Presence allows us to hold the questions that quietly shift systems.

I’m still in São Paulo. Each time I come to Brazil, it feels like a portal — a place that opens me to the next phase of my own becoming.

This week I had the honour of meeting A-yá Kukamíria, a pajé (shaman) of the Kokama people in the Brazilian Amazon. She is internationally recognised for the Saberes Ancestrais project, which brings together pajés from…