The Makaranda Podcast
Welcome to The Makaranda Podcast with your host Eleanor Evans Medina. This show is a space designed to share meditations, dharma teachings, & conversations about life, death, and love. Thank you for listening, supporting, and sharing our work! Happy listening!
Episodes
57 episodes
A Meditation - Trusting The Womb Space
This meditation focuses on trusting ourselves. Eleanor Evans Medina guides deep, mindful breathing, centering on the womb space. You can gently rock forward to back or sit still as you ground yourself. It is best to sit outside in nature. Tune ...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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22:39
A Meditation for Good Health and Stepping into Eldership - for Loyola Blakefield, Class of 1972
Join Eleanor Medina, daughter of Henry Hooper, in a meditation for the Loyola Blake Field class of 1972, guiding them into eldership with a focus on health, wisdom, and spirituality.This is an opportunity for this class to reflect on ho...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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19:38
A Meditation - To Be Magnetic
This is a meditation called "To Be Magnetic." Here Eleanor offers this short morning practice to help you start your day. In this meditation, Eleanor guides you to visualize the sun filling every cell of your body with light. This is one way to...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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11:31
A Meditation for Pain - Infuse the Body with Light
Infuse Pain with Light - This ten-minute meditation focuses on infusing areas of the body in pain with light. Ideally, perform this practice outside in natural light—whether from the sun, moon, or stars—but it can be done anywhere.Elean...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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11:27
A Meditation - 1 Minute Reset
This one-minute reset designed to quickly refresh and refocus your energy. Stand up and shake out your hands and feet, allowing your body to move freely. Take a deep breath and find stillness. As you breathe in, visualize spiraling energy upwar...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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1:59
A Meditation - Healing the Physical Body
Welcome to a meditation that focuses on healing the physical body through visualization and mindful breathing. Dedicated to Eleanor's parents Henry and Tracy Hooper, who are recovering from injuries, the practice invites participants to visuali...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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23:59
A Meditation - Manifest Your Dream Partner
Manifest Your Dream Partner - This meditation guides you to Manifest Your Dream Partner. We center on the themes of connection and love.They keys:1) Relax the body 2) Quieting the mind3) Opening your heart4) Visu...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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22:50
A Meditation - From “If only” mind to Presence
Today, we'll spend about ten minutes realigning with presence by quieting the "if-only mind"—the part of our mind that constantly seeks something outside ourselves for fulfillment. This is the, "I would be happy "if _______ were different in my...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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11:20
A Meditation - Cord Cutting of an Unhealthy Relationship
Welcome to a guided meditation, focusing on supporting you in a cord-cutting to release an unhealthy relationship. From our perspective, cords are energetic ties that attach between people for various reasons. From time to time, these ties are ...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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29:01
A Meditation - Breath is Power
In this guided meditation, Eleanor Medina shares personal insights on deep belly breathing, mindfulness practices, and calming the nervous system. Whether you're new to mindfulness or seeking to deepen your practice, join us on this jou...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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12:37
A Story Meditation - The Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor
Inspired by an ancient tale, Eleanor Medina mindfully invites us to connect with nature and spirit.This is a story meditation where she shares the story of the Eagle, representing intellect and science, and the Condor, representing intu...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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16:46
A Meditation - One-minute Meditation
Join us for a one-minute meditation as we take a few deep breaths together. Explore more meditative practices on our website:⬇️⬇️⬇️https://themakarandamethod.com/teachings
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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1:47
A Meditation - Visioning Your Future
Join Kelsey Brown, our QOO (Queen Operating Officer) for a visualization meditation where we travel through nature and encounter our future self. Observe, connect, ask questions, and receive insights.Then return to the present. Take a d...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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17:23
A Meditation - Trusting Divine Timing As You Call in a Baby
Welcome to a meditation, a journey of self-connection and trust as you prepare to welcome a baby into your life. In this meditation we invite you to trust yourself, inviting the baby's presence to you. Release tension, let go of timelin...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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24:07
A Meditation - For the Artist
Welcome to a meditation for artist's. In this brief session, take slow grounding breaths, appreciating colors and textures around you. Embrace your unique perspective as an artist.Whether your eyes are open or closed, be still and recep...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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6:35
A Meditation - Freedom Within Myself to Support with Breaking Habits
Welcome to The Makaranda Method Podcast! Immerse yourself in the transformative meditation, "Freedom Within Myself." Find a cozy space, close your eyes, and breathe deeply. Explore the intersection of consciousness and imagination as a healing ...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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10:01
A Meditation - Enough
Welcome to The Makaranda Method Podcast, where we invite you to join a transformative meditation inspired by Brené Brown's wisdom. Find comfort, close your eyes, and breathe deeply. Acknowledge there is enough – enough air, food, and Earth's ge...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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10:01
A Meditation - Find The Center
Welcome to The Makaranda Method Podcast, where we take a brief journey to find our center and connect with the present moment. Whether your eyes are open or closed, settle into a comfortable position, allowing your breath to guide you. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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6:30
A Meditation - Manifest Your Dream Job
Welcome to a Meditation on Manifesting your Dream Job, guided by Eleanor Medina from The Makaranda Method. Find comfort in a seated position as we explore the power of your noticing your beating heart and aligning that magnetic frequenc...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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22:23
A Meditation - On the Space Between
Dive into a guided, hypnotic meditation designed for relaxation where we focus on the space between the breaths and the thoughts. Settle into a comfortable position, maintaining alertness, and soften your eyes closed. Focus on your brea...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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25:13
A Meditation - For Digestion
This is a meditation designed for connecting with your digestion. Find a comfortable spot, tune into the breath, and connect with the body's incredible ability to transform nourishment into energy. You will have an opportunity t...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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10:11
A Meditation - Inner Child #1
This is a 30-minute meditation that guides you to call in one of your inner children and build a relationship. This meditation is informed by the “Internal Family Systems” model which believes that we all have different “parts” inside of us tha...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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30:42
A Meditation - For Day
Join us for a meditation that we created for our friend Day, where we connect with Mother Earth. This session focuses on grounding and spiraling energy from the Earth through the body. The guide, Eleanor Medina gently invites you through mindfu...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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22:11
A Meditation - 11/11 LOVE Earth Meditation
We dreamed about the power of practicing love and sharing that with ourselves, each other, and Mother Earth. Join us for an hour-long meditation where we invite you to sit outside and connect with the Earth to help raise our human vibration to ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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49:56
A Meditation - Honoring the Fall Equinox
Eleanor Medina and Kelsey Brown at The Makaranda Method, co-guided a meditation on Zoom for the change of seasons. They are sharing the recording with you here, and invite you to carve out about an hour of time to slow down and honor the Earth ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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53:35