Our Team
Vishwam Gurudas
Founder
Br. Vishwam Gurudas is a scholar, healer and gentle revolutionary based in the Shetland Islands. He is also a Heart Minister & Yoga Teacher Trainer with Heart Of Living Yoga; Vishwam began practicing yoga at the end of the last century and, like so many others, has found this ancient science life-changing. He also serves as a massage therapist, reiki healer, and wellbeing coach. All of his life he has questioned why society works the way it does and is learning how to encourage and support cooperative communities. Vishwam has a degree in psychology and gender studies from Grinnell College (USA) and a PhD in sociology from the University of Edinburgh. His first book, Listening with Love: Essays on the Heart of the Matter, is published by Flowing with Life Press. He has contributed to numerous other publications including Permaculture Magazine, Earth Pathways, Bella Caledonia, Reforesting Scotland, and whole heap of scholarly work from his previous career.
Professional memberships include the Yoga Teachers Together, Scottish PEN, Lapidus International & the Permaculture Association.
Nati
Administrator, Heart Meditation & Heart Of Writing Facilitator
Nati is a Heart Of Living Yoga Teacher with a focus on extra gentle, seated yoga. They have been teaching yoga for 2 years and practising druidic shamanism for the past 7 years. Nati is also a writer of poetry, creative fiction and memoir. Her self-published book has touched many hearts and is used in spiritual gatherings in Alabama. They have a heartfelt commitment to social justice and have been involved in Women in Black, Trident Ploughshares, and other peace movements. Nati lives in Cambridge where they support others living with disabilities and small bookkeeping projects. She is also the bookings coordinator for Flowing with Life.
Tejas Eleni
Heart Meditation & Creative Writing Facilitator
Tejas is a Writer/Illustrator, Artist, Actress, Singer, and Heart Meditation Facilitator. She has over 20yrs experience in teaching the disciplines of dance and Performing Arts and has directed and choreographed professionally. Tejas is writing and illustrating a number of written works, including a collection of poetry, and is researching visual art and creative writing projects to help people with Chronic Pain. She holds a BA Honours in Theatre, a Certificate of Education and is currently studying an MA in Illustration with Falmouth University. Tejas assists in Wave of the Heart where she loves to listen to all the beautiful writings shared there.
Amanda Collis
Artist
Amanda Collis is a painter living in Derbyshire on the edge of the Peak District. She writes, “My work tends to be intuitive, improvised, often textural and tonally variegated, perhaps reflecting the wonderful limestone and woodland environment I grew up in and currently inhabit. … I am fascinated by borderlands, for example between abstraction and figuration.”
Her paintings are held in private collections in the United States, Canada, Australia, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. You can also find one of her beautiful works on our ‘Writing from the Heart’ Journal available in our shop here.