About Helena Kriel
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HELENA KRIEL is an award-winning, best-selling produced and published writer and screenwriter who spends her time between Los Angeles and South Africa.
Her plays Pigs on Passion, Arachnid and I Can’t Wait to Tie you to the Sofa earned her a nomination of Best Playwright in South Africa, before she moved to America.
A Steven Spielberg Award set her up as A List in Hollywood where she worked with studios and independent producers.
Her produced movies are Kama Sutra and Skin.
As screenwriter for the movie Kama Sutra, she traveled with barefoot monks in India, meditating in caves, circumambulating holy mountains on full moon and staying in $1 a night rooms with no sheets.
Her best selling memoirs The Year of Facing Fire and Meditating with Rhinos are taken from a life of adventure, exploration and some hard knocks.
Meditating with Rhinos put her in the company of orphaned baby rhinos revealing that love and great company goes beyond relationship with the human world.
Her up and coming book Kruger Speaks, co-written with Don Pinnock, gave her the opportunity of being in the truly wild world, to listen, to see, to experience and come to know deeply the more than human world.
As an eclectic seeker of truth, fun and freedom, she has worked with shamans in the high mountains of Peru and teachers of Kaballah, Tao and Tantra. She enjoys the places were truth intersects, creating a tapestry of the deep wisdom traditions and putting them into daily practice.
Inspired by people and their wisdom, she looks for truth from everyday thinkers, Uber drivers, her family, her friends and the sages who have given up all comfort to find how best to be alive.
Her work with animals and nature is where she sources from most directly now, finding ways to be in the company of wild animals in South Africa and Kenya.
She takes writers and seekers on high adventure, creative journeys into remote parts of India and South Africa. She loves nothing more than getting to the edges of all things, than drinking chai in a marketplace, way off the beaten track, surrounded by chaos and buffaloes; or walking in muddy shoes alongside an orphaned baby rhino.
Creative JOURNEY to India and South Africa
Change the way you see the world in this creative JOURNEY to India And South Africa.