About Us
Sowing Post Capitalist Seeds was created by Moriah Helms and Anuradha Kowtha. We crossed paths back in 2018. From our rich and nourishing conversations that brought us together blossomed the tendrils of this vision and the SPCS course. We've partnered to design and deliver this rich curriculum on understanding the roots of capitalism and creating our praxis in living beyond capitalism.
Sowing Post Capitalist Seeds is a part of The Kowtha Constellation.
Sowing Post Capitalist Seeds is a part of The Kowtha Constellation.
Anuradha Kowtha
My work’s thread could be described as undoing the impact of the inherent indoctrination from capitalism and colonialism on who we are and how we do our work in the world. It sits at the intersection of theory, education/indoctrination, and embodiment.
I once heard a beautiful analogy of what’s it like to do our work: we are creating a rich tapestry. However, we’re often looking at a slightly convoluted pattern that’s in reverse, because we’re working on the back. Doing the work sometimes means getting stuck in the details and we only see the completed vision as we step back and take a breather.
My work was shaped by living in two worlds, that of a primarily white community in Arizona and preserving Indian culture through the arts and spiritual practice. As an adventurer and curious individual (raised by computer scientists) I have an insatiable desire to see how things work and finding our inherent interconnectedness to the cosmos, to the planet, and to life.
Since I was a child, teaching has a been a passion. I've spent my life studying how we make meaning and the role of indoctrination and propaganda in education, culture and identity formation. My work, whether as an unschooling parent, a storyteller, an educator, a carer for those with disabilities, an editor, biology researcher, or a consultant, has always been to use decolonial and non-traditional approaches to illuminate, liberate and make accessible the connection from self to world. Ultimately, the oppressive systems that we live within have percholated through every element and in part, healing colonialism is an important part of recovering our true identity and our connections.
I currently live in Greater London, with my partner and daughter where we explore, make art, dance, play, and do our important work in the world. I love the vibrance, textures, and patchwork nature of the city and those who live here. I want to also acknowledge that the Thames valley was once inhabited by the Saxons and other tribes. And it has the heart of devastation that arose from the British Empire including slavery, stolen wealth, and abhorrent colonial rule. These stories are also part of the collective vibrant tapestry of the city.
Connect with me:
@TheKowthaConstellation
TheKowthaConstellation
ManifestByDesign
I once heard a beautiful analogy of what’s it like to do our work: we are creating a rich tapestry. However, we’re often looking at a slightly convoluted pattern that’s in reverse, because we’re working on the back. Doing the work sometimes means getting stuck in the details and we only see the completed vision as we step back and take a breather.
My work was shaped by living in two worlds, that of a primarily white community in Arizona and preserving Indian culture through the arts and spiritual practice. As an adventurer and curious individual (raised by computer scientists) I have an insatiable desire to see how things work and finding our inherent interconnectedness to the cosmos, to the planet, and to life.
Since I was a child, teaching has a been a passion. I've spent my life studying how we make meaning and the role of indoctrination and propaganda in education, culture and identity formation. My work, whether as an unschooling parent, a storyteller, an educator, a carer for those with disabilities, an editor, biology researcher, or a consultant, has always been to use decolonial and non-traditional approaches to illuminate, liberate and make accessible the connection from self to world. Ultimately, the oppressive systems that we live within have percholated through every element and in part, healing colonialism is an important part of recovering our true identity and our connections.
I currently live in Greater London, with my partner and daughter where we explore, make art, dance, play, and do our important work in the world. I love the vibrance, textures, and patchwork nature of the city and those who live here. I want to also acknowledge that the Thames valley was once inhabited by the Saxons and other tribes. And it has the heart of devastation that arose from the British Empire including slavery, stolen wealth, and abhorrent colonial rule. These stories are also part of the collective vibrant tapestry of the city.
Connect with me:
@TheKowthaConstellation
TheKowthaConstellation
ManifestByDesign
Course co-founder - Moriah Helms
I think of my work like a garden: a lot of initial weeding, protecting and building the soil, and then a multitude of planting and tending. We won’t eliminate the roots of empire, capitalism, and all systems of supremacy tomorrow, but we can pull at their roots and sow the seeds of something else.
Whether I’m engaging critically with theory and history, working in community gardens, engaging with seasonal rituals, wrestling with ancestry, doing mediation and transformative justice work, grieving with friends, talking with trees, teaching skills, engaging in mutual aid, supporting Indigenous sovereignty, doing bodywork, making beautiful offerings, or collaborating on some new project— everything I do revolves around seeding the care and mutuality that are necessary for disengaging with capitalism. The work takes many forms, but it’s all part of the same ecosystem of liberation.
I believe in learning and practicing in community— not just because it’s “better” than doing things alone, but because it’s necessary. I believe that the growing of this post-capitalist world must be accessible, collective, and adaptable. While the way that systems of power function is messy and complex, by learning and connecting together we begin to understand how they operate and can choose to co-create something infinitely more beautiful.
I have lived most of my life in the bio-region of so-called New England and currently live on Penobscot territory in the Wabanaki Dawnland, known as mid-coast Maine. My favorite things to do are growing, foraging and cooking food in community, making medicine and beautiful things to give away, having deep conversations about unraveling all systems of oppression, living by seasonal rhythms, communing with the forest, and hot gossip.
Connect with me:
@moriahface
MoriahHelms
WildWoodPath
Whether I’m engaging critically with theory and history, working in community gardens, engaging with seasonal rituals, wrestling with ancestry, doing mediation and transformative justice work, grieving with friends, talking with trees, teaching skills, engaging in mutual aid, supporting Indigenous sovereignty, doing bodywork, making beautiful offerings, or collaborating on some new project— everything I do revolves around seeding the care and mutuality that are necessary for disengaging with capitalism. The work takes many forms, but it’s all part of the same ecosystem of liberation.
I believe in learning and practicing in community— not just because it’s “better” than doing things alone, but because it’s necessary. I believe that the growing of this post-capitalist world must be accessible, collective, and adaptable. While the way that systems of power function is messy and complex, by learning and connecting together we begin to understand how they operate and can choose to co-create something infinitely more beautiful.
I have lived most of my life in the bio-region of so-called New England and currently live on Penobscot territory in the Wabanaki Dawnland, known as mid-coast Maine. My favorite things to do are growing, foraging and cooking food in community, making medicine and beautiful things to give away, having deep conversations about unraveling all systems of oppression, living by seasonal rhythms, communing with the forest, and hot gossip.
Connect with me:
@moriahface
MoriahHelms
WildWoodPath