All That We Are

What happens when we stop chasing spiritual highs and start training the mind for the benefit of all beings? In this episode, Amisha speaks with Naina Eira Gupta, PhD(c), whose work explores the relationship between contemplative practice, unitive states and psychedelics. Naina brings together philosophy, Buddhism, Vajrayana Tantra, psychedelic science, the Nālandā tradition and her own lived expe...

In this TIMELESS episode, we revisit a conversation from 2018 with William Etundi on creativity, activism and the slow, imperfect spiralling up of change.  William reflects on the activist movements that shaped him, the cost of forcing change, and the quieter courage of listening to what is most essential within us. Moving from political burnout into creative truth, he shares a powerful reminder t...

How can we live with more trust, belonging, and courage in a fractured world? In this episode, Amisha speaks with Harriet Goudard about belonging, Family Constellations, horses, ancestry, and the living intelligence of the field. Together they explore what it means to belong in a time of fracture, isolation, and disconnection. Harriet shares how horses, through their herd wisdom, presence, and sen...

In this TIMELESS episode, we revisit a conversation with Daniel Epstein from E152 on how we build a future we can actually live in. Together, Daniel and Amisha explore what it means to repurpose capitalism as a tool for regeneration, rather than extraction. They look at the relationship between doing good, doing well, and being well, asking how entrepreneurship can serve life without asking us to...

What if belonging was never something we had to earn? In this tender and nourishing conversation, Amisha sits down with Farah Orths to explore belonging, prayer, love, and what it means to live beyond separation. Drawing from her own journey through intrusive thoughts, questions of identity, and a lifelong search for belonging, Farah shares how she came to discover a deeper home in Divine love, on...

In this TIMELESS episode Ebyän Zanini shares around the themes of social change, dismantling systems of oppression, and moving beyond capitalism. We explore the notions of imperialism, censorship and trauma; and look into the example of the occupation of Palestine and of the voices speaking up for Palestinian liberation. Recognising the importance of sitting with difficult emotions, Ebyän Zanini a...

What does death show us about how to live? In this episode Amisha talks to Sierra Campbell about aging, illness and care at the end of life. It is a tender and intimate conversation between Sierra and Amisha, who both share from their wealth of experience as caregivers. This episode is centered around the importance of finding community, of creating a village, and of having practices that support...

In this TIMELESS we revisit a conversation with Minna Salami that touches on the themes of listening, beauty and presence. Sharing insights on listening to rivers and to nature, Minna Salami talks about her journey of inquiry into the questions "what can a river teach me about power?". This episode is a gentle reminder of the importance of cultivating and practicing presence. It invites us to seek...

What stops us showing up for one another? This episode with Anthea Lawson focuses on what it means to be an activist in times of political polarization. Anthea shares extensively about her work as an activist and campaigner, as well as her studies and research into the psychological and spiritual underpinnings of activism. The conversation emphasizes the importance of community, of building relati...

How do we weave more beauty, purpose, and belonging into our days? This question sits at the heart of this closing episode of this series. A gentle inquiry for anyone feeling the speed of modern life, the subtle ache of disconnection, or simply the desire to live more fully.  Through personal stories from India and home, grounded research on longevity and connection, and ancient Indian wisdom from...

What happens to our imagination when life feels fast, noisy, or overwhelming? In this TIMELESS edition, poet and artist Jason Bayani offers a powerful reminder that imagination is not a luxury but an essential part of how we stay human. He speaks about disappearing as a form of self-respect, the war against silence, and what it means to protect the inner spaces where ideas and intuition are born....

How do we live the future we envision? Amisha Tala Oak reflects on the beauty of vision as she marks over 15 years with  All That We Are . She shares her journey of creating more than 250 conversations through the podcast, from politics to near-death awakenings, sustainable fashion to spirituality, and how this work continues to evolve. It's a story about resilience, vision, and staying open to po...

This TIMELESS turns everything on it's head. What if the most educated amongst us are the most disconnected?  Here we lovingly dismantle factory schooling, recall village intelligence, and discuss a practical path into gift culture. Manish Jain (co-founder of the UnSchooling movement) who walked out of Wall Street and Harvard, invites us to trade credentials for conscience, exams for experience, a...

What does it take to stay human, together, when everything asks us to harden?  In this episode, Amisha sits in tender conversation with the Emergent Justice Collective led by Lisa, Lily, and Val, three transformative justice practitioners, grief workers, and embodiment activists who are visioning a different way of being with justice in the movement towards collective liberation.  As we witness de...

Our world doesn't need more leaders chasing power - it needs people rooted in what they love. This TIMELESS with Mac Macartney calls us back to integrity, to humility, to the sacred responsibility of shaping a future that serves all life. Mac Macartney brings us into a fresh understanding of leadership - one that is relational and begins with listening across differences. True leadership, as he co...

If your heart has been broken open by what's unfolding in Gaza, you are not alone. This episode is a place to bring that ache; a collective tapestry of grief, courage and the power of art to keep our humanity alive. Each Life Sacred was born from the choice of not looking away, from witnessing the unimaginable suffering of children in Palestine and feeling the weight of helplessness that so many o...

We often carry the story "I can't sing" or "That's not my voice", a belief rooted in comparison, in safety, in self-protection. We excuse our expression by saying it's for others: "If I sing well, they'll love me."  In this week's TIMELESS, Alumnus Alejandra Ortis speaks of the voice as a channel - a conduit for the vibrant force that already dances through us. In this episode, we are invited to s...

In this episode, Amisha sits together with two dedicated activists, Nat Skoczylas and Teresa Machado. Teresa is a project caretaker, events curator, and editor of The Radicals, shaping radical world-building experiments and working with the feminisation of politics collective. Nat is a community organiser, activist and artist building trans/queer/eco-feminist futures, anarchist spaces, and network...

What if our dreams were not just fragments of the night, but guiding voices for our lives and communities? Toko-pa Turner, Canadian author and internationally celebrated dreamworker, is the award-winning author of Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home and The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams.  In this TIMELESS, she reminds us that dreaming is a language of the soul, one that reconnects...

In this rare solo episode, Amisha Tala Oak speaks from a place of deep presence.  Her voice carrying the spaciousness and clarity that comes from years of practice. Listening, you can feel meditation come alive, as something intimate, nourishing, and available to you right now. Amisha shares the ways meditation has shaped her life: softening emotional reactivity, strengthening her energy body, shi...

This timeless episode is a call back to what we've forgotten. SleepyEye, a Dakota and Seneca wisdom keeper, shares what prayer, ceremony, and elemental wisdom can mean in our lives today. He shows us how to become vessels for balance, healing, and hope. In this short piece, we are reminded of the power of prayer, the need to hold both light and dark, and the possibility of weaving the sacred back...

How do we really engage and create cultures of healing and resistance? This episode, recorded at Lovejam, explores exactly that. Through song, poetry and shared wisdom, this circle brings together five incredible women from diverse backgrounds: Zena Rouse Winterbottom, Jude جودْ, Jessica Epperson-Lusty,  Jimena Paratcha and Nikita Llerena. Together they reflect on ways to respond to violence and s...

In this timeless, we explore the "ladder" - the system of hierarchies that tells us which bodies are worthy and which are not. From racism, ableism and capitalism to beauty standards and perfectionism, the ladder keeps us climbing for external validation and always leaves us feeling not enough. Radical self-love offers another way. It asks us to step off the ladder, to revisit the stories that pla...

How do we mend the fractures of modern life and find our way back to each other? In this conversation, Bryony Greenhill shares a vision for repairing our communities - through land, song and the everyday acts that weave us back together. We explore why so many of us feel disconnected, what's been lost in our modern way of living, and how we can start to rebuild trust, care, and shared purpose in o...

In this timeless, we explore the art of weaving the many threads of our lives into a unified whole. Drawing on the discipline of a monk, and the humility of a lifelong pilgrim, we are invited to see ecology, spirituality, social justice, and human connection as one interwoven journey. Satish Kumar is a former monk and long-term peace and environment activist, he has been quietly setting the Global...