Maria Stamas

Why heartfulness is a critical political practice.

What if we took sound seriously? Harnessed it to express our emotions. Sang to unify our circles. Lamented to release our grief. Deeply listened to receive new insights. Or strategically employed it to shift culture.

This is a story about the air and the importance of staying alert to the ideology that rides through its currents. This is a story about the individual body and our collective body and whether we are listening to it, and what happens when we stop sensing from within it.

Welcome to Pangaea (pronounced: “Pahn-GYeea” or “Pahn-Gaia”), an alchemical space for creative inquiry at the confluence of activism, sound, Earth, and Spirit.  These posts explore what potentialities arise from applying the wisdom lens of the five elements (earth, water, fire, air, and space), together with Time, to the systemic climate

Grief is alchemical yet often lacks channels with which to flow. In my advocacy work I've found it rare to see space created for feeling, processing, or transmuting the deep anger and grief inherent in seeing/feeling/experiencing the scale and scope of intertwined ecological and human violence