Embodied Ecology

Timoteo Granzotti is an ethnoecologist with over 20 years of experience in native botany, whole-systems design, agroforestry, and TEK (Traditional Ecological Knowledge). He is a Senior Designer and Instructor at the renowned Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, and is the co-founder of People of the Forest, an international impact organization supporting Indigenous food sovereignty and reforestation in the Amazon. His work helps weave communities with place, purpose, and the living systems that hold us.

Nathalie Kelley is a Quechua-descended actress and storyteller working at the intersection of entertainment and education. Through film, television, and advocacy, she weaves ancient wisdom and living Indigenous technologies into modern narratives—using story as a tool for ecological remembrance, justice, and reconnection with the living world.

Nina Karnikowski is a writer exploring how travel can help solve social and environmental problems. With over 13 years’ experience reporting from some of the world’s most ecologically and culturally rich regions, her work weaves together storytelling, systems thinking and a deep respect for place. She is the author of The Mindful Traveller, Go Lightly and Make a Living Living, and contributes regularly to The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review, Condé Nast Traveller and more. Nina also mentors purpose-driven creatives and leads writing retreats designed to cultivate clarity and connection.

Raised on a farm, Peter Windrim spent 15 years as an art director, before returning to the land to focus on organic farming and viticulture. As the custodian of his family’s biodynamic farm and vineyard, Krinklewood, he integrated creativity with ecological practice. His experience spans organics, biodynamics, quantum agriculture, and regenerative farming systems. He now owns and runs Natural Order Wine (NOW), where these principles are put into daily practice.

Brooke Brash is the Co-Founder and Director of Imaginal, an online learning platform that focuses on the balance between nature and human healing. With 10 years in digital creative development, she assists groups and organisations with digital curation and online community spaces. She facilitates retreats, immersions, and gatherings rooted in presence, creativity and shared experience. Her work is centered with intention, in creating space to slow down, to listen and return to right relationship with the living world. Guided by Tea as a plant ally, she holds awareness and inner reflection through ceremony as an embodied practice.