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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
Sophie Strand picture

Sophie Strand

3 courses
Satish Kumar picture

Satish Kumar

1 courses
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Vandana Shiva

6 courses
Veronica Strang picture

Veronica Strang

1 courses
Manda Scott picture

Manda Scott

2 courses
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Beloved Sara Zaltash

1 courses
David Abram picture

David Abram

2 courses
Dr Andreas Weber picture

Dr Andreas Weber

5 courses
David Whyte picture

David Whyte

1 courses
Helena Norberg-Hodge picture

Helena Norberg-Hodge

2 courses
Dr. Predrag Slijepcevic picture

Dr. Predrag Slijepcevic

1 courses
Charles Eisenstein picture

Charles Eisenstein

3 courses
Aisha Paris Smith picture

Aisha Paris Smith

2 courses
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Brontë Velez

3 courses

Nathalie Kelley

Nathalie Kelley is an actress of Indigenous Quechua descent.

Nathalie Kelley is an actress of Indigenous Quechua descent, most recently starring in the #1 Netflix series The Baker and the Beauty. With a background in Social Science and Policy, Nathalie strives to tell stories that educate and inspire. She is on the board of Kiss The Ground and and the Fungí Foundation, using her platform to elevate Indigenous wisdom and technologies as a means of coming back into justice and harmony with our ecosystems. She is in deep devotion and service to the entire web of life, advocating in particular for the health of our soil, water, the fungí and forests. Nathalie’s mission is the preservation of Biodiversity, including cultural and myco-diversity on the planet.

Tree of Life Picture

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Tree of Life

How can understanding our co-evolution with trees, and forests be key to our human blueprint, our survival, and our thriving amidst and alongside the biodiversity that exists? In this course, we will be exploring this question from a mythological, cosmological and ecological framework. You will learn to honour your sacred connection to the trees, and step into your sacred role as tenders and guardians of the forest, from wherever you are.

Attuning to the Standing Ones Picture

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Attuning to the Standing Ones

What does the sacred tree of life tell us about our telos on planet Earth? What secrets do the trees hold, and how do we listen to them and allow them to show us the way? Ahead of the advaya course curated by Imaginal, Tree of Life, the three course curators dialogue about attuning to the trees, this time of initiation that humanity is facing, and how we may be of service to the forests, as we so urgently need to do now. Special guest Shira Netanya also explores the Kabbalah and Tree of Life, and weaves the cosmological and ecological stories of unity from and with the trees.

Attuning to the Standing Ones Picture

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Attuning to the Standing Ones

What does the sacred tree of life tell us about our telos on planet Earth? What secrets do the trees hold, and how do we listen to them and allow them to show us the way? Ahead of the advaya course curated by Imaginal, Tree of Life, the three course curators dialogue about attuning to the trees, this time of initiation that humanity is facing, and how we may be of service to the forests, as we so urgently need to do now. Special guest Shira Netanya also explores the Kabbalah and Tree of Life, and weaves the cosmological and ecological stories of unity from and with the trees.

The Epic of Gilgamesh and restoring humanity's sacred relationship to forests Picture

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The Epic of Gilgamesh and restoring humanity's sacred relationship to forests

"This is a time of really building a sacred way of life, learning how to listen again." In the opening week of Tree of Life, our course with Imaginal, the three curators, Nat Kelley, Isis Indriya and Timo Granzotti, explore mythological, cosmological and ecological stories to understand why humanity (led by a certain kind of civilisation) lost its way.