An ongoing series of editorial and independent illustrations spotlighting individuals, writers, creators, and professionals who identify as women or gender non-binary. This is part of Noonbug's mission to understand, frame and contextualise women's perspectives on various topics - not just gender or 'women's issues' - ranging from mental health, spirituality, indigenous wisdom, and cultural experience, to sexism, financial independence and generational trauma.
Elizabeth Denley: Wild Intelligence
Elizabeth is the founding editor of Heartfulness Magazine. She is Australian, loves meditating, writing, playing and singing music, gardening, thinking, spending time with her two grown up children, and life in general. She has been a student of both science and spirituality all her life. Trained as a research scientist, with a PhD in ecology, she turned her inquiry and research skills to the field of meditation and spirituality after starting the Heartfulness practices in the late 80s.
Elizabeth is currently living in the Central Highlands of Victoria in Australia, surrounded by natural forest. Why is this experience of living so close to Nature worth sharing? It has reawakened a more natural wild intelligence in her, the wild intelligence she remembers from childhood, which offers solutions to the current crises humanity faces.
Mirabai Bush: Women & Spirituality
MIRABAI BUSH is the author of Working With Mindfulness, co-creator of Google’s “Search Inside Yourself” program, co-founder of the Center for Contemplative Mind and Society and a founding board member of the Seva Foundation. She teaches contemplative practices, and has facilitated retreats, workshops and courses on spirit and action for over 20 years. To commemorate International Women’s Day, Mirabai spoke with PURNIMA RAMAKRISHNAN from Heartfulness Magazine in 2021.
Illustrations for an interview with Annika Sharma The Woke Desi, (now That Desi Spark). In this interview she talks about following your heart, life influencing art, pokes and stretches caused by the coronavirus pandemic, and the things we can be doing to fill our cups. Here she is interviewed by MAMATA VENKAT for Heartfulness Magazine.
Annika Sharma is the co-host of the podcast, The Woke Desi, now called 'That Desi Spark', and author of the The Rearranged Life and the upcoming book, Love, Chai, and Other Four-Letter Words. With a background in biobehavioral health, neuro-psychology, and early childhood special education, she is passionate about breaking boundaries and having dialogues on both fun and taboo topics to encourage others to grow and evolve.
