All That We Are

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 Yoga and Ayurveda, she explores what truly sustains us, the simple human threads we've carried for thousands of years. Together we look at what actually helps us thrive: relationships as the strongest predictor of health and happiness the deep physical impact of isolation (Harvard + Holt-Lunstad's research) the shared traits of long-living communities across the world the way nature lowers stress and restores vitality how meditating together synchronises our physiology the role of purpose in extending life and the ancient languages of rhythm, breath, presence, and intention Amisha weaves these with teachings on Prana (life force), Dinacharya (daily rhythm), the five elements, and the deeper meaning of Dharma, offering ten simple, human principles for living a beautiful and connected life. This episode is a reminder. A way of returning to what we already know. A soft invitation to belong again. The show notes and details of all mentioned courses and events is here at www.allthatweare.org (make sure you are on the newsletter for all the updates!)

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. This episode is for anyone feeling overstimulated, tired of performing, or longing to reconnect with your creativity. Listen if you want to explore: - how to stay creative when everything feels fast - why imagination needs quiet - the art of disappearing - the pressure to produce and stay "relevant" - protecting your creative void - intuition as resistance If you need a reminder that your imagination is still alive and worth protecting, this is for you. We highly recommend you to listen to the full episode as well, tune in here. And we turned 8 years last week and we would love to gift you each a free meditation session! Join Amisha LIVE at The Rhythm here. For links and more, please visit www.allthatweare.org

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 possibility even when the world feels heavy. Key Takeaways: :: Intuition is the tender voice within where your truth lives. :: We can hope for a more beautiful future while staying present with the realities of this moment. :: Political activism and spiritual depth are not separate paths - they're woven together. We are making this podcast to create community so that we may move together towards a more beautiful future. If there is something you have appreciated over the years, about how this podcast has shifted something in you, we would love to hear about it. Please send us a message or join one of our online meditations and events where we can connect. We aspire to co-create with our listeners and community for many years to come. For links and more, please visit www.allthatweare.org

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, and scarcity for an experiment in trust. We discuss education as being, not just knowing, starting with head, heart, hands, home. Manish speaks on gift culture, giving us the advice that when scarcity knocks, we up the gift, and ritualize generosity so trust compounds. We invite you to bring home some of the ideas discussed in the episode such as running a treasure hunt by visiting 10 local people or places of skill, elders, makers, growers, repairers, musicians. Another idea is to host a Darya Dil exchange, where each person gifts a personally meaningful item with its story, and the receiver promises to pass it on within 3 months. And finally, we invite you to replace "resume" with a one page portfolio of lived projects, and publish it publicly. We also recommend that you listen to the full Episode 39 here. And please do a treasure hunt where you are this week, you will be amazed by what you find! Join us for The Rhythm: live meditation sessions twice a week with our community - no recordings to catch up on, just show up and breathe together. For links and more, please visit www.allthatweare.org

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 deepening crises around us, the impulse of so many of us can be to turn toward formal systems of power and to demand accountability through legal institutions. But Lisa, Lily, and Val offer us something more. They speak of justice stemming from love and the knowing of our interdependence and shared responsibility. Our movements are extensions of ourselves, of our positionalities, our rage and grief, and the communities to which we belong. Liberation begins in the tender spaces between us, in orienting towards relationality even as systems of oppression demand otherwise. We hope that this week's episode really speaks to something deep in your body, and a possibility of how we live fully with everything that is happening in our world. Join us in The Rhythm: live meditation sessions twice a week with our community - no recordings to catch up on, just show up and breathe together. For links and more, please visit www.allthatweare.org

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 conveys, is the quiet confidence that comes from following what matters most, not from needing to be followed. It is not something to postpone until we are fully formed; it is the art of showing up - imperfect and evolving. Through his stories, we are invited to lead with courage and care - to recognize our innate gifts, take responsibility for what we love, and stand for what is sacred and worth protecting. The conversation touches on how rarely we ask these questions of our young, even though discovering what is truly sacred may be the most vital education of all. If you've ever doubted your place as a leader, this one's for you. We hope that this inspires you to live from that place in this world of who you truly are. We recommend that you go and listen later to the whole of E61 here. Join us for The Rhythm: live meditation sessions twice a week with our community - no recordings to catch up on, just show up and breathe together. For links and more, please visit www.allthatweare.org

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 of us have carried. Out of that grief, something luminous emerged - a call to create, to gather, to weave art and action into one. Holding the creative vision of this offering are artist Anouska Beckwith and singer-songwriter Charlotte Mabon, who have brought together twenty-two musicians and six artisans to create an album and fundraiser that turns sorrow into service and beauty into a bridge. In this conversation, we sit with their stories and with the voices of many of the contributing artists: Ayla Schafer, Kieran King (War Child), Taz Babiker, Matthew Barley, Naomi Greene, Johnny Flynn, Nick Barbachano, Olivia Fern, Ya'Acov Darling Khan, Anika Nixdorf, Lauren Noa (Little Whale), Petra Palumbo, as well as Leor and Souli from Ripples Collective each sharing how this project became a vessel for tenderness, courage, and collective care. May this episode remind you that each life is sacred and that our shared humanity is something we can practice, together, every day. Links: 100% of the proceeds of the crowdfunder will go to War Child whose teams are in Gaza now creating safe spaces for children to play, learn, and access psychological support. Donate here. The Rhythmn offers gentle, consistent anchoring for your nervous system, your soul, and your sacred activism. For live meditation sessions - join here. For links from this episode and more, visit www.allthatweare.org

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 shift the gaze: the voice is not you pushing forth, but life moving through you. In How to Remember Your Voice and Sing Freely, we disentangle from the hidden contracts of love and validation, and rest in the truth that you are love. The voice is simply an expression of that. We speak about lineage, safety, and how many voices - especially those of women - were muted through ancestral memory. May this conversation be a place of permission to let sound move, to let truth sing, to remember the electric current you are. Join The Rhythm with live practice sessions every Monday and Thursday here. For links and more, visit https://allthatweare.org/

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 networks of solidarity and mutual aid. Together they share their visions for the future, reflecting on the power of community and the need to reclaim the narrative around radicalism. This episode highlights how curiosity, trust, and solidarity can help us navigate the challenges of late-stage capitalism and today's social justice movements. We hope it inspires you to reclaim the radical within yourself and explore how solidarity, care, and imagination can transform the world we live in. Join The Rhythm with live practice sessions every Monday and Thursday here. For links and more, visit https://allthatweare.org/ This podcast was made in collaboration with The Radicals, a storytelling initiative powered by the Guerrilla Foundation. The project explores contemporary radicalism, reclaiming what it means to be radical while showcasing the diverse faces of root-cause activism worldwide. Through authentic and inspiring stories, they aim to reframe activists, uproot misconceptions, and reroute rebellions.

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 us to belonging, to the earth and to each other. In How to Work With Dreams as a Daily Language, we explore how exile and belonging are intertwined, how grief holds essential medicine, and how dreams reveal the hidden threads of our shared psychic ecosystem. We hope that hearing just this small part will give you space to contemplate, integrate and embody what is shared here and we highly recommend you to revisit the whole conversation. Join us for The Rhythm: live meditation sessions twice a week with our community - no recordings to catch up on, just show up and breathe together. For links and more, visit https://allthatweare.org/

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, shifting her brainwave states and expanding her capacity to love and create. She brings together the neuroscience of presence with the lived experience of a practice that has become both an anchor and guide in these times. This episode is an offering, a love letter to meditation and an invitation to return to yourself, to choose connection over overload, and to discover the rhythm of rebellion, of presence. Join The Rhythm with live practice sessions every Monday and Thursday here For links and more, visit https://allthatweare.org/

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 into the fabric of our daily lives. Join us for The Rhythm: live meditation sessions twice a week with our community - no recordings to catch up on, just show up and breathe together. For links and more, visit https://allthatweare.org/

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 societal collapse through community, art, joy and reverence. Even in the most difficult circumstances, people continue to celebrate life - singing, dancing, and gathering together. Acts of resistance that become powerful forms of resilience, helping us hold grief and hope at the same time and reminding us what it means to stay human amid struggle. We hope that you are inspired and activated by the wisdom and courage of these incredible women and reminded of the power we have when we gather. Join us for The Rhythm: live meditation sessions twice a week with our community - no recordings to catch up on, just show up and breathe together. For links and more, visit https://allthatweare.org/