I am so excited to share my first conversation with you all! Featured today is Amrita Bhohi, who writes on Substack via the publication The Mustard Seed. I came across her work about 6-months ago. If the work of Spiritual Ecology is work you are drawn to, give her a subscribe! She hosts a book club each month on a different book within the spiritual ecology vein and also regularly posts blogs that are striking in their potency and resonance on the topic. She also just launched her own podcast via Substack which is really well done! The first episode with author Rob Hopkins can be found HERE. Amrita is reverent toward the world. I am thankful for her work, wisdom, and voice. I have included a couple videos of our chat at the bottom of this post, but this will be primarily an audio-based show. You can listen here on Substack or follow on Apple Music or Spotify. Amrita Bhohi’s Bio: Find Amrita’s Substack HERE Visit her website HERE Follow her on Instagram HERE Amrita is a facilitator, educator, and public speaker, based in London. She creates workshops and programmes that explore spiritual ecology, offering experiences to reconnect people, the living earth, and the sacred. She has taught internationally, including in Europe, the United States and Australia. In 2015, she co-founded the Spiritual Ecology Programme at St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace in London. Over the past ten years, her work has touched hundreds of people from diverse backgrounds, including artists, activists, teachers, therapists, farmers, and students from many spiritual and faith traditions. Raised in suburban London, her relationship with the natural world was sparked during a meditation retreat in her early twenties, awakening a sacred relationship with Earth that has defined her spirituality, as well as her activism since. She has studied and trained with spiritual ecology teachers, including Tiokasin Ghosthorse from the Sioux nation of South Dakota, Sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, and Gandhian activist Sat-eesh Kumar. They have deeply influenced her own practice. She regularly teaches and give talks at conferences and events, including the Oxford Real Farming conference, Confer conference for psychotherapists, Quaker lectures, the Bristol Schumacher lectures, Schumacher College and more. She holds an MA in New Economics from Schumacher College, and is a trained facilitator in Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects. She has previously worked with organizations such as Emergence Magazine, Confer, Advaya Initiative, and Schumacher College, among others. I can’t wait for you to hear this lively and rich conversation Amrita and I had. Let’s dive in! Other Notes Portland Frog Crossing - HERE Suzanne Simard Finding the Mother Tree HERE Yuvan Aves HERE Is A River Alive by Robert MacFarlane HERE Tiokasin Ghosthorse HERE Emergence Magazine HERE Martin Shaw Courting the Wild Twin HERE New Economics Foundation HERE I am almost assuredly forgetting other books / themes discussed so please do reach out to me via Substack or Instagram HERE and I will be happy to provide the info! Music made by me and some of my favorite plants... more on that soon! Get full access to Hark the Holobiont | Mike R. Christie at mikechristie.substack.com/subscribe
