This TIMELESS has actually never been shared on the podcast before. Our guest is Woman Stands Shining also known as Pat McCabe - one of the Diné Nation, and was adopted into the Lakota Spiritual Way of Life. Pat lives in rural New Mexico, but travels internationally to speak, pray, and share her journey with others. Descended from elders taken into residential boarding schools intended to strip her people of their culture, she is continually in the process of remembering and listening for the wa...
Jan 30, 2025•29 min•Season 9Ep. 233
How do we find our way in the long dark? In this episode, Amisha, Mary, and Lies engage in a heartfelt conversation about personal journeys, dreams, and the importance of resilience in the face of uncertainty. One of the themes that come up in this episode is about sharing your voice, allowing your truth to ripple out and inspire others. Together they reflect on past podcast episodes, highlighting the wisdom shared by our amazing guests, and conclude with insights on intuition and personal pract...
Jan 23, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 9Ep. 232
What if you followed your heart for one whole year? How would your life look in 2026? This week’s episode shows us what is possible. Our guest in this timeless episode is Lucile Yaney, a psychotherapist by training, high vibrational food and lifestyle specialist, and the visionary restaurateur behind the Inn of the Seventh Ray in Topanga, California. Lucile shares her own journey, unfolding her path step by step, and reveals how it led her to a vision for a restaurant unlike anything; the Sevent...
Jan 16, 2025•29 min•Season 9Ep. 231
Bringing diverse voices for peace, this episode is a special gem exploring the question ‘ How can collective prayer create ripples that transform the world?’ In this final, heartfelt episode of the year, Ripples Collective shares their voices in a truly unique and tender way. Together they weave a moment of beauty and reflection gently infused with music, care and love. Ripples Collective is a group of Palestinian and Israeli non-violent activists, artists, and heart-led humans working together ...
Dec 19, 2024•2 hr 56 min•Season 9Ep. 230
'How to Reconnect in a Disconnected World?' we ask ourselves in this new timeless episode. Our guest is Johann Hari, the author of the New York Times bestseller: Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention, executive producer and Tedtalk speaker. His books have been translated into 40 languages, and been praised by a broad range of people including Noam Chomsky and Naomi Klein. I don't think it's a coincidence that grief and depression have the same symptoms. I think what depressi...
Dec 12, 2024•23 min•Season 9Ep. 229
How can understanding astrology support us in riding these times? This episode brings forth a powerful way of hearing, feeling and seeing the art that astrology is. A deeply misunderstood sacred practice that Amanda is enormously passionate about. As a consulting astrologer, acutonics practitioner and artist, currently studying an MA in Art and Ecology at Goldsmiths University , Amanda anandita Simon brings the poetics of this practice out of the astrological arena into spaces where it can offer...
Dec 05, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Season 9Ep. 228
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 s...
Nov 27, 2024•21 min
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...
Nov 21, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Season 9Ep. 226
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 experie...
Nov 14, 2024•19 min•Season 9Ep. 225
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 predic...
Nov 07, 2024•2 hr 39 min•Season 9Ep. 224
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...
Oct 31, 2024•14 min•Season 9Ep. 223
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 beaut...
Oct 24, 2024•34 min•Season 9Ep. 222
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 pea...
Oct 17, 2024•20 min•Ep. 221
W hat 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...
Oct 10, 2024•2 hr 37 min•Season 9Ep. 220
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 honou...
Oct 02, 2024•14 min•Season 8Ep. 219
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...
Sep 26, 2024•2 hr 32 min•Season 8Ep. 218
How can we become catalysts for change? In this special episode entitled ‘The Butterfly Effect’ Amisha gathers with Ebyän Zanini, Jimena Paratcha, Darren Le Baron and Nathaniel Dunn during Noisily Festival to share insights and ideas around the theme ‘We Are Change’. We explore :: duality as a form of balance for change :: interconnectedness and unity with each other and the more-than-human-world :: rites of passages :: plant allies and the power of psychedelics :: forming intentions for change ...
Jul 25, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 8Ep. 217
How do we honour diverse ways of life and all that we are? In this episode entitled ‘Mysterious Riddles', Amisha Ghadiali talks with Dr Andy Letcher, Senior Lecturer at both Schumacher College, Devon UK, where he is Programme Lead for the MA Engaged Ecology, and at the University of Exeter, where he teaches on the PGCert Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine and Culture. He is the author of “Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom”, and numerous papers on psychedelics, ecology, animism and pagan...
Jul 18, 2024•2 hr 31 min•Season 8Ep. 216
How do we create planetary scale transformation on a local level? In this live episode entitled ‘Future Visions’ Amisha gathered with Helena Norberg-Hodge, Anthea Lawson and Jae Spencer-Keyse to explore how we can create a collective vision that is aligned with what the majority of humanity is yearning for and that can forge transformation from a local level to a global level. We explore :: our relationship with the more than human world :: diversity :: economic literacy :: localised food econom...
Jul 10, 2024•2 hr 34 min•Season 8Ep. 215
How do we reclaim our intuition and make better decisions for ourselves and the collective? In this special episode entitled 'The Path Of Beauty' Jasmine Louella Paprika talks with Amisha Ghadiali, our podcast host. Amisha reveals her journey of creating this podcast, her book “Intuition” and her new offering 'Reclaim Your Intuition’, a live online journey that emerged from it. This journey brings us into a powerful relationship with our intuition through an immersion of weekly calls, games, rit...
Jul 04, 2024•2 hr 32 min•Season 8Ep. 214
How do we remember and cultivate our shared humanity? In this special episode entitled 'Collective Care' we gather in a circle with Sally Zlotowitz, Vanessa Englert and Chris to explore remembering our shared humanity. This circle was hosted by Amisha during our Remembering Retreat in the Forest Of Dean; an invitation for us to come together in community to unveil collective wisdom. We explore :: collective care :: community building :: diverse ways of how we can build a better world :: activism...
Jun 26, 2024•53 min•Season 8Ep. 213
How do we tend our personal and collective grief? In this episode entitled 'Networks Of Care' Amisha talks with Camille Sapara Barton, a writer, artist and somatic practitioner, dedicated to creating networks of care and livable futures. Rooted in Black Feminism, ecology and harm reduction, Camille uses creativity, alongside embodied practices, to create culture change in fields ranging from psychedelic assisted therapy to arts education. Their debut book Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Hold...
Jun 19, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 8Ep. 212
How do we reclaim health for our food systems? In this special episode entitled ‘Earthly Delights’ Amisha talks with Vandana Shiva on her infamous farm in India. Vandana is a world-renowned environmental thinker, activist, feminist, philosopher of science, writer and science policy advocate. She is the founder of Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (India) and President of Navdanya International. In 1982 she founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and...
Jun 13, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Season 8Ep. 211
How do we live in intimacy with ourselves, each other and nature? In this episode entitled 'Wellsprings Of Dreams' Amisha talks with Zoë Tryon, an activist, speaker and artist known for her work with indigenous communities. She is the founder of “One of the Tribe Journeys”, a travel company offering immersive experiences with indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon and Andes. Zoë has acted as a cultural liaison between indigenous and Western leaders since 2006 whilst living and working w...
Jun 06, 2024•2 hr 33 min•Season 8Ep. 210
How do we tantalise our spiritual paths to flourish a creative, equitable and harmonious future? In this episode entitled ‘ The Art of Life’ Amisha talks with Ben Vereen, an American actor, dancer and singer. Vereen gained prominence for his performances in the original Broadway productions of the musicals Jesus Christ Superstar, for which he received a Tony Award nomination, and Pippin, for which he won the 1973 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Ben takes us on a sermon of insights into h...
May 29, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 8Ep. 209
How can our eco systems of relationship shape our collective future? In this episode entitled ‘Nothing But Love’ Amisha talks with Raio, a musician, producer, ceremonialist and DJ who’s been uplifting the tribe in Bali for the last 18 years. A devotee of movement and dance as transformational practices, he plays organic-electro live dance music sets and DJ’s ecstatic dance. He’s the co-founder of Wakamaia School of Sacred Fun, where they share the art of Ecstatic Dance DJ’ing, sound healing, and...
May 23, 2024•2 hr 40 min•Season 8Ep. 208
How do we cultivate our intuition for collective change? In this special episode entitled 'An Invitation To More Aliveness' we gather with Niharika Sanyal, Léa Bourratiere, Naveen Vasudevan, Nikhil Kale, Ajay Makhija and Aurora Esmeralda to explore intuition as a guide for collective change; a way of life drawing from the wisdom of our bodies to move us into a life of discernment, simplicity, humbleness and grace. This circle hosted by Amisha is an invitation for us to come together in community...
May 16, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 8Ep. 207
How do we journey into our full presence and power? In this episode entitled "The Golden Path" , Amisha welcomes back Zach Bush, MD, a physician specialising in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice care. He is an internationally recognised educator and thought leader on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease and food systems. He founded ‘Seraphic Group’ and the non-profit ‘Farmer’s Footprint’ to develop root-cause solutions for human and ecological health. His passion for educat...
May 09, 2024•2 hr 49 min•Season 8Ep. 206
How do we learn to live in a state of harmony and action? In this episode entitled ‘Poetry Of Souls’ Amisha talks with Deepti Tewari, a teacher at Last School, Auroville, sharing sessions on poetry, literature, culture studies, and exploring Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy. The school is based upon Free Progress, an approach which is not governed by habits, conventions or preconceived ideas, but guided by the soul. Auroville, want to universal town where men and women of all countries are able to liv...
May 02, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Season 8Ep. 205
How can we unfurl the authenticity of our lives? In this special episode 'Wisdom For These Times' we gather with Khrisha Ambani, Brusellas Gomez-Andersun, Zach Bush, Barnaby Maichael Andersun and Kieran Butler to explore the wisdom unleashed during troubling times that might hold the keys to living our lives guided by authenticity, joy and the creativity of nature. This circle hosted by Amisha is an invitation for us to come together in community to unveil collective wisdom. We explore: :: the i...
Apr 24, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 8Ep. 204
