26 min
Interview · Beatriz Pichi Malen
In Search of Mapuche Wisdom
A Spanish-language interview for Revista Sophia on Mapuche wisdom and what singing in Mapudungun asks of her.
Overview
What does The Path of Interconnectedness point to?
Where many paths turn inward toward the self, the Path of Interconnectedness turns toward relationship: the understanding that a human being does not exist as a separate individual but arises in and through connection with other people, other living things, and the earth itself. Its teachers come from very different starting points. Some come from biology and medicine, some from philosophy and economics, some from Indigenous lineages that never forgot this way of seeing. What they share is a single recognition: that the story of separation, of the isolated self in a world of objects, is both mistaken and costly, and that renewal comes not from fixing the world as something outside us, but from restoring our felt belonging to the living whole.
Nothing here is only itself.A central teaching within The Path of Interconnectedness
Teachers
Voices within this path.
Compare background, approach and format before choosing a teacher to follow.
Sacred Economics
Charles Eisenstein
American author and public speaker known for books such as Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, exploring how modern civilization's crises stem from a story of separation from nature and each other.
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Collective trauma
Thomas Hübl
Austrian teacher working on collective and intergenerational trauma, combining contemplative practice with research collaborations in trauma science.
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Postactivism
Bayo Akomolafe
Nigerian-born writer, psychologist and postactivist thinker known for his work on slowness, fugitivity and the more-than-human world.
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Reverence for nature
Satish Kumar
Indian-British peace and ecology activist and former Jain monk, known for his 8,000-mile peace walk to the capitals of the nuclear powers and for founding Schumacher College.
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Indigenous ecological wisdom
Tiókasin Ghosthorse
Citizen of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation and founder of Akantu Intelligence, who hosted First Voices Radio from 1992 until its final broadcast in 2025 and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016.
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Reciprocity with the living world
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Potawatomi botanist and writer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, who reads scientific and Indigenous knowledge together as a practice of reciprocity with the living world.
View profile →Artists
Musicians and singers.
Devotional music and chant from within this path, alongside its teachers.
World Soul, Looped Live
Poranguí
Brazilian-born multi-instrumentalist based in Arizona who builds each performance alone and in real time with looping, layering world percussion, voice, didgeridoo and pre-Columbian flutes into music he offers as ceremony.
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Songwriting and Voice Work
Nessi Gomes
British-Portuguese songwriter from Guernsey whose songs walk into difficulty rather than above it, and who leads Vocal Odyssey, a retreat process in which the voice becomes a way of knowing yourself.
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Ambient Music for Inner Work
East Forest
The project of Krishna-Trevor Oswalt, moving between ambient, neoclassical and electronic music, best known for Music for Mushrooms, a five-hour album written to accompany a full psilocybin session.
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Voice & Singing Circles
Uria Tsur
Singer-songwriter and voice facilitator who created the international Vocal Freedom workshops and the Voice Medicine retreats, founded the School for Singing Circle Leaders and produces the Sacred Journey festival. He sings with Orotband, and his work with the voice is aimed at opening the heart and remembering the wider community we belong to.
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Song in the Tikuna Language
Djuena Tikuna
Brazilian singer of the Tikuna, who call themselves Magüta, born in 1984 in the village of Umariaçu II near Tabatinga in Amazonas. She sings only in Tikuna, the language of her people, who live on the upper Solimões where Brazil, Peru and Colombia meet. In 2017 she was the first Indigenous person to stage a musical performance at the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, in the theatre's 121st year, and released the album Tchautchiüãne there.
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Mapuche Song in Mapudungun
Beatriz Pichi Malen
Argentine singer of Mapuche descent, born on 22 April 1953 in Los Toldos in the province of Buenos Aires, and descended on her mother's side from the cacique Ignacio Coliqueo. She sings in Mapudungun, and her work is the searching out, the recovery and the passing on of Mapuche culture. Her career began around 1990, when the Rockefeller Foundation invited her to the fourth International Women's Congress in Manhattan.
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Folk Woven with Electronics
Ayla Nereo
Californian singer and songwriter whose folk writing is layered with electronic production, singing about the living world and our place in it.
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Roots Songs, Eastern Threads
Trevor Hall
American singer-songwriter whose roots and folk writing carries the Eastern spiritual traditions he encountered as a teenager, threaded through with electronic textures.
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Music Is Medicine
Nahko and Medicine for the People
American singer-songwriter and his band, whose songs work through trauma and healing under a phrase he uses himself: music is medicine.
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Southern Folk, Gathered Wide
Rising Appalachia
Band led by the sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith, joining Southern folk and New Orleans music with songs collected on their travels.
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Meditative Instrumental Soundscapes
AWARË
Portuguese instrumental duo whose meditative soundscapes are built to be entered rather than watched, moving from stillness into shared celebration.
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Yidaki · Kalkadunga Composer
William Barton
Australian multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer, born in Mount Isa in Queensland around 1981, and a Kalkadunga man. He learned the yidaki at eleven from Uncle Arthur Peterson, an elder who spoke several languages, and inherited the instrument when he died. He plays it with orchestras: he was the first artist in residence of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and has played with the Berlin Philharmonic and the London Philharmonic.
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Cascadian Folktronic
Yaima
Seattle duo of Masaru Higasa and Pepper Proud, who call their music Cascadian folktronic: acoustic songwriting built into electronic arrangements.
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Global Bass from the Field
Deya Dova
Australian vocalist and producer working in global bass and world music, whose recent albums were recorded on location across dozens of sites around the world.
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One Man, Many Instruments
Xavier Rudd
Australian multi-instrumentalist known for playing as a one-man band on stage, in a roots and folk idiom that carries a steady environmental thread.
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Songs Sung Together
Max Ribner
American singer-songwriter writing for ensemble and choir, in songs his own site describes as born from loss and from the strength found in leaning into community.
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Mongolian Steppe Music · Khöömei
Anda Union
Ensemble of musicians from several Mongolian peoples of Inner Mongolia, who play the nomadic music of the steppe: khöömei throat singing, the morin khuur or horsehead fiddle, and urtyn duu, the long song. Their songs are about the land, the horses and the life of the herders.
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Quechua and Aymara Song
Luzmila Carpio
Bolivian singer and composer, born in 1949 in Qala Qala in the Potosí department, who sings in Quechua and Aymara. Her songs come out of the old music of the Altiplano and of the Andean way of seeing the world, with Pachamama, the mountains, the birds and the sun at its centre. As a child she was not allowed to sing in her own language, and carrying Quechua and its tradition has been her life's work since.
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Song · Women's Singing Circles
Olivia Fern
Singer, songwriter and musician living in the Lake District in England. Alongside her own songs she holds singing circles for women, where the group sings simple songs she has collected over the years or written for the purpose, opening with a short guided meditation and an optional sharing circle.
View profile →Upcoming events
Upcoming events in The Path of Interconnectedness.
Retreats, dialogues and online gatherings connected to this path.
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Global Download Meditation with Thomas Hübl
Online · Twice-monthly global meditation
See event pageTwice-monthly global meditation
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Vocal Freedom Online
Online · Monthly online workshop
€5Monthly online workshop
14OCT
Nahko and Medicine for the People in St. George
St. George, Utah, United States · Concert
See event pageConcert
15OCT
Nahko and Medicine for the People in Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona, United States · Concert
See event pageConcert
Talks & videos
Selected talks.
Talks and conversations from teachers within this path.
25 min
Interview · Beatriz Pichi Malen
In Conversation with Jordi Batalle on RFI
A twenty-five minute radio interview in Spanish in which she talks with Jordi Batalle about her Mapuche roots and the songs she has recovered.
95 min
Music · Beatriz Pichi Malen
The Dark Side of the Sur: Complete Acoustic Session
The complete acoustic session recorded for The Dark Side of the Sur, an hour and a half of Mapuche singing with the conversation between pieces left in.
59 min
Music · Beatriz Pichi Malen
Original Musics: Beatriz Pichi Malen at the National Library
An hour-long appearance in the National Library of Argentina's Musicas Originarias series, where she sings and speaks about the Mapuche songs she carries.
Listen
Recordings from The Path of Interconnectedness.
Voices from this path and the schools within it, playing from the platforms the teachers publish on.
Robin Wall KimmererThe Path of Interconnectedness
↗ emergencemagazine.org
Becoming Earth
Kimmerer narrates her own essay about the decomposing cedars of the Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon and what their slow return to soil suggests about death and afterlife.
From the podcast Emergence Magazine Podcast
Robin Wall KimmererThe Path of Interconnectedness
↗ emergencemagazine.org
Practical Reverence
A conversation with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee about her book The Serviceberry, the Honorable Harvest, and how gift economies differ from economies built on extraction.
From the podcast Emergence Magazine Podcast
Fritjof CapraThe Path of Interconnectedness
↗ earthcharter.org
Fritjof Capra: Systems Thinking, Science and Ethics driving a paradigm shift
Capra discusses ideas from his books and the shift from a mechanistic to a systemic, ecological worldview.
From the podcast Earth Charter Podcast: Turning Conscience Into Action
Vandana ShivaThe Path of Interconnectedness
↗ earthcharter.org
Earth Democracy and Ecological Civilization with Vandana Shiva
An Earth Charter International podcast conversation with Shiva about earth democracy and what an ecological civilisation would require.
From the podcast Earth Charter Podcast
Discernment
Clarity should include the human context.
This path draws on ecology, indigenous teaching and contemplative traditions at once; ask where a particular teaching actually comes from, and whether its source is credited.
Ask about contextIs a statement philosophical, meditative, relational or practical?
Notice powerHow are authority, money, intimacy and complaints handled?
Include embodimentDoes the teaching make room for emotion, the body and nervous-system limits?
Keep agencyA useful teacher supports clear choice rather than demanding surrender of judgement.