Invisible Threads of Nature

In this episode of 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 I am in conversation with Raki Nikahetiya.Raki works across traditional craft, photography, painting, site-specific installations, and scientific methods, engaging questions of memory, migration and regeneration. Originally from Sri Lanka, he left during the civil war and was raised in Austria. He is now based in Colombo with a migratory studio spanning between Leh, New Delhi, London, and Vienna. His practice reflects a sustained engagement with belonging, adaptation and ecology.Prior to fully committing to his artistic practice, Raki also worked in journalism, spending over a decade in international development. His work focused on sustainable development, circular economy, and environmental conservation. This experience keeps fueling his socially and ecologically engaged approach to creativity. He is the director and co-founder of the sā Ladakh Biennale, the world’s highest-altitude art biennale rooted in regeneration, fostering site-specific installations and initiatives at the intersection of climate, culture, and community.www.rakiography.com***This project is created with the intention to weave and expand meaning around topics that interconnect art, spirit and Nature in contemporary culture.To receive a monthly newsletter to remain connected to the artistic work that I am nurturing, receive written reflections and creative updates you may subscribe here : bio.site/BodhiSholaIf you'd like to receive support and be accompanied on your path, I offer communal meetings to explore animism through practices of deep listening, as well as personal guidance for creative and sensitive spirits.bodhishola.art/exploreWith gratefulness and wishes of harmony to all beings alike𝘉𝘰𝘥𝘩𝘪 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘢

I invite you to join me on an a guided inner journey, opening to a connection with death and the spaces in which this teacher wants to be met and felt at this time of your life, maybe in the passing of a loved one, in the ending of a relationship or in the release of a cherished project.May this guidance be of gentle support as you are moving through this threshold and inspire you to renew your spark of creative aliveness beyond.***If you'd like to receive support and be accompanied on your path, I offer communal meetings to explore animism through practices of deep listening, as well as personal guidance for creative and sensitive spirits.https://www.bodhishola.art/exploreWith gratefulness and wishes of harmony to all beings alike𝘉𝘰𝘥𝘩𝘪 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘢

In this episode of 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 I am in conversation with Gabriela Gutierrez.Gabriela is a Spanish – Welsh writer, poet, mythologist, and scholar of ancient religion. She works at the intersection of myth, ritual, and ecology to recover the animistic worldviews that preceded institutional religion. She speaks several languages and has worked internationally in human-rights advocacy, field research, and traditional ritual lineages. Drawing on both fieldwork and study within living traditions, she bridges scholarship and direct experience to explore how myth and spirituality can return to modern life as embodied sources of meaning. Gabriela is the founder of the bestselling Substack Under a Fig Tree. Her first nonfiction book is forthcoming from Shambhala Publications in 2027.gabrielamairgutierrez.com***This project is created with the intention to weave and expand meaning around the topics that interconnect art, spirit and Nature in contemporary culture.Written reflections are offered as an extension of this project and can be read here: bodhishola.substack.comIf you'd like to receive support and be accompanied on your path, I offer communal meetings to explore animism through practices of deep listening, as well as personal guidance for creative and sensitive spirits.bodhishola.art/exploreWith gratefulness and wishes of harmony to all beings alike𝘉𝘰𝘥𝘩𝘪 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘢

Rachael White is a leader in the field of female sexuality and empowerment. Shes a Somatic Sexologist, Tao Tantric arts facilitator, and Yoni mapping practitioner, specialising in female pleasure and sexuality. Her work is rooted in a holistic, integrated approach to sexuality and empowerment — guiding women into a deeper, more loving relationship with themselves, their bodies, and their desires.Known for blending professional expertise with genuine warmth and heart, she creates a space where women feel safe to explore, heal, and awaken their fullest selves.rachael-white.com***This project is created with the intention to weave meaning into contemporary culture and expand community around the topics that interconnect art, spirit and Nature. I will be glad to connect with you if you resonate with the sharings.⁠⁠BodhiShola.art⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠You may also join the monthly community space for deep listening ⁠⁠Landscapes of Inner Earth⁠⁠With gratefulness and wishes of harmony to all beings alike

Aphra Natley is an artist, transpersonal art therapist and shamanic practitioner, working in private practice, with groups and on retreats. Aphra’s paintings serve as meditative and therapeutic channels that bring oneself closer to true nature. They emerge through an animistic worldview of art as self-inquiry, and a force for good. Her art and healing practices dive into interior landscapes, where archetypes and parts of self roam, and by aligning closely with nature and the elements, into the unconscious, there emerge forms that offer a transcendent mirror. Each painting is a gentle window to confide in, illuminating something of soul life, of consciousness and the working through of personal & collective karmic shadow, of death and rebirth, of form giving way to energy, the mystery of life, whilst revering infinite Spirit in all Nature.www.aphranatley.cominstagram.com/asanctuaire***This project is created with the intention to weave meaning into contemporary culture and expand community around the topics that interconnect art, spirit and Nature. I will be glad to connect with you if you resonate with the sharings.⁠BodhiShola.art⁠⁠Instagram⁠You may also join the monthly community space for deep listening ⁠Landscapes of Inner Earth⁠With gratefulness and wishes of harmony to all beings alike

Jade Brunel is the founder of WAOTEA and author of "Tea, Remembering the Essence of Life". Continuously learning from the primordial language of nature, the way of tea, Daoist mysticism, metaphysics, and the healing arts -- she weaves contemplative, somatic, and creative experiences to support her community in navigating life’s transitions with greater presence and ease.She currently tends an online community through monthly offerings, shares online courses on tea and bazi astrology as practices, and facilitates retreats across the United States, Europe, and China.Jade Brunel.comWaoTea.com***This project is created with the intention to weave meaning into contemporary culture and expand community around the topics that interconnect art, spirit and Nature. I will be glad to connect with you if you resonate with the sharings.BodhiShola.artInstagramYou may also join the monthly community space for deep listening Landscapes of Inner EarthWith gratefulness and wishes of harmony to all beings alike

Dr P. Mary Vidya Porselvi is Associate professor and Head of the Department of English at Loyola College, Chennai. Her primary research during her studies was on the topic ‘Mother Earth Discourse as Conscientizacao: An Ecofeminist Approach to Folktales from India’ , she here identified an innovative folktale typology which connects women with environment. She is author to the books ‘Nature, Culture and Gender: Rereading the Folktale’ (2016), ‘Bhoomi Tales’ (2014) , ‘Nature’s Voices, Women’s Voices’ (2015) and ‘Environmental Humanities in Folktales: Theory and Practice’ (2023). She likes to read and write poetry with nature at its center. She has most recently published three collections of nature poems titled, ‘Gaianjali’ in February 2023, ‘Kalpavriksham’ in June 2024 and ‘Unfading Rhapsodies’ in May 2025.routledge.com/Environmental-Humanities-in-Folktales-Theory-and-Practiceroutledge.com/Nature-Culture-and-Gender-Re-reading-the-folktale***This project is created with the intention to weave meaning into contemporary culture and expand community around the topics that interconnect art, spirit and Nature. I will be glad to connect with you if you resonate with the sharings.bodhishola.artinstagram.com/invisible_threadsof_kindnessIf you'd like to learn more about my offerings that could support you on the creative path please visit : ⁠https://www.bodhishola.art/offeringsWith gratefulness and wishes of harmony to all beings alike

Alnoor Ladha is co-director of the Transition Resource Circle and co-author of the book Post Capitalist Philanthropy: Healing Wealth in the Time of Collapse.Alnoor’s work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking, structural change and narrative work. He was the co-founder and Executive Director of The Rules, a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others focused on changing the rules that create inequality, poverty and climate change. TRC started in 2012 as a time-bound project and an experiment in temporary organizational design, exploring new ways of how to work, play, and make trouble together.Alnoor comes from a Sufi lineage and writes about the crossroads of politics and spirituality in troubled times. His work has been published in Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Truthout, Fast Company, Kosmos Journal, New Internationalist, and the Huffington Post among others. He is the Council Chair of Culture Hack Labs, a co-operatively run advisory for social movements and progressive organizations.culturehack.iobraveearth.comtransitionresourcecircle.orgpostcapitalistphilanthropy.org***This project is created with the intention to weave meaning into contemporary culture and expand community around the topics that interconnect art, spirit and Nature. I will be glad to connect with you if you resonate with the sharings.bodhishola.artinstagram.com/invisible_threadsof_kindnessWith gratefulness and wishes of harmony to all beings alike

Alena Natalia is a teacher, initiated medicine woman, healer, and priestess to Earth and the deep Feminine Mysteries who holds a vision of a humanity reborn to its own sovereignty and magnificence living in harmony with nature and the spirit in all things. She walks in service of the reawakening and anchoring of a new era of feminine consciousness on earth. Alena has dedicated her life to guiding others in awakening to their own embodied truth, highest potential, personal power, and the medicine that lives within each of us through returning to a reciprocal way of living with the organic powers of creation. She shares evolutionary shamanic medicine, rooted in Womb Cosmology and the Lineage of Earth, in service to Gaia. Over twenty years Alena's path has guided her to study Ashtanga Yoga, Shaktism Tantra, Shamanism, Mysticism, Feminine Mysteries, and other ancestral medicine traditions from around the world. Alena comes from an ancestral line of seers, healers, and mystics from North Africa, the Mediterranean, and Eastern Europe. Alena continues to learn with great gratitude under her teacher and mentor, a curandera and shaman from the Andes Mountains of Peru. She is also an apprenticeship of the creatress of Womb Awakening and holder of the priestess lineages of Isis and Mary Magdalene. Alena has taught and facilitated internationally for over ten years. She offers mentorship containers, retreats and immersions, and individual healing sessions.www.alenanatalia.cominstagram.com/alenanataliainstagram.com/intothewildmedicine***This project is created with the intention to weave meaning into contemporary culture and expand community around the topics that interconnect art, spirit and Nature. I will be glad to connect with you if you resonate with the sharings.bodhishola.artinstagram.com/invisible_threadsof_kindnessWith gratefulness and wishes of harmony to all beings alike

Tessel van der Putte is a eco-feminist artist and researcher with a background in human rights and in nature conservation initiatives. She paints abstract and figurative work that re-imagines worlds of deep connectivity, femininity and mutual dependence. Her work is informed and inspired by bodies of water, resulting in a distinct style in which spaces are never void, merging and interflowing with form and the physical, often in high-contrasting colors and light. Each painting serves as a reminder of our connection to the natural world that exists both around and within us.Tessel has exhibited her work across the Netherlands and has two publications in her name, both research related to climate change, water, and human rights.tesselvanderputte.comInstagram***This project is created with the intention to weave meaning into contemporary culture and expand community around the topics that interconnect art, spirit and Nature. I will be glad to connect with you if you resonate with the sharings.bodhishola.artInstagram.comIf you'd like to learn more about my offerings that could support you on the creative path please visit : bodhishola.art/offeringsWith gratefulness and wishes of harmony to all beings alike