all that we are with amisha tala oak (fka the future is beautiful)

How can we cultivate creativity to imagine a society that serves all of us? In this special episode entitled States Of Awe, we gather with Chris Bullzini, Kay Michael, Gaia Harvey Jackson and Dannii Evans to explore the power of creativity. This conversation is an invitation for all of us to connect and grow our creativity in whichever ways accessible to us, wherever we find ourselves. It is a call for us to create space for play, for embodiment and feeling a sense of awe so we can reimagine and recreate our societies into works of art that serve us all. We learn about :: their different creative practices and personal journey’s as creatives reconnecting and blooming their imagination and creativity  :: what creativity looks like in these times and the impacts of creative monocultures  :: about presence and the state of awe  :: the relationship between creativity and the divine :: about the power of collaboration :: about how to create safe spaces where we can freely express ourselves and grow our creativity from an authentic place   Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2023/10/26/e193-states-of-awe-with-chris-bullzini-kay-michael-gaia-harvey-jackson-dannii-evans/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link,  https://love.allthatweare.org/membership To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/  

Emma Fitchett, plant spirit healer and shamanic teacher, discusses working with plant medicines, addressing imbalances, and collaborating with nature for inner and outer balance. Topics include plant essences, creating sacred spaces, and the transformative power of the U-Tree. They also explore the future of consciousness and the importance of interconnectedness and biodiversity in our environment.

Lyla June Johnston, an advocate for indigenous rights, joins a compelling lineup including educator Manish Jain, philosopher Bayo Akomolafe, and localization pioneer Helena Norberg-Hodge. The discussion highlights radical new perspectives needed for systemic change. They delve into the notions of truth in a post-truth world, explore sacred activism, and promote localism and alternative food systems. The guests emphasize reconnecting with identity and Earth while critiquing corporate influences on education and community, inspiring listeners to rethink their roles in an interconnected world.

How do we grow wholesome sisterhoods and creative futures? In this special episode entitled Courageous Visions, we hear from the multicultural all female team behind ‘all that we are’; Amisha Ghadiali, our host, Mary Chan, our sound editor and Annegret Affolderbach, our writer & visual curator. In this joyful exchange they reveal behind the scenes of making this podcast and deeper insights into the creative and visionary lives of the women who create it. We learn :: about the creation of this visionary podcast in a multicultural and all female team :: about the wholesome sisterhood they have forged :: about their personal journeys of growing creative and visionary livelihoods :: how to find courage to carve a fulfilling path and how to stand in our truths  :: about trust and the power of anger and what it means Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2023/10/05/e190-all-that-we-are-team-on-creative-entrepreneurship-sisterhood-and-podcasting-courageous-visions/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link,  https://love.allthatweare.org/membership To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

How do we cultivate a new collective global power and reverence that thrives in a balance of our spiritual, intellectual and ancient wisdom? In this episode entitled Our Collective Imprint, Amisha talks with Fernanda Baraybar, a transpersonal psychologist, writer and practicing Shaman. Working with the Qero Paqo communities of The Andes in Peru, she’s helping keep her ancestors’ traditions alive by learning from their ancient practices. She works as a consultant for ‘Synergetic Press’ and she writes for ‘Psychic Garden’ whilst pursuing an MSc in Spirituality, Consciousness, and Transpersonal Psychology with the aim of creating further research on parapsychological phenomena and shamanistic psychology. We learn about :: Fernanda’s life growing up in Latin America during a time of conflict and resistance :: Shamanic prophecies and practices :: the impact of our collective imprints and entanglements with different cultures and nature  :: gaining new perspectives by addressing distorted belief systems created by Westernism  :: activating codes of lineage and ancient wisdom :: the release of anger and leaning into joy and bliss Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2023/09/28/e189-fernanda-baraybar-on-shamanic-practices-reverence-and-redefining-value-our-collective-imprint/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link,  https://love.allthatweare.org/membership To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

How can we align ourselves with the possibility and intelligence that lives inside of us? This episode entitled Refining Our Inner Power, is an invitation by our host Amisha Ghadiali to experience and cultivate Beautiful Leadership, a practice she has evolved over the past decade and now shares as a one-to-one mentoring programme. Amisha has been hosting ‘all that we are’ fka ‘The Future Is Beautiful’ podcast exploring the weave between activism, the sacred, creativity & regeneration. It’s a space for deep, insightful, unedited conversations with guests, who share their unique point of view and approaches to life. Amisha has a gift of bringing people into connection with themselves, each other and the Earth. She has hosted many retreats, workshops, programmes and rituals around the world. She creates brave, tender and inclusive spaces. We learn  :: about ‘Beautiful Leadership’, Amisha’s one-to-one mentoring programme  :: practices that support our mind, body and soul :: about igniting the power and possibility that lives within each of us :: aligning with the intelligence of our bodies :: how to let go of conditioning and trauma to step more fully into our lives path :: about Amisha’s personal journey of learning and how to grow from life experiences :: about myths of New Age spirituality   Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2023/09/21/e188-igniting-beautiful-leadership-refining-our-inner-power/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link,  https://love.allthatweare.org/membership To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

What insights gleaned from this lifetime can we pass on to nurture the beautiful future we are creating? In this special episode entitled Wisdom Weaving For Our Future Generations, we gather with cherished members of our community to wisdom weave for our future grandchildren. Stepping into eldership, each sharing in this circle, lovingly reveals meaningful stories and insights gleaned in this lifetime inviting the grandmother and grandfather in all of us to shine a light for our future generations. Make a cup of tea, and cozy up around the fire with us for this one.  Amisha is joined by Esteban Ruseler, Isla Macleod, Jessica Ferrow, Guy Ogilvy, Hely Cameron and Barbara J Hunt.  We are encouraged to  :: reclaim beauty in the world and be guided by truth :: to understand death and heartache as nourishment for rebirth :: become good listeners and to be intentional  :: to be compassionate and humble and to allow ourselves to be :: to honour our bodies as vessels of wisdom :: make our body, our energy and our mind a safe space  Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2023/09/14/e187-dear-grandchildren-wisdom-weaving-for-our-future-generations/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link,  https://love.allthatweare.org/membership To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

How do we re-awaken and re-foster our ancient love and connection with nature?  In this special live episode entitled Fireside Stories, coming from Wilderness Festival, Amisha talks with Sam Lee, a Mercury Prize-nominated and BBC Folk Award-winning singer, conservationist and curator. With a lifelong passion for wilderness studies and nature connection, Sam is a folk music specialist dedicated to collecting, sharing and interpreting ancient oral music from Britain and Ireland. He has been instrumental as one of the new wave of young activists shaping the landscape of the folk world and roots music in the UK. With two critically acclaimed albums, Sam works holistically in challenging the very nature of our heritage music in the 21st Century. They explore  :: the magnificence and wisdom of fire and storytelling by the fire side :: nature as our playground, teacher and elder :: our estrangement from nature & how to connect with nature in times of ecological collapse :: folk song traditions and their cultural significance :: camping in wilderness and access to land Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2023/08/17/e186-sam-lee-on-wilderness-fire-and-ecological-collapse-fireside-stories/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link,  https://love.allthatweare.org/membership To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

How do we create moments of collective care and sanctuary in troubled times? In this episode entitled Pollinating Our Imagination, Amisha talks with zoë laureen palmer, a multidisciplinary artist, co-creator and human ecologist working at the intersection of the arts, health and ecology. Her regenerative practice explores our relationship with the more than human world centering embodied ecologies, underrepresented narratives and knowledge through a decolonial lens. She is a gentle beekeeper and a plant medicine student cultivating an afro-futurist apothecary in response to climate breakdown. In this intimate conversation, Amisha and zoë laureen unearth a flow of big questions arising from living in troubled times of system collapse and climate crisis. Together they ground us in ideas and practices that can help us nourish and flourish whilst being present to the complexities unfolding around us.  They explore  :: beekeeping as practice of collective and community care; a teacher of reciprocity, interbeingness and storytelling :: collective dissociation and creating sanctuary reclaiming shattered lives and places :: our relationship with slowing down and decolonising time as an act of collective care :: interspecies grief and finding ways of flourishing in a world that's diminishing :: how we can rekindle our intimacy with each other and the natural world, and how to open this conversation up to to the wider living world Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2023/08/10/e185-zoe-laureen-palmer-on-beekeeping-collective-care-and-cultural-intuition-pollinating-our-imagination/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link,  https://love.allthatweare.org/membership To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

How do we decolonise and reclaim the sensuous powers of our divine feminine? In this episode entitled Lineage Of Abundance, Amisha talks to Mallence Bart-Williams, a Sierra Leonean-German multi-facetted social entrepreneur who uses film, fashion, botanical alchemy, writing and philanthropy as forms of expression to instill balance in this world, and Shilo Shiv Suleman, an award-winning Indian artist whose work lives and breathes at the intersection of Magical Realism, Art, Technology and Social Justice. Her work is unapologetically embodied weaving together the sensual and sacred, past and future- through paintings, wearable sculptures, interactive installations and public art interventions.  Mallence and Shilo reveal the facets of their newly launched collaborative space ‘Lineage’ that draws on their personal cultures and lineages. ‘Lineage’ is a diverse cultural space in Ubud, Bali, containing a library, art gallery, chai and wine bar. The intention of ‘Lineage’ is to be an offering for us to reimagine our futures and to bring alive practices of embodied decolonisation that reclaim ancient trade routes and our imagination, so we may reconnect with our sensuous bodies and a culture of abundance. They explore :: insights and stories revealing their personal cultural lineages and ancestral practices :: cultural appropriation and capitalisation of ancestral practices, such as yoga :: cultural regeneration and to how to reclaim our sensuous power of the divine feminine :: culture of shame & colonial laws of oppression that continue to reap hate and division in our communities  :: joy as a form of resistance & reclamation Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2023/08/03/e184-shilo-shiv-suleman-and-mallence-bart-williams-on-embodied-decolonisation-sensuality-and-cultural-reclamation-lineage-of-abundance/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link,  https://love.allthatweare.org/membership To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/