Meet Our Spiritual Guide

Discover the visionary behind Wild World Wanderers' transformative journeys

Spiritual Background

Our Team

Meet the passionate individuals who make our journeys possible

Sarah Mitchell - Journey Coordinator

Andrew Harvey

Journey Coordinator

Raj Sharma - Cultural Guide

Kaiser Mir

Co-Founder

Maya Patel - Wellness Facilitator

Junaid Jamal

Co-Founder

Andrew Harvey - Spiritual Teacher and Guide

Andrew Harvey: The Spiritual Heart of Wild World Wanderers

40+Books
1000+Lives Transformed

At the soul of Wild World Wanderers is Andrew Harvey — a world-renowned mystic, scholar, author, and spiritual teacher whose life's work has transformed the spiritual landscape of our time. As a vital guide and visionary for our journeys, Andrew brings not only decades of wisdom, but also a living flame of devotion, insight, and fierce compassion.

Born in India and educated at Oxford, Andrew's early academic brilliance evolved into a profound spiritual awakening. He has since studied with mystics from diverse traditions — including Hinduism, Buddhism, Sufism, and Christianity — blending their essential truths into an accessible, integrative path.

As the founder of the Institute for Sacred Activism, Andrew advocates for a spirituality that is not passive or escapist, but rooted in love-in-action: where inner transformation leads to outer service in the world.

With over 40 books to his name, including The Hope, The Return of the Mother, and his celebrated translations of Rumi, Andrew's voice speaks to seekers across traditions. His work is an invitation to awaken not only the intellect, but also the heart — guiding pilgrims into what he calls the "divine human" potential.

In Wild World Wanderers, Andrew is more than a teacher — he is a companion on the sacred path. Through satsangs, meditation, and personal encounters, he helps participants navigate inner landscapes as they journey through the sacred terrains of Kashmir.

"The future belongs to those who choose to love bravely, serve selflessly, and awaken together."

Andrew's vision is clear: Wild World Wanderers is both a reflection and an embodiment of that vision — a living sanctuary for spiritual awakening in a time of global change.

Andrew Harvey - Spiritual Teacher and Guide

Kaiser Mir: Co-Founder, Wild World Wanderers

Born in 1996 in Srinagar, Kashmir, Kaiser Mir grew up in the shadow of conflict — but also in the quiet presence of something far more mysterious. From a young age, he experienced flashes of insight, spiritual visions, and encounters with unseen forces that seemed to whisper of a deeper world just beneath the surface. These revelations shaped his earliest understanding of life: that it was layered with hidden meaning, and far more sacred than it appeared.

At the tender age of fourteen, he left home for Delhi, compelled by the need to support himself and his family. Life demanded much — toil, endurance, and early maturity. Yet even through the weight of survival, those mystical experiences never left him. Years later, as he journeyed through the diverse spiritual landscapes of South India, meeting sages, seekers, and visionaries, the old visions returned — not as mysteries, but as confirmations. The language of spirit, once only felt, now had names, faces, and teachings.

In these sacred crossings, something awakened. The early flashes of light became steady embers. The child who had once glimpsed the divine began to embody it — gently, quietly, and with deep humility. And alongside that sacred flame, a deep longing came into view — a yearning for true companionship, for friendships that heal, for circles where stories could be shared without shame, and love could be given freely.

Kaiser has always believed that life becomes beautiful when it is shared — when hearts are open, when silence is honored, and when the simple act of presence becomes a blessing. He carries this yearning into every journey he curates, creating spaces where strangers become kin and the soul feels at home.

Returning to Kashmir in 2019, he joined hands with Junaid and Aatif to found Wild World Wanderers — a sanctuary for seekers, a circle of soulful travelers, a movement devoted to reawakening the sacred in everyday life. For Kaiser, every journey is an invitation — to listen more deeply, to walk more gently, and to live as if the world were as luminous as his childhood visions always revealed it to be.

He lives with the knowing that the soul’s greatest nourishment is not found in answers, but in presence — and he offers that presence, quietly and generously, to all who walk beside him.

Andrew Harvey - Spiritual Teacher and Guide

Junaid Jamal: Co-Founder, Wild World Wanderers

Born in 1991 in Srinagar, Kashmir, Junaid Jamal was shaped by the fierce contrasts of his homeland — a land of profound beauty and painful turmoil. Raised during a time of curfews, lockdowns, and unrest, his early life unfolded against the backdrop of conflict. Yet from this fractured terrain, a deep sensitivity was awakened — to the resilience of his people, to the quiet dignity of sacred landscapes, and to the invisible threads that bind all human hearts.

Winters were spent in Delhi, where his family’s generations-old handicraft business took root for part of the year. Between the stillness of Kashmir and the momentum of India’s capital, Junaid’s understanding of cultural pluralism, spiritual yearning, and communal harmony began to deepen. Two worlds, lived simultaneously, forged in him a longing — not just for peace, but for the inner reconciliation of opposites.

After completing a merit-based degree in Marketing and Human Resources from the University of Kashmir, he was invited to join Google in Delhi as a Marketing Strategist. Yet even amidst success, a call from within grew louder — a call not toward upward mobility, but inward awakening.

In 2018, that call was answered. The corporate path was left behind, and a return to Kashmir was made — not simply to come home, but to rediscover the sacred essence that had always been present beneath the surface. In the quietude of Kashmir’s temples, dargahs, forests, and flowing rivers, Junaid began to receive the true teachings of the land — not through textbooks, but through silence, poetry, pilgrimage, and prayer.

It was Sufism that entered his soul most profoundly — its songs of longing, its wine of love, its surrender to the One. Through the poetry of saints, the fellowship of seekers, and the remembering of the Beloved in all things, a path of service through sacred travel was revealed.

In 2019, alongside Aatif and Kaiser Mir, a travel initiative was launched — not merely to showcase Kashmir’s scenic splendor, but to invite travelers into the deeper mysteries of presence and belonging. What began as a business soon transformed into a calling: to weave journeys that awaken the soul, connect hearts across cultures, and revive the ancient spirit of Kashmir — where Shaivite mystics, Sufi dervishes, Buddhist monks, and Christian ascetics once lived in mutual reverence.

Through Wild World Wanderers, Junaid now devotes himself to creating spaces of communion — where strangers become kin, and where the outer journey mirrors the inner transformation. His life is lived as a bridge: between worlds, between traditions, and between the seen and unseen. In his presence, travelers are invited not just to see — but to feel, to remember, and to come alive.