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Meet the team

A few words from us…

Kate
Priestley

SunBeings Coodinator, website design, writing, video editing, artist

Hello! I am the designer behind Sun Beings as well as contributing ideas creatively or practically on how it can be improved and expanded upon. I guess I ended up being chosen to do this website as Carina was drawn to my creative energy expressed through my art and knew I also offered website design. With my eye for art and my technical ability I combine the two in my graphic and web design projects.

While I was always interested in art and design and studied it throughout my life via the education route I still felt my creativity was very blocked up and would feel deeply lost and stagnant with it. It was only when I started embarking on a deep inner journey letting go of a lot that didn’t feel in alignment with who I am and strengthened my connection with nature and the universe did my creativity start to come forward. Now it is hard to keep up with all the ideas that come through me!

Creativity to me is an incredibly powerful tool. It is a generator of frequencies. It sparks our imagination and seeds new possibilities that we can choose to grow. Unfortunately the creative energy is being deeply abused and used to infiltrate peoples mental, emotional and spiritual bodies whether it’s through writing, music, art, film, media and so on. One doesn’t have to look very far at all to spot where there may be negative influences disrupting our fields and influencing our inners states and behaviours. Used in the wrong way it can keep us identified with lack and disempowerment and further entrenched in harmful identities. It can keep us stuck in a reality blocking our ability to be able to envision new better ones.

So with this in mind I tend to use my creativity as a tool to inspire dreaming. Dreaming of possible worlds or internal states we are capable of embodying. Since I was young the world felt like a very confusing place to be and didn’t understand why on Earth humanity lived they way they do as there was so much suffering I could see. It felt clear to me something majorly vital was missing… our deep innate connection with nature, the universe, others and ourselves. Remembering our profound place in this existence. I am naturally drawn to using my art and design to inspire something better within ourselves… to wake up what is there lying dormant.

My creativity goes into a few different areas. This includes: painting, illustration, writing, photography, graphic design and web design. I find my creativity seeps into other areas too like dancing or playing an instrument or whatever the pure moment brings!

I hope the sunbeings.org website inspires you to make wiser choices that are in alignment with humanity and the Earth. For you to be able to see the potential on this planet and that indeed there is a lot of positive happening through what others are offering and projects that are taking place. I feel the current times are deeply calling us to strip away everything that is out of integrity to our beings and to create something new that is truly built on the foundations of love.

Carina
Ramm

Original founder of SunBeings

Carina is co-founder of the Sun Beings project and has built up and run the platform together with Kate for 3.5 years. However, she is withdrawing from the project and exploring new ventures as of December 2025.

I would say that my life looks quite differently from most people’s in that I continuously engaged minimally with most external systems, societal and family expectations, regulations which appeared unjust, not sensful, or outright surreal from the perspective of being human and living in a society of mutual support. From a very young age onward I deeply sensed not just that there is something very distorted and sad about how we live together, but also that we all can do so much better, be so much more, and build something truly beautiful. That turned out to be true.

With the Sun Beings website which genuinely unfolded from my desire to source what I need such as clothing and food more in alignment with nature, and to share with others what that means, I would like to redefine the ways in which we look at ethics in our societies and show the many ways in which our communities and underlying structures are transforming. In collaboration with Kate I would like to inspire, harness new frequencies as they unfold into form at a very practical level, offer support and direction in these tumultuous times.

In my personal life I strongly follow inner callings which I now recognise as nature’s intelligence operating through me – something we are all a part of. There is a clear sense of where I need to be when and how I need to engage with local community, worldwide transformation and the digital world including the sunbeings.org website. I travel a lot, often leaping from one project to another, that I am part of for a while before moving on. In this way I support what I would like to see more of on this planet and bring my frequencies to many places and peoples.

I live predominantly through non-monetary exchanges. This path, although always clear, has continuously deepened throughout my life. I perceive dependency on the financial system for prosperity and happiness as limiting, often failing – causing much harm – and in these times of instability simply dangerous. It is a biased system of gambling, built on non-human roots which do not support the ways in which we naturally thrive. Time for change, and this is what I enjoy being part of.

In the past I pursued often unconventional ways of learning about and researching biology, philosophy, the intersection of environmental policy, politics, human societies and ethics. I have experience with care-giving, holistic healing, counselling and spirituality, have worked at animal sanctuaries, with natural building and organic farming projects, at a remote hostel and have hosted diverse events in online communities. I have lived on small sailboats and did up to two-week open ocean passages with all that involves – a different world of self-sufficiency and self-reliance.

You …

Needless to say we are not experts in all the fields this website shares about. We react to and learn from what comes into our fields. If you have suggestions for change, additions, or the direction you would like to see this website project to take, please send an email. We are particularly looking for contributions from Slavic countries and China esp. when an english/partly english website is available. It is not easy for us to find businesses, initiatives or artists in these geographic areas but we would like to include the treasures we know are there. The new frequencies are taking form everywhere. No people and no place is excluded. We would also love to hear from young people. Thank you to everyone who has already contributed to this website. It is much appreciated.

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.

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!

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.

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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