Eclectica Hub's Yurt Sessions Podcast

The Medicine Woman is an archetype within us all, yearning to be awakened. She calls us into radical responsibility and discernment, and reminds us to connect to the innate medicine that has always been woven into the cells of our bodies. The spark. The illumination. The power. The service. It’s all there - waiting to be seen, felt and claimed. During this episode, Demi Lee and Annamaria speak about the multidimensional force of the medicine woman archetype and how she often introduces herself to us after we have gone through huge, transformational passages of death and rebirth. The Medicine Woman tethers us to Spirit, widens the way we see the world, and calls us into deeper service, integrity, and space holding. In this conversation, Demi Lee and Annamaria touch on both the light and the dark that we begin to see with our entire body when connecting to the subtle realms of existence. They also share about the pathway of psychic sensitisation, the ON and OFF switch, the importance of energetic sovereignty, and what kind of boundaries and protocols are actually required to hold safer spaces - especially when working with shamanic energy. This episode is sponsored by Eclectica Hub's When Women Were Wolves Bali Retreat that will be held in Ubud, Bali in July 2024. Find out more here.

This episode is a deep and insightful window into the complex and delicate journey of healing from sexual trauma. Together we will unpack the nuances and difficulties one may meet with when facing sexual trauma - shared through the lens of our own personal experiences. In this session, we unpack our very vulnerable and complex journeys of reclamation and share about the deep impact this type of trauma can have on one’s personal agency, sense of self, and sense of safety within their bodies. In the rawness and vulnerability of this episode we hope that we can be a voice for those who have suffered at the hands of violation. We deeply feel the importance of raising this conversation in the public sphere and cultivating safe spaces of solidarity. If you have personally journeyed with a violation or you know someone who has - this transmission can offer you some resources for navigating and supporting the process of healing. Please be aware that this episode contains some sensitive and potentially triggering themes. Please tune into your capacity and feel into whether or not this content is digestable for you at this stage in your healing journey. Today's Episode is sponsored by Eclectica Hub's Latest Offering 'Sacred Business Foundations'. You can find our more here: https://www.eclecticahub.com/sacredbusinessfoundations Resources: Books: - Vagina by Naomi Wolf - The Body Keeps Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk - Call of the Wild by Kimberly Anne Johnson

At some stage in our lives we are bound to be thrown into the trenches of unimaginable loss, pain, heartache, and hardship. And it is through these confronting life challenges, that we often get to meet ourselves the most deeply. And that is where we find it. The gift of rupture. The gift of being bought to our knees and having our hearts cracked wide open. During this episode, Annamaria and Demi Lee share the importance of experiencing fractures or hardship in your life, and how it is through these initiations that you get to explore your pain as a teacher and emerge out the other side with more wisdom, depth, and medicine to share with the world. They share stories of some of their own personal ruptures, and speak to the importance of choosing to fully welcome in the tears of your devastation and surrender to the full breadth of your discomfort. Because after all - it you’re not willing to lean in and experience the full spectrum of pain, then how can you possibly expect to experience the full spectrum of pleasure? Today’s episode is bought to you by Eclectica School of WombCraft and Visionary Dance. Enrol for Level One here: https://eclecticahub.squarespace.com/level-one-enrolment

What does it mean to wholeheartedly embody your expression, your truth, and your sense of self in this world - and truly back yourself? What does it mean to value authenticity over your need to be liked? What does it mean to refuse to shrink yourself, to stand strong in who you are, to fully inhabit your spine, and essentially become unfuckwithable? During this episode Demi Lee and Annamaria speak about what it means to know yourself so deeply that other peoples energetic daggers or negative thought forms can’t touch you. They speak about the importance of becoming more and more comfortable with feeling disliked, with holding other peoples resentment or judgement, and how that is often a clue that you are living in alignment with your own principles, rather than other peoples. They offer insight into what it means to cultivate flexible yet sturdy boundaries, remaining receptive to other peoples experience of you, while ensuring you don’t compromise on your own inner knowing or self worth in the process. This episode is bought to you by Wilderness Within. You can find out more about their offerings at www.wildernesswithinofferings.com and can find them on Instagram here.

Annamaria and Demi Lee are back with a very rich and colourful Season 2 of Yurt Sessions - returning after a 3-month break tending to some very deep cracks and transformative initiations in their personal lives. In today's episode, they discuss their recent journeys being enveloped by profound loss. Over the past 3 months both Annamaria and Demi Lee have been uprooted into the realms of losing people they love, nursing parents through illness, and exploring their grief as a wild and uninhibited landscape. Through this initiation, amongst the pain in their hearts, they have both found grief to be a profound teacher and gift, and have returned back to the podcast to share all of their insight, heart, and tears. It is through this episode where they come together to continue integrating these humbling experiences of humanhood, sharing both the beauty and the pain - and how much we, as a western society, can learn through the support of the village and exploring grief as a rites of passage. Todays episode is bought to you by Eclectica School of WombCraft & Visionary Dance. SIGN UP FOR OUR LEVEL ONE SEMESTER: https://www.eclecticahub.com/level-one-enrolment

The womb is sacred. This space in a woman’s body houses her power, her autonomy, her creative fertility, her life force. It holds the codes of all the women that walked before her. It is the Portal that connects her to her deepest sense of instinct, inner authority, sovereignty, and boundaries. Being in deep listening and returning to the wisdom of your womb - through honouring your bleed, honouring your cycle, honouring the womb’s communication with you, and honouring birth - is an act of rebellion. Each time you listen to your womb, and lead from this space, you restore power to your lineage and transcend thousands of years of feminine oppression and shame. Throughout this episode, Annamaria and Demi Lee discuss all things womb sovereignty - unpacking the pill, blood shame, the menstrual cycle, sexual trauma, intuitive eating, sovereign birth, and what it means to truly live a womb-led life. Through 10 years of being devoted to unpacking dogmatic belief systems and learning to really trust this centre of instinct, both Demi Lee and Annamaria believe that it is every woman’s birthright to have her womb restored to its original sovereignty so that she can reclaim her inherent power. This episode is sponsored by Flow Intimates, who are renowned for their organic, leak-proof, period underwear. Find them on Instagram at @flow.intimates or their website www.flowintimates.com.au

What does it mean to be a custodian here on earth? What does it mean to be a spiritual being having a human experience? We are all born, we live, then we die - nothing has ever been as certain. However, it is through the marvellous richness of life itself that we each have the opportunity to expand our definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do - and truly understand the depths of our purpose here on earth. Demi Lee and Annamaria are so excited to be back and recording from Bali - after their recent break co-directing their latest Eclectica Hub Stage Production 'Humanity'. In this episode they unpack the depths they traversed through through birthing this stage production - as well as how the rawness of the human experience inspired them to birth this piece. This episode is sponsored by Flare Street. Please visit www.flarestreet.com or follow them on Instagram at @flarestreet

Learning how to cultivate and maintain strong energetic boundaries and psychic privacy is just as important as upholding physical boundaries. Why? Because while most of us like to feel somewhat connected to the people around us, it doesn’t mean we want to spend our time carrying their energy or absorbing their stuff. The truth is, a lot of people, especially empaths, are the psychic sponges of the world. This means that most of us end up feeling extremely overwhelmed by the energies of other people. Limiting the degree to which you allow other people to impact your energetic space or emotional field is crucial for your wellbeing. During this episode, Demi Lee and Annamaria speak about the importance of protecting your energy and keeping your vibration high - despite other people's pain, projections or resentment that might be sent your way. They offer practical tips on how to become energetically 'unfuckwithable' - and what type of allies and protocols can support you in creating strong spiritual and energetic boundaries, and how to release other people’s emotions or pain from your system. This episode is sponsored by Embody Bee: https://www.embodybee.org/ or @embodybee on Instagram. To get a discount on their products, use our affiliate code: ECLECTICA10 at the checkout.

Before patriarchy, before colonialism, women depended on one another for survival. Cooking, caring, and being in service to one another was considered the norm, and paved a mutually beneficial way of existing. However, with the rise of male-centric Christianity in Europe in the middle ages, any woman in her power was deemed a 'witch' and burnt alive at the stake. This meant that as a woman living in these times, you had two choices: Betray your sisters and submit to the new way of living, or stand your ground and remain loyal - risking prosecution, torture, or death. The truth is, the wounds and intergeneration trauma from these times still bleeds in our culture today, making it very hard for women to feel truly safe around one another. The sisterhood wound lives in all of us. It is the reason we automatically make comparisons between ourselves and others. It is rooted in competitiveness, jealousy, envy, judgement, exclusivity, gossip, and speaking about one another rather than to one another. In today's episode, Demi Lee and Annamaria speak about the ways in which they've cultivated a level of self-mastery and deeply rooted trust within all of their close friendships, through embodying truth, transparency, honesty, compassion, unconditional love, and self-responsibility. Today's episode is sponsored by Flare Street. https://www.flarestreet.com/ or @flarestreet on Instagram.

Breakups are a death. They completely dismantle us. Not just from each other, but from everything that once felt safe. And nobody can protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to endure it. However, there is deep power that can come with a broken heart. Broken hearts can lead to awakened souls. There’s no way to deny it. Every tear breaks you down, and cracks you open, and allows you to come completely undone, so you can weave yourself back together with more intention and stronger boundaries. With a better sense of who you are and what you want, and of how to reconcile with yourself deeply enough to be ready for it. During this episode, Demi Lee and Annamaria reflect on their own breakups and what the opportunity of reflection and hindsight has gifted them. Recognising that profound wisdom comes when you can reflect on why you attracted this partnership and what it was there to teach you. What needs to change within you to ensure your next relationship is different? In what ways did you contribute to the dysfunction that caused your relationship to break down? SONG: Elders by Verocoya

What does it mean to live in complete homeostasis and union with our body? What does it mean to reconcile with our body, and see it as our incredibly resilient vessel and companion for life? From a young age we have been taught that the size, weight, texture, or appearance of our form is linked to how desirable or loveable we are. There are very real systems and structures in place that profit off of body dysmorphia and the collective psychosis that living in our natural form is not enough. There has never been a broader spectrum of niche beauty products and procedures, from plastic surgery to anti-aging creams and fad diets, all reliant on the notion that beauty and youth are paramount to women’s happiness and self-worth. During this episode, Annamaria and Demi Lee unpack society's very real and concerning beauty ideals, the maiden-centric life stage we cling onto to avoid ageing, and discuss what it means to be a spirit fully inhabiting your body.

When we look at our health with a 360 degree lens and address illness on a metaphysical, holistic, and ancestral level - we not only explore the multidimensional aspects of healing, but can also often discover the root cause that led to the illness in the first place. Many of us are now coming to understand that we are not just a physical body. It is not enough to suppress the effects of illness with medication and just hope for the best. Our western system of allopathic medicine can offer emergency life saving surgeries, as well as subdue and control symptoms, yet the root cause is often dismissed. In today's episode, Demi Lee and Annamaria share the profound shifts they have both experienced in their health over the years, through considering it holistically, and exploring their trauma, their ancestry, their diet, their lifestyle, their belief systems, and their emotional bodies to establish the root cause of their illness. Podcast song: Elders by Vero Coya

In our western culture we are frequently encouraged to try not to think or talk about death and dying, but grief invites us to remember. On today's episode, Annamaria and Demi Lee share their experiences of grief, death and the spirit realm thus far- discussing what they have learnt and the wisdom they have accessed through meeting with these initiations of loss. The intensity of grief often strips us bare, ripens us, cracks us open, and shows us how deeply we loved. Let today's episode be a remembrance of that. Podcast Song: Elders by Verocoya

Why do we shy away from the erotic?⁠ Why do we so often cast it into the shadows and bind it in shame?⁠ And why is it that we judge sensual aliveness when we witness it in another?⁠ Today's episode is a deep dive into the primal force of nature that is eroticism. Demi Lee and Annamaria share their journeys of growing up and exploring their sexuality, speak about their own imprints of religious dogma and social conditioning, and address the impacts of sexual trauma and how it can inhibit us from feeling safe to fully reclaim our eros. ⁠ Our erotic nature is a gift, it is the force that christens our creative sovereignty.⁠ When we dim its expression and condemn it in others, we limit our capacity to thrive.⁠

Demi Lee and Annamaria welcome you to Eclectica Hub's Yurt Sessions Podcast. We are kickstarting our first episode by sharing who we are as your hosts, what occurred across the timeline of our lives that lead us to Eclectica, and where we are today. We are excited to share our journeys with you, answer a few questions we received, and share our intention behind this podcast - so you feel more deeply connected to us as individuals and our Eclectica Hub ethos. This is just the beginning, and we can't wait to witness how it transforms. Don't forget to subsribe, rate and review. Love Demi Lee and Annamaria Podcast Music: Elders by Verocoya

It seems we ruffled some feathers during our end-of-year-concert when we delivered a potent slam poetry piece that exposed the fractures within our current western maternity birthing model. The poetry piece addressed the very real and concerning implications that can exist when birthing in the hospital, especially in regards to routine intervention, and the increasing rates of c-section and birth trauma. We had a lot of audience members equal parts inspired, and some extremely triggered. This episode is our public statement where we also address the lived experience that inspired the spoken word in the first place. PODCAST SONG: Elders by Verocoya