How can we be present to the challenging transitions 🥐 that we experience in life? As we find ourselves here in this great transition that 2020-21 is offering to us, how can we find presence, grace and allow ourselves to be transformed by life 🦥itself? In the 7th episode "Honoring Transition" of Alivelihood Podcast Rajat in an heart to heart conversation with somil daga ponders on the question on can our careers and livelihoods help eachother to become the sovereign leaders that our times are calling for? In this episode somil shares his heroic journey of transition from an engineering student to a native plant gardener and regenerative farming

How do we stich a new garment that fits all of humanity and nature? In this episode Rajat and Rahul listen to Vinoth kumar founder of Vaagai wellness who is on a magical life mission to support/ handhold 10,00,00 lakhs people to expand their consciousness in all the dimensions of self and life to live in harmony with nature. To reverse their chronic and degenerative conditions and to achieve optimal health, happiness, fulfillment and life. Vinoth believes that we have been systemically disconnected from our own sense of Divineness, our sense of enoughness. He shares that we have to raise our consciousness to break free from the systems of hierarchy relentlessly conditioned us to prove ourselves. Portfolio link to his work http://vsvinothkumar.blogspot.com/?m=1

What's wrong with a culture of fast fixes? How can business and finance empower communities to grow and thrive? Strolling down memory lane of factories and tailor shops picking up scraps of memories and fashioning new stories, presenting you Episode 5 of the Alivelihood podcast on 'Beautiful Business, repurposing and waste'. In this episode Rajat meets Kamal Bir Kaur an upcycler and the founder of Saadgi creations a social Enterprise which offers it's buyers a wide range of bags upcycled from the fabric waste of textile factories. In a conversation Kamal shares her experience about the skills that she picked up outside of conventional education during her Gap year and how it led to discover her ikigai and starting of sadagi . Together Rajat and Kamal discuss about the impact of fast fashion and the need to change our mindset about waste in general - how we can repurpose, how we can reuse and how we can value it and change the way we are thinking.

How can the essence of 'Shakti' or feminine leadership reinvent the world? In this Episode Rajat spends time with PriyamShakti ( Priya Nagesh ) a yoga practitioner, therapist and teacher, Reiki practitioner and poet based in Tiruvannamalai, Tamilnadu. She shares with us about her experiments in education and how walking out from the college and pursuing her natural curiosity led to the discovery of her swadharma/livelihood. They also talk about the widespread modification of yoga, the troubling ego expansion fuelled by asana-only practise and the rise of the Facebook and WhatsApp yogis. She points us back to the ancient codes of wisdom at the core of yogic tradition - tools for receiving and integrating all the powerful energies we invite in with our practise.

How can our experience of being born into this world change how we take care of it? In this episode Rajat sits with chetana Kulkarni founder of 'The Birth Home' who opened the door in 2019 to bring mid wifery care to Bangalore band provide an option for safe and supported natural birth. Chetna Kulkarni shares with us the profound and beautiful way in which the teams of midwives and support staff  work to provide all women who come to their door with an empowering, loving and respectful experience of birth. The work of Birth Home is founded on a deep belief, backed up by science, that the way in which we enter the world has a soul-deep and lasting impact on our capacity to love and trust. She also shares about magnificent healing that birth can bring.

"What does it mean to live life inside-out (as opposed to outside-in) and what are the various stages on this journey of psychological maturation? What can we learn from Arjuna's inner search, that is still relevant for us today in the age of 'Collapse'?  In this episode, Rajat sits down with Naveen Vasudevan whose interests include Facilitation, Storytelling, Evolutionary Leadership, Integral Psychology and Process Work. Naveen has a great gift of bringing people into connection with themselves, each other and the earth. He is also the Co-founder of Ritambhara and @pūrṇam Café. "

How can deep listening guide us into paradigm of love and healing? In this episode Rajat speaks with Madhur Anand, naturalist, self design learner, story teller and community organizer. They reflect and talk on what do we need to let go of in order to open up for New possibilities, and his experiments in education and life and how it led to starting " Sehatvan" a community space for health, ecology and arts.

This Episode 0 of Alivelihood Podcast reflects the 'Duvidha' or the dilemma of many youth who are looking for purpose and meaning in their work. Who want to work for causes they believe in and at places where they are an integral part of developing a work culture, which addresses global environmental challenges, and allows for a more fulfilling life on a personal level.