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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

Mia Kalef

Mia Kalef is a Chiropractor, Craniosacral Therapist and founder of Emerging Families, a program of therapy, education, and research for the Pre and Perinatal Period.

Mia Kalef is a Chiropractor, Craniosacral Therapist and founder of Emerging Families, a program of therapy, education, and research for the Pre and Perinatal Period. She works with families throughout the childbearing years to resolve the effects of Pre and Perinatal challenges and with adults retrospectively. She is the author of ‘The Secret Life of Babies: How Our Prebirth and Birth Experiences Shape Our World’ and ‘It’s Never Too Late: Healing Prebirth and Birth At Any Age’.

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Birth: A New Story

Join Samara Concepcion in creating a new story about birth with some of the world’s leading experts in philosophy, midwifery, and holistic health. Guided by renowned teachers like Charles Eisenstein, Mia Kalef, Jennie Joseph and more, you’ll explore the profound power of birth to shape our lives and collective wellbeing.

Birth and Belonging Picture

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Birth and Belonging

A conversation between Samara Concepcion, host of the Birth: A New Story course, and Mia Kalef, to explore how our earliest experiences in the womb and at birth connect us or disconnect us from our sustainable place in the ecosystem.

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Webinar: Birth and Belonging

“Our world can only mean to us what we meant to the world that raised us.” Mia Kalef Join a conversation between Samara Concepcion, host of the Birth: A New Story course, and Mia Kalef, to explore how our earliest experiences in the womb and at birth connect us or disconnect us from our sustainable place in the ecosystem. Learn how, through pregnancy and birth, we all receive imprints that inform our relationship to life, the world we live in, and our sense of belonging within it. This conversation will seek to reveal how we can collectively co-create the world we want to live in through the way we approach pregnancy and birth as experiences that lay the foundations for all that is to come.