novels.

He writes occasionally for The Irish Times on culture & travel, presents the RTÉ podcast The Almanac of Ireland, and is author of the award-winning, best-selling Thirty-Two Words For Field, and Tree Dogs, Banshees Fingers and other Irish Words for Nature. His new book, Listen to the Land Speak is due Oct 2022.

He has made dozens of documentaries on issues of world culture for TG4, RTÉ & Travel Channel. He lives in an oak wood, with bees and hens, in a grass-roofed house near Lough Lene, Co Westmeath.