facultyexplore 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.
Bayo Akomolafe
Sophie Strand
Satish Kumar
Vandana Shiva
Veronica Strang
Manda Scott
Beloved Sara Zaltash
David Abram
Dr Andreas Weber
David Whyte
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Dr. Predrag Slijepcevic
Charles Eisenstein
Aisha Paris Smith
Brontë Velez
Sophie Crawford
Sophie is a master's student at the University of Amsterdam, supporting advaya with content.
Sophie is a master's student at the University of Amsterdam from Montreal, Canada. With experience at various governmental and non-governmental organizations, she currently supports with content creation and programming at advaya. Sophie is committed to communicating with global audiences in ways that are meaningful, evocative, and collaborative so that sharing stories builds and maintains relationships of reciprocity that transcend borders, and digital tools are harnessed to amplify voices and the natural world.
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Finding the Shanti
We have forgotten how to turn to ourselves for definitive answers. Our senses and intuitions are powerful evolutionary weapons that have carried us to our bodies from cosmic dust. In a conversation with Ashanti Kunene, a teacher from advaya's Future of Consciousness course, we discuss the power of listening to our inner voices – our consciousness – and the ways in which these voices may guide us towards possible futures.
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Six things trees teach us about relationships
What does it mean to be changed by, and to change, everything? In the session that spells out the “R” in Abigail Rose Clarke’s GROW/L Method, we discover how everything is interconnected, everything is in relationship, and how that can change our trajectories.
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Sans Soleil
Memories are shallow when they exist outside the body. I feel newly deceived by the notion that albums, stories, words, and language alone are a sufficient means of documenting life. Today, I sat under an Elm with Advaya Takes you Outside and tuned into my own breath for 30 minutes. It was like meeting a part of myself for the first time.
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How estuaries teach us about our bodies
Four ways these aquatic meeting points mirror the strength of the meshwork in our bodies.