Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transpecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine is forthcoming in 2022 from Inner Traditions. Her eco-feminist historical...

Sarah has been a death doula and ritual healing practitioner since 2012.  Her work helps dying people and their families connect with each other, and with the innate wisdom of the dying process.  Sarah’s approach draws on nature-­based spirituality, sacred sciences, and the richness of the human soul. She designs and facilitates ceremonies that help her clients to integrate experiences of death, loss, and transformation. These rituals honour the spiritual significance of what’s happening,...

As one of the leading storytellers, Jan Blake has been performing worldwide for over twenty-five years. Specialising in stories from Africa, the Caribbean, and Arabia, she has a well-earned reputation for dynamic and generous storytelling. Recent highlights include Hay Festival, where she was storyteller in-residence, the Viljandi Harvest Festival in Estonia and TEDx Warsaw. As well as performing at all the major storytelling festivals both nationally and internationally, she works regularly...

Executive Editor at the Center for Humans and Nature Gavin Van Horn, joins on for a conversation about kinship. How it is beyond genetics and more about the relational. 

This conversation has invited me to look at those in my mirror. Where I try to polish and where I accept the invitation. In the broader scale where we in West are so busy polishing that our arms are falling off. Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, Bayo Akomolafe is the Chief Curator of The Emergence Network

How easy is it to buy farmland and give it back to nature. This is what we are talking about today.  David Katznelson was born and brought up in Denmark, David specialised in Cinematography at the National Film & Television School in the UK. He has shot a number of feature films, TV pilots, TV series and won several awards including an EMMY, a BAFTA and an RTS He has now bought a huge piece of land in Denmark and wants to create a national park. Listen in on his journey. 

Jay Griffiths talks about what is wild, wilderness what is it to be an apprentice to something what does it mean to give time a note on activism and climate despair and fatigue Jay Griffiths has written on the politics of time, and the importance of wildness in the human spirit and the natural world in childhood. She was born in Manchester, studied at Oxford and has lived in Wales since 2000. 

Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq is a shaman, traditional healer, storyteller and carrier of the Qilaut (winddrum), whose  family belongs to the traditional healers of the Far North from Kalaallit Nunaat, Greenland. His name means ‘The Man Who Looks Like His Uncle’. Since he was a child he was trained by his family- especially by his Grandmother Aanakasaa – for becoming a shaman. The spiritual task given by his mother is: “Melting the Ice in the Heart of Man”.

My dear friend and mentor Stefana Serafina is our guest today. Her work has transformed my life. A conversation and reflection about the risk of not including our bodies (again!) in the visioning for the new world that might be shaping with this crisis.  About the body having to be the guide and the way in this hopeful emergence of a renewed human race.  Stefana Serafina, M.A., is the founder of Intuitive Body and Dance ©, writer, and embodied empowerment facilitator based in the San Francisc

Rachel Corby is a very special teacher, and I’ve had the privilege to have her teach courses 2 years in a row. In this episode we will be talking about working with plants. About what plant whispering means and how this work is more important today than ever. She is a very experienced and respectful teacher - to the plants and students and her wisdom runs deep.

This conversation is with Leah Lamb. She is a storyteller, a writer and thinker. An activist. Last year I joined her course and dived in to the world of storytelling and storytellers from around the world. This art is revolutionary and we are all storytellers. So what stories are we telling? Listening to? And trusting? Leah Lamb is a writer and producer. She is the creator of Soul Stories and the Speak the Spark, storytelling for a new paradigm, program. 

We are back and we kick off season two with a talk about sustainability, leadership. We take journey back to where we began moving away from nature and it’s intelligence and more importantly ´, where we stopped seeing ourselves as nature, a part of this eco-system. Today's guest is Laura Storm

 Sandra Ingerman is known for gathering the global spiritual community together to perform powerful transformative ceremonies as well as inspires us to stand strong in unity so we do our own spiritual and social activism work while keeping a vision of hope and being a light in the world. This conversation is about sacred ceremony. 

Luke McLaughln is a naturalist, teacher, rewilder, mentor, survivalist, and founder of Holistic Survival School. Luke has committed his life to mastering and teaching ancestral and indigenous living skills in order to help people find their balance and connection to the Natural World.   Luke has mentored hundreds of people in the wilderness and learned how Earth skills teach us vital life lessons

Callie North is Born and raised on Lopez Island, Callie spent her formative years living a nature-based lifestyle in the Pacific Northwest. Her love of the outdoors and relationship with sacred plant medicine led her to open Pachamama Apothecary in the spring of 2016. Shortly after the shop opened, Callie was blessed with the opportunity to spend 72 days living alone in the foothills of the Andes Mountains in Patagonia, Argentina. Her journey can be viewed on Season 3 of ALONE, on the History...

Today’s guest is Alexandra Pope. Alexandra is the co founder of redschool.net along side Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer. She is also the author of several books including 'The Wild Genie: The Healing Power of Menstruation', 'The Women’s Quest Workbook' and co author of 'The Pill: are you sure it’s for you' and their book Wild Power 

I interviewed Bea Johnson for the first time four years ago. At that time zero waste was beginning to grow. Today it is not only for the *fanatics* who like? to chill, it is becoming a well known and even more importantly - integratable life style. I guarantee you will be called to make a few changes in your home. If we all did just a fraction of what she is doing, I can hardly imagine how it could shift things around.

Today’s guest is Easkey Britton. A scientist, academic and social activist, with a PhD in Environment and Society, She is co-founder of the non-profit Waves of Freedom which uses the power of surfing as a creative medium for social change. Easkey is a one off, wild hearted and free spirit. She’s ridden some of the biggest days in Ireland; no audience, no blue skies, no golden sands, just her and a crew she trusts. Doing something she loves; chasing cold water mountains.

You know those times you listen to a voice, a talk, a something that when it’s over you feel changed? That’s how I felt the first time I listened to Stephen Jenkinson talk. Even more so after interviewing him.  STEPHEN JENKINSON is an activist, teacher, author, and farmer. He has a master's degree in theology from Harvard University and a master's degree in social work from the University of Toronto. Formerly a program director at a major Canadian hospital and medical-school assistant...

In this Episode 3 I interview Clare Dubois.  You will hear why trees and reforestation is important.  Clare share the amazing and wild story of how it all began.  Why the focus is on the tropical rainforest. What and where can we go if we want to make change locally  More importantly why Sisterhood and what is the potential if we reconnect to our inner nature and come together as a tribe. 

6 Plastic Free Solutions for Your Everyday Life In this mini episode I present6 easy swaps from plastic to plastic freeyou can make in your home. These won't cost you much, some will even save you money. Comfort wise you should still be covered as well... ;) 

With us today on the Episode 1 and 1st Season of the Becoming Nature Podcast Show is Frederikke Magnussen. Co Founder of A Plastic Planet.  We talk about the facts about single use plastic, how we can turn off the tap and where we can put pressure to help turn the climate ship around.  When you can buy gluten-free, fat-free, dairy-free; why can we not buy plastic-free?