The ART of
REGENERATIVE LIVING
A descending arc through golden shadow,
alchemical death, and fertile darkness.
Autumn Equinox — Winter Solstice
September 22 — December 22
C R E A T I V I T Y C U L T I V A T O R
The Art of Regenerative Living
is a three-month creativity cultivator with peers who share a desire to embody and enact the regenerative paradigm shift.
This is a call to co-create, for those who sense the essential role that art must play for the regenerative paradigm shift to be rooted in culture, and to grow with integrity.
Three Phases
THREE PHASES OVER THREE MONTHS
TWELVE WEEKS OF NOURISHMENT FOR YOUR LIFE’S EMERGENT CREATIONS
OCTOBER
The Gold in Our Shadows
We reconnect with
what we exiled.
Every one of us abandoned aspects of ourselves when we were young: traits, instincts, interests, ways of being that we learned risked us losing love, belonging, or dignity.
This month, we welcome all of those aspects back home to your inherent wholeness through building relationship with the gold in our shadows.
The beauty is this: there are golden qualities in what we rejected, and gold, too, in what we shaped ourselves into in their absence.
This month builds toward Halloween as a collective threshold of ritual magic, through which we can play with our shadows and explore personas and qualities that we otherwise might not feel courageous enough to try on.
NOVEMBER
The Alchemy of Death
Death and life, turned like compost, regenerating the world.
Regeneration has always required death, and this month we get low to the ground to touch this truth with our whole bodies.
Compost is truly the greatest teacher of regenerative principles. Compost takes what is considered dead, waste, refuse, and transforms it, with the right conditions, into the fertile soil for future seeds to thrive within.
We will hold space for grief as an expression of the love we hold for our beloved dead. We will examine our own fears and feelings about death. We will alchemize death within ourselves, and we will create from that alchemy.
This world needs hospicing as well as midwifing through this transition. These two roles both require a courageous presence with mortality in order to usher in the world to come.
DECEMBER
The Fertile Darkness
The place from which
all life arises.
The framing of darkness as badness has shaped our world in more ways than we can fathom.
This has always been a lie, and the whole world has suffered for it. The ramifications of racism, sexism, and even the chronic under-funding of mycology and soil science all have the same root: fear of the dark fertile places that give rise to life.
This month turns that fear over: toward the fertility of the womb, the fertility of soil, the fertility available in not-knowing. The wisdom and healing available in this process is immense.
Together, we will cultivate the life-affirming futures available to us on the other side of that fear.
We move toward the solstice and close in ceremony, a small flame lit inside the year's longest dark, the seed of what comes next.
A Culture of Co-Creation
Within the Emunah Academy we are living a continuous inquiry around the conditions that give rise to a genuine experience of community.
In our 2026 summer cohort of Sex, G⟡d, & Money, we have organically begun to experience the beauty and communion of taking in and creating art together; listening to music, sculpting and painting while in our wisdom circles, etc.
It is clear that it’s time to take this to the next level.
This cohort of The Art of Regenerative Living will include an experiment in peer-sourced programming, wherein you, as a member, will be able to suggest the kind of connection space you want to experience with your peers. Perhaps it’s a film screening, or a listening call, or a poetry reading.
Perhaps it’s something else entirely.
We will also be beginning to experiment with sociocracy / dynamic governance during this season within the Emunah Academy. If you join us this season and are interested in being a part of this emerging phase of collaborative stewardship, please do reach out and let us know!
Art Practice
Translating our inner transformations into cultural artifacts.
Insight held only in the mind stays abstract.
This is where the internal work — the golden shadow met in October, the alchemy of death explored November, the fertile darkness of December — finds expression and begins to transform culture, even in the tiniest of ways.
We will have a two hour Art Practice Studio block each week, where you can work on writing, painting, sculpting, gardening, cooking, organizing, any form of art, in the broadest sense of the word, to express what is within you into something others can interact with.
No prior art practice is required, and no particular skill is being asked of you; what's being asked is willingness to let what's moving in you become visible, in whatever shape it takes.
Each week, this happens alongside others. No judgement, no critique, just practice and shared space for creation.
We partner with Vision Train, a global community of visionary artists, for a weekly two hour art studio: come from wherever you are, and work and play with your art for a while.
This is where the psycho-spiritual work becomes cultural work, literally, in paint or ink or clay or food or conversation.
There are many forms of art we can cultivate in our lives, and this will give space for your unique expression to emerge.
What You’ll Need:
A willingness to meet both the wonder and the grief of the world as it is.
Sense of agency in your ability to realize the unique and limitless potential that lives within you and within the systems you are nested within.
Willingness to do inner work in service of what you want to see flourish in the world around you.
A real art practice you're willing to cultivate through this. It can be painting, writing, homemaking, gardening, sculpting, community building, dialogue, whatever art form excites you.
Openness to connecting with others — or, just as good, clarity about your own need for solitude.
An environment reasonably suited to whatever practice you choose. You don’t need a whole dedicated studio, just enough space to drop into your own creative life force.
Any art supplies or instruments relevant to the art practice you will be cultivating in these three months.
What You Won’t Need:
An active regenerative land project, art project, or business. Though this cultivator will likely reveal to you the next steps, exactly where you are.
Crystal clarity on the form of artistic expression you want to experiment within this course.
Extensive artistic or regenerative experience. Any amount you already carry is welcome; none is required.
A dedicated studio, technical skill, or advanced standing in anything at all. This cultivator meets you where you are, and takes you deeper in to your own creative depths.
LOGISTICS
September 22, the Autumn Equinox through
December 22, the day after the Winter Solstice.
The rhythm, each week:
Sundays: Wisdom Drops released including meditations, lessons, practices.
You can take this material in at your own pace. It is all designed to surface your own wisdom. We recommend carving out a weekly block of time for dropping in to the content, but you do not need to have completed anything to attend the community calls.
Tuesdays, 2:00-3:30pm ET: Communitas Collective Wisdom Call.
These calls are designed and facilitated for building the field of collective wisdom. They are recorded and shared in the course material for those unable to make it live.
Thursdays, 3:00–5:00pm ET — Art Studio Time on The Vision Train.
These Studio Hours are an opportunity to share time and space with your peers and a community of visionary artists around the world. They are lightly facilitated, DJ’d by peers (could be you!), and can have breakout rooms for the Art of Dialogue (or simply a desire for connection or shared reflection). The Vision Train is running 24/7, so you can always jump in and make art with peers.
Co-Creative Potential, any time
In case you missed it, go back up and read the “A Culture of Co-Creation” section, and sense into what kinds of connection and gathering you’d like to see, experience, and perhaps host within this kind of container. We are continuously evolving through community, and your ideas are warmly welcome!
Emunah Academy Membership for one year
As a member of this cohort, you will receive one year of Emunah Academy membership, which includes access to our Living Wisdom Salon series, which includes our Sacred Sex Salons, Sacred Money Salons, Mom Energy Salons, Dad Energy Salons, Nonlinear Book Club, and more as the community grows and evolves.
PRICING
Pay What You Can available through September 4
We know financial realities vary widely, and we don’t want money to be a barrier to futures made possible through this work.
We are always experimenting with pricing models that reflect our values and meet the realities of our student’s lives.
So through the end of August*, you can join for whatever amount works for you, from $300, in full or in a 3-month plan.
*Due to a bug in the system, the pay-what-you-can-on-a-plan option was faulty, so we’ve extended this through the end of the week.
Standard:
$1200
This is the full value of the course, and for those able to choose this, thank you. Your choice is a significant factor in enabling us to offer lower rates to others.
You will have the option of paying in full, or a range of zero-interest payment plans.
Pay What You Can at Once
Available now through August 31st.
Choose any amount, $300 or more.
If $300 is truly out of reach for you, but you are deeply motivated to participate, please reach out.
Pay What You Can on a Plan
This option enables you to choose a 3-month payment plan from $300, $400, $500, $600, $700, or $800 total.
If we don’t know one another yet, I’d like to introduce myself.
Hi, I’m Rev. Ganga Devi Braun.
(You’re welcome to just call me Ganga, pronounced gung-uh)
My visions of Regenerative Futures are about all human systems working with and on behalf of all life. This may seem impossible to some, but everything that exists today seemed impossible before it came to be. I know we can do this, and I believe that if you’re reading this, you have an important role to play in this transition.
This is the focus of my life and work, and why I created this course. I am a Regenerative Practitioner, a graduate of the Regenesis Institute, a RegenIntel fellow, and an alumna and now teacher and mentor within the Design Science Studio.
My education in these spaces gave me valuable frameworks and tools, but they didn't give me everything. What I've built within Emunah lives in the space between what I’ve learned and what my body and my garden already knew before the regenerative meme took ahold of any of us.
For more than a decade, I have traveled around the world speaking and facilitating in service of regenerative cultural change. I have been a teacher, mentor, guide, and friend to some of the most incredible people leading regenerative change work in our world.
But I began experimenting with regenerative living and regenerative practice long before I knew that the regenerative movement was even happening outside my own life. I believe we all can find the art and practice of our own regenerative life no matter our career or background.
This course is an invitation into inner work, into a community of practice, and into the collective wisdom and power that we can cultivate through our art.
& if this invitation resonates with you,
I really look forward to getting to know you.
FAQs
Do I need to attend live?
Live calls create a tremendous sense of value, pro-social connection, and nurture personal and collective wisdom and power throughout our time together. That said, all calls are recorded and shared within the course space, and we have heard from many of our students that they receive tremendous value from watching the replays if they were unable to attend live. There is no penalty or shame in not attending live calls, it’s just a matter of your own discernment around what forms of value you desire to give and receive from the space.
What if I fall behind?
There's no requirement to complete anything before a live call, and all material stays accessible for you for one year to move through and revisit at your own pace.
I don't think of myself as an artist — is this still for me?
Yes. No prior art practice or skill is required. The invitation is to let what's moving in you become visible, in whatever form that takes. Writing, gardening, cooking, conversation all count,
What's your refund policy?
As a mom-and-pop microbusiness, who strive to make sure you make an informed choice when signing up for our programs, and who take on a lot of risk in lowering the floor of our pricing range, we do not offer refunds.
However, if you're on a payment plan and find partway through that it's no longer the right fit — financially or otherwise — reach out to us any time and we'll cancel the remaining payments, no questions asked.
Yes, for one year. When we open enrollment for the next cohort, anyone who doesn't choose to rejoin will be moved out of the course space, but your access to the materials themselves continues through the full year.
Do I keep access to the material after the course ends?
Yes, with one caveat: we ask that you be open to expanding your frame of what regeneration is and looks like across living systems.
This course is best suited to people who feel real resonance with the regenerative movement — but it's not a fit for anyone with a rigid or dogmatic view of what regeneration has to look like. We work from the premise that regeneration, as a principle of all living systems, expresses itself in infinitely diverse ways, and we will actively be engaging that range together.
Is this a good fit if I already consider myself a regenerative practitioner?
Is this like group therapy?
No. Psychological and psychoeducational concepts are woven throughout, because this course is built to support real psycho-spiritual development, but it isn't a therapy group, and it isn't a replacement for one.
It can be a strong complement to therapy for many people, but if you're currently working with a therapist, we'd encourage you to keep that support in place alongside this.
Who took the beautiful photos on this page?
Aren’t they beautiful?
All of the nature photos are from Klara Foldys of Studio Mossmind
The portraits of Ganga Devi are from Thais Aquino
And the photos of art, onions, and the woman in the river were collected from Pexels a few years ago.