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At last – Meeting in the Spanish Pyrenees – By Carina & Kate

Filming & photography: Pigi Irene Ilia & Kate Priestley
Video editing: Pigi Irene Ilia
Music by Owen Hanner – full song: see music video – website: www.owenhanner.com (recently redesigned by Kate)

After almost two years of collaborating remotely on the sunbeings.org website Kate and I finally met in person in the mountain village she calls home since leaving the UK earlier this year. The village is 9km away from the next small town and since she and her partner don’t have transport life is centered around locally available produce, people and walks, as well as online work.

Life in a mountain village – why is it difficult?


Kate and her partner have both struggled with a lot of adversity physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually related to the frequencies and memories written into the lands and waters of the region they live in. The history of battles, destruction and civil war continuously challenges the sensitivity of both artists who nonetheless feel that they are located exactly where they need to be in these times. My visit deepened my understanding of that rather personal situation while perhaps contributing to the transformation of some of the related patterns. It was an intense experience for all of us, yet deep, valuable and unforgettable.

A personal note from Kate


Meeting Carina for my first time after working together for a while and forming a friendship has felt like it has deepened our bond as we get to know each other on more personal levels. It can feel different to only communicating with someone via a small window on the screen compared to actually meeting them in person and getting a whole new feel of their energy and presence. Me and my partner deeply appreciated having her around as well as having her friend, Pigi, with us. We admired Pigi’s already huge understanding and awareness given she is only 21 years old as feel she has so much to take her far in life that is also aligned with the positive future of the planet. Pigi is a real joyful bundle of energy! Carina to us felt like an inspiring example of presence and strength that is complimentary with our certain heightened sensitivities. I also enjoyed having my first hitchhiking experience with Carina and Pigi when we needed to go to a city then having a long walk under the clear starry sky amongst the mountains on way back until we were able to hitch another lift again. So from me and my partner a big thank you to Carina and Pigi for coming to visit us in person! We enjoyed our adventures and sharing space together 🙂

Who is Pigi?


Pigi is a dear friend of mine (Carina) and my current travel companion. She is from a small village in Greece, 21 years old, and plowing her way through European societies – living her truths lovingly and determinedly rather than following external expectations.

We met last year, first in a small natural building community and then again in Thessaloniki where she had studied theater for a while before recognising how the industry doesn’t fit with her passionate desire to express herself authentically. Disillusioned, she was in a transition period and decided to turn her back on both, university and theater. She is now part of an Irish herbology program, deepening her knowledge about the healing effects of plants.

Pigi loves foraging, making and editing videos, and meaningful connections with the people she crosses paths with. She also sings and writes songs. I re-joined her this October in southern France where she had spent the summer, and we now travel Spain together – hitchhiking, visiting friends and engaging in language- and nature-centred Workaway exchanges.

Silent immersion – what is it?


Silent immersions are monthlong events offered by Jacqueline Hobbs www.oraclegirl.org every April and October. The best way to learn about Jacqueline’s very unique work is by studying her website and signing up for her reboot purifications to get a personal taste of the accelerated transformation prompted by her frequency signals yet realised through you.

A poem for you

This poem was written in the small Pyrenean mountain village where Pigi and I visited Kate and her partner. While we were there the two were dealing with mold issues in their house and some of our conversations revolved around the rapid increase and proliferation of different types of fungus across this planet in recent years. Hence the reference to mold in the poem 🙂

Resurgence of light

Seemingly a world engulfed by mold
Hijacking the frozen gold.
Wars erupting in every corner
Concealing a vastness full of wonder.

It is light pushing through
In every street and heart,
Creating life anew
From an explosive start.

At first a silver hue on a distant horizon,
Now a nuclear force of all-pervading plasmic love.
As some never turned their gaze off that internal liaison,
Bursting through walls in a single shove.

At last it is not our kingdom that falls
But a deceptive copy of what has always been love.
Nothing is stronger than our integrity’s songs
As we plow forward across eternities longs.

In the mirror of confusion
Is dissolving all illusion.
The alien is forced to retreat,
Its substance transforms – no more deceit.

Born out of light and water,
One translates while the other holds space.
Forms of all fabric appear and leave,
Choosing what stays, nothing to retrieve.

The pictures in my bodily liquids
Tickling your blood;
Currents of love binding us together
As our melodies meet in an ever-increasing flood.

As your eyes read my water –
An explosion of memory, wisdom and laughter,
Mold burns away in our suns,
War leaves shocking brightness, nature returns.

3 thoughts on “At last – Meeting in the Spanish Pyrenees – By Carina & Kate”

  1. Nicole

    So nice to see all 3 of you together, the connection, the fun. Nice energy!!
    And what a beautiful place you live in Kate!
    Much love, Nicole

    Reply
    1. KatePriestley

      Thank you! The video was very fun to make. And feel very lucky to be here in these mountains! Much enjoyed your recent conversation with Carina. Found it very interesting and time flew by while I was watching it 🙂

      Reply
      1. Nicole

        Love it that you enjoyed our conversation.
        And so nice to be a little bit in touch like this Kate and to see where you live.
        Until the next time 🤗🤗

        Reply

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Carina Ramm

Carina was the original founder of SunBeings who approached Kate to do the design for the platform. In the 3.5 years of working together, a friendship blossomed, and creative ideas arose between the two of them that has helped build what SunBeings has the potential to grow into.

Since December 2025, Carina has left to move onto engaging with the world in other ways, but we cannot forget the legacy she has left behind – SunBeings wouldn’t have existed if it wasn’t for her!

Her dedication, passion and knowledge was very admirable. She managed to research and write summaries for nearly 500 ethical businesses! She brought further to light how we can live with less dependency on money and banking systems, how we can use gift economies, a new donation model, what real ethics aligned with nature is, the true histories of this planet and more.

Carina has lived for many years without a bank account or phone, engaged very minimally with financial systems, travelled to many parts of the world, and lived in deep trust and communion with herself and nature to receive what it is she needs. She has contributed many posts onto the blog inspiring others with her experiences and findings.

You won’t be forgotten Carina! We hope to continue what you have started.

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Owen Hanner

Owen is Kate’s partner and a grounded presence behind SunBeings. Both highly creative and logical, with a gift for words, an eye for beauty, and an artistic soul. With his keen eye and a good overview of what’s in alignment, Owen gives feedback, helps with writing and streamlines the content.

He is a gifted musician who can play many instruments, often capturing those who happen to come across his live, dynamic improvisations, and the magic that happens when he gets together with other musicians. A treat for the ears and those who are willing to dream – which fulfils his sense of purpose as his music contains messages of his dream of the new world. Owen’s music has often been his key to opening doors in his life… including in bringing Kate to him. He has had his music included in some of the SunBeings videos.

As a video editor, he is excellent at creating dreamy worlds bursting with freedom, colour and natures dance through his videos he attaches with his music.

Highly creative at whatever he applies himself to, he leans towards creating complex layers to his creative projects with a high attention to detail, that reveals more subtleties when one looks deeper. It reflects his feeling and sensitivity for the intricacies in life.

Owen has a deep sense of love and beauty and lives in deep communion with it. With that, Kate and Owen share an adventurous life together that has provided a driving spark behind SunBeings. They have dived deep into exploring what following nature and a new earth looks like… this can be both a painful and joyful process, and one of deep growth, that helps to ignite this platform. Thank you to Owen for the flame and loving support!

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Kate Priestley

Kate is an original co-founder and the current coordinator of SunBeings providing much of the foundation and is the designer. Bouncing around with creative ideas, listening to others’ ideas, she has a way to ground them into the physical.

She is a passionate multi-disciplinary creative, and she treats this platform as a creative outlet, to make a space where people can commune and share themselves. Kate loves to nurture others’ gifts and help bring them out into the world. She likes to share the good and the innovative and has a natural passion for community.

An adventurous and playful spirit who likes to push the usual boundaries of the known. Through answering nature’s calls, she has found life to reward her in ways often very unexpected. Discomforts and challenges are often met, but they provide doorways into her own understanding of herself and life – they become something else in her eyes. As a storyteller, she is enthusiastic about sharing her experiences with others in case it may benefit another.

She also is a painter, illustrator and photographer. Her works are often highly expressive with an explosion of colour and play.

Kate has long been interested in projects that bring about change or have a positive impact on the world. Since a young age, she has liked to combine art and social engagement. Now all her interests come together in running SunBeings, and growing its community platform for all of us.

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Nixi “No fixed thing” Cole

Coordinator, Coach, Creative and Champion of whole hearted projects and creatives. Nixi offers her gifts as a writer, editor, group holder, artist and art curator. She also loves being in a garden and growing things.

Nixi has a passion and strength for recognising and nurturing gifts in people, places and projects. She is empathic, intuitive, enthusiastic and dynamic in nature, naturally uplifting and energising in many of her offerings. Making connections across the physical and non-physical and encouraging our full and true expression.

Wonderful at coaching, mentoring and holding a safe space, she is gifted in seeing and expanding possibilities with a great sense of joy, play and creativity that pushes on our usual boundaries of imagination.

She has been helping behind the scenes at SunBeings for a little while supporting Kate and Owen and the wider field of the platform and its potentials, coming up with fun ideas, gently questioning, feeling and finding possibilities.

She loves playing with words, pens and fabric and hopes some of this will find its way on to SunBeings offerings too.

Nixi has a free and bright spirit, with extremely sensitive sensors for all subtleties of life. She is connected to the vastness of the universe and yet deeply grounded and anchored in nature. She moves fluidly between energetic, emotional and practical levels, integrating it all with humility and humour.

Nixi is full of magic, joy and love, while also not scared to sense and feel what’s uncomfortable, painful, or unfamiliar. Her curious and listening nature have carried her to many places and experiences and she has been nomadic for over two years.

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