Faculty
Meet advaya’s teachers

Advaya’s global faculty blends science, practice, and story bringing localised, multidimensional wisdom to a shared learning space.

Bayo Akomolafe picture

Bayo Akomolafe

5 courses
Sophie Strand picture

Sophie Strand

3 courses
Satish Kumar picture

Satish Kumar

1 courses
Vandana Shiva picture

Vandana Shiva

6 courses
Veronica Strang picture

Veronica Strang

1 courses
Manda Scott picture

Manda Scott

2 courses
Beloved Sara Zaltash picture

Beloved Sara Zaltash

1 courses
David Abram picture

David Abram

2 courses
Dr Andreas Weber picture

Dr Andreas Weber

5 courses
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David Whyte

1 courses
Helena Norberg-Hodge picture

Helena Norberg-Hodge

2 courses
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Dr. Predrag Slijepcevic

1 courses
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Charles Eisenstein

3 courses
Aisha Paris Smith picture

Aisha Paris Smith

2 courses
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Brontë Velez

3 courses

Virginia Vigliar

Head of Content @Advaya

Virginia is a writer, curator, and researcher exploring social justice, ecology, feminism, and art through a poetic lens. In the last fifteen years, she has been researching and working on gender, feminism and social justice as an activist, journalist, writer and editor. Her writing exists in the in-betweens and tackles social justice, ecology, and feminism poetically, questioning the paradigms currently in place through an approach centred on the emotional and spiritual as well as the political and logical. In her writing, she often infuses ritual, embodiment exercises, and creative prompts. She believes that deconditioning can only happen if we involve not only our minds and knowledge but also our bodies.

She is the voice behind WAVES (https://virginiavigliar.substack.com/), a newsletter with thousands of monthly views that questions existing paradigms through a place of joy and care. Through sensorial essays, interviews, and cultural analysis, she weaves conversations on topics such as beauty, identity, masculinity, rest, entanglement, and feminisms. She offers workshops around an ecological approach to masculinity and creative sensorial workshops, find all her offerings here: https://www.virginiavigliar.com/workshops

Her mission is to use words as poetic antidotes to systemic issues and to highlight the power of creativity, inner knowledge, and art in our society. Her words are in Atmos, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, The New York Times, Vice, The Lissome, World of Topia and many notebooks around the world.

Words are her comfort zone, she is working on the rest. You can follow her on Instagram @vivivigliar and subscribe to her newsletter WAVES in the link above.

Love Beyond the Anthropocentric Gaze Picture

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Love Beyond the Anthropocentric Gaze

An invitation to see love as a force alive in all of nature.

Lessons on Liberation, from Water Picture

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Lessons on Liberation, from Water

Exploring water’s symbolism in myth, culture, and political thought.

We Contain the Ocean Picture

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We Contain the Ocean

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

The Deep Wisdom of Water Picture

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The Deep Wisdom of Water

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

The Transformative Power of Play Picture

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The Transformative Power of Play

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

Finding the Shanti  Picture

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Finding the Shanti

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

Reverence for Sacred Sites Picture

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Reverence for Sacred Sites

Places of concentrated energy where the veil is thin.

How to soften your language Picture

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How to soften your language

Shifting from Transactional to Relational Communication.

Practices for the Solstice Picture

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Practices for the Solstice

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

Fairytales of the feminine Picture

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Fairytales of the feminine

Symbolic language of timeless stories and their contemporary relevance.

The Many Deaths Throughout Life Picture

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The Many Deaths Throughout Life

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

Cultivating a Dream Practice Picture

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Cultivating a Dream Practice

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

A New Love Narrative Picture

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A New Love Narrative

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

Reclaiming Ancestral Magic Picture

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Reclaiming Ancestral Magic

Exploring cultural roots and their connections to nature.

How Advaya Curates its Transformative Content Picture

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How Advaya Curates its Transformative Content

Virginia Vigliar on the art of curation and relational learning.