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

How do we catalyse political and cultural shifts that can transform our world? In this episode entitled United We Stand, Amisha talks to Christina Tobin, an activist and leader in the election reform and voters’ rights movements. She is the founder and chair of the Free & Equal Elections Foundation, a non-profit leading national, state and local efforts to open the electoral process in the United States by hosting open all-inclusive gubernatorial, Presidential and senatorial debates. Free & Equal organises Electoral Reform Symposium and produces ‘United We Stand’ tours uniting the younger generations with musicians, artists, and thought leaders to promote political and cultural change whilst supporting individuals running for office. The organisation is creating a blockchain election assistant app to promote transparency and empower voters with information about their candidate choices. Christina gives us insight into the US electoral system and the work Free & Equal is  doing to catalyse its reform through a truly independent decentralised platform of cultural interventions, Presidential debate and blockchain & AI technology. She shares her personal journey into the political sphere and her sense of purpose that guides her to stand with her truths and brave ideas to bring alive a bigger vision for humanity. They speak about the power of communities; how building connections within kindles hope and forges change from the bottom up. Christina believes a solution focused approach and the power of collaboration mobilises our local communities igniting integrity, unity, love and peace; ultimately growing a movement that will see us fly high in revolutionary skies. We learn that persistently doing what we love, trusting that whatever we achieve in our lifetime continues to grow beyond, and being present with our loved ones and people surrounding us are part of the alchemy of astronomical levels of change. Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2023/05/18/e173-christina-tobin-on-hope-electoral-reform-and-system-change-technologies-united-we-stand/ 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 a life of ease that meets our soul's needs? In this episode entitled Trusting Our Common Senses, Amisha talks to Tunjung Crystal Mandala, a native Balinese Woman gifted with psychic and healing abilities. Her ancient wisdom is innate and a gift she has been guided to share. What makes Tunjung truly unique, is her powerful connection to the Divine. Drawing on a wealth of experience in yoga and spiritual healing modalities, she leads and facilitates self-development, self-empowerment, self-healing and spiritual journeys through her signature offerings ‘The Art of Letting Go’ and ‘Self-Healing Retreat’. Each has different focuses and methods, with rich and intensive experiences of self-exercise, self-process and group sharing sessions that allow individuals to have deep interaction and connection. She also offers one-on-one guidance & healing sessions. Amisha and Tunjung talk about Tunjung’s approach to spiritual development rooted in her Balinese culture; a spiritual culture of karma and diversity. Tunjung reveals her personal journey of breaking open to fully receive, flourish and share her psychic gift and ancient healing wisdom. Together they explore what it means to live in humility with oneself and the wider living world. Tunjung shares that honouring the needs of our soul, growing our intuition and balancing our ego are vital for maintaining our mental health in a world of disconnection. Tunjung talks about the importance of grassroots activism supporting local communities in reconnecting with local traditions and farming methods; a way of life that is breaking cycles of dependencies on tourism and igniting new entrepreneurial ventures. We learn that the goal is to enjoy our life and that we need to come to our ancient wisdom and reciprocal ways of life. that trusting our common sense is deep wisdom and the simple guidance that our souls need to live a fulfilling life of ease. Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2023/05/11/e172-tunjung-crystal-mandala-on-spiritual-development-humility-and-grassroots-activism-trusting-our-common-senses/ 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/

Lucian Tarnowski, founding curator of United Planet and UP.Game, combines his expertise in community building with AI technology to envision a thriving civilization harmonizing with all life. He shares insights on how storytelling and intuition can drive societal change, delves into language's transformative power, and discusses the concept of time sovereignty. Lucian highlights the importance of collective intelligence and playful engagement in addressing global challenges while advocating for a future free from poverty and rich in sustainability and gender harmony.

How can we flourish reciprocal and diverse ecosystems that honour our ancestral wisdom, joy and sovereignty? In this episode entitled Revolutionary Ripples Of Joy, Amisha talks to Diane Ghogomu, an Afro Cosmic ceremonialist, somatic sexuality educator and musician building and curating joy-centered ritual spaces applying her teachings as pleasure scholar. She nurtures regenerative social, economic and spiritual systems that call us into harmony with ourselves and nature. Diane is deeply initiated and devoted to multiple nature-based spiritual traditions in both Central Africa and South America. She is curator at Noma Collective and co-director of Cacao Love, a regenerative organic cacao company funding her non-profit ‘Afrocosmic’, which invests in the cultural and spiritual sovereignty of African and indigenous wisdom keepers and artists around the world. Amisha and Diane speak about the sovereign regenerative community and retreat space Diane is co-creating in Watamu, Kenya. Rooted in collaboration with the local ecosystems the community embraces ancestral architecture, agroforestry, permaculture and the life-giving powers of spiritual and cultural traditions.  Diane shares experiences gathered during her life’s journey across different cultures in search of embodying her highest purpose :: joy and pleasure. She reveals her calling led her to live in the mountains of Argentina, Osho communes in Brazil, to sit with plant medicines, such as Ayahuasca in South America, to multiple initiations and experiences with Iboga in the Bwiti tradition in Gabon, and time studying  Afro Cosmic Spiritual traditions with the Baka people in Cameroun. They share that understanding our cosmology and anchoring ourselves into sovereign communities is the antidote to destructive monocultures that have stripped us bare of our fertile relationships with the land and the cosmos. We learn that cultivating our erotic powers of pleasure and joy causes revolutionary ripples that animates cosmology and reciprocity. It is a way of bringing us into synergies with ancestral technologies and wisdoms that can unify our communities in cultural, spiritual and economic sovereignty ultimately transforming destructive systems of colonial legacies. Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2023/04/27/e170-diane-ghogomu-on-afro-cosmology-regeneration-and-pleasure-revolutionary-ripples-of-joy/ 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 grow our mindsets to meet the dissonance of our time with real action? In this episode entitled Five Minutes After Midnight, Amisha talks to Jamie Bristow, recognised for his pioneering work on mindfulness in politics and public policy, and for his writing on inner development as a way of addressing a range of societal issues. Jamie was Director of the ‘Mindfulness Initiative’ policy institute and clerk to the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mindfulness, where he led numerous initiatives to promote mindfulness in government and policy circles worldwide. Jamie was formerly Business Development Director for Headspace and has a background in psychology, climate change campaigning and advertising. His mentors have included Rob Burbea, Stephen Batchelor and Christina Feldman. Jamie is an Honorary Associate of Bangor University, where he is currently supervising a research project on ‘awareness-based social change’. Amisha and Jamie speak about the impact mindfulness practices can have on flourishing societies that are equipped to hold the complexities and dissonance of our time. Jamie shares how the results of resourcing politicians with skills rooted in empathy and connection is filtering into public and political spheres showing promising green shoots of policy and system changes. Together they explore how mindfulness can create vital mindset shifts needed to tackle the climate crisis. Jamie reveals what inner qualities we can cultivate, how we can bring them into mainstream culture to make them accessible as micro and macro acts of activism and to build movements of change that ripple across our global communities.  We learn that we can understand the climate crisis as a relationship crisis. Having courageous conversations about the challenges we are facing is a powerful way to grow our common ground and connection; a way to truth tell our way out of this status quo that’s lingering at five minutes past midnight. Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2023/04/20/e169-jamie-bristow-on-climate-crisis-mindfulness-and-system-change-five-minutes-after-midnight/ 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 I live my life as a beautiful leader? In this special solo episode entitled The Beauty And Power Of These Times, our host Amisha invites us into a deeper understanding of beautiful leadership. Amisha is the visionary of ‘all that we are’ this globally acclaimed podcast that weaves together activism, the sacred, creativity and regeneration. She 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 creating brave, tender and inclusive spaces. Amisha shares a flow of insight into her ‘Beautiful Leadership’ work and the deeper layers that make us beautiful leaders. She talks about the meaning of beautiful leadership and the different aspects we can cultivate; beauty, worth, embodiment, nature connection, creativity and deep listening. She believes that we can all understand ourselves as beautiful leaders by accessing the intelligence that lies within us and that exists around us, our intuitive and collective wisdom, that of modern & ancient sciences, and the more than human world.  Amisha reveals that deep listening is a powerful pathway that opens up connection to the more than human world; spaces where we can walk the edges of worlds and realities, where our creativity and vision thrives, and where we may live aligned with our intuition as a form of guidance and wisdom. She shares that deep listening is a skill that allows us to decondition and to take action from a rooted place, so we may envision new ways of living in this world. We hear about her latest ‘Beautiful Leadership retreat’ at 42 Acres and the insights it gifted. She reveals a new offering ‘Deep Listening’ and invitation to join our Membership, Soul Space and future retreats that will be circling around these themes. Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2023/04/13/e168-listening-deeply-the-beauty-and-power-of-these-times/ 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 dismantle walls of oppression and build communities rooted in belonging? In this episode entitled Circles Of Belonging, Amisha talks to Jewels Wingfield, a catalyst, educator and healer. She lives and works in the middle of the Ancient 200,000 acre Forest of Dean, UK. Jewels is founder and director of ‘Living Love’ and the creator of ‘EarthHeart’, where she connects us with her unique methodology to catalyse humanities evolution reminding us of the interconnectedness of life. Jewels’ work draws on a rich tapestry of wisdom and teachings, including earth based spirituality, sacred ecology/environmental work, shamanism from Celtic lore, ancestral gateways, the ecology of conscious relationship and sacred sexuality. She facilities grief work, ancient womb wisdom teachings, women’s blood mysteries, ecstatic dance & somatic movement/meditation practices, birth, breath and regression work, NVC (non violent communication), drama therapy and more.  Amisha and Jewels talk about how we may dismantle walls of systemic oppression to gather all of our pieces to overcome isolation, root into community and restore our sense of belonging. We hear how Jewel creates a life with nature on the margins of dominant culture.  Jewels shares how she is bringing alive her inspiring vision that teaches us to thrive in our diverse differences and in relationship with the land. She reveals how her teachings nourish a form of autonomous reciprocal leadership that embeds us into nature, empathy and collective community. We learn that living and thriving with our diverse differences is a way of breaking through colonial legacies of mono crop culture.  Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2023/04/06/e167-jewels-wingfield-on-community-reciprocity-and-nature-connection-circles-of-belonging/ 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 our stories be useful to our communities and become live saving myths and ecologies? In this episode entitled Compost Heap Wisdom, Amisha talks to Sophie Strand. Sophie is a writer and thinker who takes us to new heights and deep crevices at the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. Her first book of essays ‘The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine’ was published by Inner Traditions in Fall 2022. Her eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels ‘The Madonna Secret’ comes out in Summer 2023. Amisha and Sophie speak about the magic of myth-making and the possibilities of adjacent live-saving realities they open up; places where we may envision humankind as part of an ecological niche. Sophie shares about her life with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a rare genetic connective tissue disease that affects her entire body. By recognising the porousness of her body, she reveals the messiness of decay, ego death and life’s anxieties. As a result she brings alive life-affirming myths and new ideas around communities rooted in the deep wisdoms of the compost heap. They delve into healthism and its exiling consequences. They reveal that its prevalence in Western medical paradigms and New Age spirituality, holds us personally responsible for coming into normativity distracting from the nourishing essence that exists within our diverse survival strategies. Sophie speaks about Eco grief, a natural outcome of Earth that is surviving outside its window of tolerance.  We learn that sharing our profoundly messy and psychedelic stories along with the small fixes we have learnt through survival is an important form of activism that boosts our communities; whilst gathering in dance and joining hands to distribute feelings of grief and anxiety might be our lighthouse of survival. Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2023/03/30/e166-sophie-strand-on-ecological-embodiment-new-myths-and-healthism-compost-heap-wisdom/  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 grow steady legs of resilience in uncertain times? In this episode entitled Flying Too Close To The Sun, Amisha talks with Ronan Harrington, a resilience expert and accomplished voice on the transformative power of adversity. He advises organisations and institutions on how to move from Burnout to Resilience and counts Deloitte, KPMG, Sky, the UK Government and Oxford University amongst his clients. He has held a variety of roles bridging personal and societal transformation as lead futurist to the British Foreign Office, co-coordinator for the political strategy for Extinction Rebellion and founder of Alter Ego, a European network of political leaders and activists growing connection between spirituality and politics. Ronan speaks about his strive to transform the political frameworks of our time by introducing spirituality and mysticism into its mainstream to forge deep cultural change. He believes that political acts can be acts of grace and his work with Alter Ego, was a space to decondition and nourish political leaders and activists into integrity. Amisha and Ronan share their personal histories of burnout and chronic health conditions, and how it has affected the way they move in the world. They recognise that attempting cultural transformation requires us to have a well-resourced support structure; financially, spiritually, emotionally and physically. Ronan talks about his work as a resilience leader finding ways to equip us with soft foundations and strong cores that can move with the tremors of our time. We learn that our times call for us to increase our forms of resilience in ways that enable us to embrace dualities, and to hold ultimate grief and ultimate possibility at the same time; muscles we need to grow to be able to fly closer to the sun. Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2023/03/23/e165-ronan-harrington-on-resilience-cultural-change-and-burn-out-flying-too-close-to-the-sun/ 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 live in harmony with the land, with ourselves and each other? Opening our new series Amisha speaks with Seth Tabatznik and Tasha Stevens-Vallecillo of 42 Acres. 42 Acres is a regenerative estate and wellbeing retreat in Somerset, UK, developing living examples of the much-needed transformations of our times, through our connection with nature, self, and others. Seth Tabatznik is an avid proponent of regenerative, diversified, and decentralised systems, and co-founder and CEO of 42 Acres. Tasha Stevens-Vallecillo is head of land and food at 42 Acres. With 13yrs off-grid living, she has accrued skills in fossil fuel free farming, expertise in foraging, outdoor mushroom growing using ancient techniques and 'bee-centric' beekeeping. Her role is to support 42 Acres towards their collective vision. In this conversation entitled Wild Gardens Of Integrity, we hear about 42 Acres and its wide-reaching philosophy and practices that honour planet and people as thriving community. Tasha shares deep insights into 42 Acres experiences of agriwilding and the impact it is having on their inner & outer landscapes. Seth speaks about broken philanthropic systems and how his work with Be The Earth supports localised regenerative futures by creating new funding models that drive funding towards women, grass roots indigenous communities. We learn that we need to experiment with new ways of living, new ways of being in order to create systems that support life on Earth to flourish and that Nature retreats, such as envisioned by 42 Acres, are the transformative experiences that will open us up to live in the wild gardens of our true integrity. Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2023/03/16/e164-seth-tabatznik-and-tasha-stevens-vallecillo-on-agriwilding-philanthropy-and-retreats-wild-gardens-of-integrity/ 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/