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We are a systems change initiative building a community of change-makers around the principles of radical regeneration and joyful revolution. Our world is in crisis: a crisis of mental health, the environment, and the economy. At the root of these crises is a system that has pushed both people and planet to their tipping point. Advaya explores the connections between ecology, spirituality, and men

tal health, advocating regenerative narratives and economies, collective responsibility, public awakening and mobilisation. By embedding ecological awareness into our lives, we can move from narratives of growth to an economy that values social, individual and environmental wellbeing. Our live events, media platform and campaigns shift narratives, empower and inspire, weaving stories of beautiful transformation, resistance and renewal. We believe positive change will occur when enough people are empowered and united. We therefore cultivate informed communities, link networks, and advocate alternatives, practices and knowledge in the areas of Food, Economy, Consciousness, Activism, Health, Lifestyle & Story-Telling. We enable people to stand at the forefront of positive change and support the transition to a happier, healthier and globally considerate world.

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The Work of Advaya Aims To:
• Recognise the crucial interconnection between people and planet; mental health, society, and our environment;
• Equip and empower individuals, communities and networks with knowledge and tools to tackle the root causes of today’s crises;
• Shift narratives of consumption and growth to regenerative economies that put the wellbeing of people and planet first;
• Utilise media and outreach to activate global awareness and responsibility, moving from climate apathy and feelings of hopelessness to empowered action;
• Cultivate a movement that values diversity and uses an ecological approach to understand the key issues of our time;
• Think global, yet act local;
• Inspire the recognition of our human relationship to living systems and our role in their health, finding empowerment in our responsibility to the world around us;
• Recognise the role of spirituality and practices that sustain;
• Seek wisdom and perspectives from ancient sources as well as science and innovation;
• Advocate joyful communities rooted in creativity, celebration and collaboration;
• Engage with an activism that is regenerative and grounded in the shared value of all life.

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Our Activism:

>>>> We believe in the power of inner and outer activism.

• We acknowledge that change starts within, but we are up against the clock, so while working to create greater peace within let’s also work to create peace in our surroundings. While healing our relationship with ourselves, let’s heal our relationship with others. While eating to nourish the body, let’s eat in a way that also nourishes the body of the earth. While acting to help ourselves, let’s act in a way that helps our planet. Because, we can only thrive if our communities and planet are thriving too.

• To create a more sustainable and harmonious world we have to look within and without. The way we treat the world is a reflection of how we treat ourselves.

>>>> Life is about action and we have a choice about what actions we take. #
We can take actions that celebrate and honour life or we can take actions that disturb the inherent harmony of ourselves and our environments.

• Let’s start looking at how our actions are affecting ourselves, others and our planet. Through awareness we can evolve. We can perceive unconscious habits and patterns and replace them with positive behaviours that benefits all aspects of our lives.

>>>> Let’s stop over-complicating change, worrying about labels & being perfect, let’s just make a start.

• We acknowledge that change starts within, but we are up against the clock, so while working to create greater peace within let’s also work to create peace in our surroundings. While eating to nourish the body, let’s eat in a wag that also nourishes the body of the earth. The way we treat the world is a reflection of how we treat ourselves.

12/05/2026

Rupert Spira explains that happiness isn’t found in external experience but is the very nature of awareness itself. This awareness is shared by all beings, and recognising it requires temporarily turning inward, then returning to the world with love and compassion. It is there, Rupert affirms, we find the quiet, still self that has never been harmed by experience.

Otherworlds is an 8 week journey into reimagining the narratives, mythologies and possibilities that shape our collective future. If we are to build different worlds, we first have to learn how to see them.

Our first live class is with Rupert, Pat and Satish Kumar on Tuesday, 12 May at 6pm UK.

To join us, comment OTHERWORLDS 🌎

11/05/2026

HUMANITY IS HELD TOGETHER BY MOTHERS

Did you know your mitochondrial DNA is an exact copy of your female ancestors from thousands of years ago? In her contribution to Otherworlds, author and mythologist explores the profound biological and spiritual connections we share with our mothers, grandmothers and the women who came before them. She says that tracing these motherlines is one of the ways we resist the erasure of the divine feminine that patriarchal domination relies on.

Otherworlds is an 8 week journey into reimagining the narratives, mythologies and possibilities that shape our collective future. If we want different worlds, we need to honour and protect the life-giving processes needed to birth them.

Our first live class is with Pat McCabe, Rupert Spira and Satish Kumar on Tuesday, 12 May at 6pm UK.

To join us, comment OTHERWORLDS 🌎

11/05/2026

Satish Kumar has spent his life reminding us that we are nature. We, too, are made of earth, air, fire, water, a reality we could more readily embrace if we could only shift from ego-driven being to eco-driven.

In his module for Otherworlds, he shows us how celebrating diversity without division and practising radical love toward those we disagree with brings soul and spirit back in alignment with the soil we belong to.

Otherworlds is an 8 week journey into reimagining the narratives, mythologies and possibilities that shape our collective future. If we are to build different worlds, we first have to learn how to see them.

Our first live class is with Pat, Rupert Spira and Satish Kumar on Tuesday, 12 May at 6pm UK.

To join us, comment OTHERWORLDS 🌎

10/05/2026

Rutendo Ngara is one of the 25+ teachers on our new course, Otherworlds. In her module, she explores the sacred as understood through African indigenous wisdom — a living, relational life force present in land, body, ancestors and community. She outlines how cultivating this relationship requires attention, ritual, embodied practice and lifelong commitment to repair and right relationship.

Otherworlds is an 8 week journey into reimagining the narratives, mythologies and possibilities that shape our collective future. If we are to build different worlds, we first have to learn how to see them.

Our first live class is with Pat, Rupert Spira and Satish Kumar on Tuesday, 12 May at 6pm UK.

To join us, comment OTHERWORLDS

10/05/2026

In her contribution to Otherworlds, Pat McCabe (Woman Stands Shining) of the Diné Nation asks the question at the heart of her work: How can my life right now serve those who will step into the next world?

Drawing on the Diné teaching of the hollow reed — the few who survived the great flood and emerged to begin again — Pat asks not about survival, but about spirit: from where in their hearts will those people be moving? What will they carry with them?

Her answer is beauty.

Otherworlds is an 8 week journey into reimagining the narratives, mythologies and possibilities that shape our collective future. If we are to build different worlds, we first have to learn how to see them.

Our first live class is with Pat, and Satish Kumar on Tuesday, 12 May at 6pm UK.

To join us, comment OTHERWORLDS 🌎

09/05/2026

In her module for Otherworlds, reminds us that we have an ecological role, just like every other species. “With our human hands, opposable thumbs and big brains, we can be caretakers of the land in a way no other species could.”

If you’re ready to fall back in love with yourself, others and the more-than-human we share this experience with, comment Otherworlds and we’ll DM you the link to register.



🌎 Otherworlds is a live course for those questioning the status quo, and who want to take part in the radical, rigorous and joyful learning that helps usher in enlivening alternatives.

🌎 More than 25 changemakers, community leaders and educators come together over 8 weeks to uncover the ideas, practices and worldviews needed to live with meaning, wonder and agency in a time of profound change.

🌎 By the end of this course, you will have a deeper understanding of how we arrived at this moment of planetary transition, while discovering practical perspectives and practices that prepare you for this pivotal moment in history.

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09/05/2026

Báyò Akómoláfé argues that both virtue and opposition sustain the systems they claim to resist. True change isn’t escaping the “plantation”, it’s recognising that our structures are still speculating, undecided.

advaya+ members have unlimited access to Báyò’s mind-bending conversation with , on-demand access to a decade’s worth of transformative courses and access to Otherworlds—our essential course for the tools and vision necessary to build a better future.

For the link to join our global community, comment OTHERWORLDS 🌎

Ahead of our first live class for Otherworlds on Tuesday, 12 May at 6pm UK, three Otherworlds modules are now available ...
08/05/2026

Ahead of our first live class for Otherworlds on Tuesday, 12 May at 6pm UK, three Otherworlds modules are now available for advaya+ members 🥹🌎😘

Pat McCabe (Diné Nation) draws on the story of the hollow reed and the great flood to ask: how can we live now so those who emerge into the next world carry beauty, radical forgiveness and unlikely bridging?

explains that happiness isn’t found in external experience but is the very nature of awareness itself. This awareness is shared by all beings. Recognising it requires temporarily turning inward, then returning to the world with love and compassion.

Satish Kumar teaches that we are nature — made of earth, air, fire, water — not separate from it. He calls for shifting from ego to eco, celebrating diversity without division, and practising radical love even toward those we disagree with.

Remember that a perk of advaya+ membership is unlimited access to mind-bending conversations like the one between Báyò Akómoláfé and last week, in which .akomolafe argues that being good is no longer enough, since we live by virtues distorted by empire.

Lock in, friends. The future belongs to those who build it. If you’re not yet registered and want to join in on the imaginative fun, comment OTHERWORLDS 🌎

How do we strengthen the relational muscles required for sustaining the romantic, social and civic bonds we are built fo...
07/05/2026

How do we strengthen the relational muscles required for sustaining the romantic, social and civic bonds we are built for?

Week Six of Otherworlds examines intimacy as the foundational relational skill for interpersonal repair and structural reconnection.

Taught by & , and , you will explore relationships as generative and necessary rehearsal spaces for promising futures, and developing the compassion and emotional maturity required for collective healing.

♥️ Learn to shift from a mindset of defensiveness and avoidance to one of curiosity, viewing inevitable conflict as vital information about misaligned needs and values rather than a threat.
♥️ Gain practical tools to recognise when past, unresolved injuries are amplifying your current emotional reactions, empowering you to take responsibility for your own triggers before trying to repair a connection.
♥️ Explore the ancient, dual-reality practice of holding two truths at once—such as demanding justice for harm while understanding that the path forward must be rooted in love rather than punishment.
♥️ Recognise that loving the “other”—especially across deep polarisation, trauma or rupture—begins with the deep, often terrifying intrapsychic work of loving ourselves first.

To join our global community committed to a thriving and liveable future, comment OTHERWORLDS 🌎

07/05/2026

At a time when the UK heads to the polls, it’s worth asking: What kind of world are we really voting for?

For and the work of and , the answer begins at a different scale, not just in systems of power, but also in the local, the relational and the human. Real change grows up; it doesn’t trickle down: communities, cultures and the stories we choose to live by are where real power thrives.

This is the spirit behind Otherworlds - an 8 week journey into reimagining the narratives, mythologies and possibilities that shape our collective future. If we are to build different worlds, we first have to learn how to see them.

Use code ROAD-TO-OTHERWORLDS for £50 off + full Advaya+ membership

Curated by our beloved , Entangled is a monthly newsletter exploring how we relate to ourselves, each other and the worl...
06/05/2026

Curated by our beloved , Entangled is a monthly newsletter exploring how we relate to ourselves, each other and the world.

May’s theme is HOPE. We explore this theme from both our heart and the collective, seeing how hope is often an invisible driver to the choices and actions we take.

Each month, readers also receive curated playlists, videos, reading recommendations and tender reflections to engage with at your own pace. And within this month’s Entangled, a planetary love story in which fire and wood their own rain. Virginia wanders with this species of our arboreal kin that literally needs to burn to rain to life. They are scarred, charred and thriving because they surrender to the fire and come ablaze in magisterial and cyclical bloom.

If you’d like to join the Entangled network and receive monthly forests for foraging, comment ENTANGLED.

       

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