The Makaranda Podcast

Conversation with Sophie @SHE Talks Health + Eleanor @The Makaranda Method about Earth Circles

• Eleanor Evans Medina • Season 3 • Episode 1

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Sophie Shepherd and Eleanor Evans Medina discuss their collaboration in offering Earth Circles that combines the power of subconscious reprogramming and psychedelics for transformation. They share their personal experiences with the Earth Circle and how it has helped them overcome anxiety and transform their lives.

The conversation highlights three key components of their approach: 1) releasing old stories and rebuilding beliefs, 2) embracing the unknown, and 3) committing to a daily meditation practice.

They invite listeners to apply for the Earth Circle retreat, which includes private sessions, group sessions, a three-day retreat, integration calls, and access to an online course _Ground_.

Eleanor Medina's Contact - http://www.themakarandamethod.com/contact
Sophie Shepards Contact - sophie@shetalkshealth.com

Earth Circle Application - https://www.themakarandamethod.com/earth-circle-application

FREE GIFT ::: http://www.themakarandamethod.com/microdosing-guide-optin

Thanks for listening! To stay connected, follow us on Instagram @themakarandamethod and @eleanor.evans.medina

Visit our website: www.themakarandamethod.com

About Eleanor Evans Medina:
Eleanor is a spiritual teacher, formally trained marriage & family therapist, death doula, bee keeper and daughter of the Earth. She founded her private practice, The Makaranda Method in 2018. She guides her students towards self-discovery and healing by reconnecting them with love for our Mother Earth. Through one-on-one, group coaching and retreats, Eleanor helps her students release energetic blockages to connect with their intuition for greater peace, freedom, and authenticity.

Hi, beautiful people. Hello, everyone. Sophie Shepherd here from She Talks Health. And we have Eleanor Medina from The Makaranda Method. And we're so excited that you're watching this video. We have been friends for a long time. And now we are collaborators together. And we're really excited about this offering of this Earth Circle that's combining all the magic that Eleanor has and all the magic that I have to help you in your transformation journey. This idea was one of mine, one of my zany ideas to collaborate. And the reason was, we'll talk more about this throughout this video, but I was the beneficiary of an incredible Earth Circle held by Eleanor about two years ago, right before my wedding. And it was so transformative for me. And I just felt in the ceremony, I said, I have to be able to help people with this. I have to be able to offer this. I have to be able to be part of this. And I went on my own journey with subconscious reprogramming and doing this work on the subconscious mind to really fuse the parts of us that need help and support and transformation. combining that with psychedelics has been incredible. And so now we're making it official in this Earth circle. And that's why you're here. Mm -hmm. And in this video, we're going to talk about whether or not a psychedelic ceremony is even the right path for you. It might be. It might not be. You know, we really want to know, are you truly ready to show up and transform in your life? Because that's what's on offer here. And if you are, then the great thing is, is that we're both here to support you in every step of the way. So I'm going to introduce Eleanor to tell you a little bit more about her and what she does. And I'll be Thank you, Sophie. Hi, beauty, beautiful human. I am so grateful that Sophie's brought me in. It just feels so natural for us to step into this next level of collaboration. And I don't always feel like that. So that's a big deal to me. I want to invite you to stay until the end of this presentation so that you can get access to a free macaronda microdosing guide that I made. I made it. just for you. And it's a really helpful, regardless of whether or not you're going to go on this macros journey with us, or if you just want to start with a small amount of psychedelics, or even if you just aren't ready to take psychedelics yet, but you are ready to open your heart and see what it's like in the psychedelic world a bit. I'm happy for you to have access to this, this course. And I recommend that you close any distractions, anything that's keeping you from being in the present moment, turning your phone on do not disturb and grabbing a pen or making note taking possible because you might find that we share some things that resonate with you that you may want to remember. So you may be wondering who are you, Eleanor, and why are you qualified to talk about this? And I am a trained marriage and family therapist turned coach and I've worked with thousands of people at this point on different ways to tap into non -ordinary states of consciousness which include meditation and psychedelics and really those two magic pieces together are what the Makaranda method is. Makaranda means nectar in Sanskrit and this is really teaching on a fundamental level how to work with nature or Mother Earth to bring out the nectar, the joy, the happiness of life. And I'm thrilled to introduce and bring this back over to Sophie to have her share her expertise. Yeah, so I am the founder of She Talks Health, which is a functional medicine health coaching company and we specialize in lifestyle and holistic wellness for women and so we do all the functional lab work and nutrition and that's great and I love that part of my business and a couple of years ago right around the time I sat with Eleanor in the Earth Circle I realized that there was more to health and well -being and a lot of it happens up here in our mind and somatically in our body and in our emotional body. And so I've went on a journey to learn all these tools to integrate the physical body, all the labs, the diet, the nutrition with subconscious rewiring. How do we rewire our mind to create the reality we want to create, the person we want to be, and to do things like lowering our anxiety and supporting us through the pathway of life so that things are more joyful and more useful. So that's what I get to do over at detox health, this beautiful medley, so to speak. And I'm really excited to be bringing it with the psychedelic medicine space with Eleanor, who's such a steward for this work. I want you now to picture your life post ceremony. And we really do call these Earth Circles ceremonies because they are. We hold them as such. We create a container as such. I don't love to use the word container actually. So people are like, what does that mean? We hold the space around what you're doing in a really potent way. And so post ceremony, Maybe you take a few deep breaths, maybe even close your eyes and just feel into your heart and just imagine a future you, a future self. free, connected. dropped in to yourself. where you can navigate the inevitable challenges of life with ease and intention. The anxiety is not there anymore and you trust yourself. You feel a sense of calm and that life is unfolding for you. That's the goal. That's what we're going for. That's what so many people who sit in ceremony with us experience. And it's not for everybody. And so during this time, we're going to share with you over the next 15 minutes how this might be for you and whether or not you'll know whether or not the time is right for you. Perfect. I love just imagining that future self and getting to be on the other side of it. I can tell you it's such an incredible feeling. And so our unique approach really involves a framework with three key components and this is how you're gonna be able to identify if this is for you. The first key is releasing old stories and rebuilding your beliefs. So you may have a belief like I did that I've always been like this is the only way I was raised like this. I can't change. And all of these beliefs that keep us, let's be honest, they keep us stuck, right? That our beliefs are just like these, they're a stick in the mud. And this is the way it is. And this is the way life happens to me. you might be like me the way I was before all of this work. And the thing is, is that I realized that this wasn't true. So I used to think this way about anxiety. I had every reason to believe it. I had anxiety and mood issues on both sides of my family. I started to experience it when I was 16 years old, very young in high school. And I was told, well, yeah, that's just the way life is. Take this prescription medication. I did that 10 years. So when I say I was, I had decided that anxiety was part of my life, I really mean it. And I thought that the prescription meds were the only pathway, the only tool. And the thing is that they weren't really even helping me that much. I was still always in this constant sensation of anxiety. And then I later realized through the work with the Earth Circle and Eleanor that I didn't have to keep struggling with this feeling. And the reason for that is something called neuroplasticity. You may have heard of it before. So it's the common belief that we're stuck in who we are, but the truth is that our brains are highly adaptable. They can shift and change. They're not just stuck organs. They actually can change. And that means our thoughts and our beliefs can change. And that means that we can change and we can grow. We can become the person that we want to become. We can create the reality that we want to see. And psychedelics, they enhance this capacity. They allow for this transformation to help rewire these entrenched patterns. And I always think about these entrenched patterns as almost like a train on a track. You it's always gone this way. and now you're opening up a new pathway. You're taking a right -hand turn or a left -hand turn and yeah, that's exciting because who knows where it's gonna go. And with our support, you can actually evolve and embrace a new version of yourself. So the question to ask yourself about whether this is good for you is are you ready to challenge and transform those old patterns and those old beliefs? Because we know that it's possible when we step into the psychedelic ceremony space and allow the brain to form new connections and break free of those old patterns. So are you ready for that? And I want to just share a little bit more about how this worked on the other side. So. I came to Eleanor two years ago and I said, you the main thing I really want support on is this anxiety. And I have a lot of, I had a lot of anxiety triggers. I mean, but in this particular season of my life, I was doing really well in business, but I was in a contraction phase. I felt scared and I had a lot of fear, a lot of self -worth. Am I doing enough? Am I enough? Am I good enough coach? And the funny thing is that it wasn't even real. I was getting amazing reactions and results for clients. And I had been coaching for many, many years, but for whatever reason, my brain had decided that I wasn't good enough. And so this was creating so much fear and anxiety in my life. And the crazy thing happened was that in the ceremony, I was able to release anxiety. It was a very specific moment, I will never forget it. And after, I was completely anxiety -free for four months. This was the first time in my whole life that I ever felt this way. Four months after I'm 35, about to be 35, this was two years ago, so 33, so what is that, like 13 years of daily or at least weekly anxiety just gone. I never experienced anything like it before. And I wanted to share it. It's not that It doesn't come back sometimes, but it's about having the tools to navigate it now differently and also the awareness that it's possible for your life to not include that thing. So this morning I had that familiar sensation of anxiety and I literally stopped myself in my entrenched train track pattern. And I said, Sophie, don't want to go, that's not a path pattern I want to do today. And I used the tools I learned in the Earth Circle and the tools that I've learned through my trainings as well. And I just decided I'm not going to be addicted to this pattern anymore. It's not real. And I'm choosing something different. I grounded in the grass outside, and I just made a different decision. And here we are making a video. So are you ready to change and challenge your patterns and your beliefs? Because if you are, look at what's Sophie The second key is to embrace the unknown so you may have a belief that You want to change you think you want to change, but I gotta tell you the that I do this work and the longer that I'm in the psychedelic ceremonies and that I'm helping people, a lot of people think that they want to change, but when push comes to shove, they actually don't. They actually really like being stuck. They like being addicted to the pattern, like you said, Sophie. And this work is for you if you actually want to change, if you really want to do things differently. And the thing that I love, one of the many, many things that I love about psychedelics, is that they help us change rapidly. If we're ready to choose that They illuminate these powerful opportunities that we have to make a different choice. And they show us aspects of ourselves that we haven't typically been aware of, sometimes we can be completely like the subconscious mind is running in the background. and it's taking over and we aren't even aware of what's happening. And so what we're doing is inviting you into a totally new experience and you may have deep experience with psychedelics or you might have none or you might have something in between. But I promise you that this will be unique. This will be different. You might think you know what's going to happen. You don't. We never do. And this unknown and embracing the unknown is such a value, not just in the psychedelic experience, but in life, because we never know what's going to happen. COVID was such a good example of that. We had no idea that the world was going to shut down. And then all of a sudden, everything changed. Dr. Joe Dispenza is one of my all -time favorite teachers, especially right now. And he says, when we let go of the familiar and step into the unknown, we are more likely to encounter the magic of true transformation, which leads me to our third key. And the third key is meditation and the commitment to a daily practice. You might believe that you haven't been taught to be meditate, which might be true. or you just can't seem to get yourself to do it consistently or that maybe you've been meditating for years, but things still kind of feel the same. And a meditation practice is a practice. That's it. I mean, it's not a quick fix, and neither is this psychedelic journey. The way that psychedelics allow for this neuroplasticity to happen and this awareness of the subconscious mind to come forward in the psychedelic experience so that we can reprogram our thoughts by being aware of them, that's the biggest thing. I remember I had a deep yoga practice for years of my life. Nine years I was going to a hot studio. for like five to six times a week. I was in it. And I first was working with psychedelics and this teacher named Tiamay who took me under her wing, who I did my first medicine ceremony with ever. She said to me, Eleanor, how's your meditation practice going? And I said, well, you know, I'm not doing it. You know, I'm doing movement meditation with yoga. And she was like, that's not the same thing. And I said, OK. And she said, I need you. She looked at me. She says, Eleanor, do you want to be a good therapist or not? I said, well, of course I do. Of course I do. And she said, then you need to be sitting every single day to know which thoughts are yours and which thoughts are not yours so that you can be of assistance to your clients. If you're confused and you have a busy mind, you are going to do nobody any good. I was like. Holy shit. So I said, okay, well, I've never meditated before. Like, I don't know anything about it. And she said, okay, well, I want you to sit on a cushion and I want you to hold still for one hour in silence every single day until I give you further notice. I was like, an hour? She said, yeah. And so I've been practicing, that was in 2018 that has. transformed my life in every single way. And now the way that it enhances our emotional resilience and supports our and strengthens our awareness of self, it's a non -negotiable for this work that we do. And so if you're willing to sit, if you're willing to give it a shot, we will teach you how, we will share with you, we will give you all the tools that we have. And we are so excited for if this feels like the right journey for you. So in summary, these keys that we have, we have releasing the old stories and rebuilding new beliefs. We have embraced the unknown and we have commit to a meditation practice. If you can say yes to these things, then we'd be grateful and would love for you to apply. Absolutely. And so if this sounds like you, keep listening. Because we like to share a little bit more about this retreat that we're offering. Eleanor, do you want to walk them through what it all includes? of minutes here, we'll talk about, you know, what it's like if you want to keep, if you want to do with this, if you want to say yes. So the Earth circles include one private session with me and that's worth $500. And then a session with Sophie and me together and the whole group. And there's two of those and that's a $2 ,000 value and then a three day retreat. And we have healthy food and it's in Colorado. psychedelics are illegal, and we have live music and an eight -hour DJ set with my amazing husband John Medina, who's an incredible sound musician and healer, and we just create a really beautiful environment for you, and that's a $20 ,000 offering. And then afterwards for integration, have three calls with Sophie and me and the whole group. And that's a $3 ,000 value. And then I also give you access to my online course called Ground. And you have access to this incredible community of other people who are going to be sitting with you. The total value of this is $30 ,000. And it is because I've gone through it and I just want to speak to that really quickly because this was the exact format that Eleanor shared with me two years ago and I had been up actually been a part of other psychedelic ceremony spaces before and the reason why I reached out to Eleanor when I wanted to figure out how to co -host a psychedelic ceremony was because I was so impressed with the thought and the process because one thing that we know is coming up a lot in this space is like some people are you know using the psychedelics as a quick fix and we're not integrating and we're not getting prepared and the thing is for us to have an optimal experience there are two things that Eleanor did differently. We had those sessions in the beginning and that really prepared our mind to open things up and have that. that neuroplasticity and that ability to trust also the other people in the group and feel safe. And then on the back end, after you've had these huge revelations and you don't even know what's going to happen, to actually have that integration. That's really important so you can pull it through to your life now. And that's why it's so valuable to do it in this way. And a lot of people don't offer all this extra support in the front and the end. So I want to just speak to that. And John's music was also part of the transformation. I just have to say he is incredible. And so we want to ask If all that this retreat did for you was improve your relationship with yourself, repair your marriage, maybe even get you out of a marriage or a relationship that's not working for you or into one that feels really good. If it relieved anxiety or depression like it did for me, if it helped you to discover your truest value, really walk the world knowing you're valuable. and enhance your self -listening, would it be worth, not $30 ,000, not the value, but would it be worth $2 ,997? to ask yourself, would it be worth it to transform your entire life? And so we can't wait. to help you transform your entire life in these ways. And so if this sounds good and you've made it this far and you've checked all the lists on the three keys and you feel like this would be worth it, then we invite you to submit an application. And it is an application process because we do have a limited number of spots. And the reason we do that is to make sure that you have a personalized experience, personalized attention, as much time as you need before... during and after this journey. And so you can fill out that application by going to themakarondamethod .com forward, sorry, that's the microdosing guide. We're gonna send you the link for, actually we're gonna send you the link for the application in here. And if you also wanna get the microdosing guide that we promised you, I this is the end of the video and you made it. Good job. It's themakarondamethod .com forward slash microdosing dash guide dash in and that's going to be sent to you as well. I yeah this has just been a pleasure I hope that this has been really informative for you and you've been able to walk yourself through whether this feels like the right fit for you and your next step in your massive transformation that gets to be your life. dedicated my life to supporting this mission. and sharing this with you and sharing this with Sophie and all of her wisdom and all of her tools and all of the ways that we've been cultivating and refining this offering for you right now is such a gift. Thank you for giving us an opportunity to support you in doing better, in being better and in being your most vibrant self because we really need it you right now as a whole and we're looking forward to being in touch with you. Thanks for filling out the application and we'll get back to you soon. Take care everybody. Bye bye.