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The Seed Keeper
On a recent study trip to India I met many inspiring people, but Dr Rao of Hariyalee Seeds made a particularly deep impression. His journey from breeding hybrid wheat for the Green Revolution, to preserving heirloom plant varieties and promoting traditional natural farming methods is part of a bigger story of change in rural India.
The article was an outcome of a Food Justice Study Tour offered by the University of Sydney to Masters of Social Justice students - many thanks to those who made it possible.
Sheep Farmers are helping save Tasmania’s native grasslands: ‘We’re better off working together’
When I first heard about the Midlands Conservation Partnership I wanted to tell the world, because it’s a great story of collaboration.
This is my first article in The Guardian.
Right to Roam Movement, England: a human rights case study
I wrote this essay for a Masters Degree course in Human Rights, Peace & Justice, in November 2024. It explores the idea that public access to nature should be a universal human right, for the health of both people and the environment. It was inspired by the book Wild Service, which you can read my reviews of here.
Heroes of Peace
Produced by Ryan Walsh and Helen Cushing in 2015.
An award winning documentary about four war veterans who transformed trauma into hope and healing through yoga and meditation.
Hope: How Yoga Heals the Scars of Trauma
Published by Ganges Yoga, 2016. Foreword by Petrea King.
Hope is based on experience I gained from a decade of teaching yoga to Australian war veterans, and refugees from several countries. I also visited colleagues in Colombia who are providing yoga to demobilised guerilla and paramilitary fighters, war victims and others affected by war, with exceptional results.
Peacebuilding Ecology and Personal Transformation in Colombia
This Masters dissertation examines bottom-up peacebuilding in Colombia from the perspective that ecological principles apply to human society.
University of Sydney, 2023
Peace Profile: Dunna
I wrote this after completeing a Graduate Certificate in Peace and Conflict Studies. It’s a profile of an organisation in Colombia called Dunna, run by my brilliant peacebuilding/yoga colleagues.
In Colombia, a land that knows too well the price of war, a bold compassionate peace building goal is becoming a reality…
From War to Peace
Published in Australian Yoga Life, 2009.
The Tasmanian’s War Veterans’ yoga group met weekly from 1992 - 2023. In this article I tell the story of how yoga transformed lives that were shattered by war.