I popped into creation in the Thames-side town of Reading, Berkshire, UK, to Iranian parents who were building an unexpected life in exile, under the chilling shadow of extremist fundamentalism and profound social revolution. Growing up between cultures and languages, between the Iran of memory and the England that shaped me, visiting relatives in the diaspora across three continents, I learned early that the sky belongs to everyone.

The cosmological knowledge I carry is lives through the revolutionary Sufi lineage written into my blood and bones, and has been cultivated in my own lifetime by decades of disciplined study across Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, earth-based Judaism, European and Native American animist practice, and through an astrological inheritance that can be traced from ancient Babylon, through the Islamic Golden Age, into living practice today. My greatest teacher remains the miraculous wilderness of the living sky.

Formally, I trained in theatre, performance, Persian language and literature and law, with studies across Bristol, Tehran, Leeds and London. I am a Research Fellow of the Schumacher Institute, a Fellow of the St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, and a graduate of the Spiritual Directors International New Contemplatives programme. Ancestral lineage healing, grief tending, counselling skills, dreamwork, Quranic Arabic, and years of astrological study have deepened and extended this foundation.

As an artist and performer, my practice moves across disciplines, continents, and the threshold between the sacred and the secular. My artistic work has been supported by the British Council, Arts Council England, the United Nations, Watershed, MAYK, and the University of Bristol and University of Exeter.

I’ve performed, stage managed, and hosted across festival stages throughout the UK and Europe, including Glastonbury Festival, Fusion Festival, Shambala Festival, Medicine Festival, Burning Man, Nowhere Festival, Borderland Festival, and Latitude Festival, alongside playing key organising roles within major environmental movements.

My work has been written about by The Guardian, BBC, ITV, The New York Times, Haaretz and OpenDemocracy among others. I publish the Interstellar Animism Diaries, a weekly newsletter on astrology, culture and the living sky, to an engaged readership of over 1,300 subscribers.

I have made work in public space and private rooms, built communities where none existed, and held people at the threshold of experiences for which their lives had not yet prepared them.

Privately, I work as an astrologer and spiritual director, accompanying individuals through complex and consequential thresholds.

Everything I have made, studied, and lived is now gathering as Interstellar Animism.