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Equinox Meditation: Finding the balance point in ourselves and the world

Equinox Meditation: Finding the balance point in ourselves and the world

Manda’s Equinox meditation focuses on finding our sense of balance as the tilt of the world balances between summer and winter, light and dark, day and night. And from that, finding a stable place with the three pillars of our heart minds: joyful curiosity, gratitude and compassion.

Summer Solstice Sunrise Meditation

Summer Solstice Sunrise Meditation

It’s the summer solstice, the longest day and the shortest night. What matters now in our world is that we reconnect with the rhythms of the living web. This meditation is designed to help you connect to the rising sun on this day of longest light.

Manda – Summer Solstice Roundup, Reading and Listening

Manda – Summer Solstice Roundup, Reading and Listening

At the halfway point of the year, Manda looks back on what’s been on the podcast, forward at (some of) what’s to come, thoughts on where we’re at as a world, and explores the books and podcasts that have stood out in the past six months.

Three Years On

Three Years On

Three years – and 160 episodes – into the podcast, Manda takes stock of where we’ve been, why we set up and, crucially, where we’re going, both in the ‘cast and in the membership programme.

Traditional Solstice Celebration: Looking back and looking forward

Traditional Solstice Celebration: Looking back and looking forward

As our world and our lives transform, we need some stable anchors. So, as we do each year, we got together with two other star podcast hosts: Nathalie Nahai of The Hive and Della Duncan of Upstream, to reflect on the year just gone and look forward to the year ahead.

Sacred Earth Activism

Sacred Earth Activism

Manda talks to Sacred Earth Activism about how her Boudica novels can be an inspiration for present-day earth activists.

Bonus Episode: Manda’s Basic Tips for Writers

Bonus Episode: Manda’s Basic Tips for Writers

Thrutopia is open to everyone who tells stories in whatever form. But if you’re in the early stages of your writing journey and want some support, these are Manda’s Ten Key Pointers to writing well: a basic Writing Apprenticeship in an hour!

We we need Thrutopias

We we need Thrutopias

Imagine a future where our great grandchildren look back and say, ‘Yes, it was hard. Yes, they made mistakes. Yes, they left it way, way too late, but that was because they didn’t know what to do. And my goodness, when they had the visions, they threw themselves into making them happen. And we’re here now, living lives we love, because they took the risk to change the way things worked.’

Thrutopia: changing the world through stories

Thrutopia: changing the world through stories

We live on stories. We thrive on visions of futures we want – or terrify ourselves with those we definitely don’t. But when it comes to our own near-term future, we don’t have the stories that tell us how we got it right. So we need to write them – Urgently! Come and join us on a unique 6 month Masterclass, writing our way to the futures we want and need.