All That We Are

Latest Episodes:

TIMELESS // 'How to Become a good Elder and Ancestor' with Vanessa Andreotti - E227 Nov 27, 2024

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Drawing on her work as an educator, indigenous and land rights advocate and her mixed family history, Vanessa invites us to reflect on what it means to die well. How to become good elders and ancestors?

"It cannot be just about us. It has to be about our responsibility to the time when we are no longer here. And it cannot be a choice either. It has to be something visceral." Vanessa Andreotti

This timeless wisdom teaches us about the ways in which we can be in service of the greater good. The times we are living in often make it difficult for elders to play their role and teach the younger generation about the mistakes and successes they have experienced. Vanessa sparks ideas around the multiple layers of time, aging and pain and opens up opportunities to interact differently with our elders and ancestors so we can let their stories be medicine for generations to come.

This is from our archives, part of a beautiful and powerful conversation we had in episode 156 with Vanessa Andreotti on Radical Tenderness, Eldership and Decolonisation // Embracing Our Pain. We hope that hearing this small piece will allow you to find new insights, embrace them and continue this practice of becoming a good elder and ancestor.

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Jaiya John on Rest, Intimacy and Liberation // A Balm for the Tender Soul - E226 Nov 21, 2024

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What is the true cost of our numbness, and how can we alchemize it into deep, loving intimacy?

This conversation with Dr. Jaiya John is a balm, for tender times, tender hearts - a remembrance of how to touch tenderly, inwardly and outwardly.

Dr. Jaiya John, born as an orphan on the sacred lands of the Ancient Puebloans in New Mexico's high desert, walks the world as a freedom worker, poet, author, teacher, and speaker, revered across continents. In this tender episode, Amisha and Dr. Jaiya weave a story of human connection—layered with vulnerability, healing, and the soft light of hope. Together, they lean into our collective longing for liberation from oppression, the raw courage needed to meet grief and emotional pain, and a soul-deep inquiry into how technology shapes intimacy in a world that often feels so far apart.

We hope this episode invites you into deeper layers of tenderness and presence.

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TIMELESS //'How to Reimagine Power and Presence in Search of the Sacred' with Sophie Strand and Bayo Akomolafe Nov 14, 2024

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In this TIMELESS episode we hear from Sophie Strand and Bayo Akomolafe. Together, we explore how the sacred is less about certainty and mastery and more about dwelling in the unknown, the disruptive, and the in-between. As we open ourselves to this journey, we consider how unlearning and openness might guide us toward a deeper, more grounded sense of the sacred—one that emerges in moments of humility, fragility, and genuine encounter.

"And I was thinking that, at least in my own situated experience, my approach to the sacred would be to flip the paradigm and to ask, what if the sacred researches you?" Sophie Strand

As a writer, Sophie focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. She believes strongly that all thinking happens interstitially between beings, ideas, differences, and mythical gradients. Bayo is a poet, philosopher, psychologist, professor, and chief-curator of the Emergence Network. He curates this earth-wide project for the re-calibration of our ability to respond to civilisational crisis.

We hope this TIMELESS episode invites you to pause and reflect on the sacred in new and unexpected ways.

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Manda Scott on Thrutopia, Vision and Human Power // Writing A New Story - E224 Nov 07, 2024

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How do we emerge into a new future from here?

In this week's conversation with award-winning novelist, smallholder, contemporary shamanic trainer and host of the international chart-topping Accidental Gods podcast Manda Scott, we explore the edges of shaping the future of our wildest dreams.

'The not knowing is what allows the space for the web of life to send the knowing in.' and it is this not knowing that gives us room to dream, rise and change this system. 'It's not predictable. If we can predict it, then it's not the new system, but we can take ourselves to the emergent edge of inter becoming, from which emergence into that new system is hopefully more likely than the chaos and extinction.'

We explore:

:: Why the emergence into a new system can feel unpredictable but wonderful

:: How to move from a trauma culture to an initiation culture

:: How to dream without constraints

:: What it looks like when 8.5 billion people feel belonging, connection, agency and live a life filled with meaning

:: How we as humans have the power to change and shape a new future

:: Why visions come at unexpected times

:: What happens when continually asking of the web of life, what do you want of me?

:: How to move away from the head mind and settle into the heart mind

:: How temporary shamanic practices help connect to the wonder and glory of the world

:: How habits done consciously become rituals

:: What the transformative journey of writing a book looks like

:: How the process of death can be a potential window into a new system

:: How to make governance into something that is generative and collaborative again

We hope this episode encourages you to explore deeper what invitations the web of life is making to you.

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TIMELESS // 'How to Move Beyond Propaganda and Embrace True Transformation' with Patrisse Cullors Oct 31, 2024

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In this week's TIMELESS episode, Patrisse Cullors highlights the urgent call for a softer, more connected world where care is the base of everything we do. As an Artist and Abolitionist, born and raised in Los Angeles and being on the frontline of abolitionist organising for 22 years, Patrisse offers us a powerful vision for how we can cultivate healing through active, compassionate engagement in our communities and how we can move beyond propaganda and embrace true transformation.

"Our work is to show up and reshape this place." Patrisse Cullors

This is from our archives, part of a beautiful and powerful conversation we had in episode 201 with Patrisse Cullors on Abolition, Art Activism and Courageous Resourcing // Cultures Of Care.

We hope that this little piece called 'How to Move Beyond Propaganda and Embrace True Transformation' will give you what you need in these important times in our evolution as humanity.

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Tending to the hearth in a world ablaze // the language of ritual, energy and intuition with Amisha Tala Oak - E222 Oct 24, 2024

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This episode is a very special one. A pure and raw sharing by the fire behind 'All that we are', Amisha Tala Oak.

A sacred ritual, a ceremony where she lets her heart speak and where words come from a very deep place inside of her. This episode called 'Tending to the hearth in a world ablaze // the language of ritual, ceremony and intuition' takes us on a journey. It's a remembrance to listen to our heart and inner fire while not losing courage and hope amidst the chaos.

"We must create beauty in the mess." Amisha Tala Oak

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TIMELESS // 'How Listening To The Earth Leads to Inner and Outer Peace' with Tiokasin Ghosthorse - E221 Oct 17, 2024

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In this TIMELESS episode, we hear from Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Nobel Prize nominated international speaker on Peace, Indigenous and Mother Earth perspective. He is member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota, with a long history in Indigenous activism as well as a master musician. He shares a lifechanging perspective on how we can understand the language of the earth and how she speaks and listens to us. We discover how learning to listen to earth leads us to true inner and outer peace.

"The earth is listening to us first and if we do not understand how the earth listens to us, then we will have a difficulty listening to the earth." Tiokasin Ghosthorse

This week's timeless is from our archives, part of a beautiful and powerful conversation we had in E107 with Tiokasin Ghosthorse on Earth Languages, Consciousness and Indigenous Intelligence entitled Walking Earth With The Gifts Of The Stars . We hope that hearing just this small part will give you space to contemplate, integrate and embody what you hear.

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Darren Le Baron on Psychedelics, Community and Gardening // Mushroom and Mycelium: Nature's Network - E220 Oct 10, 2024

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What if we are mushrooms having a human experience?

In this conversation called 'Mushrooms and Mycelium: Nature's Network', Amisha Tala Oak meets Darren le Baron, an educator specialising in mycology and psychedelic research based in the UK and the Caribbean.

Known around the world for his Shroomshop Master classes and mushroom educational programs, he is a keen cultivator and teacher who is passionate about sharing his research and findings on ethnomycology, ancient African plant medicines and their various applications.

Together we explore:

:: How understanding yourself can help you build deeper, more meaningful connections.

:: The challenges young people face in finding their purpose—and how to guide them.

:: What mushrooms and mycelium can teach you about connection and renewal.

:: How you are a mushroom having a human experience.

:: How you, as a gardener or nature-lover, play a vital role in our planet's future.

:: How money really does grow on trees.

:: Why plant wisdom is essential for your survival and living in harmony with the Earth.

(Please note despite much research and clinical trials of the benefits, one of the mushrooms we discuss in this conversation are illegal in some countries)

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TIMELESS // 'How grieving and healing opens up life's pleasures ' with adrienne maree brown - E219 Oct 02, 2024

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Welcome to our new fortnightly offering - TIMELESS.

Drawing on her wellspring of experiences as a writer, activist, and Black feminist, adrienne maree brown shares some timeless wisdom that teaches us about rituals of grief and spiritual healing that can bring us closer to our free and pleasurable futures. She sparks ideas around the construct of linear and layered time, opening up possibilities for spiritual shifts and healing across timeless.

"Grief is a way that we ritualise and honour what we love and stay in a relationship with it." adrienne maree brown

This is from our archives, part of a beautiful and powerful conversation we had in episode 146 with adrienne maree brown on Future Visioning, Layered Time and Grief // entitled Microcosms of Liberation, Justice and Pleasure. We hope that hearing just this small part of timeless wisdom will give you space to contemplate, integrate and embody what you hear.

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Where Generosity Meets Imagination with Amisha Tala Oak and Annegret Affolderbach - E218 Sep 26, 2024

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Is intuition the key to flourishing a better culture?

In this special episode Amisha Tala Oak and Annegret Affolderbach celebrate the end of a chapter of co-creation of this podcast as Annegret is leaving to pursue new creative paths and 'all that we are' takes fresh directions. They share how they have witnessed each others creative growth for the past 15 years and how they have shaped lives, nurtured new cultures and communities guided by their visions and intuition.

We explore

:: creative and artistic practices attuned with visions, intuition and generosity

:: transformative cultural change

:: daydreaming

:: podcasting

:: the positive power of technology

:: tending to our nervous system

:: all that we are's new pathways including the re-imagining of Presence Collective

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