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 int...
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. I...
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 ho...
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 t...
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 uninhibite...
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 ...
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 p...
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 s...
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 co...
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.The...
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 eme...
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...
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...
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 trigg...
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, an...
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 reb...