Alexandra Magalhães Zeiner is a truly amazing soul, a World citizen, Peace Ambassador, environmentalist, writer, researcher, curator and mother.
She is a highly sought-after speaker especially for International Women’s Day (IWD), Peace and environmental issues and we were blessed to have her talk to our Be Here Now Ladies Group on IWD.
In this lively interview-style presentation Alexandra enlightens us on many diverse topics. Alexandra likes connecting with women on a deep level and helping them any way she is able.
Alexandra was born in Brazil and currently resides in Augsburg, Germany.
She started her career as a Marine Biologist after achieving her degree at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, and has worked on various environmental projects in Austria, Brazil, Croatia, The Netherlands, and Canada, mostly related to marine mammals and environmental issues.
She is an ambassador for TAF https://theanimalfund.net/en/our-team/
Since a young child, Alexandra has always been passionate about nature and understood the importance of respect for Mother Earth and all on it.
She has written 2 children’s books “The Pink Dolphin´s son” and “The Girl and the Jaguar”.
Both of her books are about environmental issues in order to inspire children from a young age to care about nature.
Alexandra feels as if they let her be a part of an enchanted world that she can share with her soul mates.
She helps women in any way she is able.
She has organized events promoting peace and gets asked to speak globally about peace.
These are only a few of the things and projects she does.
More on Alexandra here:
Work as Peace Ambassador in Germany
One Voice for Women, last project of 2020, which she would love to continue this year if/when she has financial support
Social Media Links:
https://m.facebook.com/alexandra.magalhaeszeiner
https://www.instagram.com/alexandramagalhaeszeiner/?hl=af
Books:
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Alexandra-Magalhaes-Zeiner/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AAlexandra+Magalhaes+Zeiner
Today we are celebrating International ladies day which traditionally has been celebrated globally on March the 8th to commemorate the cultural political and socioeconomic achievements of women it is also the focal point of women’s rights movements bringing attention to issues like gender equality Reproductive Rights and nonviolence against
Women we’ve come a long way in the last 100 years however as we’ve heard from one of our speakers Tiffany Cromwell one of Australia’s top female cyclists women still don’t get equal pay or equal rights but that’s okay one step at a time so today we will talk about celebrating in women
Because we can quibble over issues like this forever but today it’s about stepping in our power stepping into our Oneness and allowing ourselves to just be and to connect in the moment because today together we can make a difference and I’m about to introduce you to one
Incredible lady who has made an amazing difference to our planet and to women Alexandra magaz Z who is a world Citizen and also a peace Ambassador and she started her career as a marine biologist and researcher a writer and author of four children’s book she’s also a very highly
Sought after public speaker and she’s made it her mission to help women any way she is able and today she would like to truly connect with people on our group she does loads of Peace events and she organizes lots of women’s groups and she has come today so that she can help each
And every one of us on our pathway so I’m going to start by asking here some questions so she she can open up because I’ve met Alexandra quite quite a few years ago she’s also an ambassador for ta the animal fund and um she gave an incredible speech there and I met a
Beautiful son who is just glowing with unconditional love also so Alexandra welcome to be here in our ladies group and please could you tell our ladies what started you on your journey to peace and love and being an environmentalist maybe you could tell us about your upbringing in Brazil and all the
Numerous countries that you’ve been to and what it was like traveling as a female and so forth oh my gosh so first of all I’m I’m so in deep appreciation for this moment with you all um I’m talking from my telephone sorry I cannot see everybody
And I ask the permission then I ask some of you to make pictures and please send me because this is a a very very special moment for me I’m connected with Australia I’m with South France I’m Conn with England I I don’t know where all of
You are but I I’m I’ve been in some places that you are now and I think this is the um I think this is a blessing that we can we are able now to be connected in such way um I’m a Brazilian German I um citizen I so this is but I
Well my son said um when we were discussing making jokes at the same times because he was born in Austria and then he said no Mom I’m not a German I am a citizen of the world and I was so happy it was um he was maybe 10 he’s now 15
Um and let’s starts from the beginning like um what what made me um go out of Brazil first of all I was born in on the coast of Brazil by the Atlantic by the South Atlantic um then I started um my research career and I got a scholarship
To finish um to have my master degree in Canada and that was the first step but before that I was in Holland and I worked as um uh student in Holland and um it was also a very important time for me because as a student um I was also
Working uh the summer in Croatia and um and that my focus that time uh was just my masters and continue with my career and once I finished my masters I don’t want to get in much details but I’ve been back to Brazil and because of the political situation in
Brazil they told me um some professors from my University told me what are you doing here you should go back to where you come from and I was say what where I come from I’m I come I was studing here at this University my intention was to
Come back here and and continue be a professor and continue do my my PhD and and and I was faced with a situation where I said hey come on shag it then stay there I’m going really and um well there was some also some meanwhile I had
Met a German guy and um and then I got married and my comes my my connection with Australia because when I was then living in Austria after moving from Canada I met an Australia lady from Brisbane and I know there’s someone there that I didn’t know her name um can
But she said well there is a there’s a place where you can go and um maybe with the contacts with the university you can make your your um PhD in Australia and I said oh my gosh that’s true and I really did um in year 20002 2001 I I sent my
Application to Brisbane University and there was some well it didn’t happen but um I have really this connection with Australia since then I always met wonderful women from Australia um and they were always like um you know somehow they had this kind of connection with Earth with also like you know like
Beverly um when we met personally we talked about this and how important this is to keep this connection with Earth and that was my quest to um my PhD ended up in a permanent head damage is to be a mother I became a mother and in one I I
Just wrote something really short on the Facebook on my Facebook page because my name is very long but it’s how I I like to have it really um I I someone told me hey you cannot just tell you are an author you are a mother I I said but I
Said to the person she was a very well-known um writ in Brazil and I just said to her sorry I wouldn’t be what I am who I am now if I wouldn’t be a mother so motherhood um brought me this anchor brought me this feeling that well yes I’m connected with
All women um I am a woman now I gave birth I have to take care of this baby and I was lots of time alone by myself taking care of my son and I had to face all the transformation issues that you can think of I had to face really scary times um
That I had from the past connection with families and anyway I decided to transform this and that was my quest to peace and I I’m now here living in the south of Germany where I started the association women for peace and since 2014 well 2013 I started the events here
First in Munich and Frankfurt and then someone told me um in mention alidon you cannot work in Munich if you live in oxburg just come here and do what you are doing here for the women here for the International Community because there’s not many people who speak English Portuguese
German and is open for it and you are the one who all these women can relate and until last year every year we had an event it was a reading for peace um where women from all over were speaking their language were speaking German were singing We um read reading
Poetry because this is also something that um that that’s a tool that is part of my transformation this writing poetry and and that was until last year we had this Gathering and this year I I I just read in December well the the theme of the year is choose to
Challenge and I said okay I will do it I tell you I’m going to the streets and I will have women with me I had this Vision where we hold each others with one scarf with our scarf that’s long enough to be separated from each other
But we’ll hold together and we will be there and I’ve done it I’ve done it it was not so easy like I’m telling you but this is and and one point that really really um scared me somehow was to see that some women were against this Gathering were against a peaceful
Gathering but why I was asking myself why is that but please pay attention to the words choose to challenge you know yes I did I really it was like they say in German and I know some of you speak German and had house for it was very very difficult until the last
Minute but I managed and I had flowers I had 50 flowers for women that were on our Circle and they got the flowers and they were so happy and I just had some pictures then also on the Facebook on our fan page um I continue this Quest because it’s a
Daily Quest I it’s not every day that we are fine and that we can say hey today I’m wonderful today I’m but I we can do it if we are together and if we meet people like B like Kim that can get us say hey let’s meet we at least online
Let’s make the difference let’s ch choose to challenge we can do it I believe we can do it and I’m really and was for me great to have this connection because for the other projects that I’m starting I was thinking that will be wonderful because if we have really
People together that can that can keep this level of thought and positive and say yes we can do it I’m sure we do we can I’m sure I mean that’s that’s proven you know and I think that events um the feedbacks I had also from men because they say but
How come you allow men to for the for the evening for our reading I said yes of course I do because I Want To Praise also the men that are together with us on the way why not I mean this is what that’s what about the it’s about the
Masculine and the feminine together in one otherwise all and all together I mean from all you know all people that from all ways I think that this I believe and I know that we are spread it out all over but I think that when we get together it’s such a tsunami it’s
Such a tsunami of positive thoughts of transformation of all good feelings we we really can think about and I’m so happy we have a mom with a baby there because this is that’s exactly what it’s about we are doing here I’m doing here not only for me I’m doing here for the
Future generation and especially for the women in my family that could not do this before you know that were not able to do this before including my mom and your meditation was about this you know Beverly and I’m very thankful because I was bringing all this women this wonderful beautiful women that really
Gave me the power and that’s I would I never forget the words of Dr Maya Angelou when when she said be a rable in some someone’s life just be a rable in someone’s life make the make them the smile make them you know when they think
About you well I don’t say that all the Germans will smile when they think about me I’m very Fier when I’m speaking German sometimes I have this urge to really just give my point such a strong language when you want to speak you know the truth or so I think that that’s
That’s make the difference you know that we can speak other languag we accept our difference and from this difference we make our really our strongest point that we can get and we show this and this is the the importance I want to show that
Each and every one of us and I know all the ladies that are there and I please I want the names and everybody where they come from because I think you are lighthouses you know exactly now exactly on this time we have to have this Lighthouse effect and say hey here you
Can come because the people who know me they can’t they know they can call me they can come here anytime and I will talk with them and I will be really direct to the point so what else can I say I’m really thankful that we are
Doing this and that I’m with you um today and now now and today thank you that’s wonderful and we will go around the room shortly however um I know you do so many incredible things and I just want to know how um how you started because you were a
Marine biologist and you know about your work with the mammals and the research and you’ve done so much scientific research and feel because I know from previous conversations you fell in love with animals and nature as a very young child in the Amazon and things like that and I
Say to people you know you don’t have to go to the Amazon you you know now we’re in lockdown in many places well I escaped France to come here so I could breathe and be and lead a relatively normal place but as I mentioned to you earlier if you can’t be
In nature then bring nature in like Z’s got her lovely screen with the nature and I’ve got the sky and the clouds because I feel the clouds are given us strong messages at the moment and it’s really I remember as a child I used to
Lie and look up at the sky and look at the clouds and just watch them and we’d have games like what we could see any people or face and things but nature is so important and we need it inside so if you if you are in lockdown which I know
A lot of you are or on very strict restrictions you know bring bip potted herbs like mint and basil and coriander bring that in and just feel the nature and the energy from nature but please share with us Alexandra about your life because maybe others on the call have
Been blessed I know the lovely Christiana lives in a Sacred Space in Romania and that is on my list to go and visit her there so um and the same the people in France where living in the c deser or Monaco and it’s amazing and
Rosie and I are lucky to be in Australia so and James in Portugal so let’s hear from you because I know you can tell people how to really connect um like you said I mean I was growing up very freely because um my both parents didn’t have much time for
Us my mother was a is well she’s retired now was a teacher my father was working a full-time as well we just and they both come from farmlands I mean they are they were formless as children and and there they are they meet on the city they married and they have children
Didn’t have time for the children they would send us to be with the grandparents so in all my books the main characters are grandparents I mean there’s the last book is the there’s the mom ow it’s it’s a mom ow but I you know I was growing up with my feet on the
Ground I was just having an underwear just just like a really a native person let’s say and I found out even that you know I have really in my blood it I have blood from Black from Indian from Portuguese from Europeans anyway I think that that gave me the is
Strength um to be connected with the nature to know where I come from so I’m not a city person at all I have to have nature otherwise I get really sick I saw this during my move from Canada uh from Newland to Vienna and Vienna is a big
City is the capital of Austria and the first year um first two years were very hard for me so I was growing up with this and I was really um like I said very focused on my studies on on I didn’t want to work with people at
All I just wanted to work with animals and you know life brings you this kind of surprise suddenly there is something there is you are in a crossroad and you say hey and now and that was the time when I thought that I could move to Australia I got pregnant so
I it I was a blessing and it’s still I would run sometimes um in in in the woods in Vienna like just bu it and I was people were looking and but I mean I I have to have this connection with nature with the animals and and I um
Started in my writing I took serious to write my books and my books are bilingual books because I wanted my son to learn both languages he can speak three languages anyway and um I the first book is about the pink dolphin it’s about a legend that happens
In the Amazon I never lived in the Amazon but my a I had two aunts who lived in the Amazon and they Fel you know they were always telling me all these stories about the pink dolphin and and the women in Brazil in the north of Brazil they
Believe like and a believe from people from native people like when women got pregnant and they don’t know their father so they can say that was the pink dolphin and people believe in the village they believe that so you have I I just read a couple of year I think
Weeks ago there was a woman was now um elected some I don’t know in a very high position in Brazil but she’s the a daughter of the pink dolphin so I was thinking hey isn’t that amazing amazing 10 years ago I wrote this book 10 years
Ago I started this new way to you know call people’s attention to our animals and to this connection we have with animals and I’m sure I’m talking about Brazil but you have in Australia too you have animals that just have Ju Just live in Australia or England or France or
Portugal I mean you have this kind of Um um protected nature that belongs to your ecosystem and and even here in Germany when I’m talking about the pink dolphin for school children also some didn’t believe and even um I have in my Facebook um a video from a mother she made from the sun because he didn’t
Believe that the pink dolphin exist and after he read the book and he said oh she’s talking this is true this woman yes and the mother was telling him and and he like he’s he was I think nine when he did it’s so sweet and I think
That’s the kind of awareness that we want to bring because we are in a very difficult situation in Brazil I don’t want to talk about politics here but all of you know what’s going on there and um the devastation of ecosystems are putting dangers po not only animal populations but people
Populations too and that’s where I come with the projects here to Germany because thanks Lord the Germans have this this really this love and care for Brazil there are lots of Germans too in south of Brazil they speak German there so we have this somehow this connection
And on on this connection I work with I work with this this um I try to or I show our art our culture our music as a way to um connect people and show them hey let’s work on the basis of what we have together and this is what touched
And I I have to come back to the detail of when you put that picture of myself on the on the call for the to today and I have my my my hand in my heart because this is I think you know from native people that that’s how you connect with
Yourself because of your heartbeat your heartbeat is your connection with yourself and this is one thing that I use all the time especially in time of Crisis and this time of I have this connection I try to be in the nature with my hand in my heart connected and I
Pray and I pray and I it was wonderful your words I also use in my praise and this is another thing I think that we are all connected because I pray that we take this strength and especially women especially us because if I tell you in Brazil who has the strength are the
Women you know are the women who can change this and we are now in this new era all of you may know from as As Above So Below from all the signs that we are having and this is what what I I really do um every day you know this is an
Everyday like a ritual I I go to the nature we can go to the nature here in in German we can go out alone and I do this a lot and this is um I think that all of us can do it and can share with each other um this
Little practice or little pray whatever I mean you want to call sorry no that’s wonderful and I I think um the more that people can connect with nature the better because at the moment we’re living in a very fast World we’re living in a digital world and it’s even
The dala llama said on one of his talks that one of the main causes of stress is social media because um especially with the young children they um put Facebook posts or snap Snapchat or whatever they’re using because I believe Facebook is for the oldies now but they but even
Adults are you know getting stressed because you put up a post and then before they go to bed instead of switching off naturally maybe go meditate under the stars or read in a nice old-fashioned paper book so that you can unwind before going to sleep they’re looking at social media and the
The waves from the telephone or computer you know is activating your brain so it keeps you awake for another two hours and if you haven’t had the likes that you expect and you check what your other friends are getting and then in the morning instead of waking up
Naturally and having your shower and making your food with love and eating your food if you have time before going to work or school or study you know they check in the social media and then that gets uptight for the rest of the day so
It’s a big cycle so I’ve been saying for years you know when people come to dinner with us put your phone in the basket we’ll take it out once in the night so we can take photographs but you know we have to have at least one detox
And we do the same when we go on nature works it’s no phones only for photographs and that’s it so yeah and when you mentioned about you say the same words as me in the meditation I truly believe as we’re speaking now my words are going into the collective
Universal field unless you put them in a bubble of light so it’s like the 100 monkey Theory so one monkey as I’m sure everybody knows is washing a potato and then all of a sudden all the monkeys on the island are washing the potatoes before they eat them and it’s globally
So people can pick that up but um yeah yeah we we but we still I think bever like with Gatherings like you you are now doing with organizing with Kim I think that that’s that’s the thing yeah people are doing this but then you ask
Someone well let’s do it can can we try something else different and it’s good for you it’s good for me it’s good for everybody and and and we can slowly change this and start with women too because when I talk with my son about the power a powerful Mantra that I got
This from my masters from my yoga Masters he believes that I was in Brazil and he was here in Germany and he was very distressed because he was alone and I said well just listen this Mantra you will feel the difference next day he told me you were right it helped me I’m
Listening now all the time I’m afraid of I’m thinking too much or something you know so you give if you give a tool if you give an an example they take it they take it so quick too and this is the other side of the co that’s what we have
To invest more on yeah so that that’s a really good tip for everyone on the call who have children or who’s an auntie or just got friends with neighbors with kids and um what are the tips can you give us like we’re going through a pandemic I know you’re doing a lot of
Work around this so for everyone on the call what can you suggest uh I suggest that we um think about our wish to strength not only ourselves our dear ones but Earth because this is what will happen eventually will be strong enough and this virus will be like I sorry I was gr
Up with thousand one virus whatever in Brazil you have tons of them I was now in December I was in December in Brazil the whole month and I even had a a a small event there um to call attention to my new project everything was fine
You know you know and I was all the time in case of distress just pray you believe on pray you believe on the power of our ancestors of everybody that was behind here and most of all we all of us this is my belief all
Of us we had signed a contract before we came here so let’s make this contract with Earth with ourselves first of all with ourselves and then share with the others pay attention when you are on the airplane if you have a problem with the oxygen first you get
Your mask and then you give to the other one so let us be strong enough so we can share our strength with the other and if you don’t if if you don’t have anything don’t share don’t say anything pray it’s better not to say anything I’m I’m learning this through this whole
Situation because they are always coming with cliches but you as said Brazilian what do you think I said I’m fine except because because I’m a Brazilian because I’m crazy because I’m a mother let me be crazy let me be fine I’m fine and then they laugh and we change the subject but
Some of some people take me serious so I say a pray do you have I say yes I do have a pray can you share with me yes I can share with you I share everything I mean I and and that’s what I um really
Also when I’m in social media I I do my you know I go to social media because I have to answer my friends that are all over and I give but I give most of all I give a positive word and I give Hearts to everybody you know and I I I think
This is the best medicine we can take it and share with our Lo loved ones or even if you don’t love someone just wish them good too because eventually eventually this is dissipates and you go your way and I’m sure that that’s exactly what we are doing events like
This we are calling the people who think similar so we can so this is like you know a little rock dropping on a lake then this waves go further and further if it drops on the ocean sometimes it’s lost when you with the social media everything but pay attention when you
Drop this Little Rock on the lake and beat this rock this is well I think each of us we are anyway but just that we meditate also think about is thank you that was wonderful and um would you share your prayer with us please um you mean one not of my prayers
Because I one of your prayers yeah because we celebrate an international women’s day maybe you can celebrate uh share a prayer for all the women on our planet yeah I well I whatever you feel drawn to yes yeah well I just wanted to say that I pray in three language and I
Pray sometimes in all this but one of my one of my um let’s say main words that I well it’s it’s usually I cannot say that’s only for me because I listen also some um um videos sometimes and I identify myself a lot with the teachings from
Abraham L Abraham Hicks and I I also in times of really distress like I said I have my my um hand on my heart and I say um I say mother I appreciate what is happening now it’s only attraction and everything will be fine with me thank
You that was beautiful thank you all for being here and Alexandra thank you so so much for your beautiful message and just a light your the rainbow today shining on all of us so thank you very much