Heiko Dijker is an Amsterdam based tabla player, composer and producer, his playing is marked by enthusiasm, depth of knowledge and rhythmic poetry. Heiko left Holland at a young age to find true soulfulness in music and life. Hitch-hiking around the world, he was drawn into classical Indian music. After years of traditional training with Shri Bhaswaraj Bhendigeri in India, living in a small clay hut and practicing in the Himalaya, he continued to learn with grandmaster Faiyaz Khan in the Guru-Shisya (master-disciple) system. For over 10 years, he was totally absorbed in Sadhana, practicing and listening classical Indian acoustic music.
Heiko has joined his traditional skills with composing and music production, creating several albums. Holding a masters-degree in classical tabla of the Rotterdam conservatory, Heiko has been working and collaborating with notorious musician and dancers such as Shankar Mahadevan, Pandit Birju Maharaj, Ustad Fariduddin Dagar, Bahauddin Dagar, Meeta Pandit, Saskia Laroo, Ustad Sabir Khan, Kailash Ensemble and many more.Alongside his worldwide performances, Heiko has been an accompanist of great masters like Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia and Pandit Buddhadhitya Mukherjee at the Rotterdam Conservatory and is a teacher at the SKVR music school in Rotterdam as well as lecturer around the globe.
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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.
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routledge.com/Nature-Culture-and-Gender-Re-reading-the-folktale
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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.
instagram.com/invisible_threadsof_kindness
If you'd like to learn more about my offerings that could support you on the creative path please visit : https://www.bodhishola.art/offerings
With 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.
postcapitalistphilanthropy.org
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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.
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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.
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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.
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With 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
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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
Tei Taiyari is a heart-led student of simplicity, guided by movement and nurtured by Nature. As a wanderer, wonderer, and edge-walker, he is passionate about supporting those on the fringes — souls exploring beyond conventional boundaries in search of deeper, wilder truths. As a counsellor, death doula, podcast host, wayfarer, and writer, he companions others through life’s important thresholds, supporting them in reclaiming the wisdom of their wild hearts as they navigate transformative moments with deeper meaning, greater resilience, creativity, and grace.
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Ivy is a traditional European medicine practitioner who specialises in clinical herbalism and ancestral lineage repair. She weaves spirit back into healthcare and wants to make traditional healthcare accessible to everybody. She offers donation-based 1:1 consultations, as well as group education in herbalism. Our Wild Wisdom is a part of a larger movement towards rekindling the simplicity, sanity and vitality of natural healthcare and ways of life.
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Andrea Barneveld is the founder of Stellar Folk, offering grounded, sacred spaces for deep healing and reconnection, facilitator of Earth medicine ceremonies, retreats and somatic guidance in relationship with psilocybin mushrooms. Andrea's trauma informed approach is rooted in a deep reverence for Nature, non-duality and a belief in our innate capacity to return to love and belonging. Stellar Folk's intention is to ease our collective suffering, to celebrate what binds us rather than what divides us, and to deepen our awareness and stewardship of the wonder and beauty that surrounds - moving beyond the constructs of a western culture shaped by extraction and separation.
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" It is our purpose to evolve together. Beyond the barriers of thought there is a language that connects all existence, an organic language of understanding. Becoming medicine for one another, for times of tumultuous change. "
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This episode is dedicated to the wisdom of nature, supporting the expansion of vision from an individualistic to a holistic perspective of being.
" We are expanding through points of connection, taking into account the multitude of perspectives that enhance the richness of life being and thriving within the sacred entity of Nature. "
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As I am spending time in Egypt i am diving into the topic of ritual, a unique thread that opens space to be, connect, share and consider life as impermeable through its mutable nature.
The music for this episode has been kindly created by Valentin Prevost.
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"It's about the complexity of everything that surrounds me. It's about all those threads of kindness that support me, uplift me, allow me to be really enjoying it, to be really letting myself be carried by them, by those threads that make up the wholeness of my journey".
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