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Creating Pigments From Natural Materials Picture

A Guide to Creating Pigments From Earth

Pigment maker Lucy Mayes shows how colour is made from natural materials like clay, copper, and mining waste.

3 Way to Feel More Alive with Roman Krznaric Picture

3 Way to Feel More Alive with Roman Krznaric

Roman Krznaric explores how embracing mortality and reimagining our relationship with time—through thought experiments, indigenous wisdom, and deep time—can lead to a more meaningful, connected, and purposeful life.

What if the First Witches Were Goddesses? Picture

What If the First Witches Were Goddesses?

In the course, Secret History of the Witches, Max Dashu presents the forgotten origins of women’s power in myth and history.

Review of Is a River Alive? Picture

From Kingdom to Kindom: Macfarlane’s Vision of Living Rivers

Recognising rivers as sentient, living beings.

We, the riverine selves Picture

We, the riverine selves: Rethinking power as a choreography of becoming

Rivers, resistance, and post-activism viewed through a feminist lens.

How Advaya Curates its Transformative Content Picture

How Advaya Curates its Transformative Content

Virginia Vigliar on the art of curation and relational learning.

Reimagining the Fashion Industry Picture

Pluriversal Fashion-Textiles: Opening Ourselves up to Multiple Worlds

A diverse, community-based, co-created industry - not an extractive one.

Mystics’ call for Love and Non-Dualism Picture

Mystics’ call for Love and Non-Dualism

Christian mystics reclaim compassion and justice as core spiritual values.

The Red Thread Picture

The Red Thread

A deep dive into myth, memory and matrifocal cultures.

Enchantment and Magic in the Mediterranean Picture

Enchantment and Magic in the Mediterranean with Francesca Heart

The siren, sphinx, and dragon animate the Mediterranean’s mythic landscape.

A Guide to Love Picture

A Guide to Love: Erich Fromm

Practice care, responsibility, and resistance to a disconnected world.

Indigenous Wisdom on Grief, Death, and Renewal Picture

Sacred Transitions: Indigenous Wisdom on Death, Grief, and Renewal

As a collective path to healing and transformation.

How Dreams can Transform your Waking Life Picture

How Dreams can Transform your Waking Life

Reflections on a vivid dream.

Reclaiming Ancestral Magic Picture

Reclaiming Ancestral Magic

Exploring cultural roots and their connections to nature.

The Ethics and Art of Lucid Dreaming Picture

Dream Technology with Saelyx Finna and Marieke McKenna

Techniques, expert insights and ethical considerations of dream tech.

Plant Consciousness and Healing Picture

Plant Consciousness

Listen, learn and reconnect to the plant world.

What Happens When We Forget We’re Part of Nature? Picture

Of Bees and Empires: Re-Earthing Our Bodies

On disconnection, dominant systems, and the wisdom of re-rooting ourselves.

A New Love Narrative Picture

A New Love Narrative

The heart is more than physical; it is perception, connection and deep intelligence.

The Great Goddess and Eglė Picture

The Great Goddess and Eglė–Queen of Grass Snakes

A myth reflecting the shift from goddess-led to male-dominated societies.

Cultivating a Dream Practice Picture

Cultivating a Dream Practice

A journey through dreams, culture, science, and staying grounded.

How to Grieve Our Disconnection from the Earth Picture

Saltwater Threads

A look at grief, loss, and reweaving our bond with the more-than-human.

Birth and Belonging Picture

Birth and Belonging

A talk on birth’s role in connecting us to our place within the ecosystem.

Marija Gimbutas on Matriarcal Goddesses Picture

Marija Gimbutas: The Regeneratrix of Our Time

Ancient goddesses worshipped for life, death, and renewal - not just fertility.

The Many Deaths Throughout Life Picture

The Many Deaths Throughout Life

Each ending brings renewal in life’s ever-turning cycle of change.

Guardianship at Stonehenge's Sacred Springs Picture

Guardianship and pilgrimage at Stonehenge's sacred springs

Where ancient waters and aligned stones connect past and present.

Tracing ancient motherlines Picture

Tracing ancient motherlines

To reclaim practices for healing, reciprocity, and social justice.

Practices for the Solstice Picture

Practices for the Solstice

Stillness and reverence for the land align us with nature’s cycles.

What Estuaries Teach Us About the Body Picture

How estuaries teach us about our bodies

Four ways these waterbodies mirror the meshwork in our bodies.

From Faith to Spirituality with advaya Picture

Unfolding into openness with advaya

A participant's journey, embracing a fluid and open spirituality.

How to soften your language Picture

How to soften your language

Shifting from Transactional to Relational Communication.

Reverence for Sacred Sites Picture

Reverence for Sacred Sites

Places of concentrated energy where the veil is thin.

Secret history of the witches Picture

Secret history of the witches

Folk practices, historical biases and the persecution of wise women.

Hestia's fire Picture

Hestia's fire

Exploring the hearth as a symbol of chaos in all origin stories.

What Trees Teach Us About Relationships Picture

Six things trees teach us about relationships

Discover how all things are interconnected and in relationship.

Finding the Shanti Picture

Finding the Shanti

The power of tuning into our inner voices - our consciousness.

Meeting a Part of Myself for the First Time Picture

Sans Soleil

A participant sat under an Elm with “advaya takes you outside”.

The Only Way is Through Picture

Untangling our limbs from worlds of grief

Trust and feel the support of the earth, come into a softer presence.

The Transformative Power of Play Picture

The Transformative Power of Play

A state that liberates us from the fear of uncertain futures.

The Heart, keeper of the flame Picture

The heart, keeper of the flames of being

Caring for the flames of our being honors our connection to the cosmos.

Fairytales of the feminine Picture

Fairytales of the feminine

Symbolic language of timeless stories and their contemporary relevance.

An Enchanting Worldview Picture

An enchanting worldview: a participant's reflection

A reflection on how science is limited by systems that also repress queerness.

The Deep Wisdom of Water Picture

The Deep Wisdom of Water

Water’s growing recognition as a physical, emotional, and spiritual healer.

The Spirit of Water Picture

The Spirit of Water

A single water droplet holds thousands of memories.

We Contain the Ocean Picture

We Contain the Ocean

Let’s be silent long enough to hear the wisdom water has to offer.

Ecstatic Rituals as Acts of Resistance Picture

Ecstatic experience as collective bargaining: a participant's reflection

Ancient Dionysian rites as tools for liberation, justice, and connection.