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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.

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Advaya takes you outside
Spending time outside our four walls is key to connecting to and relating with nature and each other. So find your nearest window, garden, park, or forest, and allow us to provide you with tools that have the power to guide your daily life and shift your worldview.

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Turn Inward with Advaya
As the world moves through cycles of light and shadow, growth and stillness, so do we. Immerse yourself in this curated collection of practices for rest and renewal with experts in practices of yoga, breathwork, dreaming, and storytelling.

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Love Beyond the Anthropocentric Gaze
An invitation to see love as a force alive in all of nature.

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Lessons on Liberation, from Water
Exploring water’s symbolism in myth, culture, and political thought.

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

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The Deep Wisdom of Water
Water’s growing recognition as a physical, emotional, and spiritual healer.

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The Transformative Power of Play
A state that liberates us from the fear of uncertain futures.

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Finding the Shanti
The power of tuning into our inner voices - our consciousness.

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Reverence for Sacred Sites
Places of concentrated energy where the veil is thin.

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How to soften your language
Shifting from Transactional to Relational Communication.

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

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Fairytales of the feminine
Symbolic language of timeless stories and their contemporary relevance.

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The Many Deaths Throughout Life
Each ending brings renewal in life’s ever-turning cycle of change.

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Cultivating a Dream Practice
A journey through dreams, culture, science, and staying grounded.

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A New Love Narrative
The heart is more than physical; it is perception, connection and deep intelligence.

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Reclaiming Ancestral Magic
Exploring cultural roots and their connections to nature.

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How Advaya Curates its Transformative Content
Virginia Vigliar on the art of curation and relational learning.