All That We Are

How can we better respond to the challenge of climate change by moving beyond denial towards graceful, united action? In this episode entitled Facing Climate Change with Grounded Optimism , Amisha is in conversation with environmental activist, writer, and photographer MARTI, who gave a keynote at the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 and more recently has been working with indigenous groups a...

What are the real teachings of yoga beyond the physical poses and how can this lead us to a healthier future? In this episode entitled Why Yoga is Much More Than Moving Your Body , Amisha spends time with teacher, Vedic astrologer, and all round wise man Anand Semalty. They speak of the all-encompassing embrace of India, the deep essence there drawing seekers from across the globe, and why there a...

How women will shape a more beautiful future for the planet. In this episode entitled How Women will Shape a More Beautiful Future , Amisha sits down with wise woman, entrepreneur, and activist Lynne Franks - who launched London Fashion Week and the entire PR Industry at a time when female-led businesses were almost unheard of. Lynne believes our future lies with women and girls and it is they who...

"Dancing with my daughter and singing my son to sleep is just as cosmic as a star exploding and expiring in space." - Bayo Akomolafe In this week's episode  These Times are Urgent, Let Us Slow Down, Amisha takes a deep dive with poet, philosopher, psychologist and professor Bayo Akomolafe into the nature of truth, reality and activism. Bayo offers observations on how our responses in these urgent...

Mapping the experience of cyclical being through archetypes, stories, and song "The more I am in my power the more everything can be empowered - it's not a personal thing - you can't be powerful on your own, its part of a bigger thing." - Boe Huntress In this episode entitled Unveiling a Female Power , Amisha meets singer, songwriter, and creative Boe Huntress. Informed by a long line of songwrite...

Bringing ancestral benefits into the modern world by re-connecting to ancient human ways. In this episode entitled Ancestral Health is Modern Wealth , Amisha sits down with Natural Life-stylist Tony Riddle. Tony tells of his quest to live a biologically normal life without raising social eyebrows, the island where his dream became possible, and how he is helping stressed out urbanites reconnect wi...

Exploring the role of performance to promote healing and raise awareness.  "We have to get really clear about the fact that any sex without full consent is rape. I think it is very difficult for people to hear that." - Imogen Butler-Cole In this episode entitled The Power of Theatre to Change Perspectives , Amisha meets actress and writer Imogen Butler-Cole, creator of acclaimed theatre show "Fore...

An exploration of how technology and human consciousness can come together as a force for good to support the evolution of humanity. "The questions about reality are going to be come deeper and deeper as these technologies are adopted more and our ability to create new realities for ourselves and our communities is not science fiction anymore." - James Hanusa In this episode entitled Creating New...

Cultivating inner power and understanding the tantric perspective of the divine feminine. In this episode entitled Awakening the True Blueprint Within , Amisha sits in reflection with writer, teacher and former swami Sally Kempton. Sally grew up in a secular, socialist environment as the daughter of a well-known liberal journalist in New York, until what she calls a "download of love" during her f...

How to live as a pilgrim, embracing elegant simplicity to find fellowship with all life. In this episode entitled Soil, Soul and Society: A new Trinity for our Time , Amisha sits down with Satish Kumar - co-founder of Schumacher College, editor of Resurgence magazine, and a global activist. They discuss his childhood as a Jain monk, the encounter with death which began his spiritual education, and...

How to engage moral courage to carry torches of justice,  beauty and possibility where shadows loom. In this episode entitled Riding Chariots into Battle and Building Paradise Gardens , Amisha is in conversation with author and humanitarian  Zerbanoo Gifford - founder of the Asha centre for young people in the Forest of Dean, former politician, award-winning activist for social justice, cosmic net...

A journey through loss, discovery, and cultivation of our connection to something bigger. In this episode entitled Finding Our Way Home to the Collective , Amisha meets explorer, documentary filmmaker, and author Bruce Parry. Bruce shares with Amisha some deeply personal stories about finding the place where neuroscience meets indigenous ritual medicines, the chance encounters that changed his lif...

Facing the fundamental teachings of our deepest drivers and greatest taboos and the social dynamics they engender. In this episode entitled Life as a Disobedient Woman , Amisha sits down with activist, artist, provocateur, and entrepreneur Sam Roddick, founder of lingerie brand and sex shop Coco De Mer, and daughter of Body Shop founder Anita Roddick. Sam shares her experience of the formative fam...

We explore the ancient stories, modern manifestations, and internal expanses of tantra and yogic practice. In this episode entitled Entering the Subtle Depths of Tantrik Yoga , Amisha gets together with Christopher Hareesh Wallis, a scholar and practitioner of the yoga tradition and author of two books on the classical Tantra tradition. Hareesh - whose name meaning "remover of sorrows" was given t...

This week's episode etitled  Forging New Forms in the Heart of Luxury , Amisha meets Cultural Futurist & Creative Director Annegret Affolderbach. As well as being a major contributor to The Future is Beautiful book which inspired this podcast, Annegret is an award-winning, disruptive innovator and social entrepreneur in the world of fashion. Her Choolips fashion brand was produced by a Ghanaian wo...

How can individual experiences of empathy and community with the human and non-human world around us create radical shifts in our planetary ecology? In this first episode of The Future is Beautiful Podcast entitled Love as an Ecological Act , Amisha Ghadiali meets author and speaker Charles Eisenstein. Here the old stories, the current stories, and the new stories of humanity encounter one another...