The Circle So Far
Hela
... is mother, maker, and mystic who has drawn wide circles at the thresholds where cultures meet. She holds an M.A. in South Asian Cultures and Languages, a B.A. in Creative Writing, and long diplomatic career across five continents.
Hela has sought otherworlds through a career in diplomacy and through Shakta, Marian, and universalist lineages, translating expressions of intention to her hands, which seek out ancestral arts.
She feels called to support conscious containers: Mystic Hedgecraft holds space for multi-generational connection through shared leadership, deep listening, and intentional craft. Mystic Matrika holds the lineage work beside it, tracing sacred traditions, symbolism, and myth across thin places.
Mystic Matrika
Meet the scholar-practitioners guiding our radiant journeys.
Hasan
Anwar Hasan has spent his career in the space where narrative meets diplomacy — from journalism at a major international news organization to advising senior government leaders and institutions through complex geopolitical terrain across South Asia, the Middle East, and diasporas.
His lineage runs along both sides of Partition — a history of division and reconciliation, and of crossing that travels with him. He grew up in a household where the unseen was unremarkable, where devotion was simply the texture of daily life. That inheritance shapes everything: the way he listens, the way he reads a room, the way meaning moves through his words.
Hasan brings a writer’s ear and a mystic’s heart to language and story, to how meaning survives — and moves — across the lines history draws.
Samarth
Dr. Brajesh Samarth has spent his career at the intersection of language, culture, and identity — a linguist and innovator in the field of language acquisition and maintenance, with a focus on South Asian languages and their living communities. He has taught Hindi and Urdu at Stanford University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Emory University, and his research reaches across Hindi-Urdu literature and music, diaspora poetry, Dastangoi — the nearly-lost art of Urdu storytelling.
He is also a practitioner of the Shiva Shakti traditions — for whom language has never been separate from the sacred. He carries that devotion into every classroom, every conversation, every close reading of a word.